{"id":9141,"date":"2014-06-23T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2014-06-23T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:07:33","slug":"video-game-soundtrack-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9141","title":{"rendered":"Video Game Soundtrack Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Castlevania_LordsOfShadow_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9127\" alt=\"Castlevania_LordsOfShadow_2\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Castlevania_LordsOfShadow_2.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>This one&#8217;s a short update, as I&#8217;ve several uploads in the works, I&#8217;m finishing up on a podcast, just finished editing some <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1298\" target=\"_blank\">test footage of a vintage JVC tube video camera<\/a> for an upcoming performance shoot, and prepping for what I hope will be a smooth move as contents from a storage locker are conveyed to a new location.<\/p>\n<p>Among the packed materials are soundtrack LPs and an absurd amount of videotapes going back to the first VCR recordings I made as a kid during the early eighties.\u00a0My guestimate pegs the VHS alone \u00a0&#8211; stuff taped off TV and Pay TV &#8211; at around 2,000, which is a piffle compared to avid VHS collectors who archive pre-recorded tapes of obscure films. The recent doc <strong>Adjust Your Tracking<\/strong> (of which a review&#8217;s in the works) deals almost exclusively with VHS collectors &#8211; archivists of a dead home video format as well as cult and severe niche titles unavailable on disc.<\/p>\n<p>Colleague Mark Hanson (no relation) at the Toronto Film Scene recently interviewed two of the men behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/thetfs.ca\/2014\/06\/23\/toronto-laserblast-film-society-vhs-revival\/#.U6hqIZRdV8F\" target=\"_blank\">Laserblast Film Society<\/a>, which sets up VHS screenings of cult films at once a month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroyal.to\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the \u00a0following soundtrack reviews &#8211; all available from Sumthing Else &#8211; were originally published in Rue Morgue magazine, and include Luc St-Pierre&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9129\"><strong>Thief<\/strong> <\/a>(2014), a collage of composers on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9120\"><strong>Dead Rising 3<\/strong> <\/a>(2013), and three scores from the Castlevania franchise composed by maestro Oscar Araujo: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9123\">Castlevania &#8211; Lords of Shadows 1 <\/a><\/strong>(2010)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9126\"> 2<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(2014), and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9117\">Mirror of Fate<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(2013).<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: reviews of <strong>The Eddy Duchin Story<\/strong> from Twilight Time, the late Sage Stallone&#8217;s short film <strong>Vic<\/strong> (Grindhouse Releasing), and reviews of Matthew Llewellyn&#8217;s epic horror score <strong>Deep in the Darkness<\/strong> (Screamworks), alongside reviews of vinyl editions of Jerry Goldsmith&#8217;s <strong>The Omen<\/strong> and <strong>Poltergeist<\/strong> (both produced &amp; released by Mondo Tees).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game soundtrack reviews released by Sumthing Else, including the Castlevania &#8211; Lords of Shadow franchise, plus Dead Rising 3 and Thief (2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2858,2855,2860,2861,2851,2856,2859,2852,2562,2563,2857,2863,2853,2850,903,2862,2854,2864],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CastlevaniaLordsShadow2_feature.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}