EDM and video video games go collectively like peanut butter and jelly—and their relationship is about to get a complete lot cozier with the newly rebranded “Sakura Chill Beats” YouTube channel.
Launched this month by Sony Music Japan, the first-of-its-kind mission will probably be a hub for official digital remixes of anime and online game theme songs, with new choices obtainable each Saturday at 1AM PT (4AM ET).
The primary observe launched on Sakura Chill Beats was RetroVision’s remix of “Ashiato -Footprints-” by the peggies, out June nineteenth. Vivid and upbeat, the unique music was the ending theme of the anime tv present My Hero Academia. RetroVision reworked the indie rock anthem into an digital banger with hovering synths and a scintillating future home drop.
Not too long ago added to the channel was Slushii’s dubstep rework of Ikimonogakari’s “Blue Chook” off Naruto Shippuden, together with CORSAK’s flip of Ikimonogakari’s “BAKU” and James Landino’s tackle “Kimiga Ita Shirushi” by halca. Sakura Chill Beats can also be dwelling to a 24/7 stream of lo-fi beats, which has been dwell since Could sixteenth, 2020.
With digital variations of anime and online game songs sometimes hidden within the depths of Reddit and SoundCloud, Sakura Chill Beats fills a much-needed hole in entry to the favored genre-bending sound. Final November, for instance, Japanese online game collection Kingdom Hearts launched a 161-track album on Spotify that included Hikaru Utada and Skrillex’s “Face My Fears.”