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Goldeneye N64 Orchestrated - Officially Licensed Album By Rich Douglas

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Rick Astley:
he also mentions GES in another interview:
http://commanderbond.net/17613/goldeneye-64-orchestrated.html

Sole Signal [Audix]:
Nice find.

Wanted to comment one of Rich's quotes:

Quote: "This is where Goldeneye Source went wrong in my opinion, while the remixes are very cool, they had tons of different/unique artists working on the mod’s score making it sort of a mish mash of styles and sounds. Of course that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is certainly not what I set out to accomplish here."


I didn't take that as a slight in the least, just wanted to explain my thoughts on creating my GE:S tracks:

1. GE:S is a multiplayer game. The original game had 14 very diverse rotating multiplayer tracks. Of course, the single player themes are more memorable and that's what we tended to focus on with the GE:S soundtrack.

2. The original N64 tracks were quite diverse with rock, electronic/techno, orchestral, percussion-driven, soundscape-driven, chill, and many other elements. I felt freedom to experiment with each of these styles throughout GE:S. Of course, any sort of single-player GE:S would certainly call for more continuity across tracks.

3. I tried to make each track cool and unique in its own way, so that it would be fun to listen to in and out of context.

Maybe the best way to describe it in retrospect is the Super Smash Brothers Brawl stance, mixed with a bit of Timesplitters multiplayer (not to mention N64 GE). SSBB fanservice in that there are a bunch of good tracks with many different composers, and Timesplitters/GE in that each of the tracks is pretty standalone on its own accord, yet you can still tell they're from the same game. :)

Rick Astley:
I Purchased Rich's album on Itunes (and they didnt even give me the Debriefing track -_-)
and i had to say that while they are enjoyable particularly Dam they are lightyears behind
the tracks that Sole Signal, Audix, Golden Zen and Basstronix made

Dont get me wrong Rich's tracks are good in their way except Egyptain which was terrible
but i felt they were more of an ode to David Arnold...i hope i havent offended RD its just my opinion

Rick Astley:
and on a side note will we there be any new tracks for GES? i particularly look forward to Depot
or Train :D

Jonathon [SSL]:

--- Quote from: Rick Astley on September 05, 2013, 12:31:20 pm ---but i felt they were more of an ode to David Arnold...i hope i havent offended RD its just my opinion

--- End quote ---

This. I don't get what all the hubub over wanting these tracks in GES is about, I don't feel like they would mesh at all with the diverse electronic sound of the current music nor fit the fast (way faster than GE64) speed of multiplayer.

Not to mention to me everything screams "orchestra samples!". The midi arrangements never convinced me I was listening to a live orchestra for even a second, and when the name includes the word "Orchestrated" I'd expect a lot of work to be put into making the reverb cohesive and smoothing out spacial differences and avoiding obvious repetition in sample sounds (for the strings at the very least).

He's done some commendable work getting it licensed and getting Grant Kirkhope's input, but I don't see why we should be begging to use his music when he's selling it commercially (we're a free, soon to be open source, mod), and the quality isn't anything overly spectacular.

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