Cue of the Week: “Music Machine”

First off, happy (recent) New Year!

And now for something completely different. This cue from Escaping Wonderland is diegetic, or music that exists in the world of the game. The player has to raise the spirits of beleaguered mine workers (who happen to be cute sentient light bulbs) with a kind of steampunk jukebox. With the machine’s settings tweaked just right, the bulbs launch into a dance party.

The score here is happy electronic dance music, a bit innocent and naive, and incorporating some of the stone-like instrumentation that we hear throughout the mine region.