"It was supposed to be EASY," explains Akira the Don, the British Hip Hop artist and producer on his blog. "A simple, quick, fun thing I could do in a day and fulfil April's mixtape quota. A mix of Street Fighter related music. There's tons of it – Redman's joint from back in the day, Ras Kass, Double, and so on...
"But quickly the project took off on its own crazy tangent when I found myself sampling the original SF joints wholesale and making new songs with them, rather than just arranging them all together. Then I discovered the newer themes (S4 has some mind blowing music on it) and the movies' music… So the project took almost 3 weeks, instead of the intended day..."
The project is A Tribute to the Music of Streetfighter an awesome 50 minute mix of Street Fighter soundscapes, released for free on Akira's site last week. It's eccentric, discerning, fascinating stuff, rolling in snippets from most of the games and even one of the movies, together with some classic electro and rap tracks, all of which namecheck SF or similarly grab chunks of sound from Capcom's defining series. Definitely, definitely worth checking out.
And if you have any favourite fighting game-themed music, feel free to add it to the official Gamesblog Spotify playlist. You'll find it here.
