I love game music generally and Republic Commando music specifically. But sometime's it's hard to listen to game music outside of the game, because some of the music is ambient or it's grossly repetitive. So I got in the habit of creating medleys for some my favourite game soundtracks. This way I could listen to the main themes from the songs without having to listen to a few minutes of one theme repeating over and over. I grew to love making medleys, even when the soundtrack itself was very listenable (as is the RepCom soundtrack!) so I took it upon myself to make one for this game. Now I have an 8 minute long medley and I wanted to share it with all you!
What's involved in making a medley? Not a whole lot, believe it or not. I'm not amazingly talented. I could never be one of those great music remixers. All I do is take the songs, cut them up into sections, arrange them in order, and mix them together. Medley making is 95% listening and 5% action. I sit there listening to songs over and over, trying to hear which parts of which songs will transition nicely into other songs. Once I figure it out, the mixing is trivial. :) As for tools, I used GoldWave.
8:07 min
(all from the Republic Commando soundtrack unless otherwise specified)
Yes, the medley ends with Prologue - the irony has not escaped me. ;) But I did that because that track had a very nice transition from the 'RV Alpha' theme (as I call it) back to the 'Vode An' theme. And hey, I'm always looking for built-in transitions! :)
This is always the bane of my medley-making existence, as I'm never quite sure if I'm technically allowed to distribute my medleys. I'm pretty sure that I can make them for myself (if that's not "fair use", I don't know what is), but often my medleys use music that's bought and paid for, and thus I don't think it'd be good to give any old person on the internet clips from that protected music without them having to pay. But yeah, aside from one tiny segment from the Attack of the Clones soundtrack, this medley is made up of music that is freely available online (see here: Where to get the music), so I figure this is my best chance to actually share a medley of mine with the world with a clear conscience. :) Thus I'm offering this for free, making no money off it, etc. Original composers were Jesse Harlin (RepCom music) and John Williams (general SW music), to whom I offer my eternal gratitude.
If there are any legal problems, I will of course take it down immediately.
Common sense applies. If you're going to listen to it more than once, please download it to your harddrive (right-click on the link, 'Save Target As' or 'Save Link As') instead of clicking on the link multiple times. And you can feel free to share the file with others. But if you're posting a link online somewhere, please link to this page rather than the file itself. And of course, don't claim you made the medley, etc. I don't think I need to go into that.
Finally, the section that people actually care about! Sorry for the above; it was necessary. But now you can actually download the medley. :)
Remember that you can right-click to save the file! If you have any problems with the links, let me know. Note that the WMA and the MP3 versions should be of comparable quality, so if your computer can play WMAs, I'd suggest getting that one as it's smaller. :)
UPDATE: Because of some inconsiderate di'kuts who insist on hotlinking the files, they are now zipped. So you'll need an unzipping program in order to hear the music. Very sorry for the inconvenience! If I ever find a way to block people from embedding songs into their webpages in IE, I'll put the real files back, but as far as I know it isn't possible (techie talk: regular .htaccess doesn't work with the <embed> tag). To the people who precipitated this: it is very rude to embed music hosted on someone else's server into your own website. Running this site isn't cheap, and every time you link directly to my files, you steal bandwidth that I ultimately pay for. So please don't do it. Host the file on your own server, or I'll have to send Sev after you.
» WMA version - 128 kbps stereo - 7.7 MB (zipped)
» MP3 version - 160 kbps stereo - 9.5 MB (zipped)
Thanks for listening! And if you have any comments, ... or you can comment on my Livejournal here or at my StarWars.com blog here!