I found this interesting project on the net. Listening to it right now
-- remixes of all of the original DOOM MIDI files by various artists.
I've got the tracks playing right now on
http://radio.realitycheckbbs.org if you want to give it a listen.
http://doom.ocremix.org/main.html
The Dark Side of Phobos is a 23 track, two disk album with remixes of
music from the original DooM game for the PC. It is an official
Overclocked Remix site project ( http://www.ocremix.org ).
DooM is a first-person shooter game for the PC that was developed and
released by id Software in 1993. The game revolutionised the gaming
industry by becoming the basis on which other games of a similar genre
were compared to. The game is a simple manner: You, as the only
surviving marine on one of Mars' moons, have the sole duty to take on
hoards of zombies and hellspawn in order to stop hell from unleashing
itself upon humanity.
The music in DooM was created by Robert Prince. It doesn't take a genius
to realise that several of the tracks in the game were heavily
influenced from rock music by other bands. Originally, Prince was asked
to compose the DooM soundtrack entirely out of covers of rock songs. He disputed
the idea knowing that some of the levels in DooM simply
wouldn't have had the right atmosphere under those circumstances; so he
and John Romero sat down and chewed out a mix of rock covers and some of
Prince's own unique style of creepy music which we would now recognise
as "DooM style." Since Prince used rock songs as source material, it's
ironic in a way that some of the resulting tunes are actually remixes in
the sense that they borrow melody lines and patterns from the source and
turn it into its own unique music.
-Lee Barber (TO)
the_orichalcon@hotmail.com
The Dark Side of Phobos was an OverClocked Remix site project that had
the intent to mix a large portion of the soundtrack to one of the most important
games of the first person shooter genre, DooM. The project was created in the
wake of Kong in Concert and was originally maintained by
klm09. After some months, the project began to slip away into obscurity
and in November of 2004 I was asked to take control of the project and
try to salvage it. After months of hard work on the part of all the
mixers, controversy and arguments, and artists dropping and picking up
songs (amongst other travesties) we are finally here, at the end: The successful
completion of The Dark Side of Phobos.
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