another fun, fairly obscure, game soundtrack title: Greg LoPiccolo's "Hospital - Alternate" from System Shock.
SS has some great tracks, but the musical qualities really depend upon the quality of MIDI synth you're working with. even with a real Roland SC-55, it's a bit flat sounding.
in a pretty rare move for Origin Systems - they released a Macintosh/PowerPC version of System Shock. there was a bunch of extra space on the CD, and LoPiccolo took advantage of it by rendering and remastering his own redbook audio tracks. they're great - far better than a vanilla SC-55. he took a lot of extra time to customize his instruments and play with the stereo separation.
so here it is, freshly ripped from my macintosh CD.
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I totally forgot we did that on SS Mac! I remember we had them redo all the cinematic videos at higher res for the Mac version, but forgot about the music. Such a great soundtrack. There is a 99% chance I wrote the red book music controlling code for SS Mac 🙂
@vga256 The shock 1 mac soundtrack is pretty slept on; I think only the nightdive remaster tops it but then again it released 25+ years later..
For the longest time I thought this sick Reactor mix was part of that soundtrack but I'm pretty sure it isn't despite the video title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfjIpc_Lbjk
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