Play this for either Rooftop Run Night or Skyscraper Scamper Night. You will NOT regret it.

sounds something staright from Mario Kart 8

Sonic Before & After The Sequel OST

ARGYTACT ANTHEM JAZZ

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEvtUbNho_4

Music for the third Zone of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

Since Rock is in the zone name, I had the amazing epiphany to add rock elements to traditional blues, extend the basic 12 bar format and call it Purples. I AM YENIUS!

The guitar solo way in the back halfway through was done by Ian Charlie Chong who was just chilling at my place a few days before he packed up for LA. Was just a jam that I managed to get on disk.

*http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Friday Purples - For Rocky Ride Act 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmf5EsGfFWs

First stage of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

I went with a Sonic CD vibe for this one, with emphasis on clouds and rain.

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Rivulets - For Hilltop Heights Act 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Z9whouusI

Act 2 of the first Zone of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

In many ways Rivulets (Hilltop Heights Act 1 music) is iconic of Before the Sequel as a whole - It's the first piece of music (other than the title screen) that people will hear, and it sets the mood of the game as 'something wildly different from the typical Sonic experience' (as opposed to starting with a Green ____ trope for example).

For Act 2, I decided to retain a lot of familiarity with Act 1's music. I think this should help that feeling of 'a new adventure' to fully sink in, while at the same time building up the intensity level.

p.s. This track has arguably the most recognizable Sonic music cameo so far out of all the stuff I've done for BTS. :V

* http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Downpour - For Hilltop Heights Act 2

1) Okay, so I should stick at least reasonably close to the Sonic CD title screen formula
2) Going reasonably well
3) Added some horns
4) Suddenly Grandia
5) fffffffffffffffffffffffffff :(

Before the Sequel - Title Screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92s47PQNw8Y

Act 3 of the first Zone of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

If Rivulets (Act 1 music) was characteristic of Before the Sequel as a whole, and Downpour (Act 2 music) built on it, this track would be a step towards building expectations for the OST in general. I wanted to, early on, expose players to the full range of genres that could be represented in the soundtrack and dissuade any preconceptions on what a 'retro'-style game had to sound like. Sonic CD was 1992 and its two OSTs fit so well with the game despite it being 224p 16-bit fare.

This was an interesting track to work with. I discovered halfway through working with Act 2's music that the rap I was working with actually mentioned "Rainbows" and "Prisms"- a fact that I didn't know when I was just using its chorus "Feel the Beat" section for Act 1. It worked alongside the orchestral-ish rendition perfectly for Act 3's lighter mood. Kinda funny how things turn out.. ;p Despite the rain being gone, I still get a very chilly vibe from the overall zone coloration (nevermind that it's really Hilltop Zone tiles in the foreground). Hopefully the music conveys that well.

I also threw in Green Hill again like I did with Act 2, except as a feature rather than a hidden easter egg. Musical quotes from Sonic music is going to be another staple for this OST, as it really is my homage to the franchise in general.

* http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Prismatic - For Hilltop Heights Act 3

Wub Wub Wub Wub

One of my early college video game audio assignments was a modtracker project*. I've always wanted to revisit it outside a modtracker setting just to see what I could do with it, but it didn't seem fair to just take an earlier work and plug it into BTS, especially for one of the last few bosses in the game. This track is perhaps a re-envisioning and re-composition on the same base concepts - b2 aeolian scale, a triplet/swing breakdown section, pads vs in-your-face hooks. The one biggest difference I guess would be the inclusion of a much more prominent melody. 

Also in terms of production, my original attempt at this sounded way too much like a commercial hardcore track. In the spirit of this being part of an OST for a retro game, I re-thought my instrumentation and synths to be a little more... 'chiptune'y, with the goal of 'if Saturn-era music tried to be as badass as possible, what would it sound like?'. The transition from that to real guitars/bass and then a more modern (albeit unconventional, at 200bpm) dub breakdown section highlights that contrast, I hope.

*http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/superspeed

World's Largest Unicycle - For Titanic Tower Boss Act

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

1 - 20 Evening Dreamscape Pt2 - For Sunset Star Act 3

1 - 19 Interlude - For Sunset Star Act 2

1 - 18 Evening Dreamscape Pt1 - For Sunset Star 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.

1 - 19 Interlude - For Sunset Star Act 2

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