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[Terry]

Yeah, I'm sure Souleye would definite appreciate it you mentioned his soundtrack to VVVVVV

I'm trying to think of other indie game soundtracks I really liked this year... Hero Core and Super Meat Boy, definitely.

(As for games this year that just had great music; first to come to mind are Phenomenon 32, Digital: A Love Story, Uin, Fractal, and Space Funeral.)

[mcc]

True, I was thinking it should have gotten an honorable mention simply for it's quality.

IMO it deserves an honorable mention simply for making me aware of Ruth White

[Dustin Smith]

True, I was thinking it should have gotten an honorable mention simply for it's quality.

IMO it deserves an honorable mention simply for making me aware of Les Rallizes Denudes

[mcc]

There is a clear consensus among obscure Sunsoft characters as to the worthiness of Space Funeral's soundtrack.

[hryx]

It's just over a year old, but Machinarium.

[Carlo Castellano]

Well, don't know if it would fits...

I recently composed a soundtrack for a game that is out now: Invaders: Corruption
I will release a downloadable version of the soundtrack soon, for free since the game is free.
A streaming version is already up here: http://carlocastellano.cc/invaders-corruption/ (now updated with downloadable version)

[supershigi]

Thank-you Derek, I appreciate you mentioning the PvZ Soundtrack ^_^  And for those who haven't seen Jeriaska's Videogame music project yet, it's really interesting.

For other ideas I could suggest Brother Android's music in Digital: A Love Story (it's very special music, I don't know how to describe it but it's really warm and ambient and cool), or any of HyperDuck's latest stuff (Dust, Katakijin, etc. are all fantastic).

[ஒழுக்கின்மை]

oh, and this is tooting my own composers' horns (which is doubly biased since one of the composers of immortal defense was my father, walter eres), but i probably should mention that the immortal defense soundtrack has been free for download for several years now, and has had some success on 'pause' music

quote from http://gamemusic4all.com/wordpress/tag/phlogiston/

Has their been any runaway hit albums on your site? Any album or artist that has done surprisingly well?

R: Actually one of our PLUS releases, the music from “Immortal Defense”, is far and away the most downloaded album on the site. We count over 7,000. The Pause compilation “Heartcode” is second at almost 3,000. Among regular artist releases, Animal Style’s Gameboy Madrigals and iqtu’s Embarrassing Triangle seem to be the two most popular releases. Naturally over time our viewership has increased to somewhere between 100 to 300 unique visitors a day, so the more recent releases are getting more downloads than the earlier stuff.

soundtrack is here: http://studioeres.com/immortal/soundtrack

but you mentioned wanting only recent games, so you should probably skip this one; i include this info just in case anyone here wants to try listening to the music

[BitPuffin]

Ohyeah, i second super meatboy, it's great.
awesome tunes 

[Derek]

Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I'll put up the post tonight, so if there's anything else, slip it to me! I'll link this thread in the post, too.

#3 is missing, it was a song from aquaria, but warner music () took it down

WTF?! FUCK WARNER MUSIC

[Valter]

Phlogiston! He's one of my favorites.

He did the music for Super Crate Box and a bunch of other soundtracks.

I Was In The War is one of my all time favorite tracks.

[Carlo Castellano]

If anyone is interested, today I released the soundtrack of Invader Corruption, you can download it here (or stream): http://carlocastellano.cc/invaders-corruption/

[Daiz]

Both of these are from 2009 but I'd say they definitely deserve a mention. First one is the Shatter soundtrack, which is awesome. The second is a bit more obscure one (and sadly pretty hard to get since you have to order a physical copy from Paletweb), but in any case, Koumajou Densetsu - Scarlet Symphony aka Touhouvania's soundtrack is pretty amazing.