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Snowy maps in games should (obviously) come with snow themed music. The songs I like have a certain feel to it: in most cases, even if you haven’t played the game you’ll know it’s a song played in white, cold areas. Here are some of my favorites.

Winterbliss by cycerin (from Castle Crashers)

The White Skies (Club Mix) by bLiNd (a remix of Final Fantasy X’s People of the North Pole song by Nobuo Uematsu)

Snow Storm (Original Mix) by DJ Taka (from Beatmania, Dance Dance Revolution)

You can have good acting and good writing  but  if you don’t have good music, it can change the quality of a TV show or movie drastically. The music usually is instrumental but, if used correctly, can be vocal too. Grey’s Anatomy is well known for their excellent use of vocal music produced by a large variety of artists. Today, I found out about Greg Laswell. Apparently, one of his songs was used during a season 4 episode of Grey’s Anatomy but I guess I never noticed that one. However, “Off I Go”, a song that he specifically produced for Grey’s Anatomy’s season 5 finale definately increased the climax moment at the end of the episode. That song was very well put and I’ve been listening to it ever since I heard it earlier today. He’s got many more good songs such as “Comes and Goes“, “How the Day Sounds” and “Sing, Theresa Says“. I found another favorite singer! Click for his page.

“Off I Go” by Greg Laswell.

Look what just fell on my doormat! (figuratively speaking) My shiny Super Mario Galaxy OST by “Mario Galaxy Orchestra” as the cover says. Here are some pictures and some of my favorite songs of the album:

Battlerock Galaxy

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Bowser Battle (Catch the chorus on this one!)

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Bowser’s Galaxy Reactor

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Time for some music! More specifically from one of my favorite composers: Yuki Kajiura. Her style is mostly classical and many tracks feature a choir that performs chants. I understand this is a genre that not everybody likes but please stop saying it’s church music because it’s not. ¬_¬

She’s composed music for many popular anime series such as .Hack//SIGN, Mai Hime (Otome as well), Madlax, Noir and Tsubasa Chronicle. This post will feature some of the best songs from .Hack//SIGN (which was an awesome anime series, by the way).

Yuki Kajiura – Key of the Twilight

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Yuki Kajiura – In the Land of Twilight, Under the Moon

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Yuki Kajiura – Secret Project

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Yuki Kajiura – End of the World

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Yuki Kajiura – Open Your Heart (Reprise)

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