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EU EXCLUSIVE: Clear/Red Colour in Colour



Thanks to our friends at Ship to Shore PhonoCo., Black Screen Records now offers a limited and exclusive edition of Konami's classic shoot-em-up GRADIUS II on clear/red colour in colour vinyl.

Further developing the sound of GRADIUS, Part II continues with the hard driving sound that the Konami Kukeiha Club became world famous for.

The A-Side of this record contains the original soundtrack to the Famicom/NES version of GRADIUS II. Where the original game's soundtrack was a high watermark in the early days of video game music, GRADIUS II pushes the Nintendo Entertainment System's humble audio chip to its limits, creating memorable, improvosition based tracks that listeners will be humming long after the record stops spinning.



The B-Side contains the lesser known soundtrack to the spin-off GRADIUS 2 for the MSX computer. Only released in Japan (and in Europe as NEMESIS 2), this version of the soundtrack is a completely different beast than the Famicom counterpart. Containing deep, humming synth lines that are more in line with the Konami Kukeiha Club's arcade output. Faster and more driving than the Famicom version, GRADIUS 2 remians an absolute treat for VGM and retro synth fans.

Included with the album is a double sided insert, with one side featuring a close up of Ian Wilding's cover artwork and the other side featuring liner notes from Retronauts' Jeremy Parish.



New artwork created by Ian Wilding (iwilding.com). Collect all three GRADIUS albums to see the full panorama!

TRACKLISTING:

SIDE A (GRADIUS II - FAMICOM)

1. Equipment

2. TABIDACHI

3. Burning Heat

4. The Final Enemy

5. Fortress

6. Heavy Blow

7. Dead End

8. The Old Stone

9. GRADIUS Boss

10. Salamander Boss

11. Over Heat

12. Something Ghostly

13. Farewell

14. Take Care!

15. Game Over

SIDE B (GRADIUS 2 - MSX)

1. Above the Horizon

2. Starting Point

3. A Journey to the Start

4. Killer Coast Land

5. A Fighter

6. A Planet of Plants

7. Red Diamond

8. Dancing Venus

9. Blazed Up

10. Frontier Disputes

11. Tears Began Gushing

12. Don't Leave Me Alone

13. Killer Love

14. Moonspin

15. Powerful Waves

16. A Dream of Dreamer

17. The War Is Over

18. Synthetic Life





Official Soundtrack for Gradius II



Music by:

Konami Kukeiha Club

Artwork by:

Ian Wilding (iwilding.com)

Vinyl produced by:

Ship to Shore PhonoCo

Vinyl distributed by:

Black Screen Records