We’re joined by editor, writer and broadcaster Anthony John Agnello, co-host of the Video Game Grooves podcast and Creative Strategy Lead at IGN. To celebrate GXM10, we host a (semi-serious) mini-awards to celebrate game music released during the ‘current gen’ (i.e. since 2020.) There’s spicy takes, cover albums that AREN’T Zelda, Final Fantasy or Chrono, and our favourite HARD game tracks. Enjoy!
Our ‘Recent Favourites’ awards:
Favourite recent "hard" soundtrack
Favourite recent soundtrack where you're probably not going to play the game
Favourite track you could tolerate a 10-hour YouTube looping video of
Favourite cover track/album that isn’t Final Fantasy, Chrono or Zelda
Spiciest, most piping hot take about recent video game music
Best track that isn’t utilised enough in the game
Favourite VGM vinyl release
God’s honest truth best soundtrack
In the news…
New Street Fighter remix album features some of the genre’s biggest names
“Glocalisation” in SingStar
Aurora’s concert in Sky: Children of the Light returns!
00:07:56 - News
00:24:47 - Topic - Current gen soundtrack favourites with Anthony John Agnello
Stories covered in the news:
Via BleedingCool, Street Fighter Celebrates Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary With New Album
Via Music Business Worldwide, Will Page on streaming pricing, music’s revenue ‘pie’ – and why the global record industry is more local than ever
Via GamePress, Sky: Children of the Light celebrates four-year anniversary with music specials
Other links:
Book by Will Page, former Chief Economist of Spotify “Tarzan Economics: Eight Principles for Pivoting through Disruption”
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tarzan-Economics-Principles-Pivoting-Disruption/dp/1471190919
Hi! We're GXM (Games X Music), a fortnightly podcast exploring video game music and the intersection of video games and the music industry. Your hosts are freelancer Tom Quillfeldt (also Laced Records community manager + A&R) and journalist Mat Ombler.
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Produced by Tom Quillfeldt and Mat Ombler
Edited by Tom Quillfeldt
Music by Zak Foster
GXM #10: Game music mini-awards starring IGN’s Anthony John Agnello