This is the mid 70s so the music business in the bay area was booming. 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:
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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. Please note that preorders for the limited edition are timed and will close on June 17.Hi all, Alex Brandon here. It can be preordered from Data Discs now. It is priced at £35 and is scheduled to release in September, 2019. All variants will feature an etching on side F. There will also be a blue colored vinyl variant and a classic black vinyl variant. It includes three art prints with art from Sega’s archives and liner notes by composer Naofumi Hataya.Īs always there will be three different color variants – a limited edition with one disc on blue-in-clear vinyl with green splatter, one disc on green-in-clear vinyl with blue splatter, and one on blue vinyl. It comes in a heavy single pocket sleeve with game art. The tracklist have been newly arranged based around the game’s time zones and will differ from previous releases of this soundtrack. They are going to release the original Japanese soundtrack to Sonic CD on vinyl. Data Discs have just hit us all with a massive surprise release.
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