🔥🔥🔥NOTE: This is the FINAL CRASH edition of the soundtrack, with fully remastered tracks optimized for F-Games' STREETS OF RAGE X fan game - (Oct 26/2023) 🔥🔥🔥

"Streets of Rage" is a definitive classic that sports one of the most memorable soundtracks in video game history, thanks to Yuzo Koshiro. It's an eclectic mix of house, trance and breakbeat that fits perfectly with the goings-on of the game. However, Koshiro was working within the constraints of a 16-bit cartridge-based console, which meant sacrifices had to be made. 

I wanted to further flesh out the songs on this soundtrack with my signature expansions, which are entirely new additions to the song in order to make them longer and broader in scope. This is my take on what Yuzo Koshiro would have done with more time, better hardware, and higher storage capacity. As always, EVERY song in the soundtrack has been painstakingly recreated from the ground up, note-for-note. No sampling, no rips, no stems.

STREETS OF RAGE (Expanded & Enhanced)

Classic game music

Streets Of Rage (OST)

game beats

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Stickerbrush Symphony [Restored]

Really pleased to have an exclusive and unheard track this week from the Liverpool DJ and beat maker Melé. The Sega Mega Drive inspired track (check out the amazing Sega style artwork) will be just one of the tracks on Vol.2 of his Melé Vanelé mixtape that he is putting out later this week. Enjoy x


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FMM: Melé - Streets Of Rage 2

Bloody Tears (Super Castlevania IV)

The original version of "Silence Night" plays when the main player fails to rescue Naoko from being crushed to death during the final battle with Zeed, thus triggering the bad ending. The original 40+ second version of the song only hints at the tragedy of it all. I wanted my expansion to put the listener in the mind of Joe Musashi, and the anguish and sorrow he would have felt over failing at his task, and losing the love of his life. I also wanted to amplify the atmosphere by adding in some harmonized piano and a Japanese koto for more authenticity. Hope you all enjoy it.

Revenge of Shinobi (Expanded & Enhanced)

Silence Night (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The original version of "My Lover" felt like 10% of a finished ending theme, and I wanted to greatly flesh it out without over-extending its allure and welcome. This meant beefing up the section with a twofold approach: 

1) To stress the importance of the "good ending," and the saving of Naoko from certain death at the hands of Zeed's trap.

2) To create a much more compelling, rousing and triumphant ending theme that takes into account everything Joe Musashi went through during the game.

You, listener, will decide if I hit that mark or not. For now, I'm very proud of what I've done with the soundtrack for "The Revenge of Shinobi," and I'm very happy you have all joined me for the journey. Big news to come as I move onto a brand new soundtrack, so stay tuned!

My Lover (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

This is a brand new expanded and enhanced version of "The Street of Rage" from Streets of Rage 1, to commemorate the "Final Crash" releases of my Streets of Rage soundtracks. This track will also be incorporated into the F-Games fan game release of STREETS OF RAGE X, for which I am providing the full official soundtrack for. 

This is a much different take on the original theme than my previous work, the "S.O.R. Super Mix," which was originally conceptualized to be a hybrid of the main themes from the first two games. This one stands on its own, but in order to close out this massive chapter in my chiptune composing journey, I've purposely written the expansion so that it directly references "S.O.R. Super Mix," the "Good Ending" theme from Streets of Rage 3, and "You Became The Bad Guy!" from Streets of Rage 1. I love it, and I hope you do, too.

Streets Of Rage • Expanded & Enhanced

The Street Of Rage (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

For the first time, MaestroDraven and IceFerno team up! This is a completely original co-composition featuring our collective skills and talents, as an ode to the Streets of Rage video game series we both love so much.

"Brawler's Nook" has been composed specifically for the menu section of F-Games' fantastic "Streets of Rage X" fan game (link below). As many of you know, my Expanded & Enhanced versions of the three SOR soundtracks act as the official soundtrack for the game, and both IceFerno and I thought it would be cool to make this particular song our first official collaboration. 

