{"id":1819,"date":"2009-02-11T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T22:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2009-02-28T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T21:29:09","slug":"the-beauty-of-remixed-game-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/02\/11\/the-beauty-of-remixed-game-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of (Remixed) Game Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of game music on my computer (rather than streaming it from places such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osugamers.com%2F&amp;ei=j1KTSeXxF8yatwez38DaCw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsOqX4hwT5ccXxmJHxsk6ifzg8rg&amp;sig2=249ddOqqCZXue6G8E23sKw\">Radio GOSU<\/a>). Most of the music I have comes from that wonderful site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocremix.org\">OC Remix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I still find myself amazed at the quality of music that I find there &#8211; just really, really good stuff, made with (obvious) passion, and a lot of technical skill. Quite often I&#8217;ll stop work for a little while during the day when a really good song comes on and just turn it up nice &amp; loud &#8211; I often get goosebumps or chills when the really good bits come on.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how I might be feeling &#8211; tired, worn out, depressed, or just un-motivated &#8211; good music <em>always <\/em>cheers me right up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of game music on my computer (rather than streaming it from places such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.osugamers.com%2F&#038;ei=j1KTSeXxF8yatwez38DaCw&#038;usg=AFQjCNFsOqX4hwT5ccXxmJHxsk6ifzg8rg&#038;sig2=249ddOqqCZXue6G8E23sKw\">Radio GOSU<\/a>). I still find myself amazed at the quality of music that I find there &#8211; just really, really good stuff, made with (obvious) passion, and a lot of technical skill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[200,199],"tags":[129,196],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","category-my-opinion","tag-music","tag-video-games","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-tl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1283,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/11\/music-to-code-by\/","url_meta":{"origin":1819,"position":0},"title":"Music to Code By","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I read a post over at Coding Horror today about \"Music to (Not) Code By,\" and it got me thinking about the music I code by - which, let me just say, is not anything like the music mentioned in Jeff's article! 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