nervous_testpilot - Music for Code (album review)
The founder and CEO of
Mode7 games caresses once again our ears with melodic sounds and cool beats
with his latest album Music for Code.
While the team of Mode7 games tinkers busily on the turn-based strategy spectacle Frozen Synapse 2, its founder Paul Kilduff-Tayler, alias nervous_testpilot, has released Music for Code, a new mini-album with five of his tracks where he wanted to explore new worlds of doing electronic music.
nervous_testpilot is an award winning game music composer and is responsible for the soundtracks of all games by Mode7. Even if he wants to try something new the tracks on this album sound familiar. Music for Code features electronic music consisting of beautiful melodies and great beats. It doesn't differ too much from what you've heard in Frozen Endzone or the first Frozen Synapse game, but that's a good thing. Songs such as "Make the symbols work" establish themselves immediately in the music-loving part of our brain and don't want to get out from there again. The reason for this is simple, because Paul Kilduff-Taylor knows exactly which sequences can create a dense atmosphere, which for example assumes heroic proportions for a track like "Music for Code", while "Wishbone" mixes electronic music with the popular sounds from Far East.
Although Music for Code seems not to be a massive album with just five tracks included, those $4.00 are invested well. Every single tune turns out to be a catchy one, that you want to play up and down all day long. And that's a valid reasons for an acquisition.
Track list:
1. Why you got to
be
2. Make the Symbols work
3. Music for Code
4. Wishbone
5. I thought
Music for Code@ Bandcamp
Personal Favorites:Make the Symbols
work, Wishbone
Thanks
to ne7 for proof-reading and correcting the translation.