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Theme
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Game Theme – GenMIDI Version (Audio Version - Roland JV30 w/overdubbed guitars).
I was brainwashed with Japanese cartoons as a kid - Speed Racer and Marine Boy. The whistle melody (a la Buckaroo Banzai) did
exactly what it was meant to do... heroic light-hearted theme, catchy, japanese-sounding,
and it REEEEEALLY pierced the LA Convention Center at the Coconuts Japan
booth that year (95). I suspect there are some game industry folks
who would come after me if they knew I wrote that tune! If you're reading this, I hope you've cooled off over the last 7 years!
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Return of the Robot
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GenMIDI Version (Audio Version - Roland JV30)
Win theme - Close thematic variation of the GoMan theme that I'm still fond of despite it being low-fi card music |
End Credits
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GenMIDI (Audio Version - Roland JV30 w/overdubbed guitars).
This
is my personal favorite; it really sums up what I think of as "video game
music" in a pre-DVD kind of way: ridiculous inhuman computerized lines, impossible
tempos and computer-layered to the robotic extreme.
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Roggosh
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Desert Monster - GenMIDI (Audio Version - Roland JV30 w/overdubbed guitars).
"High Noon" type vibe that builds up to a faster harder tune. Masochists: see if you can find the Bach "Joy" quote in the MIDI version...
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Kothos
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Mountain Monster - GenMIDI (Audio Version - Roland JV30 w/overdubbed guitars).
Also* check out the alternate theme: first crack at
a sampler (Unused - it does take a little practice to get the hang of what to sample and how to use it... as you can hear;)
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Tolgo
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Ocean Monster - GenMIDI (Audio Version - Roland JV30 w/overdubbed guitars).
I was happy w/the "Fenderized" NRPN controller programming I
did on the "clean guitar" strums in the SB AWE32 version (tremolo using amp
modulation and pbenders)
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Nealloth
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New York
Monster - GenMIDI (Audio Version - Guitar licks in ProTools - banked in SCII)
... Also* check out the alternate
theme: first chance crack at a sampler (Unused)
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Shagtoq
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San Francisco
Monster - GenMIDI
(Roland JV30) with overdubbed voice...
SF being the center of our 1994 South
of Market Microserf existence, this was supposed to be the clubby one. (Didn't
have any experience with 808s/909s, TB303s, etc, since it was all MIDI up
to this point. I think the style of this tune pretty fairly represents
some "shot-in-the-dark" dance music I was listening to at the time (I think the CD I
had was called the "Universe Compilation" - it was kind of cool, but very
much NOT in the spectral "middle" of techno stylistically... Anyway,
once I got a sampler there was no turning back.
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Gaingris
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Tokyo Monster
– Sampler (ScellII, ProTools):
used low vocal chant loops, guitars and a bowed computer casing for the metal
ambiences. There was also a GenMIDI vesion
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Play Again
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GenMIDI (Roland JV30)
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Asteroid Nemesis
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Intro
Movie Theme - GenMIDI (Roland JV30) with overdubbed
guitars and samplers
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Training Robot
(MIDI)
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Just GenMIDI for this one...This was about as close to NIN as you get with a SoundBlaster (no offense to Creative Labs)
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You Lose
(MIDI)
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Just GenMIDI for this one too. Pulled
out the stops and went for the sfx bank... dicey dicey. This sounds
fine on an AWE32, but it's pretty crazy on my Crystal WDM card...
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Honorable Win
(MIDI)
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That's if you get the monsters AND didn't destroy too many buildings kill too many civilians to do it.
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Scorsby and Hootch (MIDI)
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Joke name for an alternate honorable win tune. GenMIDI - This turned out pretty well in terms of fidelity, though it's really 70s!
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