2011 will be forever known as the year every game ever had its 25th anniversary. To celebrate the incredibly dense history of Castlevania (which I’m pretty sure consists of 1.2 hojillion games), a group of talented fans have put together a remix album to celebrate the occasion.

Vampire Variations reinvents the soundtrack of the NES classic while taking a few additional elements from throughout the series. Listen to only half the album and you’ll get the wrong ending! Divided into two distinct musical acts, the album covers everything from “Rock and Orchestral to Jazz and Electronic”.

But don’t worry. Unlike Dracula’s castle, you won’t have to do anything fancy to unlock the inverted second act of this album. Just grab a whip and adventure into the album’s official site. Of course, if you’re too scared to walk in blind (and who can blame you?), you can prepare yourself with the teaser trailer below.

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Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the Kunio-kun series, OverClocked ReMix has just released an arrange album of Super Dodge Ball (the first of many Kunio sports games). Of course, this timing is probably more coincidence as the album has been in the works (to varying degrees) for a whopping seven years.

The aim of Super Dodge Ball: Around the World was to take Kazuo Sawa’s original score and reinterpret in a variety of ethnic styles. With an interesting hybrid of world music combined with, rock, trance, and symphonic music, I think it’s safe to say they succeeded. They even got MegaRan to perform on the obligatory rap song.

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Video game music is a staple around the WingDamage offices. Especially considering our very own Main Finger is known to remix it from time to time. We’re also pretty big Mega Man fans, as evidenced by the fact that two of our regulars also write for The Mega Man Network.

If you are like us in this regard, then good news! OverClocked ReMix just released a brand new Mega Man 9 themed album, Mega Man 9: Back in Blue. It contains 18 tracks of remixed goodness from the likes of Sixto Sounds, bLiNd, Joshua Morse and our very own Jesse “Main Finger” Gregory.

It was a long time in the making, and lot of blood, sweat and robo-tears went into its creation. So much so that a sequel game came out before this album was able to. So the only question left is, what are you waiting for? Go download it now!

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Not satisfied with only a single NieR arrange album, Square-Enix has put together another titled NieR Tribute Album -echo-. Who can blame them? Afterall, I gave NieR the number one spot in my 2010 soundtrack roundup.

The album will feature 12 tracks arranged by a variety of artists. While many of the names may seem unfamiliar, you might recognize Sexy-Synthesizer who just had 3 tracks confirmed for the upcoming SQ Chips album we reported on earlier.

NieR Tribute Album -echo- is set to release on September 14th for 2,100 yen (roughly $26.75)

Source: Square-Enix Buy the Album: Amazon, Play-Asia, Square-Enix eStore

2011 has been a crazy year for game anniversaries. It seems like every other day has been host to one, and today is no different. July 5th marks the 15th anniversary of SEGA’s cult classic, NiGHTS Into Dreams... To celebrate the occasion, OverClocked ReMix has released their latest album, NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming.

The two disc arrange album features a variety of genres including ambient, orchestral, pop, disco, new jack swing, piano, jazz, world music, chiptune, opera, and rock styles by 32 different artists. Like all OCReMix albums, you can download it for free on the official site. But before that, check out the trailer below. (more…)

If you’re anything like our Editor in Chief, you probably got at least a few of those VVVVVV tunes stuck in your head as you died over 700 times in your playthrough. Well now you can hear them as you’ve never heard them before, re-imagined by a wealth of other indie artists that composer SoulEye affectionately refers to as “true heroes.”

Among the artists are Danny B (Super Meat Boy), Mattias Haggstrom Gerdt (Cobalt), and Mutherpluckin B (8 Bit Democracy) to name just a few. The $10 price of admission will grant you a digital or even a physical copy of the 23-track album, PPPPPPowerup! (more…)

They say the number thirteen is unlucky, but the thirteenth anniversary of the PlayStation classic, Xenogears, begs to differ. The JRPG finally squirmed its way into the trickle of PSOne Classics this week, but that’s not the exciting part.

The music, written by famed composer Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross), is getting an orchestral facelift today. -MYTH- The Xenogears Orchestral Album features 14 tracks from the game, rearranged and performed by The Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra. You can hear samples of each song on the album’s official site. And for around $34, you can import a copy of your very own, which actually features some fairly elaborate packaging. (more…)

Now here’s something interesting. We’ve heard of episodic games, but what about episodic albums? Rather than waiting several years to release all five discs of their new album, Final Fantasy V: The Fabled Warriors, OverClocked ReMix has decided to do make it available one disc at a time.

Of course, like all OCR albums The Fabled Warriors is 100% free (and available in both MP3 and FLAC formats). Each disc is labeled after a different crystal with Disc I taking the name “Wind”. While we may only have access to one disc at the moment, it features 9 songs spanning many different genres from a variety of artists including Sixto Sounds, Zircon, DarkeSword, and more.

So head on over to the album’s site and grab Disc I. Afterall, it’s free. Still not convinced? Check out the teaser video after the break.

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If you’re a long time listener of our podcast, Barrel Roll!, you might recall a very special episode last June where we chatted with Mustin of The OneUps about his two new projects in the works, and even played a radio edit from each. One of those albums, CHRONOTORIOUS, has long since been released and reviewed. The other is finally dropping on May 4th.

For those unfamiliar, The OneUps are a videogame cover band that interprets classic tunes into a variety of styles, including Fusion, Funk, and Jazz. Their newest project, the Super Mario Kart Album, has been a long time coming. In our interview, Mustin shared that both the game itself and the original soundtrack by composer Soyo Oka, holds a special place with him. The Super Mario Kart Album is a labor of love you wont want to miss.

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"An OverClocked ReMix Album"

Back in 2004, videogame music enthusiasts from the OverClocked Remix community joined forces to remix the entire soundtrack to Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo. Titled Kong in Concert, it was the second arrange album ever to be released from the community.

Now, almost six years later, the fans have revisited the work of David Wise in the form of Serious Monkey Business; a free to download arrange album of the second game in the series: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong’s Quest. The album has been in the works for over two years and it is now available to the public.

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