Simply put, no other video game sounded like this at the time.

Ship To Shore Phono Company are a new label who were recently involved in the reissue of the score to George Romero’s Martin, one of the best horror movie soundtracks of all time. Now they’re changing things up while keeping the same quality curation by planning the first ever Western release of one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time. Tomorrow the site will launch a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund a vinyl release of the 1989 NES cult classic Mother, a game best known in America as the precursor to Earthbound.

Mother’s score was composed by the legendary combination of Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka. Suzkui, a composer, was also well known for his band The Beatniks with Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer Yukihiro Takahashi. Tanaka meanwhile was just finishing a strong decade of work that also included Metroid, 13 minutes that changed video game music forever.

The double-LP pressing will contain the original Mother soundtrack which featured live and orchestral versions of the game’s music with new vocals and ends with ‘The World of Mother’, a side-long medley of the music from the game. Learn more about Ship To Shore’s Kickstarter plan tomorrow through their website and experience the score to Mother below.

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