Sword & Sworcery: The Scythian Steppes

The Scythian Steppes is a remix record featuring seven #sworcery songs localized for Japan by a who's who of Japanese composers, many of whom are known for their musical scores for video games. The record will be available at the summer solstice on June 21st 2012 via iTunes & Bandcamp, for more details go to swordandsworcery.com/japan or stay tuned to the folks at 8-4 who are orchestrating the project by searching @sukimusu on Twitter or following @84play.

Song fragments in the clip above:

00:00 Jim Guthrie's Little Furnace
00:15 Mitsuto Suzuki remix

00:37 Jim Guthrie's The Ballad of the Space Babies
00:52 macotom3's Supernova Babies remix

01:14 Jim Guthrie's Lone Star
01:30 Baiyon's Just Walking remix (composer for PixelJunk Eden and the just-released PixelJunk 4am)

01:54 Jim Guthrie's The Maelstrom
02:09 Decasségui Hip's Radiant Darkness remix (?)

02:32 Jim Guthrie's The Prettiest Weed
02:48 Decasségui Hip remix (?)

03:10 Jim Guthrie's Unknowable Geometry
03:27 Michiru Yamane's Symphony remix (contributed to the score for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night among others)

03:48 Jim Guthrie's Bones McCoy
04:04 Akira Yamaoka remix (probably best known for his Silent Hill scores & a/v design)