Echo’s Story Y2K Video Game

For producers and sound designers Galen Tipton & Holly Waxwing 🎧🎶, their earliest connection with music was through video games 🎮. As children of the 90s and early 00s 🕹️, the colorful, at times goofy, and extremely playful video game compositions from that era became staples of their childhood 🎉 and greatly influenced the music they went on to create later in life 🎶. They both fell in love with how games often rely so heavily on motifs and variations of a central theme, because those melodies formed intense psychic and emotional bonds 💭💖.

Video games from the early aughts had scores that blended hi-fidelity sounds 🎧 but still had limitations imposed by the technology of the time 💻. This combo of advances and restrictions led to a sound that is uniquely distinct to their core memories 🕹️💡.

Holly Waxwing reflects, “For me, in video games, there is often this strange superposition of the world’s feeling both intimately familiar 🏠 and homey, as well as isolating and alien 👽. This kind of ‘uncanny valley’ distorts time, spatial awareness, and memory ⏳. This effect was accentuated by the confusion, verging on tedium, that happened when playing games with no reference points or walkthroughs” 🗺️.

This ingrained nostalgic vibe is beautifully recaptured in this immersive video game soundtrack pack for Montage – Echo’s Story: Y2K Video Game 🎮🎵. Echo, by the way, is Holly Waxwing’s dog 🐶, and the pack is almost an imaginary score to a video game inspired by Echo’s puppy adventures 🐾. The duo built their own take on OSTs from the 90s/2000s with the same limited sound palettes 🎧🎶 (basic synth sounds 🎹, rudimentary drum machines 🥁, and emulating early samplers) as well as a strong focus on melody to convey story and vibe above all else 🎶❤️. Major inspiration came from classics like Pikmin, Luigi’s Mansion, Mario 64, Ape Escape, Animal Crossing, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro, Croc, Mortal Kombat, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 🎮🔥.

This pack features:

🎼 An array of digital mallets 🥁
🎶 Scene-setting song starters 🎬
🎹 Perfectly retro synths 🎶
💥 Endless SFX for all types of in-game actions 🎮
🗡️ Foley fighting moves and weapon sounds ⚔️
🎭 Humorous “vocal characters” with unique personas 🎤

These sounds will truly transport you to an era beyond memory and time ⏳🌌, into a dark cave 🌑, an underwater city 🌊, or a boss’s realm 💀 of your wildest video game imagination. Whether you’re designing a retro video game 🎮 or flipping these sounds into your trap beat 🔥, Echo’s Story will give you the addictive playfulness you need 🎶🎧. Get lost in the endless time warp of Echo’s Story 🌀✨!