Working with IceFerno has been fantastic. We're two guys with a mutual love for SOR music, and the back-and-forth writing process was smooth, seamless and completely harmonious from start to finish. Expect more collabs in the future between us! In the meantime, you can enjoy the song on "Streets of Rage X," found here:

https://www.chronocrash.com/forum/threads/streets-of-rage-x-windows-android.5314/page-45

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Brawler's Nook (feat. IceFerno)

Audio sourced from the original NEC PC-88 files, recorded and supplied in 32bit/96kHz by Yuzo Koshiro, in combination with a 32bit/96kHz direct capture from a PAL Mega Drive (HD, VA4, non-TMSS) Yamaha YM2612 sound chip, running at 60Hz through a stereo output mod.

Taken from the Streets of Rage OST, remastered and available on vinyl through Data Discs. An officially licensed product.

Available now from www.data-discs.com

Streets of Rage - Fighting in the Street (Remastered)

Sonic Mania is consuming me, please send help.

Sonic 3 / Sonic Mania - Lava Reef Zone (LucasPucas Remix)

Sonic Lava Reef Zone remixed and produced in proud Avicii Style with a slight hint of Skrillex in the later parts.

Get this track!

Sonic Lava Reef Zone Remix

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - Customization Theme

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Oct 25/23🔥 - "Player Select" was used in two forms for both Streets of Rage 1 and Streets of Rage 2, but I based my expanded & enhanced version on the second. This is an updated mix with enhanced sonic clarity, EQing, mastering and stereo widening, with some corrections and tweaks to make it the definitive edition of the track.

Streets Of Rage (Expanded & Enhanced)

Player Select (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Oct. 25/23🔥 - "Fighting In The Street" encapsulates everything that is awesome about Streets of Rage, and I wanted to expand on its high energy and club-worthy atmosphere with a powerful expansion that builds up momentum towards a massive sonic bomb worthy of the game's skull-cracking intensity. 

NOTE: This is the "Final Crash" edition of the song, in reference to the last time I will be touching the original SOR soundtracks. I now consider them totally complete.

Fighting In The Street (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Oct. 25/23🔥 - "Attack The Barbarian" is a ruthless track that is offset by funky club dance elements pertinent to the early 1990s electronic scene. I wanted to expand on Yuzo Koshiro's aggressive boss theme with a more fleshed out take that adds to the menace of the original track, without detracting from its impact.

NOTE: This is the "Final Crash" edition of the song, in reference to the last time I will be touching the original SOR soundtracks. I now consider them totally complete.

Attack The Barbarian (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Oct. 25/23🔥 - When I originally tackled "Dilapidated Town," I wanted to make it more groovy and accessible, as I felt the original was a bit too "bippity-boppity" with its PSG chip elements. Some piano here, an appropriately simplistic saxophone there, and voila...an expansion that compliments the original, while sounding totally unique unto itself.

NOTE: This is the "Final Crash" edition of the song, in reference to the last time I will be touching the original SOR soundtracks. I now consider them totally complete.

Dilapadated Town (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Oct. 25/23🔥 - "You Became The Bad Guy!" had a simple premise - sound like a darker take on the game's main theme. However, there wasn't much to the original song, which is why I wanted to tackle it so badly. My expansion is a completely new composition that takes those scant few elements from the original, and creates a totally different listening experience in the process. The result is more emotion, more power, and more references to other Streets of Rage themes to create a canonical harmony between them all. 

NOTE: This is the "Final Crash" edition of the song, in reference to the last time I will be touching the original SOR soundtracks. I now consider them totally complete.

You Became The Bad Guy! (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE

🔥FINAL CRASH UPDATE / Nov. 6/23🔥 - "Go Straight" is one of the hardest Streets of Rage songs to mix, balance and master. After years of fighting it, I've finally created a version that I feel most happy with. I don't think I'll ever get it perfect (nothing is), but this is the closest to the vision I wanted. This is one of the hardest rocking video game tunes ever created, and I'm proud to build on Yuzo Koshiro's dynamite ingenuity and imagination with my expanded sections.

NOTE: This is the "Final Crash" edition of the song, in reference to the last time I will be touching the original SOR soundtracks. I now consider them totally complete.

Streets Of Rage 2 (Expanded & Enhanced)

Go Straight (Expanded & Enhanced) - STREETS OF RAGE 2

My name is MaestroDraven, and I recreate the classic video game songs of old, NOTE-FOR-NOTE, and then build entirely new sections designed to flesh them out and expand on the originals. This is a labor of love, and my way of paying tribute to the great composers of old. 

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