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Upcoming Summoner (2000) soundtrack
Trivia: Summoner was a hack'n'slash RPG released in 2000/2001 on PS2/PC respectively by Volition (of Descent Freespace, Red Faction and Saints Row fame). There were 3 composers on that game: Dan Wentz (was concerned mostly with cinematics), Scott Lee (also known as Dezacrator) and Wally Shaw. Here are the examples of ingame music (links to Youtube): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (also, don't pay any attention to "Official Soundtrack" title - there wasn't any official soundtrack to Summoner, those are just gamerips, I'll return to this issue a bit later).
How is this relevant to anything: Not so long ago, Scott Lee (who was the main composer on the game as far as I know; he didn't take a part in the sequel though) began to post some music from the game on his Youtube channel, including, for example, this previously unreleased track. He also shared a fair amount of trivia concerning development process of the game. The most crucial part was that he had a car accident halfway through production - and while he recovered from it, leadership shifted to Wally Shaw. Some of the tracks Scott wrote ended up being heavily remixed (compare two version of the same track: Scott's version and the final remixed version), some of the tracks were left off for no good reason (as the aforementioned "Shadows track") and some tracks were inserted into the parts of game, that were completely different from initial location for which those tracks were originally composed in the first place. Here are four recent quotes from Scott: #1: Quote:
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HOWEVER, I am not quite sure what to make of the quote #1. Even if he, as other quotes indicate, has started on the actual remastering, there is still an unwelcoming possibility that he might just drop it eventually if there isn't enough interest. Now, I'm not quite sure what to ask of you or even what exactly I am trying achieve by posting here at all. Well, first of all, I'm spreading the word. Second - I have a request to any of you who liked all the music I linked to earlier. Please, when you have some time, don't hesitate to express your interest to the composer, so that he knows that there are people out there waiting for this soundtrack. Spreading the word on some other forums would also be a tremendous help. And that's probably all I wanted to say. Thanks in advance - and I hope you've enjoyed the music, Alex. UPD.: Here are 2 announcement videos from Scott, containing excerpts from the soundtrack: 1, 2. Last edited by iqzulk; Mar 26, 2013 at 06:35 AM. |
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