They could easily be sold as any other song in the market, but what would be the genre of these? Would be Electronic the right genre?
#Sonic cd soundtrack funk influences plus
They aren't chiptune-like anymore to be an excuse to call them Electronic plus have some real lyrics here (It's not just some background vocals as seen in most Sonic CD levels or even Launch Base). This is how I would classify an Electronic Music and how it's the 8/16-bit counterpart. This is a remix of the track “ Die Roboter” (Click on the link if you never listened to it) in a chiptune style released on the official album “The 8-Bits Operators”. But that's not the main point, where I want to reach is here. With the time, Kraftwerk collected some success as Das Model, Autobahn or Die Roboter and it's often compared as “The Beatles of Electronic Music”. As also already mentioned, after the 40's electronic sounds became very handy to work with, being on a simple melody in the background of the song or like the beep-bops the old computers liked to say, but it was only in the 70's a group of guys decided to take that to the mainstream and do “real” music with them. Can't confirm if it's official, but most Sonic communities mentions it.Īs said a while ago, in this period lots of electronic projects were popping-up all around, and many of them had a past in common, Kraftwerk. This would be the real kind of stuff I would call as Electronic.
#Sonic cd soundtrack funk influences series
The first one is Super Sonic Dance Attack, a, in somewhat unknown, DJ mix with sounds of the Sonic series and Streets of Rage series.
Said that, I think there's a few more musical works to we check out. To avoid this misinterpretation, I'll take as Electronic music any piece of music which can't be done with other “real” instruments/sounds. Even if you're not an Electronic music fan, there's a huge possibly that relaxing tune you have been listening to were made on synthesizers or mixed by a DJ. Sidenote²: Actually since the 40's, Electronic music has been a very handy-tool for industry in general. (Chemical Brothers were only one of them).īacking into Sonic, if Sonic 2 was released today, no doubt levels like Chemical Plant and Metropolis would have some heavy electronic sounds, but how about levels like Emerald Hill and Hill Top which nothing relates with Urban/Industry/Futuristic things? Likely would be recreated with some natural sounds, tranquility melodies and even what we call Ambient music (Which is also a sub genre of electronica). Sidenote here: We must remember that, in this time period, general electronic music movements and all that rave things were growing up, specially in Europe and slightly less in the U.S. And I think it pretty covers the idea of the zone well, a high-tech Chemical Factory with acids all around, so nothing better then some futuristic sound here. I think Chemical Plant Zone is one of the most electronic track of the era ( Any reasons to relate it to Chemical Brothers). So assuming this, let's take a look into practical content: This possibly could finish the discussion, but there's a few more details to explore.įirst all, I think we can easily say that Video Game Music is a sub-genre of Electronic Music as House, Trance, Dubstep and even Chiptune. If I worked today on a Music Store I would call it as “Video Game Music”. Alright, we can assume we listened more often to tracks like You Can Do Anything and Super Sonic Racing then properly to Hill Top Zone music.įor this reason I assume I never knew how exactly classify it. However, and I think not just me, we never cared much for the musics prior to Sonic Adventure, for many reasons in short, because the Video Game quality wasn't as good as real musical record until the 6 th Generation and because it really didn't had much to show off. In fact, as strict listening to Sonic music from 2013-2015 and personally, never cared much about which genre that was, I mainly classified as Rock assuming the importance Crush 40 had in the Soundtrack but I knew that different sounds like Cash Cash and Julien-K, for example, were more Electronic than properly Rock. Recently browsing through Discogs (Possibly the biggest resource for all kinds of Music in the World, if you unknown it), I went to look out for a few Sonic albums specially those released before the Adventure Era (Then, from 1991-1997), taking as result the games from SEGA Genesis, Master System, SEGA CD and Saturn. Well, I just posted a status asking for this same question, but now I notice how much arguments I have and how far this discussion can go, so I think a topic might be useful now.
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