I just wanted to make sure fellow fans don't miss out on some fantastic MP3 downloads available in the Gamasutra article about Bill Brown, who has composed all the music for every title in the R6 series. These tracks totally rock and are NOT available on the game discs. He has some very interesting "liner notes" on a couple remixes he has done with the RS/UO theme music:Rainbow Six — Rogue Spear: As Red Storm was putting together a promotional CD for the release of Rogue Spear, I decided it would be fun to do a dance remix of the themes from Rainbow and Rogue — this tune is what happened. (btw — that CD is no longer available.) [MP3]
Rogue Spear — Urban Operations: I remember just toying around with some ideas for Urban Operations — a mission pack to Rogue Spear. This was a lot of fun, I started with a new remix of the Rogue theme with a big Bonham drum feel and I love how the Rainbow theme just lands like a (friendly) bomb as the piece begins. I thought that the "B theme" in this piece might weave it's way into the game, but as it turns out - this is the only place it exists! Because they had asked for a middle-eastern flavor to match the locale of the missions, I experimented with Armenian Duduk (the wind instrument you hear at the beginning of the opening cinematic — you can hear that music on my site as well) and a phat all-acoustic middle-eastern meets techno vibe processed through this little effects box I use called the KAOSS PAD. (That's where all the cool sweeps and filtering come from in this piece.) [MP3]
RS & UO theme music remixes
Posted - 09/27/2001 : 8:02:00 PM
