1. Welcome To Limited Run (8:23) 2. As Seen On TV (10:53) 3. Chillin On A Monomate Break (10:41) 4. Your Local Forecast (9:31) 5. You’ve Got Mail (11:31) 6. Come Visit The Food Court (7:30) 7. Current Conditions (13:43) 8. I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up (11:06) 9. Radio Shack Summer Sale (9:35) 10. But Wait There’s More (8:31) 11. Space Time Continuum (10:26)
This has to be one of the weirdest premises to ever create an entire soundtrack for, given the fact it’s not for a big triple-A game, a movie or a TV show but instead it’s the soundtrack for the grand opening of a single, retro-themed video game store in North Carolina.
I mean, who or what is the intended audience for this music? Do they play this music in-store at Limited Run Retail? Was it part of a giveaway to shoppers or to people who attended the grand opening?
And what’s even weirder is that despite it being produced for a very obscure purpose and being completely overlooked by the gaming world and probably even devoted soundtrack collectors, it’s INCREDIBLY DAMNED GOOD.
Which also defies logic since it’s composed by Jason Graves, who is definitely an excellent videogame composer, but one mainly known for his suspenseful horror or action soundtracks for games like the Dead Space series, Tomb Raider, Far Cry Primal and The Order: 1886 and yet this soothing, relaxing blend of retro-synthwave/80s nostalgia/jazz-type music is something I’ve never heard from his soundtracks before. It really does sound like the kind of generic background music you’d hear in high-end department stores back in the 1990s or something.
It’s just such a strange premise to create an entire soundtrack for, that somehow didn’t turn out to be a lazy afterthought but is instead elaborately overdone and sounds better than many triple-A videogame or film soundtracks.
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Only sold in 1 store in North Carolina, not sold digitally that I am aware of. How the heck did you get a 320 and a flac version of this so quickly?
Because internet:
https://music.amazon.es/albums/B09Z7B4BBC
Will happily try.
Cheers.
This has to be one of the weirdest premises to ever create an entire soundtrack for, given the fact it’s not for a big triple-A game, a movie or a TV show but instead it’s the soundtrack for the grand opening of a single, retro-themed video game store in North Carolina.
I mean, who or what is the intended audience for this music? Do they play this music in-store at Limited Run Retail? Was it part of a giveaway to shoppers or to people who attended the grand opening?
And what’s even weirder is that despite it being produced for a very obscure purpose and being completely overlooked by the gaming world and probably even devoted soundtrack collectors, it’s INCREDIBLY DAMNED GOOD.
Which also defies logic since it’s composed by Jason Graves, who is definitely an excellent videogame composer, but one mainly known for his suspenseful horror or action soundtracks for games like the Dead Space series, Tomb Raider, Far Cry Primal and The Order: 1886 and yet this soothing, relaxing blend of retro-synthwave/80s nostalgia/jazz-type music is something I’ve never heard from his soundtracks before. It really does sound like the kind of generic background music you’d hear in high-end department stores back in the 1990s or something.
It’s just such a strange premise to create an entire soundtrack for, that somehow didn’t turn out to be a lazy afterthought but is instead elaborately overdone and sounds better than many triple-A videogame or film soundtracks.
Very odd but a very nice soundtrack indeed.