Subj : Re: Doom Remixed
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Roger Nelson
Date : Sun Jul 12 2015 15:18:42

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

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