That’s mostly with AAA stuff, but video games are kind of a different beast from film. It’s cool, and people like Hans Zimmer have been doing some game work for a while now so I think the ‘movie composers doing games’ is a thing that’s been around now for quite a bit. Have you seen that industry change much? With guys like Cliff Martinez and Clint Mansell doing video game work now, does it seem like the posts have shifted? The demand for video game soundtracks has really stepped up lately, it seems. The packaging is beautiful, the record itself is super-cool and Jen (Zee, Supergiant visual artist)’s artwork looks amazing on the gloss.
It’s been very exciting to dig into that and do a lot of research and I’m super-pleased with how it turned out. You get to watch it spin around, it’s a big physical thing, there’re giant pictures you get to look at on the jacket… it’s pretty cool, so we’ve been getting into that a lot lately. I’ve gotten a setup at home recently, and started collecting – I have a two-year-old and he loves playing records. I’ve been excited about it for several years and wanting to do Transistor and Bastion soundtracks on vinyl. For years we’d been having some requests for vinyl and it was hard to tell how much of a niche that was, but the vinyl trend has certainly picked up a lot more recently, especially for video game soundtracks, so we definitely thought that there was a market for it and we wouldn’t just be sitting on thousands of records in our office forever. Bastion had a pretty good response for the soundtrack as well. I was surprised but it was pretty awesome.
Was there much surprise at the fact that it was popular enough for you to consider a vinyl release? Following that soundtrack’s long-awaited vinyl release, we cornered him to find out the ins and outs of his unique take on video game composition.Ĭongratulations on the re-release of Transistor, it looks simply stunning. Having bagged awards from the Spike Video Game Awards for his “acoustic frontier trip-hop” scoring of Supergiant’s debut release Bastion, he stripped his sound back for its follow-up Transistor, the revenge-driven tale of a mute songstress brought to life by Korb’s vivid fusion of blues, jazz motifs and dense electronica. Guitarist, songwriter and 2010 Rock Band 2 national champion (seriously, Google it), Darren Korb has been Supergiant Games’ sound designer and soundtrack composer since their inception.
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