Video games are seen as new avenue for music distribution

Yeah, we’re all familiar with this scenario already: indie, unsigned rock band gets big break by releasing a YouTube smash hit, thanks MySpace and free online downloading for getting their music out there. Well, here’s something that’s in that vein but is something a bit fresher, and is related to us gaming folks.

An article over at Yahoo! News reports that video games are the latest “new cool music space.” Buzzwords aside, the report basically informs us that more and more artists are looking towards video games as a means of getting their music delivered to audiences.

A nice example of this would be the electronic dance group Young Punks. The group won a heap of new fans when a band track was picked for EA Sports‘ FIFA game.

Legendary music entity Nile Rodgers explains at this week’s annual MIDEM global trade fair for the music industry that: “It’s difficult to be introduced to new music without radio as it’s the repetition that sells and what’s more repetitious than a video game.” Rodgers teamed up with Microsoft in 2002 and went on to churn out soundtracks for a string of video games that include Halo:Combat Evolved, Age of Mythology, Brute Force, and Outlaw Volleyball.

And all the “cool” people laugh at fanboys for enjoying game soundtracks.

Via AFP via Yahoo!

Yeah, we’re all familiar with this scenario already: indie, unsigned rock band gets big break by releasing a YouTube smash hit, thanks MySpace and free online downloading for getting their music out there. Well, here’s something that’s in that vein but is something a bit fresher, and is related to us gaming folks.

An article over at Yahoo! News reports that video games are the latest “new cool music space.” Buzzwords aside, the report basically informs us that more and more artists are looking towards video games as a means of getting their music delivered to audiences.

A nice example of this would be the electronic dance group Young Punks. The group won a heap of new fans when a band track was picked for EA Sports‘ FIFA game.

Legendary music entity Nile Rodgers explains at this week’s annual MIDEM global trade fair for the music industry that: “It’s difficult to be introduced to new music without radio as it’s the repetition that sells and what’s more repetitious than a video game.” Rodgers teamed up with Microsoft in 2002 and went on to churn out soundtracks for a string of video games that include Halo:Combat Evolved, Age of Mythology, Brute Force, and Outlaw Volleyball.

And all the “cool” people laugh at fanboys for enjoying game soundtracks.

Via AFP via Yahoo!