Song of the Week

This is the first song of the week piece I've done for this blog, so excuse me for being sentimental and selecting something a little obscure.

As I noted in my very first post, one of the first games I owned was Vectorman for the Sega Genesis. Vectorman was a real eye-opener for me. At four years old, I hadn't really been around long enough to understand what the sci-fi, futuristic, post-disaster Earth genre was really about. And I certainly knew nothing about techno.

By far, my favorite song from the Genesis era came from this robotic side scroller. After a frenetic start, blasting through sludge pilots, downing a HUGE hover plane, and a VectorTrain vs. WarHead fight, you are suddenly dropped into an ocean world. The sun is setting, and the waves are strangely majestic. Then the music hits:

The composer for Vectorman, Jon Holland, is even more obscure than the songs he wrote. I know literally nothing about him except his name and association with this amazing music. However, after some digging, it seems after Vectorman he didn't do anything else of note. Well, except for the equally intriguing music for Vectorman 2.

After BlueSky Software, the developers of Vectorman, shutdown in 2001, Jon Holland was out of the video game soundtrack business.

For a little more background on Jon Holland, and the games he composed for, take a look here:
http://www.vgmpf.com/Composer.php?Id=JonHolland