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   
      
   --- D'Bridge 3.99   
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