Aphex Twin Mark Morgan compared to Aphex Twin

Mark Morgan - the creator of Fallout soundtrack in 1997, "quite" similiar to AFX works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8&feature=related

I have a cousin called Mark Morgan. But it's not the same person.

I predict this thread is rubbish.

thanks for sharing. never would have made that connection

Mark Morgan is better than Aphex, lol

Remake a song and tell people its yours .. acceptable behavior?? surely not.

I think this is actually how I found Aphex. Was looking for the overworld song from Fallout and noticed a random youtube comment saying it was a copy of Windowsill. Decided to listen to SAW II and later became a fan of 85-92, and then eventually listened to his entire discography over a month or so.

Thanks for posting this haven't listened to Fallout OST for a long time. The only game "soundtrack" I listen to occasionally is "Thief 2", has some nice ambient stuff by Eric Brosius and others (although it's really an unofficial soundtrack created from all the ambient background tracks and sounds in the game, and it helps to have played it and experienced the environments) and it's pretty much one of only a handful of games which have ever made sound and music a priority.

These days I pre-emptively turn off game music and put on my own because it's always just some horrible sweeping orchestral score meant to sound scream EPIC and fucking Wagner. There are exceptions like MInecraft, Machinarium, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and a few others of but on the whole it's so shit it actually interferes with the gameplay instead of augmenting the experience.

stewart copeland's soundtracks for the spyro the dragon games on the playstation1 are excellent

  On 12/10/2011 at 4:44 PM, liquiday said:

Mark Morgan - the creator of Fallout soundtrack in 1997, "quite" similiar to AFX works.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=log0l7UYcR8&feature=related

Ooh boy, that's pretty cheeky - I anticipated the track 'inspirations' straight away ...

  On 12/11/2011 at 2:54 AM, thief said:

stewart copeland's soundtracks for the spyro the dragon games on the playstation1 are excellent

Spyro series soundtrack is genius :D, i also love Oddworld Abe's Exoddus & Abe's Odyssee soundtracks, something like industrial techno soundscapes, in my opinion its best soundtrack ever.

aphex is thanked in the endgame credits, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ox35gb8suU

Best electronic soundtrack ever in a racing car game by Olof Gustafsson. Motorhead (made by Digital Illusions, 1998). Period. And I like Aphex Twin tunes too.

I always liked the Silent Hill soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka, I thought they added to the game atmosphere

  On 12/11/2011 at 7:23 PM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

I always liked the Silent Hill soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka, I thought they added to the game atmosphere

lol that's quite the understatement.

  On 12/11/2011 at 7:54 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 12/11/2011 at 7:23 PM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

I always liked the Silent Hill soundtracks by Akira Yamaoka, I thought they added to the game atmosphere

 

lol that's quite the understatement.

Yamaokas music makes Silent Hill as much as Vangelis made Blade Runner ;)

the windowsill one is spot on. Very obvious inspiration, the journey comparison is, a bit of a stretch to say the least.

You can't even call that inspiration. Windowsill and the other one are obvious rip-offs. It's almost as if he tried to recreate the track exactly. What a dick.

  On 12/10/2011 at 6:55 PM, YO303 said:

Remake a song and tell people its yours .. acceptable behavior?? surely not.

then you might be surprised at the level of hackishness acceptable in paid modern video game composing.

Besides the poorly done vacuous music for reality shows like Ice road truckers or Pawn stars, most sampling libraries now adays go straight onto videogame OSTs

for Mark Morgan copying aphex twin is probably the most artistic and ambitious thing in his entire career.

in my strong opinion videogame sound tracks took an extreme downward plunge as soon as CD quality audio took over. Now 95% of videogame composers want to sound like a bland Hanz Zimmer