Hey, you should all check out the debut EP from Sean “Daemon9623” Babbitt, because it’s a rowdy collection of tracks that will take you through a gnarly chiptune zombie outbreak and leave you a tattered mess of ragged flesh and bone. It’s available here via Concatenation Records.
This is the Joseph Luster Report, so naturally there’s a JL angle to this post. I did the cover art:
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Could it be? Has the Living Tribunal returned in 2010? I think so.
I don’t know how I’ve lived this long without jamming the soundtrack to Chojin Sentai Jetman, a Famicom game based on one of the very best sentai series. I haven’t even played the game, but the music is ace, and it’s worth a listen for the titillating title theme rendition alone. If you’ve never seen it, soak it in first:
Hot dog, can Hironobu Kageyama ever croon! Composer Hiroyuki Iwatsukitaru knew this well, and faithfully translated said crooning to the Famicom soundchip. Being a kind gentleman, I ripped the NSF of Jetman into a .zip of MP3 files for your downloading pleasure. Get it!
Chojin Sentai Jetman (Famicom) [.zip, 40mb]
There are definitely shades of Capcom in the soundtrack, Mega Man specifically. I plan on popping a ROM of the game in when I get back to Hoboken. It’s a Natsume title that’s apparently like Shatterhand with giant robot battles.
I like this one because it looks like they’re about to fist bump
All images viciously swiped from this cool page on Natsume.
Slowly deleting comments from this post, which has become the Pearl Harbor of blogging. Thanks, Japan, see if I ever make a soundtrack based on one of your comics again!
So 2009 is winding down, and you should expect some posts once more. However, thanks to the kaiju kommenting attack, there are some increased restrictions! I’m like TSA over here but slightly less lazy.
JoE Shieh—you might know him as That Taiwanese Dude That’s Obsessed with Lists—wants me to do some top ten nonsense, but I don’t know about that. There will definitely be some kind of recap in the near future, so keep your peepers peeled and don’t remove this blog from your RSS feed or whatever you use to browse Sandra Bullock’s The Net.
Or add it back if you already have, you filthy animals.
I want to kick this off with a couple things. First, I’d like to thank everyone who checked out my NES soundtrack to The Drifting Classroom. I worked really hard on it in my spare time and I’m pleased with how it turned out. It was received really well, dare I say, across the world! In fact, even original manga artist Kazuo Umezu seemed to enjoy it.
WOW is all I have to say to that. I can’t believe he’s holding a physical copy of the album in his home, and I have to give major thanks to voidmare over at Tokyo Scum Brigade for making it happen. Totally blows me away.
I’d also like to apologize for failing on my November promises. It turned out to be a mad busy month, so I wasn’t able to commit the amount of time I would have liked to this blog. Rest assured, it is not forgotten, and it never will be so long as it exists in the ether.
I do have a new piece of art for you. Over at the Electric Ant Zine blog, they have a “I Draw Your Shit” feature, in which everyone is invited to draw the characters of others. This time around it’s Lamar Abrams’ Max Guy, from his comic Remake, which I highly recommend to everyone. It’s funny, and charming, and charmingly funny, and stupid, and awesome.
You can see my puerile contribution here, It is #9 in a lineup of really good drawings.
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