Sonic cd soundtrack artist full#

I started to hang out at a local music store called “Don Weir’s Music City”. So I was playing a lot and writing my own music and very engrossed in the piano. I’d say I’m 95% self taught, I did a short stint of lessons in my junior high and high school years but I was far too advanced as a player to really have a patience for the teaching. It wasn’t the nicest piano by any stretch of the imagination but I was fascinated with all the mechanics of it and the sounds I could get out of it.

I could do anything I wanted with this piano. I would play every day, stick things in the strings. My father was an architect and he had taken a job and the client had given him a pre 1900s upright piano that he put in our living room, and it became my toybox. I’m a pianist, a vocalist, primarily a keyboardist, but I started playing when I was about five years old. SN: Great, yeah! I started off playing piano. SN: Well, thank you for having me, it’s an honor.ĪB: I’ll start with you at age 14, you worked with San Francisco groups, working in studios, talk a little bit about that phase of your life and what got you there to working with bands like U2 and Aerosmith. In this exclusive interview, we get a unique perspective from someone who has dabbled in all areas of music media. He has experience with record production, as well as film and television work. Spencer’s career includes more than game music, however. I’m conducting this interview because Spencer has created some of the most well known game soundtracks of all time, from Ecco the Dolphin to Sonic CD. Greetings, I’d like to welcome you all to an interview with Spencer Nilsen, President and Creative Director of Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane!įind the remaining OSVchannel links to the interview as well as highlights in transcript form after the jump!įirst of all, the OSVchannel parts in list form for your convenience:

Sonic cd soundtrack artist full#

The game represents a revolutionary combination of full bore studio instrumentals and synthesizers, and the FM capabilities of the Genesis. At the start of the interview is a crossfade from his original Ecco track and the one found in the Genesis version. We recorded in two seperate studios, Spencer from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts in San Francisco, and my studio at Heatwave here in Austin. Since then I’d wanted to interview Spencer about the experience as well as his career. I found that it was composed by Magyari Andras, Brian Coburn, and Spencer Nilsen. Since then I was hooked on the soundtrack. I looked and saw Ecco The Dolphin being played. Around 1993 I heard some new age synth sounds coming from the next dorm room at college.

Nilsen for pointing out the tribute album.Hi all, Alex Brandon here. That said, Spencer Nilsen did a hell of a job and frankly, I like both versions equally. I gotta say, I was turned off to the idea of Sonic CD being redone as a kid, and really, it probably didn’t need to be done. It also sounded a lot like Genesis FM….I wonder if they used some of those types of keyboards for that track. And the US version of Collision Chaos bad future totally sounded like it was channeling early 80’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi flicks. The Japanese tracks sounded like they were really inspired by Michael Jackson’s Dangerous. I listened to the whole damn thing and as soon as it was done I started it over from the beginning. So I look at my phone and it’s in the middle of downloading Spencer Nilsen….”What the heck, I already listened to this, why is it down……Oh what the HELL, SONIC CD WITH NILSEN?!?! OH HELL YES!” I’m getting ready for work this morning about 4am, and I thought to myself, “let’s see if VGMpire has a new episode today”.