Sold Date: October 28, 2020
Start Date: July 11, 2020
Final Price: $44.99 (USD)
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Record is brand new, sealed, in excellent condition, with one minor corner ding (see pics).  Item is in hand ready to ship.  The item pictured is the one you would receive.  I care about records a great deal and will professionally package your item with reinforced cardboard and bubble wrap.

ITEM DESCRIPTION:

In 1995, at the tail end of the Mega Drive’s lifespan, composer Norio “NON” Hanzawa (Gunstar Heroes) was tasked by acclaimed developer Treasure to score their hugely ambitious new shooter, Alien Soldier. He then duly created one of the most technically impressive, challenging and experimental game scores of the entire 16-bit era. In line with Alien Soldier’s frantic gameplay, Hanzawa’s score is often intense, perplexing and occasionally overwhelming, but it is also punctuated with some surprisingly minimal and inventive synth passages, which at times feel oddly reminiscent of Vangelis’s Blade Runner. However, Hanzawa’s work on Alien Soldier is distinctively his own, harnessing the inherent noise and strange tones of Mega Drive’s FM sound chip to create a score filled with otherworldly sounds, disorientating layers and a sense of complexity seldom heard in game music at the time.

Alien Soldier is presented as a remastered double 180g LP, with audio sourced from the original Japanese console and pressed at 45RPM. It is packaging in a heavyweight single pocket sleeve, with an accompanying foldout poster of the original cover artwork and an obi strip.

2 x 180g Blue/Frosted Clear/Grey Tri-Colour with Blue & Grey Splatter (Limited Edition)

 Tracklist
A1     With Treasure     
A2     Sidelimits     
A3     Flashback     
A4     Alien Soldier     
A5     Slap-Up     
A6     X-Ages     
A7     Runner / AD2025     
B1     From Objector     
B2     Soltype     
B3     Blacksheep     
B4     !!!...Shade…     
B5     Epsilons-Ally     
C1     Silent     
C2     Lurk!!!     
C3     Perfect-Thing     
C4     3-Prayers     
C5     7th Force     
D1     Alone’Z’     
D2     Galaxy Desert     
D3     Oblivious Past     
D4     Soldiers Song     
D5     Over!!!