{"id":3521,"date":"2015-10-03T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2015-10-03T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T12:36:00","slug":"ost-191-dracula-x-rondo-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"OST #191: Dracula X &#8211; Rondo of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/191-Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3522\" alt=\"191-Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/191-Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/191-Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/191-Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Composer: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano &amp; Mikio Saito<br \/>\nSystem: PC-Engine CD<br \/>\nYear: 1993<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><b>Dracula X: Rondo of Blood<\/b> war lange Zeit einer der heiligen Grals der Spielewelt, der nur in Japan erschien und erst \u00fcber zehn Jahre sp\u00e4ter zumindest in Form eines Remakes den Weg nach Europa fand. Dabei gl\u00e4nzte die exklusiv f\u00fcr die PC-Engine ver\u00f6ffentlichte <b>Castlevania<\/b>-Episode neben dem enormen Umfang und der fantastischen Grafik mit seinem brillanten Soundtrack, der erstmals im Rahmen der Serie in Red-Book-Audio-Qualit\u00e4t vorlag.<\/p>\n<p>Ohne technisch limitierter Chiptunemusik zauberten Souji, Nakamura, Sano und Saito einen tollen Synthi-Score, der gerade in Anbetracht der Vorg\u00e4nger erstaunlich viel Gebrauch von Pop und Rock-Elementen macht. Das mag aus heutiger Sicht etwas altmodisch und gezwungen klingen, doch anno 1993 war es rein Klangtechnisch der Hit schlechthin.<\/p>\n<p>W\u00e4hrend der Stil nicht ganz so gut gealtert ist, sind die Kernmelodien nach wie vor unvergleichlich \u201ecatchy\u201c. Mir f\u00e4llt vor allem auf, dass sie trotz einer durchschnittlichen L\u00e4nge von zwei Minuten pro St\u00fcck kurz und pr\u00e4gnant wirken. Beispiele wie \u201eDen\u201c brauchen keine gro\u00dfe Einleitung, sondern sorgen innerhalb von Sekunden f\u00fcr ein klassisches <b>Castlevania<\/b>-Feeling. Das beinhaltet nat\u00fcrlich auch das eine oder andere Arrangement diverser Klassikern wie \u201eVampire Killer\u201c oder \u201eBloody Tears\u201c, die bereits in den Episoden zuvor ihr Deb\u00fct feierten und hier den Vorteil der CD-Rom-Technologe endg\u00fcltig unterstrichen.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Soundtrack-Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen [Original]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vgmdb.net\/album\/2938\">Akumajo Dracula X [Compilation]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_44331\"  width=\"576\" height=\"432\"  data-origwidth=\"576\" data-origheight=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZKsdWfUu_Y?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_Akumajo_Dracula_X.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3523\" alt=\"Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_[Akumajo_Dracula_X]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_Akumajo_Dracula_X-1024x877.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_Akumajo_Dracula_X-1024x877.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_Akumajo_Dracula_X-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Dracula_X_Rondo_of_Blood_Akumajo_Dracula_X.jpg 1621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer: Akira Souji, Keizo Nakamura, Tomoko Sano &amp; Mikio Saito System: PC-Engine CD Year: 1993<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-score","category-personal-top-365-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theawardian.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}