I'm not the first to notice this, but a few of the samples used in the Bastion soundtrack (2011) by Darren Korb are strongly recognisable as being also used in the earlier album Seven Lives, Many Faces (2008) by Enigma.

As the Bastion soundtrack is primarily a digital download (with limited edition physical CDs), I've had no luck finding any sort of liner notes which would give credit to samples used.

It's very possible that these are royalty-free or public domain samples, in which case I'd be curious to know which sample kit/compilation they might've come from.

Distorted guitar…

I've noticed for years that there exist multiple ways of writing some artists' names and some track titles; one has only to look at anime soundtracks and any names/titles which are written differently depending on the preferred/active language of the writer.

Entire anime soundtracks can exist here in duplicate (or more) because some people tag their files with romaji, while others use the original Japanese text (hiragana, katakana and kanji). A random example would be Chiisana Te no Hira. This could be written in hiragana as "ちいさなてのひら" (although that isn't the proper way to write it), or it could…

I stumbled across this song a very, very long time ago – years, in fact. (I think it was around 2001 or 2002.) Someone had ripped it from their video of the Samurai Shodown movie, so it was of very low audio quality, and abruptly faded out at the end.

After some searching a couple of years ago, I found out that the artist is GWINKO. I also eventually found the song title: ”大好き”と言う嘘をついた

Well, I spent yesterday on a renewed hunt for it, and actually found it at IMEEM: Daisuki to iu uso wo tsuita

The lyrics (in…

Revisiting some DOS games of old…
I've been playing old PC DOS shareware games lately in DOSBox, and one of the most nostalgic aspects of this is always the music (of course ;).

So, I've been playing Alien Carnage, also known as Halloween Harry. I found that I still knew the melodies (if not the exact sound of the instruments) despite the fact that I had last heard them over 10 years ago. The music was composed by George Stamatiadis, with the title theme done by Steven Baker; the latter also composed the soundtrack for Mystic Towers, another…

I was listening to Dimanche by Origa, and I immediately noticed that the sample used in the beginning (as well as sprinkled throughout the track) was also used in Infected Mushroom's Groove. Seeing as it sounds the same on both tracks, I'm assuming that this is the unaltered, original sample.

I thought it pretty nifty when I listened to Semantic Spaces and recognised several samples borrowed from early Enigma. It made sense; Enigma and Delerium are both electronic/New Age/worldbeat artists, and they were supposed to have influenced each other.

On the other hand, I was listening to Rosenrot last night, and it puzzled me to hear the female voice sample* from Innocente at the start of Zerstoeren. They were processed in different ways (Delerium used it more or less as-is, whereas Rammstein added an echo effect and used it as the backdrop for a thumping drum beat).

I…