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Journey is an impactful, meaningful game to a lot of people. And it happens to be 10 years old today. A transcendent voyage that speaks to so many disparate corners of the gaming world, even 10 years on, Journey never really left the sphere of discourse in the medium. And one of the most enduring components of the experience is that of composer Austin Wintory’s sublime score. The only game soundtrack to ever be nominated for a Grammy, it also happened to garner the top Honor when we counted down the best soundtracks of last decade. To say that we think highly of the soundtrack here at Push Square would be putting it very mildly.
A teaser for something went up on Austin Wintory’s YouTube channel earlier in the week, which has now been followed by a second, lengthier video, offering a glimpse at a new version of Journey’s illustrious score. Described as both a “re-orchestration”, and a “re-imagining”, Wintory has recruited the London Symphony Orchestra to deliver Traveler: A Journey Symphony, which you can grab now on Bandcamp, or stream in all the usual places should you prefer.
When thinking of major video game companies in the modern day, virtually no one thinks of the internet music platform Bandcamp. The service it provides has become a popular hotspot for indie game composers like Danny Baranowski and Lena Raine to post their acclaimed soundtracks. However, outside of that and some game soundtracks, there’s very little overlap with gaming. But it seems that as the Great Video Game Acquisition Wars of the 2020s continue, gaming companies will even see services like Bandcamp as potentially beneficial to their bottom line. Just today, Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond announced that Fortnite developer Epic Games, of all companies, has acquired his popular music business.
According to Diamond, this latest acquisition will not get in the way of Bandcamp’s independence. It will continue to provide the services that put it on the map to begin with. This means that all artists who use these services will still maintain control over their music distributio...