a bonus about getting into all these 70s and 80s Japanese funk, fusion jazz, city pop, electronica and prog albums people keep putting on youtube is that I feel like I now know the evolutionary origins of so many clasic video game soundtracks

like... tell me this doesn't sound like a lost Sonic the Hedgehog song set in a casino or neon-light industrial zone. how many old game osts owe Casiopea for their general vibe?

this one sounds like a Mario Kart Rainbow Road track. I know I gotta be last to the party on knowing how much Japanese game music comes from Japanese fans of these genres, but still

I was listening to this one while working today and it doesn't conjure any specifics games, I just like this electronic ambient stuff now

since I'm just now in the "here's albums I found on youtube that I just liked" part, this one is psychedelic peruvian disco

literally the only good thing to come out of algorithms was the vinyl recommendations

I don't actually know what any musical genres mean, but this one sounds to me like the I'm going on an 80s fantasy movie adventure genre. that or maybe the space aliens took me to a desert planet and I have to ride the synthworm to earn my freedom genre

this one also sounds like both a vaguely remembered 80s fantasy movie soundtrack and a "symphonic suite" arranged album for a falcom rpg about dolphins you find on napster

dear god I just imagined trying to play a hypothetical ecco the dolphin action rpg made by early falcom and I think I had a stroke

following up on this thread from last night, I listened to more of the ambien artist Hiroshi Yoshimura (from the Quiet Forest album in this thread) and, yeah, wow I can DEFINITELY hear his influence on a ton of games, especially, oddly enough, Mario Galaxy and Odyssey.