Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
I’ve been listening to the Katamari Damacy soundtrack a lot recently – it’s some great music. The various genres represented remind me of two or three items I already have floating around in my collection:
- Melodies from Mars by Aphex Twin – an unreleased album supposedly commissioned by a computer game company as a soundtrack, and then never used. The instrumentation on Katamari Damacy is so similar in places that I imagine the composers must have been fans of this album. In particular: songs Sasasan Katamari and The Wonderful Star’s Walk is Wonderful.
- Wendy Carlos’s Clockwork Orange score – a couple of the tracks (Fugue #7777 and Katamari March Damacy) use something like Wendy’s ‘voice synth’ from her 9th Symphony, Fourth Movement.
- Gatas Parlament – crazy Norwegian anarcho-communist hip-hop. There’s no real connection here, I think I’m just a sucker for fun hip-hop in languages not normally associated with hip-hop, and the Katamari Damacy track “The Moon and the Prince” has that, and is a good song besides
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