Apparently Steve Hackett recorded it in 1978.
Someone needs to tell Yuzo Koshiro that someone traveled back in time and ripped him off.
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Apparently Steve Hackett recorded it in 1978.
Someone needs to tell Yuzo Koshiro that someone traveled back in time and ripped him off.
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Where’s the Etrian original for comparison purposes?
As for this ’78 track, wow, that music is too advanced for that era.
I can’t remember the exact track I’m thinking of, but it’s very much in the spirit of the series’ battle themes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEsgRhIhHf8
And “Please Don’t Touch” isn’t too out of the ordinary for the late ’70s. I hear electric guitar, drums, Mellotron, flute, and synth bass, all of which had been in use for ages by that point. The late ’70s were a great time for music recording technology (a sweet spot of great analog sound between the advent of clean multi-track recording and the arrival of digital mastering) wasted on a lot of bad music. But then you hear stuff like this and it’s great — so crisp and clean, but full of life and energy so often lost in digital recording.
Yeah sorry, I didn’t mean advanced as in the instruments used, I meant in the style. It doesn’t sound like anything that would have come out of that era (excluding Pink Floyd).
Oh, you’d be surprised. Hackett came from Genesis, who did a lot of this style of music along with a number of prog bands from the ’70s — King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, etc.
Wow, uncanny. Wonderful stuff… Jeremy is definitely the authority when it comes to video game tunes in relation to 1970s prog rock, hehe.