vintagerpg:Didyou know that tape cassettes are super cheap to produce these days and manysmall, inde
vintagerpg:Didyou know that tape cassettes are super cheap to produce these days and manysmall, independent music acts are using them as a way to sell physical copiesof their albums without risking the farm? It’s true – a lot of black metalbands use tapes to get their stuff out there in hopes of getting labelinterest. Hip-hop has a long tradition of tapes, too.Thisis The Cave of the Lost Talisman, the first album from Kobold, a“dungeon-synth” act that composes 8- and 16-bit music specifically intended tosoundtrack your latest dungeon crawl. I love it to bit – it reminds me a lot ofthe soundtrack to the NES-version of Shadowgate. The tray card interior isillustrated with a dungeon map and a small booklet provides a kind of tone poemdescription of the rooms as they match up with the track list. It is a reallylovely and unique homage to D&D.Idon’t remember who hipped me to this (thank you, whoever you are!), but it wasreleased by a small DIY label in Milan, Italy called Heimat Der Katastrophe.The immediate appeal is the design, which lovingly repurposes the artwork ofthe late, great Dave Trampier (The cover art is a modified DAT illustration,but I can’t source it – let me know if you recognize it). You can find Koboldpretty easy by searching “Kobold” on Bandcamp. I’d link you direct, but UGH,Instagram. -- source link
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