“You wanna be big?” That’s how this rap song — composed by Masaya Matsuura and titled Big — starts. It’s silly line from an equally silly game, PaRappa the Rapper 2. In this song, a pint-sized Guru Ant (Dean Bowman) tries to teach PaRappa (Dred Foxx) to be confident and strong through a simple repeat-after-me…

Here’s a happy circus music from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg: Jack-in-the-Box!, composed by Mariko Nanba and Tomoya Ohtani. It’s a relatively simple composition that experiments with many circus-related sound effects. It also doesn’t sound creepy, even when it’s dark. The plot behind Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg is simple: Morning Land, the…

As far as I know, we only have one J-Pop music in this series (and the first one is more J-Jazz than -Pop), so lets bump that one more. Here’s Lights, sung by Eri Nobichika. The song appears in the excellent Tetris-based puzzle game, Lumines. Like Tetris, Lumines involves placing 2 x 2 blocks of…

Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching, here’s a game music themed after the Native American’s (or arguably, African’s) instruments. Here’s the theme from the game, Skies of Arcadia: Kingdom of Ixataka, composed by Yutaka Minobe and Takayuki Maeda. This tune is only one of many drastically diverse cultural tracks the game has. As you can probably…

Here’s a hip tune: Kakkoi! It’s from an award-winning indie iPhone game, Edge. Despite its Japanese title and style, though, the track is composed by a French composer, Romain Gauthier. Edge is a simple game that involves rolling a cube through an obstacle course, and into the goal. Initially created for the iPhone, you drag…

Another song with lyrics, here’s Still Alive from…Mirror’s Edge, written and sung by Swedish singer, Lisa Miskovsky. What, you thought I was going to post the song from the first Portal game!? Sorry, but I’m too hipster for that I already posted a Portal 2 song, and it’s my policy to stick with only one…