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There’s also a clear influence from contemporary, bleeding edge EDM, and while yet again this was already a well explored vein of inspiration for many video game composers at the time, it does stand out for a series whose primary muse these days appears to be hard rock (read: Crush 40). That was nothing new in 1992, but it still adds depth and texture to the listening experience. With that in mind, two points stand out – first, the heavy use of sampling, especially vocals, in what is generally an instrumental soundtrack. Comprehensively describing them all would make this entry far longer than it should be, although I’m certain that someone out there has published an extremely detailed analysis of the OST that you could peruse if such is to your liking. In short, it’s a good example of the composers creatively turning limitations into new and creative techniques even when the technical limitations have been lifted.īesides the attractions provided by extra space, there’s plenty of other fun and well-executed ideas strewn throughout this soundtrack to keep your attention. The music for the first stage (“Palmtree Panic”) is a good example of this, rewarding the player for not correctly altering the past by turning its sunny, Latin jazz theme into a menacing techno track that even manages to recontextualize its own content in such a way that the quoted phrases come off completely different than they would otherwise. These generally hew close to each other in terms of overall arrangement, although the “Bad Future” versions tend to convert the frequently upbeat and peppy arrangements into darker and/or more aggressive styles. The most obvious gimmick here is that each of the main stages has four separate versions of its music one to accompany each time period you can explore in-game. Both of this game’s composers (Masafumi Ogata and Naofumi Hataya) had cut their teeth on more limited sound chips for arcade and console hardware, and that experience served them well when it came time to pen this game’s tracks. Imagine the best aspects of the Sega Genesis entries’ music (good pop songwriting, genre variety, a strong ear for consonant melody) given an entire CD’s worth of streaming redbook audio to stretch out and experiment with, and you should have a good idea of why this game’s music turned out as well as it did. I’m not much for Sonic CD’s bonus stages, but the soundtrack is one of the best in the entire series. I might do a separate feature on the completely different American soundtrack someday if I feel up to it. on Off the beaten track, vol.Today’s “Anatomy of VGM” feature is brought to you by the original Japanese version of Sonic CD’s soundtrack. Francesco on Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

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Admittedly in the middle section there are a few times the music sags a bit or goes into murkier, more modern action music territory and this is a shame, but this doesn’t really last (much of the action music is brighter, as you would hope it would be) and things get fully redeemed at the end in the tremendous action track “He Is My Friend” and the title track which serves as the album’s finale and offers a full and satisfying performance of the main theme.į/moviewave | /MovieWaveDotNet | The first couple of cues are great – the opening “Meet Sonic” offers a nice presentation of a classic adventure theme, then in “Welcome to Green Hills” we get some of that 8-bit sound mixed in. Holkenborg’s ascendance seemed to coincide with the arrival of Conrad Pope onto his musical team so I was a bit concerned not to see Pope’s name on this one but actually it’s really well done anyway.

It’s a lot of fun, with a nice theme for the hedgehog, some comical villain music and best of all some nicely-stylised old 8-bit sounds mixed in with the lively orchestral sound. Holkenborg has come of age as a film composer over the last year or two and Sonic continues the upward trend. Scoring duties have fallen to renowned video gamer Tom Holkenborg, who has said on the record many times that he comes up with his best ideas while playing on his PlayStation against other gamers – sometimes in person, and sometimes via a broadband internet link to the world wide web. With an all-star voice cast led by an actor and a remarkably realistic motion-captured Jim Carrey starring as himself, millions of fans have been enthusiastic ever since they first saw the trailer for the movie. Well, finally a new generation can learn about the blue hedgehog and the remarkable story of his quest for rings. He’s been delighting video game players for so many years it’s always been a bit of a mystery why the remarkable true story of Sonic the Hedgehog has never been told in film.

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