1up interviews Michiru Yamane about the Best Music Collection Box

Castlevania‘s best-known and loved musical engineer, Michiru Yamane, was interviewed by 1up recently about the music of Castlevania. This is fascinating stuff, as this woman’s done most of the music in the series since Bloodlines.

1UP:  Prior to Symphony of the Night, you had written music for Castlevania: Bloodlines, which appeared on the Sega [...]

Remember these two tracks from Rebirth? They were left out

There were two tracks on the Adventure Rebirth soundtrack (which frustratingly was not sent to me with the box set like it was supposed to) that didn’t actually appear in the game. Things like this happen. I don’t feel like we were particularly ripped off. The music in the game was actually pretty disappointing. All this [...]

Best Music Collections Box in stock at Play-Asia.com, mine’s incoming

That incredible limited edition 19-disc Castlevania soundtrack collection set was released in Japan last week, and was already showing up backordered at Play-Asia.com the first day. When it came back in stock, I promptly got an order in. There was only one picture of the set on the site (and a bunch more at VGMDB) but [...]

Oscar Araujo composing score for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Joystiq today learned from Lords of Shadow producer Dave Cox that the music in the game is being composed by one Oscar Araujo. No, not the footy player for the Monarchs… this one’s a composer. While my initial reaction at the game’s unveiling that the music was clearly not being done by Michiru Yamane, I quickly [...]

Konami compiling a 19-disc Castlevania soundtrack collection

Here’s one to bankrupt us all. Konamistyle has announced that they’re putting together a Castlevania soundtrack compilation for release in 2010 that spans a whopping 19 discs.

So what’s in it? Apparently we’ll be getting a slew of Castlevania titles including the first-time release of the soundtracks to Castlevania on the MSX2 and Castlevania Legends along [...]