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April 29, 2008

NYT: Grand Theft Auto IV music programmers 'demonstrate a musical erudition beyond anything heard before in a video game'...

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New York Times:

At least as impressive as the city’s virtual topography is the range of the game’s audio and music production, delivered through an entire dial’s worth of radio stations available in almost any of the dozens of different cars, trucks and motorcycles a player can steal. From the jazz channel (billed as “music from when America was cool”) through the salsa, alt-rock, jazz, metal and multiple reggae and hip-hop stations, Lazlow Jones, Ivan Pavlovich and the rest of Rockstar’s audio team demonstrate a musical erudition beyond anything heard before in a video game. The biggest problem with the game’s extensive subway system is that there’s no music underground. (Too bad there are no iPods to nab.)

The game’s roster of radio hosts runs from Karl Lagerfeld to Iggy Pop and DJ Green Lantern. It is not faint praise to point out that at times, simply driving around the city listening to the radio — seguing from “Moanin’ ” by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers to the Isley Brothers’ “Footsteps in the Dark” to “The Crack House” by Fat Joe featuring Lil Wayne — can be as enjoyable as anything the game has to offer.


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#1 ***** says:

Yes! A refreshing change from the usual WWF-style music!
Given today's shallow and predictable adverts it take HUGE balls to use an old Miles Davis track over some Linkin Park bullshit for a videogame commercial and even bigger ones to have Karl Lagerfeld(!!!) for voiceovers. Bravo Rockstar.

#2 Rev. John Dempster says:

Go Ivan!

#3 Full listing says:

Here's the full listing of the tracks found in the game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Th...


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