I rather like the Pikmin arrangement. I think he's one of the best arrangers of VGM out there.  I'm surprised he hasn't really released any "folk music" in the past few years. Tsugunai was his last major Celtic based soundtrack.

Koji Kondo's classic Mario arrangement is up.

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music21.html

Somehow after the HUNDREDS of official and unofficial remixes out there, Kondo still manages to make a fresh take on Mario. At least IMO

Agreed, fantastic stuff. Haven't been following Kondo for a while, but it's great to know that the man's still got it.

Angel Island Zone arrange by Senoue is NOT FAIR. I want the entire thing arranged! And I'm not impressed that "True Blue," the regeritated "hits" album is getting this track a bonus either.

I thought there was one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smashing_live

That's from the live concert, not the game, so no OST.

Oh.

Iwata/Sakurai interview about the music in the game:

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/ssbb/vol6_page1.jsp

Nothing especially earth shattering, but it's interesting nonetheless.  The way they talk about it, I kind of doubt that they'd be able to work out a CD release.

Another update.  The dojo now lists the arrangers for all the songs in the game that will be available from the start (as opposed to the new songs you can unlock):

http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music22_list.html

I'm a little disappointed that so many composers just arranged their original tracks (Shimomura doing Mario & Luigi, Sakuraba doing Mario Tennis/Golf.  I'm surprised they didn't give Mitsuda something from Mario Party), but overall it looks fun.  I'm REALLY looking forward to Yuzo Koshiro's arrangement of the Zelda theme though.

Not really fair to put Sakuraba in that category, given that he also arranged tracks from SSBM, Donkey Kong Country, and Kirby Super Star.

As that's only the list of music available from the start, and like with everything in Smash plenty stuff is hidden to be unlocked by the player, I wouldn't comment about the composers' contribution based on that list alone.

Also according to earlier info (and mentioned again in the interview) composers where able to pick their choices from a list, so they decided the selection (or at least the arranging direction of the preselection) as well.

Just a random note, too, Mistuda's email newsletter stated that he did two tracks for the game.

On the Japanese website he mentioned that in May 22th already.

Anyway there are a couple recordings from SSBB, spoiler free as far as I can see (since untagged and with "improper" titles as file names) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=244XUXM8

Those bad and horribly tagged recordings gave me an idea.

I'm sure someone will post a link to something that's been around forever (but not TOO long in the case of some songs, since the latest is Jan. 23), but I went ahead and ripped the audio files from the Flash files on the Smash Bros. Dojo, tagged them PROPERLY, and even threw in some cover art.

Sure, it's not new music, but it's unaltered sound quality, compiled together, and in a format you can take with you on the go.

Available here.

I expect the game to be fully streamed (just like Melee), so even though there's likely no OST release to happen we can still expect someone to rip all music since the common Wii streaming format has already been figured out.

Well, either way, I have the game now (it's great, btw).  The various tracks in the sound test have to be individually unlocked, so that could take a while (and result in an analog recording anyway).  If anyone has suggestions on how to get at that streaming data directly, I'm all ears!

Over at smashboards someone is working on a rip, reporting that "There are 314 BGMs and 27 of them Victory Themes or long SFX, so 314 - 27 = 287 actual InGame BGMs".

Sweet Zombie Jesus on a Stick, that's HUGE.
That pretty much rules out an official release I guess....

For those who can't wait for the MP3s, there's a torrent of the music files ripped from the game disc, nearly a gig in size. You need a Winamp plugin to play the files, which you can get here.

It appears the same files just got encoded into mp3s, just over a gig.

The MP3 torrent is downloading much more quickly, naturally. The lack of titles sort of works in its favor, as it's like opening little presents, unsure of what's inside. With Tetris Type A, Dr. Mario Chill, Panel de Pon, Stickerbush Symphony, Metroid Prime Pinball, Super Metroid Ending, Yoshi's Island Athletic, and more, it feels a lot like Christmas morning.

On the other hand, there are tunes that sound so familiar but I can't place them, so I'm itching for titles.

It's also so very nice to have clear copies of Melee tracks, finally.

And in the time it took me to type this, my torrent finished, so time to load this into my MP3 player and go to bed happy.

I wonder if there are actually 287 different pieces, or a lot of them are small variations?

-Joshua

Just as a general FYI, watching some of the "spoiler" videos for the game reveals that there's a lot of music just taken directly from original games.  Don't expect all 287 pieces to be new arrangements.

Yea, the amount of arrangements which could work on an AST are pretty much in the minority overall, but they should still be able to fill several CDs (especially when looping). Also there are plenty original, arranged and medley track of games (spoiler: Wario Ware songs in both En/Ja, Wii Channel/"non-game" pieces, Golden Sun battle theme medley etc.) which didn't and likely never will find the way onto OSTs.

Got the torrent downloading at my place right now.  It looks like a collection of BGM from the various games (at least that's what I gathered from the track info), but hopefully that isn't the case.  I can't imagine 1 GIG's worth of music on one game.  That's impressive.