YTSEJAM Digest 6110 Today's Topics: 1) Music Street Journal/Gary Hill by =?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or Scott Mosher 2) [Announcement] Encyclopedia of Experimental and Progressive Metal by Michael Menegakis 3) VRPG music and prog by "M P" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:51:31 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or Scott Mosher To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: Music Street Journal/Gary Hill Message-ID: Kudos to Gary for a thorough and comprehensive delving into the grand sphere of music with thoughtful, comprehensive and thorough reviews. Highly recommended (of course the fact he reviewed VIRTUALITY this issue could have some bearing on my plug, but as an independent musician, I likewise toss the proverbial PR bone to my fellow self-financed artistic brothers and sisters, Gary being one of them, and his web zine.). C;aio! Scott M ($&@#$!@#) http://www.musicstreetjournal.com/mosher.htm Music Street Journal: http://www.musicstreetjournal.com Dr. Pepper: http://www.drpepper.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:50:17 +0000 From: Michael Menegakis To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: [Announcement] Encyclopedia of Experimental and Progressive Metal Message-ID: Yes, It is finally online after nearly 6 months of seeking ways to host it to a new domain. To Epigram Encyclopedia of Progressive and Experimental Metal resides at: http://www0.org/prog/eeepm It is open to online contributions and corrections since it was always working that way. But even now, it needs a long way up to be concidered complete i.e. cover everything. Note: If you keep a long list of experimental/progressive metal bands that includes at least some overall reviews on the bands, and you are willing to merge your information with the Encyclopedia, don't worry about the online forms, please contact me to arrange the merging. Enjoy, - MichaelM ps. btw, The Prog Musicians Forum is full of life since the time it reopened three days ago. Visit it at www0.org/musicians if you're looking for musicians or your band needs a drummer :o) And btw, feel free to contribute for your band on the encyclopedia's pages, even if your band is on early state. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:45:34 -0500 From: "M P" To: ytsejam@torchsong.com Subject: VRPG music and prog Message-ID: From: Dyne Subject: my meager 6 degrees review >Not only that, but did anyone else think >there were many similarities to any fantasy based vid games? From: Eric George Subject: Overture/Final Fantasy??? >Actually, yes. I know quite a few people who found "Overture" to be very >strangely reminiscent of the theme music from everyone's >favorite RPG-based video game, Final Fantasy. This is deffinetly not a bad >thing. This shouldn't really be a surprise. Japanese RPGs are one of the few outlets left where progressive still flourishes, mostly in the form of symphonic rock. Very few soundtracks get extremely technical, but most will sneak a song or two on. "Dancing Mad" from Final Fantasy VI is probably the most famous (can I say that?) example of this. Probably the most recent videogame with a prog-heavy soundtrack would be Valkyrie Profile, by Motoi Sakuraba. The game itself has several proggish tunes used as background music for various levels. There are a pair of arranged CDs that better show off his skills as a straightforward rocker, but they're expensive and tough to locate. D/J _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------ End of YTSEJAM Digest 6110 ************************** === Contributions to ytsejam: ytsejam@torchsong.com === === Send requests to: ytsejam-request@torchsong.com === === Brought by the ghost of ytsejam@arastar.coms past === === Reach the owner of this list at: ytsejam-owner@torchsong.com ===