Voldar - Music from
Video Games that Never Were
by
Joannie Foney
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Can sheer novelty & weirdness sell
CDs? Voldar hopes so. With the release of, "Music from Video Games that
Never Were", Voldar exposes his intended audience to the ancient days of
video games before they included actual music for soundtracks. People hoping
to find a CD full of different musical styles might be disappointed with
the electronic bleeps & bloops within. This retro 'soundtrack' is from
obsolete systems from the days of 16 bit graphics & blocky characters.
Even the tracks that almost sound like songs include sound effects from
an earlier time.
Who is the intended audience? It's doubtful
that today's hard core vid game fans would like this CD, as today's vid
games have more sophisticated ways of musically enhancing gaming. People
who like electronically generated or techno music probably won't find too
much in here to like, as these songs don't really lend themselves to that
genre too much. A casual music fan who buys it thinking the title is a
clever joke rather than absolute reality will probably be disgusted with
himself for being so gullible.
Maybe this album is an incredibly brilliant
resume for Voldar to seek employment at Nintendo, Sega, et al. To go to
Voldar's website is to enter the world of a guy with entirely too much
time on his hands. Rather than allowing the CD to gain an audience based
on how it sounds, like most CDs, an entire reality has carefully been constructed
for each and every song. On this site you can read what each video game
would be like had it ever been made, complete with graphics & characters.
Weird. Is there a market for this? How many vid game designers of today
would be interested in songs from a bygone era? How many people today have
the time or desire to sit around listening to this CD while reading what
game it should grace & day dreaming about what it would be like to
play such a game? If that is in itself a game, it sure isn't very interactive.
Sometime brilliance cloaks itself in such eccentricity it appears inaccessible,
pointless & stupid. Given that, this is a brilliant CD.
CD Info and Links
Voldar - Music from Video Games that
Never Were
Rating: 
for sheer novelty & weirdness
Visit
the official website to check out the CD and purchase it. Plus get more
info on these games that exist only in the mind of Voldar
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