I closed a weird childhood loop tonight. In the early 90's, my favorite arcade had a vertical shooter, unremarkable except for the soundtrack: two recorded pieces of rock music. At the time, this was a technical marvel.
The boss music featured a singer, whose voice pierced through the arcade noise as a spine-chilling androgynous wail.
Thanks @CheesestringXX at YouTube, for the "Best arcade shooters of the 80s and 90s" video: The game is "Meta Fox", by Seta.
The solo video doesn't convey the strangeness, the spectral voice shrieking in a packed hall of crunchy, bloopy arcade machines. Hypnotic and haunting nostalgia.
https://youtu.be/G5r_B_WmHs4?t=160
Zophar's Domain has sound rips, yay: https://www.zophar.net/music/arcade/meta-fox
#80s #90s #arcade #soundsynthesis #audiocompression