Chris Randle / The Cat That Got the Milk OST (2011)

The last post I made was about a soundtrack.

Now, the first new post is again a soundrack. You know, continuity.

The Cat That Got the Milk is a freeware game released in 2011, and I discovered it some days ago. It is graphically inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky, so it's just visually stupendous, and I really recommend you to play it. It would take just 10 minutes of your time.

So, back to the music, you could say "what a videogame and a painter would have in common with music?".

Well, for the ones who knows, Kandinsky theorized that graphical elements, such as points, lines and surfaces, has time and rhythm like music, and graphical compositions are like musical ones. (You can find all about this in his book "Point and Line to Plane", that I was accidentally reading when I found this game).

And nothing prevents the happening of the inverse process: music inspired by graphical compositions.

This little album will bring you inside a world of continuous and looped segments, like circles, suddenly stopped by points, while arpeggios of music lines chase themselves.

You just need to close your eyes and

Listen.

This album is free, and I'll try to post more and more free albums if I can.

I believe in free culture, so, from my little blog, I'll try to push peoples who also believes in it.

Culture is freedom. Paying for culture is like pay a bail after have done nothing. Music is culture.

Les Chats Persans OST / 2009

Back. Is so hard to find new music. So, here's something old. hehe.

Well, you know, I love OSTs. But this isn't a simple OST.

First of all, you must watch this movie, really.

Second, this isn't a simple OST because the movie is about the underground Iranian underground rock scene, so you will actually see in the scenes the real authors of these songs playing them. And they're all great. Going from electro-indie sounds with english lyrics, to persian rap, torugh acoustic songs, this album really covers a very interesting reality.

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(I canìt find an international buy link, you must search the best seller for your country)

Various Artists / Jet Set Radio OST (2000)

Another thing I'm really getting into are soundtracks.

I started listening more watching films, because you can find some really great music inside them. But movies are not the only source for soundtracks.

You know, japanese people, together with other billions things, are very good in making videogames. Well, they are equally good in making videogames soundtracks.

I think this is one of the best examples.

The game is just FANTASTIC: settled in the future, you are part of a crew of writers that use magnetic rollerblades that can grind on EVERYTHING for move themselves. In this cel-shading world, you have to do mainly two things: GRAFFITI and escape from police.

Now, what's the best music for getting away from these policemen? Surely are GREAT HYPER ELECTRONIC JAP-FUNKY BOUNCY BEATS. No alternatives. Really, there's nothing better, try if you can.

Well, inside you can find also some rock tracks, probably from the NTSC version. But the real concept is the one explained above.

WARNING: you may really enjoy yourself A LOT listening to this music. Pay attention if you want to remain sad.

A little preview for you

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