{"id":7613,"date":"2015-09-22T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com?p=7613&#038;preview_id=7613"},"modified":"2015-10-09T01:40:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T05:40:58","slug":"doni-button-masher-chillout-vgm-from-gamechops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/doni-button-masher-chillout-vgm-from-gamechops\/","title":{"rendered":"Doni &#8211; Button Masher &#8211; Chillout VGM from GameChops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GameChops has released a full-length video game remix album dedicated to chill-out and house mixes of classic NES and SNES titles. Produced by Doni, a Canadian musician living in Taiwan, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\/button-masher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Button Masher Remastered<\/a><\/strong> includes updated and polished versions of his most notable video game tracks from the past decade. The album includes a brilliant remix of Stickerbrush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2, along with a tongue-in-cheek remix of Pokemon&#8217;s famed Lavender Town Theme, to a progressive re-imagination of Final Fantasy X&#8217;s Mt. Gagazet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download this album on <a href=\"https:\/\/loudr.fm\/release\/button-masher-remastered\/6fhUE\" target=\"_blank\">Loudr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/button-masher-remastered\/id1046110696?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0167IDO4W\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album\/GameChops_Button_Masher_Remastered?id=B4pqmffsx7ooua2whfjfva3va7m\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLBsm_SagFMme27bR6GWN6xCbzh-W5G00K\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t Doni&#8217;s first project with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\" target=\"_blank\">GameChops<\/a>, the record label focused on licensing video game remixes. In 2012, Doni released a five track EP entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/doni-goombette\/\">Goombette<\/a>, a tribute to Super Mario RPG. Doni&#8217;s love for Nintendo in the NES and SNES era is strong, eight of the ten tracks on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\/button-masher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Button Masher Remastered<\/a> are remixes from Nintendo games.<\/p>\n<p>Doni boasts a uniquely old school style, using hardware synths to craft his sounds rather than software. Fans of classic electronic music or classic video games are in for a treat, Doni favors dynamics and balance over hard-hitting leads, giving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\/button-masher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Button Masher Remastered<\/a> a distinct and \u00a0refreshing sound.<\/p>\n<p>The album is available today world-wide, download on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/loudr.fm\/release\/button-masher-remastered\/6fhUE\" target=\"_blank\">Loudr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/button-masher-remastered\/id1046110696?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0167IDO4W\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album\/GameChops_Button_Masher_Remastered?id=B4pqmffsx7ooua2whfjfva3va7m\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Button Masher Remastered Tracklist<\/span><br \/>\n01 Try Hard (Donkey Kong Country 2 &#8211; Stickerbrush Symphony)<br \/>\n02 Icy Strings (Secret of Mana &#8211; A Bell is Tolling)<br \/>\n03 Midnight Mass (Pokemon Red\/Blue &#8211; Lavender Town)<br \/>\n04 Mario\u2019s Garage (Super Mario Kart &#8211; Rainbow Road)<br \/>\n05 Hard to Choose (Mega Man 3 &#8211; Stage Select)<br \/>\n06 Impending Something (Marble Madness &#8211; Stage 2)<br \/>\n07 Staring Off (Final Fantasy X &#8211; Mt. Gagazet)<br \/>\n08 The Bubbledrone (Mega Man 2 &#8211; Bubble Man)<br \/>\n09 Nostalgic Tides (Chrono Cross &#8211; Dream of a Shore)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamechops.com\/button-masher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Button Masher Remastered<\/a> features the compositions of David Wise, Hiroki Kikuta, Junichi Masuda, Soyo Oka, Takashi Kumegawa, Yasuaki Fujita, Brad Fuller\/Hal Canon, Masashi Hamauzu, Takashi Tateishi, and Yasunori Mitsuda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download Doni &#8211;\u00a0Button Masher\u00a0Remastered on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/loudr.fm\/release\/button-masher-remastered\/6fhUE\" target=\"_blank\">Loudr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/button-masher-remastered\/id1039213663?uo=4&amp;at=1l3vtfg\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B0167IDO4W\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/music\/album\/GameChops_Button_Masher_Remastered?id=B4pqmffsx7ooua2whfjfva3va7m\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameChops has released a full-length video game remix album dedicated to chill-out and house mixes of classic NES and SNES titles. Produced by Doni, a Canadian musician living in Taiwan, Button Masher Remastered includes updated and polished versions of his most notable video game tracks from the past decade. The album includes a brilliant remix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/doni-button-masher-chillout-vgm-from-gamechops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doni &#8211; Button Masher &#8211; Chillout VGM from GameChops<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3177,33,55],"tags":[4433,4439,4444,4331,2351,1897,2677,2744,2745,4440,310,4438,1002,4435,387,4436,21,4441,309,4434,4443,24,3103,4442,4437,4431,4432,4075],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance-music","category-game-music-vgm","category-music","tag-a-bell-is-tolling","tag-bubble-man","tag-chil","tag-chill","tag-chill-out","tag-chrono-cross","tag-doni","tag-donkey-kong-country","tag-donkey-kong-country-2","tag-dream-of-a-shore","tag-final-fantasy","tag-final-fantasy-x","tag-gamechops","tag-lavender-town","tag-mega-man-2","tag-mega-man-3","tag-megaman","tag-mt-gagazet","tag-pokemon","tag-pokmon-redblue","tag-rainbow-road","tag-remix","tag-secret-of-mana","tag-stage-select","tag-startropics","tag-stickerbrush-symphony","tag-stickerbush-symphony","tag-study-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/doni-button-masher.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7734,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions\/7734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}