The Shenmue soundtrack was the chart's highest new entry, breaking in at # 144.
I got to say I love records, I have quite the collection and I'm so excited that SEGA has teamed up with a new record label called «Data Discs» to release both the Streets of Rage and
Shenmue soundtracks.
Not exact matches
Influenced by club music of that time, this
soundtrack from renowned composer Yuzo Koshiro (Ys, ActRaiser,
Shenmue...) remains a timeless classic which quality was rarely topped.
I could go on about Uprising, such as how it features one of my favorite difficulty based mechanics or was one of the first games I really got into StreetPassing with, or how its
soundtrack brought together the likes of Motoi Sakuraba (known for his work within the Tales series), Yuzo Koshiro (prior works including Streets of Rage and
Shenmue), Masafumi Takada (the man behind the music for God Hand, the Danganronpa series and multiple games by Suda51) to create one of my favorite modern
soundtracks in all of video games.
He was also involved in composing music for the
soundtrack to the acclaimed Sega Dreamcast title
Shenmue.
Youtuber
Shenmue Dojo collected all the released screens, video and some snippets of the
soundtrack; check that out below.
For the past couple of months,
Shenmue fans have campaigned and tweeted to get
Shenmue «s beautiful
soundtrack into Classic FM's Hall of Fame.
For
Shenmue Week Tuesday Tunes will be doing something new: instead of posting one or two tracks, we're posting the entire
soundtrack.
These days we tend to either call it an RPG or an adventure game, but even back then the phrase didn't really work because it ignored one of
Shenmue's best qualities: its utterly marvelous, epic, emotional, cinematic, beautiful
soundtrack.
Data Discs, a UK - based record label known for re-releasing classic SEGA
soundtracks in vinyl form such as
Shenmue and Panzer Dragoon, is partnering up with the publisher once again to do the same for the highly anticipated 2D platformer.