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Spreading the gospel of video game music, one cover at a time. #VGM record label.

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We're so glad you could join us here at GameGrooves in 2025! Here's to more VGM fun in 2026!

#vgm #newyearseve #2025Recap
Album releases: Skanic the Hedgehog, AnimeGrooves, Lounging in the Velvet Room Album releases: Chambers of Time, Brave Sonata, Konged Loose Charity Releases: March Caprice Concert Soirée - Double Time -, VGM CON Dimensional Riff Album Jam, Vol. 5, MAGWest VII Charity Album Jam, Vol. 1 Alliance Releases: Towns Well-Traveled, The Friends We Made Along the Way, Sojourney, The Ocean
December 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The last Bandcamp Friday of the year is here! But don't take it from us. Let our friend, Donkey Kong, show you some of the highlights of this year that you can buy right now as digital downloads, CDs, and tapes!

Get 'em here: gamegrooves.bandcamp.com

#bandcampfriday #bandcamp #bcf #vgm #gamemusic
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Hear @ropanuganti.com and @drewbertisms.bsky.social talk about producing GameGrooves's latest album, Konged Loose.

GameGrooves Uncovered #podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5XWg...

Konged Loose album: lnk.to/konged-loose

#progmetal #progressivemetal #donkeykong #donkeykongcountry
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Hear what bassist @joecalderone.bsky.social of Arch Echo thinks of all things DK! Joe's arrangement of Forest Interlude is out now on Konged Loose from GameGrooves!

On #bandcamp and streaming services: lnk.to/konged-loose

#progressivemetal #progmetal #donkeykong #donkeykongcountry #archecho
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Check out @chernabogue.bsky.social's explosive version of Welcome to Crocodile Island featuring @nahtony.bsky.social!

Out now on Konged Loose: lnk.to/konged-loose

#donkeykong #donkeykongcountry #metal
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Check out @premvintageband.bsky.social talking about Gang-Plank Galleon from Konged Loose!

Get Konged Loose on #bandcamp today: lnk.to/konged-loose

#donkeykongcountry #donkeykong #metal
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Check out @zeldarocks.bsky.social's contemplative arrangement of the Protagonist's Theme, perfectly closing out our piano album, Brave Sonata.

On #bandcamp and streaming: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #piano
ZeldaRocks's artist spotlight What inspired you to choose your track? Given how the protagonist/hero's theme is woven throughout much of the game's soundtrack we thought someone should make sure it's on the album! The somber determination in the piece is also an interesting choice for a character theme, but it fits Ramza perfectly. What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics? Definitely the first time I played it while visiting a high school friend. He was playing his dad's copy and telling me all about the game, and later his dad came in and also started gushing about it so that was a fun moment of generational nerdiness. Hopefully the remaster will connect more people like this!
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Check out a snippet of @maxwellsandler.bsky.social's bass playthrough of Nuts and Bolts from Donkey Kong Country 3!

Out now on Konged Loose: lnk.to/konged-loose

#bass #donkeykong #dkc
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Taking us on a journey through one of the central characters of Final Fantasy Tactics, @drbaferguson.bsky.social's moving arrangement of Delita's Theme explores the depths of Delita Heiral's complex plot line.

On #Bandcamp and streaming: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #delita #piano
Dr. B.A. Ferguson's artist spotlight What inspired you to choose your track? Delita’s Theme is such an iconic theme, and I enjoyed working on it. Also, Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir uses the same progression, so I threw in a little quote since it works out. What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics? I loved Final Fantasy Tactics! I played for 2-3 years throughout high school, and, while my grades suffered, it had such a profound influence on both my music and game design philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Join us in just 3 hours for our Konged Loose album party hosted by album producer @ropanuganti.com! Featuring a full album playthrough, interviews with track producers, music videos, and Ro's Spicy% playthrough of DKC, there's something for everyone! See you on YouTube: youtube.com/@RoPanuganti
Konged Loose listening party at 4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET on Ro Panuganti's YouTube channel
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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To celebrate, @ropanuganti.com is hosting a Konged Loose listening party on his YouTube channel tomorrow at 4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET! See you there!

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Konged Loose listening party hosted by Ro Panuganti on Saturday, November 15 at 4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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From jungles to the oceans, snowy mountains to pirate ships... Konged Loose takes on Donkey Kong's historic game soundtracks to modern blistering metal and exciting progressive-metal heights. Available now on Bandcamp as a download and CD!

