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   Message 71 of 419   
   Kurt Weiske to All   
   Doom Remixed   
   12 Jul 15 08:28:00   
   
   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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