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this is the music i made for a Discmaster Jam entry that didn't end up getting finished in time. you are free to use these songs on any project you're working on, commercial or otherwise.

the music found here is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

You are free to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit is given.

please credit me like this: "Music by Lilith Scarlet (Lilithpad)" except Track 2, credit the artist like this: "Music by Nil Kyzagan (TINCTURE)"

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Extreme Heights

2 - 07 - Chiptunes - And - Salsa - For - Perilous - Paradise - Act - 3

Weow, this one should sound very familiar very fast!

Lost Levels are a tribute to all the canned or otherwise 'lost' levels from the original Mega Drive games. The Mystic Cave 2 Player music is notable in that it's related to a lot of these missing links within Sonic 2. Before the Sequel originally featured the original MC2P music along with an ice remix by Ristar@Andy Tunstall, which flipped on the fly depending on where you were in the level. This new version's Fire side was recorded by him (hence credit where credit is due plz), and the Ice side was sequenced by me based on his ideas. Confusing, eh?

Anyway Ristar is a cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything. He's also done the music for Fortress Flow zone. Check out his Soundcloud page for this - http://soundcloud.com/tunners

Fire and Ice - For Lost Levels Act 3

1 - 21 Creature Of Nightmare - For Sunset Star Boss Act

This may be the biggest departure from the original music in the entire revamped soundtrack. There are two things going on here: 

The first is that I wanted to score the 'Lost' part of 'Lost Levels'. It needed something mysterious and perhaps somewhat foreboding. Lost Levels are a tribute to all the stuff that never made it into official releases yet had assets leftover in one game or another. If the fan-canon here is anything to go by (including the zone name) it's something not many people have visited, abundance of badniks aside.

The second is that like I said in the Hilltop Heights music description, with this soundtrack I really wanted to obliterate the usual preconceptions of what a 'retro' and 'sonic' game should sound like musically. It's obviously not 16-bit/YM2612 and perhaps a little more 'modern' than the typical 'Redbook Audio' game of the early 90's.

While technology may have been half of the mold I wanted to break out of, the other half would be... 2D Sonic in general. Don't get me wrong, All of S1/S2/S3&K had awesome soundtracks for slightly different reasons, but there's also just so much more that can be done. Take Sonic Adventure's Mystic Ruins for example. Without the visual association the first thing that comes to mind might not be 'Sonic', at all!

There's also that little tidbit in the form of S2's Hidden Palace unused track. It... doesn't sound anything like a sidescroller Sonic composition, especially when you compare it to the extremely trippy/catchy rhythms and hooks of S3&K. In fact, if you chucked it into RPGMaker or some such it really wouldn't be all that of a stretch to expect a Final Fantasy style random encounter and then battle music out of the blue. That was something I really, -really- wanted to explore, and I think overall it works!

Or maybe that Hidden Palace track went unused for a reason. Or maybe I'm just scratching a JRPG itch. You decide. ;p

Invisible Realm - For Lost Levels Act 1

It's no big secret that Be Cool, Be Wild, Be Groovy from Sonic Adventure is a thinly veiled homage to the flashy guitarists of this generation, specifically mimicking Satriani's Satch Boogie. For this boss I decided to emulate that, by mimicking Steve Vai's Juice. By mimicking a song I in fact mimic another song. How about that?

Due to the short-ish length of the boss there's not much form to this one, just an all-out funfest right from the start. Enjoy.

Guitar solo ft. Ethan Lee.

Meet the Fat Man - For Rocky Ride Boss Act

If butt rock is an acceptable genre, butt funk has to be too, right?

Right?

p.s. I'm a cunning linguist.

p.p.s Butt funk sure is a rocky ride.

p.p.p.s Ha. Ha. Ha.

Butt Funk - For Rocky Ride Act 2

2 - 03 Blue To Darkness - For Fortress Flow Act 3

Song: Karl Brueggemann – Tropic Turf Zone Act 1

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Game: Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers
Platform: Microsoft Windows and MacOS
Year: 2024
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Municipal Meadow Zone - Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers

Sonic BTS Taken By The Tides - For Perilous Paradise Act 2

Falk is a home-grown musician with a skillset just about as diverse as his interests. Hailing from Malaysia, he jumped with both feet into audio for games right out of college and spent a few years as Audio Lead at a rhythm game publisher. After having travelled to Boston to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Falk has been involved in countless fan productions and remixes, original compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations.

Falk, through his affiliation with the Video Game Orchestra, has had the privilege to work in the presence of industry veterans such as Hitoshi Sakimoto of Basiscape, Masashi Hamauzu, and Go Shiina of Namco Bandai, amongst others, in the capacity of recording and mix engineer for their various projects in ensembles varying from simple instrumental overdubs to full orchestral/choir recordings.