Lumines site updated - new music!

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The Amiga Brotherhood
http://lumines.jp

Information / Game / Music pages have been added. The information pages have details of Fearless Records launch parties, which are supported by Lumines.

The music for the site has had an overhaul - it's now the Rez of websites, with layered music that changes as you click on the sections. The tune is called Talk 2 You (Website mix), and the blocks to the right of the PSP/PlayStation logos at the bottom show what loop is currently playing.

Hopefully this is how the music works ingame as well. Love it!
 
Oh wow this is awesome, definitely on of my favorite game sites so far. Heh, my speakers were up pretty loud, but I couldn't be bothered to turn the sound down, this music rocks. :P Thanks for the update.
 
One of my favourite game sites as well!

And can't get enough of the music - loop 6 sounds amazing! Click on Game then Mode ...

Moving the pointer over the Information / Game / Music section makes funky little noises as well. Like when you shoot things in Rez. My guess is those are the noises when you clear blocks.
 
I see no addition to the four tracks we already know about, three of which I already have. Is it actually true that features 40 tracks or not?

"I hear the music in my soul" is a HIT.
 
xsarien said:
I'd really appreciate someone explaining the rules of the game, I'm very, very curious.
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Me theory is still this:

- You get given 2x2 blocks of different combinations of 2 colours.
- Aim is to arrange them so you get 2x2 blocks of a single colour
- When you do, these areas are outlined
- Outlined blocks are removed by a scanline that passes repeatedly over the playarea left->right in time with the music
- The number above the scanline is a combo meter that goes up depending on how many outlined blocks you clear in one pass

I'll be sure to correct any of this when (or if!) my PSP+Lumines arrives :)
 
aerodynamik said:
I see no addition to the four tracks we already know about, three of which I already have. Is it actually true that features 40 tracks or not?

"I hear the music in my soul" is a HIT.
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Think the 40 tracks thing was mentioned in a couple of the magazines recently wasn't it? And I'm guessing there will be an 'ingame mix' of Talk 2 You as well as a 'website mix'
 
Anyone know if Bandai has committed to publishing this overseas? If not, I think it might be a good title for SCEA/SCEE to pick up themselves.
 
Wasn't on the European launch line-up, which is strange as I thought it would go down well in Europe.

There's probably stuff to sort out regarding the music licenses though. No release for Lumines in the West would be a crime against humanity.
 
aerodynamik said:
Famitsu. JonnyRam posted the scan and translated it.

Of course, I am a distrustful asshole who needs names!
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Hey I mentioned it first! Jonny just did the dirty work.... it suits him :-)
 
Well I don't trust you either!

I got a friend to translate the famitsu scan and yeah, it says 40+. I told you I'm distrustful :).

Now some names, please.
 
Eh, decent, not great. I'm sure it will work for the game, but just listening to it is doing nothing for me.

I do listen to electronic music though (yes, there is electronic music outside of games :P) so maybe my standards are just higher.
 
RE4 vs. SH4 said:
Eh, decent, not great. I'm sure it will work for the game, but just listening to it is doing nothing for me.

I do listen to electronic music though (yes, there is electronic music outside of games :P) so maybe my standards are just higher.
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There's electronic music outside of games?!

Who would have thought it!
 
I listen too quite a lot of electronic music too (and music in general, tons of), and the three songs I've been able to get of the four so far we know of are excellent. "I hear the music in my soul" is one of the best house singles I've heard in ages. Grrrrrrroovy as hell. I've spread the love and friends (who listen to quite a lot of electronic music too) agree.

You are alone!
 
i'm tempted to buy this even though falling block puzzle games cause me intense brain damage.
 
drohne said:
i'm tempted to buy this even though falling block puzzle games cause me intense brain damage.
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Go for it.

It will be a musically-accomplished and well-designed form of brain-damage. It's a good way to go!
 
AFX, Squarepusher, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Chris Clark, Orbital, Future Sound of London, Venetian Snares, DJ Shadow etc. etc. >>>>>>>>> this stuff

But hey, more power to you. I'd rather enjoy this music than not.
 
i think i might get this instead of minna no golf. i'm sure mingol wil be great, but it's nothing i haven't played 5 or 6 times before. although memories of the last time i played tetris give me pause...i couldn't read comfortably for a week, cos i'd see little tetrads tesselating the margins of the page. :/
 
This is silly, and why are you grouping everything under 'electronic music' - it's a bit of a wide genre. And you've made no mention of Ladytron, Goldfrapp, Soviet, Gary Numan etc. who I hope you'd agree are accomplished 'electronic' artists ...