On #Bandcamp now: lnk.to/konged-loose

#donkeykong #metal
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Nov 14. Barrels will be smashed.. bananas reclaimed.. and Kongs let loose.

#donkeykong #metal
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Arranging fan favorite battle track Apoplexy, @michaelhoffmann.bsky.social's exciting solo piano highlights the urgency of this classic piece!

Available on #bandcamp and streaming: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#piano #finalfantasytactics #fft #pianosolo #solopiano
Michael Hoffmann's artist spotlight Are you excited for The Ivalice Chronicles? Yes. I've never played the original Final Fantasy Tactics all of the way through, so this new release will be a great opportunity for me to finally play it with a bunch of quality of life improvements. What's your favorite aspect of Tactical RPGs like FFT? I really like being able to micromanage and build a bunch of characters. Especially later in the game when you unlock more jobs and can try making super powerful job ability combinations.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Track proposals for our Gimmick! charity album jam benefitting gastric cancer research have just opened over on our Discord server! Hop in now if you'd like to arrange and record for this charity album!

Happening in the GameGrooves Discord server: discord.gg/qUwynKQzpB

#gimmick #vgm #gamemusic
Gimmick! charity album jam, taking place November 7-14 to benefit gastric cancer research.
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Pianist EndlessRepeat's playing shines on Warp Whistles Music's Under the Stars. Here, he talks about his thoughts on the piece as well as his experience playing it.

Check out Under the Stars on Brave Sonata, available now on #bandcamp and streaming: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #piano
What inspired you to choose your track? Donut (of Warp Whistles Music) gave me a few choices after we agreed to collaborate, so I picked “Under the Stars” because it’s one of my favorites and it would have been a strong candidate had I elected to do a solo piano arrangement. The falling motif has an insistent drive that I think underlies the plot of the game—always moving forward, but not gaining the upper hand. Just like a shooting star: shining, but always falling. Were there challenges of arranging your track for this kind of instrumentation? I would have liked to include more of the countermelody to the main descending motif on the piano, but it’s tricky to play it at full speed while including the underlying bass part. In the final version, I only added it briefly in the beginning and ending.
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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donut of @warpwhistlesmusic.bsky.social shares her thoughts about her multiple playthroughs of Final Fantasy Tactics as well as her haunting clarinet and piano arrangement of Under the Stars, an Iwata classic.

Available now: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #clarinet #clarinetsonata
donut of Warp Whistles Music's artist spotlight What inspired you to choose your track? FFT has a lot of really amazing battle themes, but Under The Stars is unique in that it only appears during one story battle (it also plays at the start of the Orbonne Monastary raid in FF14) and doesn't get quite the attention as some of of the other tunes. I feel it has a resolute beauty to it, and could work equally well in or out of battle. What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics? In my first playthrough in junior high I picked my party and classes almost entirely based on how cute I thought the outfits were and I let the chips fall where they may with regards to permadeath - leading Mustadio to a very early demise and thus locking me out of most of the Chapter 4 side content. In retrospect I'm not sure how I managed to make it through the gnarlier battles and beat the game, but I got my revenge a few years later when I started a new file and did all the sidequests and a full clear of the Deep Dungeon.
October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Although he's played piano in various ensembles, @ianmartyn.bsky.social has just started exploring the world of vgm piano covers. His arrangement of Masaharu Iwata's Tavern theme takes you on a short journey.

Out now: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #piano #solopiano #pianosolo
Ian Martyn's artist spotlight What inspired you to choose your track? I'm a big fan of Masaharu Iwata's music, and I wanted to try arranging his playful Tavern theme in a few different styles. When I first listened to the soundtrack as a kid before the game came out in the States, Tavern was one of the tracks that I immediately gravitated towards, and I wanted to try use the loop's short length to explore different moods throughout my arrangement. What's your favorite aspect of Tactical RPGs like FFT? I love the board game-like aspect of moving characters around on a grid while retaining familiar elements of turn-based RPGs. I also love the emphasis on job classes in certain tactical RPGs. FFT's job class system feels like a combo of the robustness of FFV's jobs combined with Tactics Ogre's system, expanding the best elements of both.
October 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Making his GameGrooves debut, @benvisini.bsky.social transforms beloved battle theme Random Waltz into an actual waltz! Learn a bit about his arranging process while enjoying his arranging and playing on Brave Sonata!

