Melodies Zone celebrates Sega’s 65th anniversary with a new fan remix album

June 3rd was the 65th anniversary of our lord and master favorite video game developer and publisher, Sega, and to celebrate the occasion, the video game fan cover music label Melodies Zone is releasing an all new Sega album. Melodies Zone’s new Sega fan remix album, simply titled “Sega 65th Anniversary”, contains 20 fan covers from Sega’s storied history, from artists like Kamikaze Bitch, A-bug, Chief Takinawa, and Klaymore.

From Sonic to Shenmue to Super Hang-On, you’ll hear some of your favorite songs in a new light thanks to these talented and passionate fan musicians. Expect a lot of loud metal guitar, thumping dance beats and synths, vocals for the songs that have them originally, and one relaxing lo-fi remix to sit down and take a breather to after 19 more exciting tracks kept your heart pumping.

Wanna hear it for yourself? You can find out how from right beyond the break.

Here is a full list of tracks featured on the album:

1. Let’s Go Away (Daytona USA) by Kamikaze Bitch
2. After Burner (After Burner II) by Kamikaze Bitch
3. Electric Tooth Brush (Jet Set Radio) by A-bug and Kamikaze Bitch
4. Start! – Opa-Opa (Fantasy Zone) by Kamikaze Bitch
5. The Machine (Ecco the Dolphin) by Matt Frequencies and Kamikaze Bitch
6. Lava Reef Zone Act 2 (Sonic & Knuckles) by Repolarised
7. Pioneer 2 (Phantasy Star Online) by Kamikaze Bitch
8. Buggie Running Beeps 01 (Rez) by タイムマシン Funky Time Machine and Kamikaze Bitch
9. Wilderness (Golden Axe) by Klaymore
10. Splash Wave (Out Run) by Kamikaze Bitch
11. Egg Carrier (Sonic Adventure) by Saturday Morning Cartoons
12. NiGHTS and Reala (NiGHTS Into Dreams) by Chief Takinawa
13. For True Story … for Sonic vs. Shadow (Sonic Adventure 2) by Kamikaze Bitch
14. Go Straight (Streets of Rage 2) by deathday
15. The Night Falls/Sedge Tree (Shenmue) by Kamikaze Bitch
16. Main Theme (Space Harrier) by Kamikaze Bitch
17. The Shinobi (The Revenge of Shinobi) by deathday
18. Outride a Crisis (Super Hang-On) by Kamikaze Bitch
19. Akira (Virtua Fighter 2) by Kamikaze Bitch
20. Super Sonic Racing (Sonic R) by Lian Fort

You can catch the whole album on services like YouTube Music, Apple Music, and Spotify. The whole album available to purchase and download directly from Melodies Zone’s website or from iTunes. Click here for a convenient directory to every place currently hosting this anniversary fan album.

If you like these songs, be sure to check out the rest of the music available at Melodies Zone from all these artists and more. Their entire discography goes beyond just Sega, with remixes from games as old as Pac-Man to as current as Astro Bot, but there’s a lot more Sega remixes to be found as well. You can browse the rest of Melodies Zone’s output from this directory linked here. That also includes several lo-fi tracks for when you’re curious how your favorite video game music sounds repurposed for a more relaxing mood.

Speaking of lo-fi, I also want to shout out their live lo-fi radio playlist videos. I put one of these on while I’m writing articles like this one for SegaBits, depending on if the subject is related to Sonic the Hedgehog or anything else. Sonic & Chill is nothing but lo-fi remixes of music from all official Sonic the Hedgehog games, cartoons, and anime.

Melodies Zone’s Sega Lofi & Chill radio playlist cannot currently be embedded, but you can check it out directly on YouTube here. This Sega playlist also includes lo-fi Sonic remixes, but is mostly made up of remixes all kinds of Sega games from Like A Dragon, Persona, Puyo Puyo, Shining Force, Space Channel 5, Shenmue, and even a few really obscure picks like Dark Savior. There are also songs from third party games synonymous with Sega consoles like Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and Earthworm Jim. There’s even two separate tracks reimagining the audio from the Dreamcast’s boot-up sequence as trippy, downbeat tracks.

All the individual tracks in both radio stations are available on Melodies Zone’s various pages, along with the pages of each of the artists themselves, with some also available to purchase and download. Among them are several artists also in the 34th anniversary album, such as Kamikaze Bitch, Chief Takinawa, and Saturday Morning Cartoons.

So how are you liking the 65th anniversary album? Are there other songs from Melodies Zone and their menagerie of musicians that you really enjoy and want to recommend? How were you celebrating Sega’s 65th anniversary? Play us a tune about it in the comments below.

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