Rather than your standards being higher, isn't it possible your tastes are just different?
 
drohne said:
although memories of the last time i played tetris give me pause...i couldn't read comfortably for a week, cos i'd see little tetrads tesselating the margins of the page. :/
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I used to have similar Advance Wars based hallucinations while reading, driving and waking up from sleep. :/
 
There's no way these guys can battle against BoC or DJ Shadow, because those are jaw-dropping five-stars one-in-a-lifetime things, for christ's sake! And still, it's not the same kind of electronics, so maybe it's not what you're into. What about zagar, yonderboi? French house? I am very, very, very pleasantly surprised with how this soundtrack is turning up. So far it's looking better tan Rez's. Which rocked. Electronically speaking. Remember, Nobuchika hasn't got even an EP out yet, as far as I know.
 
Nash said:
This is silly, and why are you grouping everything under 'electronic music' - it's a bit of a wide genre. And you've made no mention of Ladytron, Goldfrapp, Soviet, Gary Numan etc. who I hope you'd agree are accomplished 'electronic' artists ...

Rather than your standards being higher, isn't it possible your tastes are just different?
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Well, all those artists I listed ARE electronic musicians. They're under a lot of different sub-genres, which is precisely the reason why I grouped them all under electronic music... because it's correct, even if it isn't as accurate as it could be.

Yes, I agree with the artists you listed... never heard of Gary Numan though. Anyway, that's why I said etc. etc.... I don't want to list every electronic group I've ever heard. Would take too long, you know.

And yes, these Lumines tracks may be brilliant but they just don't suit my tastes. Sorry for not thinking of that possibility before. It's just... I find these tracks so boring. Eh, whatever, they're not bad by any means.
 
jarrod said:
Soviet... mmmmmm.......
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A Soviet fan! :-O

Their album We Are Eyes, We are Builders was really hard to track down, but one of the best albums I'd heard in ages. Retro 80's-sounding synth goodness!

C-O-M-M-U-T-E

Sadly they seem to have died :(
 
RE4 vs. SH4 said:
Eh, decent, not great. I'm sure it will work for the game, but just listening to it is doing nothing for me.

I do listen to electronic music though (yes, there is electronic music outside of games :P) so maybe my standards are just higher.
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ditto
 
Nash said:
A Soviet fan! :-O

Their album We Are Eyes, We are Builders was really hard to track down, but one of the best albums I'd heard in ages. Retro 80's-sounding synth goodness!

C-O-M-M-U-T-E

Sadly they seem to have died :(
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Heh, I was doing a studio program in NYC when Electroclash really first hit in 2001. Soviet's great, they were my favorite of all the acts (though I liked Peaches, WIT and ARE Weapons too). The Yaz influence is probably what did it, my mom played Yaz all the time when I was a toddler.

Too bad they didn't last. :(
 
jarrod said:
Heh, I was doing a studio program in NYC when Electroclash really first hit in 2001. Soviet's great, they were my favorite of all the acts (though I liked Peaches, WIT and ARE Weapons too). The Yaz influence is probably what did it, my mom played Yaz all the time when I was a toddler.

Too bad they didn't last. :(
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I'm jealous! Would have liked to have been in NYC at that time. Saw Peaches when she was over in the UK last year, she is one filthy bitch live.
 
The 40 tracks are all no-name electronic tracks apart from the 4 big names already announced, it seems. Even in the in-game credits, only those 4 are mentioned specifically.
 
jarrod said:
The Yaz influence is probably what did it, my mom played Yaz all the time when I was a toddler.

Too bad they didn't last. :(
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OMG - 'Upstairs at Eric's' and 'You and me both' are perhaps the best electro pop albums ever. And that's Yazoo, not Yaz, Yank.;)
 
AFX, Squarepusher, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Chris Clark, Orbital, Future Sound of London, Venetian Snares, DJ Shadow etc. etc. >>>>>>>>> this stuff
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I listen to and LOVE every single of those bands you mentioned (and others, more recent ones too, like Telefon Telaviv or Dntel), but I absolutely enjoy the more poppy and happy stuff like this game seems to have as well.

My favortie so far is Shinin' - it sounds like a happier and mellower version of something Underworld would make.

Awesome site btw, and to the point given the game's music system. I also keep the old SWF file from Lumines site as I liked that music too.
 
From the main PSP thread:

Bebpo said:
Lumines is quite possibly the best experience I've ever had on a portable system. Every minute with this game is bliss.
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Need this game badly!
 
Nash said:
I'm jealous! Would have liked to have been in NYC at that time. Saw Peaches when she was over in the UK last year, she is one filthy bitch live.
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SHAKE YER TITS, SHAKE YER DICK

Peaches is nothing though, a friend of mine went to a Fischerspooner opening at Deitch Projects a few years back (when they were still relevant in the art world), where Casey Spooner's dancers were giving each other pig blood enemas, then bending over and spraying it on the audience. Can't say I'm sorry to have missed that one.


Izzy said:
OMG - 'Upstairs at Eric's' and 'You and me both' are perhaps the best electro pop albums ever. And that's Yazoo, not Yaz, Yank.;)
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Outside Alison Moyet's voice, Soviet's just as good. Seriously.
 
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