Today's announcement on the Miiverse may not be a character, but it's pretty huge.

First, there's the ability to listen to music with your 3DS in sleep mode, which is pretty cool when you don't want to appear like a full autist on public transports. Even though it's easier to just grab the tracks on your phone or whatever, it's a nice touch.

Then there's the indication that music will be different between both smash versions, which makes sense considering the stages are different.

And of course, the list of composers for the 3DS version has been revealed, and it's, predictably, fucking stacked. Remember kids, just because a composer worked on a game and that game is mentionned in the site's list ( http://www.smashbros.com/us/music/ ) doesn't mean the game will have a rep, so no, the composer of Xenoblade Chronicles doesn't confirm Shulk (it doesn't deconfirms it either though)

A few pieces of note:
Masashi Hamauzu. As much as I dislike the Lightning games, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfu0XBf8kmk is pretty good.

Noriyuki Iwadare, who made music for Langrisser which is cruelly underrated, Phoenix Wright starting at 3, and including Miles Edgeworth Investigation, participated in Kid Icarus Uprising.

And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i36tXq7yK6c
Yasunori Mitsuda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=923fVDDwaHo Enough said.

Keiichi Okabe, who made the music for Nier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbucdMppDMs [Embed] and Drakengard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEISPEm_Ws

Hideki Sakamoto, who I know mostly for Echochrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39rYEcNofEE

Motoi Sakuraba, who finally started to diversify a bit from his very recognizable style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YbB9Zs1OY as proven by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzWFWCH_lTE for instance.

Tetsuya Shibata, who made Devil May Cry music, except for the first one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzzn_q5wP4
Yoko Shimomura, who made amongst other things the Tetris theme A arrangement for Brawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDCOcqpWTkY [Embed] made us feel simple and clean tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHjtg7cZqY and may have a part in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iof5pRAIZmw
Kumi Tanioka, who worked on FFXI and the greatly atmospheric Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbcZ2SIliFg

And I'm skipping a lot of them.

So. Smash music/Smash/Music thread.

You learn something new everyday.