Artist	Song
Falcom Sound Team JDK	Companile Of Lane (2:57)
Acclaim	Wizards And Warriors Title Log (0:39)
The Chieftains & SinTad O'Connor	The Foggy Dew (5:01)
The Chieftains & Van Morrison	I'll Tell Me Ma (2:30)
Falcom Sound Team JDK	Holders Of Power (1:40)
Paddy Reilly	Fields Of Athenry (4:35)
Falcom Sound Team JDK	Ruins Of Moondoria (2:07)
The Chieftains & Van Morrison	Raglan Road (4:56)
Hitoshi Sakimoto	Apoplexy (4:09)
BTla Fleck and the Flecktones	Star Of The County Down (4:22)
Paddy Reilly	The Crack Was 90 In The Isle Of Man (2:44)
Hitoshi Sakimoto	Antipyretic (3:40)
Black Stalin	Wait Dorothy Wait (6:47)
The Chieftains & The Corrs	I Know My Love (3:27)
Ragnarok Online	Gambler Of Highway (3:03)
Jean Ritchie	Fair Nottamun Town (2:54)
Masaharu Iwata	Back Fire (3:00)
Fairport Convention	Genesis Hall [live] (3:51)
The Chieftains & Elvis Costello	Long Journey Home (3:20)
Falcom Sound Team JDK	Theme Of Adoru (1:54)
Warren Zevon	The French Inhaler (3:46)
Cherish The Ladies	Green Grow The Rushes-O (4:49)
Chicken Lips vs. Jimmy Spicer	The Bubble Bunch (Original Jellybean 12" Mix) (3:29)

Comment:

Abounding strange hybrid. A friend of mine once compared the more baroque tendencies of Irish folk music to electronica, and I realized he was spot-on; both repeat the same instrumental phrase over and over with slow evolution in the instrumentation of the other parts. Much later, I'm compiling an Irish folk CD for a friend, I get stuck, and I decide to add a bunch of video game music tracks just sitting on my computer from the collection of a shared friend of the two of ours. Three somewhat random additions later (tracks 13 and 21 from me (Trinidadian soca and 70's LA rock, respectively), and 23 (electronica remix) from him) and we've got this nice little study in contrasts here. Tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 18. 19 and 22 are Irish folk of some sort (or at least Irish folk-derived) and tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, and 20 are from video game soundtracks. It's good. You'll have to hear it to believe it.

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