Music Week: Meet Remute, the techno producer who makes music albums for retro consoles

Video game music is big business. Chances are if there’s a game you’re eagerly anticipating, the release of its original soundtrack isn’t close behind, whether it’s conveniently on Spotify or pristinely packaged as a vinyl record from iam8bit or dozens of other specialists that have emerged in the recent years.

Yet for Remute, that’s all a bit too safe and conventional. At least for a producer who specialises in electronic music.

“I think the most uncreative moment is recording music on a medium like vinyl or CD,” he tells me over Zoom. “It’s good for rock or classical music, but when you record electronic music on it, then it’s a dead medium – it’s just playback.”