The collaborations of Western stars with developers have long become commonplace. These are mutually beneficial transactions tied to large amounts of money, and in some cases also on the interpenetration of audiences. Hardly many first learned about Emineme and Jay-Z From trailers Call of Duty (the names of these performers are associated today, it seems, with everything in the world), but it is likely that the work of the same M.I.A. Someone was carried away precisely after the third far Cry and her hit Paper Planes. In the conversations about Mortal Kombat x Often they remembered the Caliph Visa – a mardow in the debut video of Futing flowed to the beat of his recitative from Can’T Be Stopped.
And we are only about cases by musicians of rights to the popularity of the song – a separate story, when cooperation begins from scratch and compositions are written for specific projects (the history of the relations of Paul McCartney and Bungie – from the latest examples).
Gamemany decided to recall the brightest of the recent joint works of the authors of games and artists.
The playlist of the week
IN GTA V For fans of rap in the game, three FM channels are provided. Conservative West Coast Classics (time-tested material in the range from Tupak's tracks to gangst-gangs of duet n.W.A.) And Radio Los Santos, a library of a fashionable hip-hop, like Kendrick Lamar and Mac Miller.
Flylo radio, in turn, emphasizes some genre sophistications: in his instrumental compositions, he combines boorish, fat bass with excerpts of jazz and wild electronics, and as a result his music is often obtained with a psychedelic slope. The program has more artists from the younger generation (Captain Murphy, Tyler, The Creator), but there are real scenes – for example, Outkast.
The very fact of the presence of a nominal radio station in the GTA is already a curious story, but as if this was not enough, the musician was asked to supplement the track list for the PC version of the game, including there for another half hour of his company sound. Lotus completed the work, even noticed that half an hour for him was too modest, as an artist he wanted to express himself more powerful. One way or another, now on Flylo FM will play a cult Ems-Mistifier MF Doom (their track with the “owner” of the station is called Masquatch), and this is already a reason for the RAP fans in choosing a favorite gaming FM wave.
Alchemist, also producer and DJ (and rapper), only, unlike the lotus, already without reservation, the legendary one, is also a legendary, background. In the case of the California master hip-hop for more than twenty years, and in the games he managed to celebrate in 2009, becoming one of the producers of the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Together with him, artist OH NO worked then – and he is involved in creating a score for reprint GTA 5. Both musicians also noted in the old version of the game, so the situation is actually as with Flying Lotus: Rockstar invited old friends. And the main theme of the portable GTA was recorded by MF Doom and a member of the Wu-Tang Clan Ghostface Killah group, whose joint album fans of hip-hop have been waiting for the holiday for eight years. The audience will receive a record of two impulsive and unpredictable artists soon (it is possible that never), so it remains gloomily noding his head under the track of Chinatown Wars.
By the way, about music to GTA. It is impossible not to recall the participation of two Russian -speaking (one, however, with reservations) performers in work on the fourth part. First, the track “King Ring” by Raper Serega, who, by that time, had already become part of the soundtrack of the film “Battle with the Shadow”, included in one of the trailers, and then the performer wrote down the Liberty City: The Invasion song for the project (on the album – just “Invasion”). With singer Ruslana, the provision of musical content to the authors did not end, the winner of Eurovision 2004 received the role of a DJ on the in-game radio vladivostok FM.
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Soundtrack Silent Hill Traditionally associated with the name of the Japanese Akira Yamaoki, who invented music for most games of the series. WITH Silent Hill: Downpour , All that was released two years ago, everything turned out unexpectedly: the main composer of the project was American Daniel Licht (Dexter), but most of all the audience was remembered by the composition of the invited guests, the nu-metal of the Korn group.
About cooperation Konami It was known with the musicians even before the trailer, in which their song sounded; The worried fans even filed an online petition, to no avail protesting against the inclusion of Korn in the soundtrack. Discontent, however, quickly came to naught. The group turned out to be good, and the song fit quite successfully in Downpour.
The story of the change of the key composer did not pass and Mass Effect 3. Instead of Jack Wall, the author of music for the first two parts, the Soundtrak of the third part was engaged in the notorious Clint Mansell, the former member of the Pop Will Eat Itself team, who wrote the melody for the film “Requiem by Dream” (as well as to several films of Darren Aronofsky; for music for the picture for the picture for the picture ” Fountain "He received the" Golden Globe "). Probably, it was precisely the track record of Mansell and the role of his personality in the media industry that played a role in the fact that the news connoisseurs perceived the news calmly.
There was no reason for complaints and the admirers of the Bungie studio, in whose last and largest work, a online shooter Destiny , Sounds Paul McCartney itself. True, the permanent composers of the Halo series, Martin O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori, also worked over the Soundtrak, which was created between the States and England for four years (including in the famous Ebbi Road studio) My ST ), and the artist’s track, Hope for the Future, plays only in the final credits. But here, of course, the fact that the former member of the Beatles worked with the authors of Halo is curious and important. Yesterday at the anniversary of the queen, today – in the credits of a fantastic shooter.
McCartney simply explained his interest in the project. Despite the cult status of The Beatles, many young people today are completely unfamiliar with his work, and participation in work on the game is the best way to convey their music to this generation.
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In the case of Far Cry 4, of course, everything is somewhat simpler: the music involved in the Ubisoft shooter is close to many Tropical Wins sister sites modern players. In addition to Gambino, The Clash, Panjabi MC, and the ethnic console of The Bombay Royale, the Panjabi-Royale's ethnic group.
Another thing is that, having heard these artists somewhere with friends or on the radio, it is easy to forget about plans to get acquainted with their work (and often about their existence) after a couple of minutes. When the recitative of Gambino accompanies animal chaos in the trailer of the expected game, and the line " And I’m only Looking Back ’m Looking at her Booty »Emphasizes the frame with an elephant in an indecent perspective, the music and the name of its performer are reliably cut into memory.