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Staff Members :: Simon Elchlepp

Site Role

Reviews

Email Address

N/A

Joined Site

February 2010

Favourite Game Music Artists

Hitoshi Sakimoto
Yasunori Mitsuda
Nobuo Uematsu
Akihiko Mori
Michael Giacchino

Date of Birth

July 14, 1983

Place of Residence

Melbourne, Australia

Occupation

Management

General Interests

Films
Music (listening and performing)
Video Games
Reading and Writing
Running

Biography

I know, it's a terrible, terrible cliché, but it all started with Final Fantasy VII, namely a) my enthusiasm for video games that take somewhere between 40 and 60 hours to tell their long-winded stories, and b) my interest in video game music. Not that I hadn't been exposed to such music before: I've spent more than enough time during my youth (read: before my uni studies) on playing video games, but with Final Fantasy VII I discovered that I could buy the game's soundtrack from some import dealer in Germany. Sure enough, I simply had to get this magically exotic item — instead, through some mix up, I got the Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack, which turned out not to be too bad either.

Some months later, I stumbled upon Yasunori Mitsuda's soundtrack for Chrono Cross, and from that point onwards, I was sold — not only on video game music, but on music itself. While I had a small collection of CDs before I indulged into this new hobby of mine, I now started to expand my tastes and listen to music much more attentively than before (those Wagner pieces in John Boorman's Excalibur probably also helped).

Fast forward more than ten years, and I'm still not sure how to get my collection of CDs from Germany to Australia (where I moved in 2008), so I'll have to continue to clog up my computer's hard drive with my constantly expanding collection of music files, which now spans video game soundtracks, the ubiquitous John Williams, Norwegian post-black metal, Japanese free jazz (you never know what you'll find in you second hand music shop's bargain bin) and lots of stuff in between, with some Enya and Phil Collins discs thrown in for good(?) measure.

Another cliché is probably that all rabid music fans dream of being music critics one day. I'm very happy that I got the chance to indulge in two passions of mine — writing and listening to music — at the same time through reviewing music for SEMO. I'd be very grateful for any kind of constructive feedback — so bring on the criticism, let me now how my reviews could be improved, and shoot me an email!

Contributed Reviews

Album Title Catalog No.
A Night in Fantasia 2009 ANIF09
Anno 1404 Original Soundtrack Promotional
Anno 1404 Collector's Edition Soundtrack Promotional
Anno 1701 Collector's Edition Soundtrack Promotional
Anno 1701 The Sunken Dragon Original Soundtrack Promotional
BattleForge Original Videogame Soundtrack iTunes
BioShock Official Score: I Am Rapture - Rapture Is Me Promotional
BioShock 2 Official Score: Sounds from the Lighthouse Promotional
Borderlands Original Soundtrack SE-2072-2
Call of Duty Official Soundtrack Promotional
Castlevania Lords of Shadow Collector's Edition Soundtrack Promotional
Crysis Original Soundtrack iTunes
Crysis 2 Original Videogame Soundtrack iTunes
Dead Space Original Videogame Soundtrack iTunes
Dead Space 2 Original Videogame Soundtrack iTunes
Dead Space 2 Collector's Edition Soundtrack N/A
Dante's Inferno Original Videogame Score iTunes
Drakensang Soundtrack iTunes
Drakensang The River of Time Soundtrack iTunes
Drakensang Deluxe Edition Soundtrack iTunes
Guild 2 Official Soundtrack, Die Gilde 2 - The Promotional
Haruhi Suzumiya Original Soundtrack, The Disappearance of LACA-9178/9
Lost World -Jurassic Park- Original Soundtrack, The SID-8803
Mass Effect 2 Original Videogame Soundtrack iTunes
Mass Effect 2 Atmospheric Additional Videogame Score iTunes
Medal of Honor Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Original Videogame Score iTunes
Medal of Honor Airborne Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Allied Assault Original Soundtrack Recording Promotional
Medal of Honor Allied Assault Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor European Assault Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Frontline Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault Original Soundtrack Promotional
Medal of Honor Rising Sun Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Underground Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor Vanguard Original Soundtrack iTunes
Medal of Honor 10th Anniversary Soundtrack Promotional
Moment of Silence Original Soundtrack, The ZYX-55398-2
ParaWorld Original Soundtrack Promotional
Perfect Dark Soundtrack, The Dark Mission - Music from the Original 3591366
Promise Project: 10 Years of Makoto Shinkai & Tenmon CWCD-0003
Saboteur Original Videogame Theme, The iTunes
Sacred 2 Fallen Angel Audio CD Promotional
Secret Weapons Over Normandy Original Soundtrack Recording LLLCD-1013
Settlers Heritage of Kings Original Soundtrack, The Promotional
Settlers Rise of an Empire Original Soundtrack, The Promotional
Settlers Paths to a Kingdom Original Soundtrack, The iTunes
Settlers Paths to a Kingdom Collector's Edition Soundtrack, The Promotional
SOCOM 4 -U.S. Navy Seals- Original Soundtrack iTunes
SpellForce Songs of Winter - The Official Soundtrack Promotional
SpellForce - Best of Shadow Wars & Dragon Storm, Sounds of Promotional
SpellForce 2 - Sounds of the Shadows Promotional
World of Warcraft Soundtrack S7221154
World of Warcraft Taverns of Azeroth Soundtrack Promotional
World of Warcraft The Burning Crusade Soundtrack S0030445