This feels like this would be the city streets theme for when you go to the future in Beyond Time and Space.

I had no idea you borrowed so many sounds from Insideout!

REDUKED:

https://noisebrec.bandcamp.com/album/reduked-deluxe-edition

Original track by: Lee Jackson from Duke Nukem 3D Sountrack (1996) - Stalker.

This remix: Mike Norvak, 2014.

One of my favorite songs from the game, also the music of the first level (Hollywood Holocaust). So it was a logical step to use this as the real opening theme of Reduked. It is amazing how Lee Jackson managed to build such an epic atmosphere with just a few notes and chords playing again and again. My intention on this track was to revamp the synthbass, leads and string sounds with a variety of synthetic sounds to enhance the 80's night futuristic style of the song.

If you want to use this song on your own projects (videogames, mods, footages, etc) just give credit to me and the original authors of the songs. Here's an example that you can copy-paste:

(Name song/soundtrack/songs/music) produced by Mike Norvak for Noise Boulder Records, based on Duke Nukem 3D Soundtrack by Lee Jackson/Robert C Prince.

Duke Nukem Remix The Stalker (Theme from Hollywood Holocaust)

10/26/20 - now LIVE! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mazedude/words-and-verses-a-biblical-music-project 

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http://www.mazedude.com/remixes/purple-streets

As some of you know, I grew up with LucasArts adventure games. Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island... and of course, Sam and Max Hit the Road. The soundtrack to the latter, composed by Peter McConnell, Clint Bajakian, and Michael Land was always a classic. Both iconic and astoundingly weird, it fit the game perfectly. Over the years I'd received various requests to remix the music from it, but sadly, never quite got around to it.

Fast forward to the dawn of episodic gaming, and my invitation to check out Sam and Max Season One, by Telltale Games. I was skeptical, to say the least. Could they really do justice to the style and character established in the original game? And more importantly... would the music stand up?

Well, I was very pleasantly surprised. The game was fun, well done, hilarious, and... the music was awesome. Jared Emerson-Johnson, this composer who I hadn't heard of before, knocked it out of the park. The entire soundtrack is full of lush, lengthy, well-developed compositions that are simultaneously musically complex, and also perfect for the environments they create within the game. So, when it came time to honor new composers for American Pixels, I knew I wanted to arrange something from Sam and Max and honor Jared accordingly. And since it's a theme that keeps coming back as you walk around the game, I picked the "City Streets" music, which you can listen to via the player above.

Now, many of you also know that I like doing stylistic homages to legends from the tracking scene, and this felt like a perfect opportunity to mimic the one and only Purple Motion. He was a member of the demoscene group Future Crew, a collective of musicians who truly set the tone for up and coming trackers in the early 90s. While there are many phenomenal tracks by the guy that I could point out, I think the one that comes to mind as an all-time classic is "Insideout."

Now while Insideout was crafted within the limitations of the day (channels, effects, etc.), I thought it would be fun to marry the two concepts - the music of Sam and Max in the style of Purple Motion - while also taking the soundscape to a new level with my 40+ tracker channels, proper post-processing, etc. All said and done, the final piece is ultimately a 4 and a half minute piece of tracker homage insanity. Enjoy!

American Pixels

Purple Streets (from Sam And Max Season One)

10/26/2020 Update: new project LIVE on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mazedude/words-and-verses-a-biblical-music-project 

Christopher "Mazedude" Getman has been contributing a combination of original and arranged/remixed music to the electronic music scene for years. He has made a name for himself via OverClocked Remix and various albums, including works among the Bad Dudes and more. Learn more and download several tracks at https://www.mazedude.com.

In 2020, Mazedude unveiled a shift to his focus, announcing a new project called "Words and Verses," where the concept is construction of new, original music based on Bible verses. Learn more about that project here: https://www.wordsandversesproject.com

Purple Streets (from Sam And Max Season One)

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