music for games • films • shows • minds • feet • hearts

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Music production, distribution, and publishing

badself media is:

 

Badself Records / Cool Android Music Publishing

rich, thoughtful, melodic pop and rock

Red Light Go • Syante • Fly Right • The Full Suns • Light as the Day and Crippled • The Bad Self • Never Say Never

 

Audion Song Records /// Story and Character Music Publishing

soundtracks for games, films, and series—real and imagined

Spaced Out Studios • Michael Spicer • Jeremy Scott Olsen

syante

Cover art for the song Stranded by the artist Syante. We see Syante at the upper edge of a beach, near telephone poles, a parking lot, and the houses and apartments that line this stretch. Her name glows in white in a cursive font top left, and centered about two-thirds of the way down, "stranded" spans the image in large, thin, sans-serif letters. Except for the glowing words, the rest of the imaged is letterboxed and colored to look something like a dramatic indie film.

If you’re a fan of the pop-electropop offerings of Tate McRae and Taylor Swift—or if you’ve ever felt lost and alone even in a big city—you might enjoy singer-songwriter Syante‘s new single, “Stranded,” on Badself Records.

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Sleepy Donut Jams

The cover art for the "Sleepy Donut Jams" album from Audion Song Records, a compilation of music by Spaced Out Studios and Michael Spicer that includes music from three video games: Asterisk, Department of Demise, and Hare Runner. Over a background that fades from deep purple on the left to a rich reddish orange on the right, we see the Sleepy Donut logo transformed to read "Sleepy Donut Jams." At the bottom left, looking up toward it, is the astronaut main character from the game Asterisk. At the bottom right, running toward center, is the cyberrabbit main character of the game Hare Runner.
Audion Song‘s first release, “Sleepy Donut Jams,” celebrates with some old-school VGM and no shortage of bangers. These three fantastic little game jam games by Sleepy Donut are available on Itch.io, and their three fantastic little soundtracks are collected here for your listening pleasure.
 

Plenty of head-nodding rock-outs to be had here, along with a few other delights. Alexa Thanos and Sean Ettlin of Spaced Out Studios flex their composition muscles a little as over the course of three video games they absorb classical tunes, funeral dirges, and jazz standards and turn them into 8-bittish soundscapes flush with mounting intensity, big synthy hugs, and glorious grooves. Michael Spicer contributes a lovely banger of his own to round out the set.

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red light go

Cover art for the EP Fertile Ground by the band Red Light Go. We see the lowercase "rlg" logo in white, and in smaller, red, capital letters to the right of it, "EP2004." This is over what looks almost like an aerial view of a video game from the early 2000s. We see a rectangular beige patch that suggests dirt, with a path leading off to the right. Surrounding it is a blotchy green that suggests grass or planted terrain. At the bottom are the shadowy shapes of trees and power lines.

If you love the raw voice and sing-along pop sensibilities of AFI, the stop-start post-punk energy of Sensefield, or Jimmy Eat World’s balance of high-energy hip-swinging rock and hearts on sleeves, you might want to give Red Light Go a listen.

Currently available on Badself Records are their first EP Fertile Ground and two singles from the upcoming LP Burning Control. Yet another EP awaits after that.

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