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#finalfantasytactics #piano #pianosolo #solopiano
Ben Visini's artist spotlight: What inspired you to choose your track? I was going through different tracks, and this one stood out to me purely for the fact it was called Random "Waltz", despite not being a Waltz. I understand it's using the definition of "walking around", but I thought it would be fun to arrange this song as a musical waltz as well. Were there challenges of arranging your track for this kind of instrumentation? Taking a song that exists in 4/4 and 5/4, and arranging it into 3/4 has a ton of challenges. Some notes/rhythms have to be changed in order to fit a shorter amount of quarter notes per bar, and certain melodic and rhythmic lines that work in the original time signature sound stilted and awkward in a new one, so I had to take a ton of creative liberty in modifying every element of the song. I did a light reharmonization for the first half to make it work better on solo piano, and a MAJOR reharmonization for the second half when it turns into a jazz waltz. Trying to find new chords that work with the same melody can be really tough, but it helped make it sound more like a traditional standard.
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Come listen to Brave Sonata with us tonight! We'll listen to the whole album, watch some music videos, and hear from some of the arrangers. Tonight on the GameGrooves Twitch: twitch.tv/gamegrooves

Art by @aggressionrose.bsky.social

#finalfantasytactics #piano #pianocover #pianocovers #vgm
Brave Sonata Final Fantasy Tactics Piano listening party on Thursday, October 9 at 6 pm pacific time, 9 pm eastern time on the GameGrooves Twitch channel
October 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Brave Sonata, our Final Fantasy Tactics piano-centered album, is now available on all #streaming services in addition to #Bandcamp! Find it wherever you listen to #music!

Available now: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#FinalFantasyTactics #piano #spotify #applemusic
October 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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As half of the duo Freeform with zdmajor7, Jamin Morden's moving arrangement of Antidote demonstrates the power of the combo of horn and piano.

Check out Freeform's Antidote on Brave Sonata: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #horn #frenchhorn
What inspired you to choose your track? Antidote is a unique track in a soundtrack of incredibly well-written songs. There's almost a bit of narrative arc to it: starting out somewhat morose or unsure, before gradually transforming into a glorious anthem. As a kid, I simply knew that I liked the track, but as an adult, I marvel at the incredibly sophisticated harmonic language used to give Antidote its unique sound. Are you excited for The Ivalice Chronicles? Absolutely. Final Fantasy Tactics is easily in my top 3 favorite games of all time, so honestly, Squareenix giving me another excuse to play through it is fine by me! I think there might even be a few new songs (or they're implementing previously unused ones) which is exciting!
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Appearing on two tracks on Brave Sonata, @chromaticapparatus.bsky.social's evocative cello playing evokes emotional highs in both the Opening and Berceuse d'Ovelia.

Check out Brave Sonata, available now on #Bandcamp: lnk.to/brave-sonata

#finalfantasytactics #cello #celloplayer #cellosonata
What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics? Too many vying for the top spot. Timing a slow, heavy AoE spell to connect with a giant group of opponents and wiping them out, raining meteorites down on my enemies with my own army of red chocobos, the ASMR induced by the in-game dialogue boxes, T.G. Cid, getting soft locked by Wiegraf/Velius in chapter 3 ... wait. What's your favorite aspect of Tactical RPGs like FFT? The ability to create absolutely broken combos through job and skill inheritance. It's not a bug, it's a feature! There's no one "right" answer to many fights, and that keeps the gameplay interesting.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It's #BandcampFriday today! #Bandcamp is the best place to get all of your favorite GameGrooves releases like our latest album, Brave Sonata. Get high quality downloads in the format of your choice to listen to on whichever system you have.

gamegrooves.bandcamp.com

#videogamemusic #gamemusic #vgm
Bandcamp Friday @ Gamegrooves on gamegrooves.bandcamp.com On Bandcamp Friday, Bandcamp waives the cut it normally takes, giving more money back to the musicians who post their music there. Support GameGrooves this Bandcamp Friday.
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Making his GameGrooves debut, pianist and arranger Ross Mitchell, along with violinist @roninopf.bsky.social, created a beautiful, moving duet of Memories, one of Sakimoto's most iconic melodies.

Check it out on Brave Sonata on #Bandcamp
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#finalfantasytactics #piano #violin
Ross Mitchell AKA Mystic Chord artist spotlight: What's your favorite aspect of Tactical RPGs like FFT? Character customization, especially FFT's Job System! I love creating a party that is uniquely mine, and FFT is still my gold standard for this kind of system. What is your favorite memory of playing FF Tactics? FF Tactics: Advance was the first FF game I played, and it sparked my lifelong love of the series. I remember spending tons of long car rides to visit family immersed in the world of Ivalice, experimenting with the Job System and trying to wrap my mind around the complex tactical combat.
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM