AUDIO & MUSIC

Audio and music is at the core of what we care about at Superbrothers A/V. Aspiring to Lynch x Bandalamente, we’re all about wrapping an experience around music and sound, and then letting them stew together to become something that can profoundly resonate with people. Getting that to sit on top of solid videogame mechanics and story can be tricky, but if you get that right and you’ll have a little miracle on your hands.

On the music side Superbrothers A/V has worked closely with Jim Guthrie and scntfc (aka C Andrew Rohrmann) over the years, resulting in soundtracks for sworcery and JETT respectively. We worked with Jim Guthrie plus Sean Lohrisch at Capy for #sworcery audio, and with scntfc plus A Shell in the Pit and Priscilla Snow on JETT audio, with Priscilla also contributing sacred harp choral music and an intricately constructed invented language. JETT also includes FEZ song by Disasterpeace and Solar Fields.

Jim Guthrie and Superbrothers go back before #sworcery to the mid-2000s, you can trace the old skool discography below. Also, look out for sworcery remixes from Solid Mas, Hip Tanaka, Michiru Yamane, Lena Raine and DoesOne, and many more. Look to the Sound Shapes soundtrack for Jim Guthrie, Beck and Deadmau5.

Fun fact: The band Sylvan Esso named themselves after the lil’ Sylvan Sprites that appear in #sworccery. They aren’t represented below but they’re great, check’em out.

Did you know: We’re cooking up something new, something all killer no filler, a soundtrack to a new project featuring some old friends, some new friends and a few cosmic friends forever. Please look forward to it!

Follow the links below to get ears on things, and then Bandcamp it up for the nice people when you inevitably fall in love!

Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP: The Ballad of the Space Babies (2011) 

  • the original full-length companion soundtrack, start here

  • ended up being sort of a landmark soundtrack

  • then listen to Jim’s other essential non-videogame albums, don’t miss these!

    • Morning Noon Night (2002)

    • Now More Than Ever (2003)

    • Takes Time (2012)

  • Indie Game: The Movie (2012) soundtrack was by Jim Guthrie

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The Scythian Steppes: Seven Songs of Sworcery Localized for Japan (2012) 

  • remixes by all-star Japanese composers created for the Japan-launch of #sworcery (aka Sukimusu)

  • includes remixes by Hip Tanaka, Michiru Yamane, Baiyon…

  • organized & distributed by 8-4 Ltd, you can find it on Jim’s bandcamp

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Scntfc's Moon Grotto 7": Lunatic Soundscapes from Sworcery (2012) 

  • the Moon Grotto tune & a Ballad of the Space Babies remix by Scntfc




< sworcery super deluxe vinyl only release from iam8bit >

  • with remixes by Lena Rain and others




ceci n’est pas une pipe

music in the JETT universe (1)

                                                                                                                                    

JETT: The Far Shore + Given Time by scntfc

  • a full blown audio space odyssey in a novel and distinct cinematic universe




music in the Jim Guthrie x Superbrothers universe (4)

                                                                                                                                    

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Jim Guthrie's BELOW OST (2018) 

  • a collection of outstanding, wondrous, somber, cosmic synth songs

  • ‍ the score for Capy's immaculate, remote monument to videogames aka BELOW

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Solid Mas & Jim Guthrie One Of These Days I'll Get It Right (2014)

  • rock solid beats under choice cuts from Jim Guthrie's catalog, including songs of sworcery




Jim Guthrie's Corporeal (2012) 

  • a handful of songs from the videogame Sound Shapes, catchy as heck



Jim Guthrie's Children of the Clone (2011) 

  • a collection of sworcery-eusque songs Jim made from many years ago on MTV Music Maker for PS1

  • the roots of Superbrothers and #sworcery are in some of these songs!