atomicthumbs
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All the Pokemon are dead. This song is the music that plays.
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dat bass drum. my head nearly collapsed. awesome.
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Not mine, but it wasn't posted here so I decided to.
BackgroundThis tribute was created to portray the Mega Man 2 soundtrack as one single listening experience. Every track progresses into the next as if the game is being played inside of your head. Naturally, these songs were not originally intended to transition into each other. So, I had to write and/or rearrange these progressions in order to make this seamless listening experience possible. But each "new" part that I created was at least somewhat inspired by its respective original composition.
All in all, my goal was to allow the listener to experience playing the game from beginning to end with his or her ears alone. And you may notice that the album has been broken down into two different parts. I felt that the material exhibited a natural break in the overall mood and intensity once the Dr. Wily music takes over.
I am obviously not the first person to record guitar versions of the Mega Man 2 soundtrack. There are tons of great versions all over YouTube. I'm also not the first person to do this type of rearrangement for vintage video game soundtracks in general. There is a whole community of creative minds that take these nostalgic songs and put their own personal spin on them; my personal favorite would be Grant Henry over at Metroid Metal.
With that being said, I hope my version of Mega Man 2 is different enough to be a credible addition to an already overflowing appreciation for this music. And I hope everyone has as much fun listening to it as I had recording it. It truly was a pleasure. And as my boys in 8 bitz would say, "Stay up and play up!"
Album Information
All guitars, bass, and programming performed and recorded between August 2009 and February 2010 by Ryan Postlethwait via the POD XT and a version of Sony Acid Pro 6.0 which threatened to completely crash at any given moment.
Mixed by Ryan Postlethwait and Terry Smith
Mastered by Terry Smith
Album Artwork by Brian Pickens
Mega Thanks go to Terry Smith, Brian Pickens, and Rob Marshall (not the film director) for their respective assistance in getting this project out to the people, and also to those who gave me feedback along the way.
Special Thanks go to Takashi Tateishi, Manami Matsumae and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi for actually writing the wonderful music for Mega Man 2. You were able to take an incredible game and allow it to ascend into legendary status. It really exhibits the power which music can possess, even for a silly little 8-bit video game from 1988.
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doooo, deeee doooo, daaaa doooo.
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Well, they've just remastered their old songs and completed their OoT album. Hadn't heard about it before yesterday. I'll look up the old thread.
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I just discovered Zelda Reorchestrated.
Remember how OoT had two soundtracks: Hyrule Symphony (with a string ensemble and some other instruments), and the OST (just the music recorded directly from the game, with all the tiny little item found tunes and stuff)?
This is the OST, but with an orchestra instead of the Nintendo 64's sound chip. This thing is totally awesome.
I listened to it and decided to mirror it because it was so good. I'm hosting the Houston mirror.
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To make a short story long: I stumbled upon the Crescent Island track (or is it Crescent Moon Island?) and I liked it, then forgot about it. Later on when I was doing one of my daily experiments, the source made a resurgence in my consciousness and I ended up laying it down. Here's the thing though: rather than playing it straight, the version I put down morphed into this strangely familiar tune that I can't quite put my finger on. Anyone recognize it?
TL;DR:
Reminds me of the Subrosia theme from OoS.
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whoa. this is epic song!
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I cannot stop the music player! it must continue!
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You know whose work this reminds me of? Gustav Holst's.
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Minor update: the "Pure Random" option will be fixed in the next Ampache update, making the OCJ that much more enjoyable.
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Open your package manager and search for "wine". WINE (Wine Is Not Emulation) is a Windows compatibility layer that lets you run many Windows programs on Linux.
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UPDATE: After trying out my new Koss PortaPro headphones, I have found that they have something that my Telex headphones don't: bass.
These cost $30-40 instead of $10, but they are much better value. For cheap headphones for game playing, get the Telex phones; for music, get the PortaPros.
For instance, the Star Fox remix Barrel Roll's bass drum no longer goes "thup thup thup". It now actually sounds like a bass drum.
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it was actually all atomicthumbs' doing
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sig friendly banner
Good idea. I made a higher-quality version:
Also, 1000-1700 are finished! Woo!
Now I just have to figure out a way to easily download the next 71.
And tag 1500 songs according to game.
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looks great, except for the gramophone. we need something more iconic, with maybe a set of headphones somewhere. ok if I add to sig w/ link?
Sure!
I might change it to headphones when I get home to my sixteen-CD clipart collection.
Finally got around to trying this out. It's amazing! Great jobs to all involved, especially atomicthumbs for the initial setup and idea.Thank you!
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Firefox, and it works now, yesterday it was pretty weird though. I was exited out of all applictions and the songs were still playing... didnt mind though
so does this thing have a name? THE SECRET INTERNET MUSIC PROJECT sounds too suspicious to make a banner out of.
I think that's a bug in Firefox. I read about it happening somtime else somewhere else with something else.
I'm not sure what I should name it. The Secret Internet Music Project was the old name from when I used it to serve my music to me and my friends.
How about OverClocked Jukebox?
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I think Ampache is just the jukebox software he's using. The banner is probably just part of some default theme.this
Edith:
brb, banner
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Banner done!
What do people think? I had narrowed my collection of clipart down to the gramophone and the bemused wizard.
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I just bought a Porta Pro.
(It's to replace the craptacular $5 headphones I'm currently using on my GP2X. The Telex phones are still my computer headset.)
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hey. so when I click the play playlist button, the popup doesnt come up anymore, but the playlist plays in order. I actually exited that tab and its still playing... fix plox
Really? I'll investigate. Hold on.
Player pops up for me. What browser are you using?
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Yeah, that wasn't overly intuitive to me. All the other random options did it in alphabetical order and like someone else mentioned, "pure random" doesn't work at all.
Pure Random is broken and I don't know how to fix it.
I'm not sure about the other random options, though.
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Ah, thanks. I didn't know about this.
(That song! It hurts my brain!)
Maybe I'll add the OCRemoved songs when I'm done with the "real" OCR songs. They'll go under their own album.
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ocremoved, man, you should pick some of them up and stick them on their own list.
What?
I can't understand.
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Hmm. Apparently 1-1000 actually means "the 868 songs in the 1-1000 torrent".
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It seems when I pick random all the songs it picks are listed in alphabetical order. That's not very random.
How're you doing random? The "advanced" random option offers more control and works for me.
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Ding! 1-1000 are uploaded!
Now starting on 1000-1700.
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I forget the correct term but they sit around your ears with the cup resting on your head instead of ears.
circumnaural
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why are there only 3 users on this site? and who is cody?
this needs publicity or it wont catch on.
I have no idea who Cody is, other than Cody.
Why?There have been 31 new users since I introduced this. A banner or link would be nice, though.
OCR02964 - Gunstar Heroes 'Bullet Hell'
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This is so goddamn good. I need like, five albums' worth of this to play while I'm driving.