I’ve had some intermittent issues with getting the timestamps to work correctly on embeds, and I’m never sure if the issue is tied to my browser session or would affect other people, which is why I recommended reuploading if possible.
About time we had some UT tracks up in here!
I did a couple of recordings last night in prep for uploading and found Audacity to work well because I could record in stereo from a source then amplify the recording (which it determines automatically whilst avoiding clipping). This gave the tunes as much natural oomph as possible without sacrificing quality (I think, it sounded perfect to me). Not sure I’m going to use the recordings yet (decisions decisions) but it’s good to know there’s a relatively painless method of extraction that’ll give me better results than some of the guff on YouTube.
By the way @lordkosc, I’d never choose the SMB Overworld Theme, but SMB2’s? It’s in and it’s on.
Just a question that is been hurting me since the last one: what about “suites”. I am thinking of a couple of examples, like Offworld Trading Company or Mass Effect 2, where picking a single track can be kind of denaturing the nature of the soundtrack.
To hell with bleep-bloop, let’s jump into the future!
First, Mass Effect 2’s Samara.
That track by the prodigy Jimmy Hinson goes all over the planets. May I humbly suggest you stay from start to finish. If you enjoyed it, I may suggest listening to this, as an introduction of sort.
Next, MASSIVE CHALICE’s Ruler’s View.
I never turned off the soundtrack of that game, which is quite rare for a strategy game for me. It helped set the mood throughout, and that track playing first left a big impression. You can feel the dying nature of that world.
I am leaving Sword&Sworcery to @geggis, and will put forward some TIME FCUK instead.
Frankly, the whole soundtrack from Justin Karpel feels as one.
Incredibly evocative.
The game is also incredibly evocative.
The two combined, woaaah…
Finally, I’ll never post an entry without paying homage to Umemoto Ryu.
Here is Afterimage under the Moon, from some silly, probably porn, game called Eclipse.
If any composer was ever underemployed… Rest in peace, Mr Umemoto.
No OTC: I don’t want to see it be eliminated :(
OTC will only be eliminated if people vote against it!
You picked a single move from a symphony!!
That sounds like me trying to justify using a recorded TIE Fighter dynamic music track in this contest. There’s no one specific piece of music that is a huge standout, but the flow as a whole is what makes it special.
I may have recorded about a half hour of music to try and get a viable chunk to submit.
I hope it’s authorized, but I also hope you’ll share it, no matter what.
I had to! I didn’t think a 1 hour 16 minute submission would be a acceptable. ;)
I’ve concluded I’d have to make a custom mission just to get a track that could be viably submitted, since all the missions with good music flows have too many enemies to kill, and thus too many triumphant fanfares interrupting the music. It works in-game but makes it sound kinda bad out of context.
You guys should all give up, because I nominated No One Lives Forever and that will obviously win.
I think that was in the last dome and didn’t make it past the first round unfortunately.
Really? I looked at the bracket and didn’t see it. Maybe my Ctrl-F skills failed me.
Perhaps you were looking in the final stage tab? NOLF perished in the group stage along with many other worthies.
How the–
That’s some impressive zeroing in @Left_Empty! I’ve got like, 70+ tracks in my ‘Future Thunderdomes’ list and I’ve been flitting about all, but Sword & Sworcery only blipped on to my radar in the last few hours, after which I was pretty much set.
Isn’t Red Planet Nocturne the only standalone piece on the soundtrack? I’d definitely want the OTC ‘suites’ to be together though.
Edit: oh by the way, @anonymgeist: Twenty One! YES.
Nope, the first game’s overworld theme is a classic.
It is a classic but I’ve always preferred SMB2’s so I’m glad we’re still sworn enemies.
Crazy Comets loaded off a tape in about 90 seconds, and was probably the quickest way to test your c64 was working right.
Perhaps Mega Apocalypse is better though…
So I think I’m set. I was going to go with some Metroid but there was just too much else vying for my attention. During the last 'dome I even said I’d go full bleep-bloop but I just can’t, yet; seems daft restricting myself before we even have any themes. Some great choices being made looking at the spreadsheet!