Title: Deep Within

Correlated Song: Crush

Correlated Levels: Seaspring Gorge, Icehammer Caverns

Project: A Sapphirewolf D2X-XL mission

Description: Non-offensive rap with a sitar!  Nuff said.

Music from Descent 1, Level 5: Venus Nickel-Iron Mine
Original Track: "Game04" by Ken Allen, Brian Luzietti, Larry Peacock, Leslie Spitzer, Jim Torres, Tim Wiles
Rearranged By: DJ Hearseman (formerly Texace12, formerly formerly Alieo) via SynthFont

Arrangement of tracks 1-5 in this project were supposed to emulate the PC shareware version of the old OPL3 files. After Level 22, Songs 1-5 repeat in Levels 23-27, and that's where you'll hear the full version OPL3 emulations of these variations. I also do different takes for the repeated Secret Levels sequences of Game02 through Game04 in #s 28-30.

"Primitive Rage" by Allister Brimble
DESCENT Playstation Redbook Version

Used in: Levels 6 & 21

Notes: I think they decided this song was just too badass to let it just be a title song, they had to use it as in-level music. The way it starts off goes perfectly with the immediate firepower you encounter from the Class 1 Drones in Level 6.

Theme of the thief.  I'll change the picture once I get a good shot of him.  Very interesting how the song was created:

I decided to combine the feels of D2's Ratzez, Rouge's songs from Sonic Adventure 2, along with Zsolt Marx's song "Fill Your Pages" from TrackMania Sunrise... a few hours later this was the result.  It sounds very alien, especially later on in the song.

Very wierd, but I think it's good too.  Even though it has no acid synths, I'd classify it as acid dubstep (since the beat is distorted kind of like dubstep) because it's wierd like acid music.

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This is what the alien voices are singing (i.e. the lyrics)
They were inspired by Darkflamewolf's level of the same name from Vignettes, and they're also really wierd (the idea was an alien language translated to english but still with it's own grammar, so they're not totally random).  All the lyrics were made with the FL Speech synth, fruity slicer, wasp, and vocodex (and they all use all of those).

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First part:

"Escape from the mine
You are trapped inside
Bots are everywhere
You must find the secret path"

"Escape from the mine
Bots are everywhere
You are trapped inside
Find the key
Find the key!"

Second part:

"Dude I am so not scared
You cannot fight me anywhere
Bots are everywhere
Find the key
Find the key!"

And at the end:

"Key!"

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Come to think of it they sound kind of like something from Scott Pilgrim.  It would make a good theme for the D2 Theifbot, the music, the lyrics, and the title fit him perfectly.  (I suppose then I should play it in D2 level 7... such a huge interconnected level it feels like the thief owns it ).

Haven't done one of these in awhile...

"Closer" (Instrumental) by Nine Inch Nails
vs
"Not That Button" by Allister Brimble
129.95 BPM

Ending is kinda bumpy, but I was just playing around with it.

Created by Nick Herres somewhere around 2000, 2001.   Rendering of the Descent 3 Phoenix Intercepter done in Bryce3D.  Additional credit goes to Kumen who's 3DsMax model was used as a reference. 

http://www.visualarray.com/artwork/Phoenix.html

Copyright belongs to Nick Herres.