RockRaiders Music
| RockRaiders Music | ||||
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| EP and soundtrack by Marl Boonyer | ||||
| Released | 23 August 2022 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Electronic | |||
| Length | 9:35 | |||
| Producer | Alan Boorman | |||
| Marl Boonyer chronology | ||||
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RockRaiders Music (also called RockRaiders EP) is a 2022 soundtrack extended play release for the 1999 real-time strategy video game LEGO Rock Raiders. It features three tracks composed by Marl Boonyer (credited in-game as Mark Boobyer) that originally played in-game during missions. The EP was released digitally through Boonyer's Bandcamp page "Temple Sound" on 23 August 2022; prior to this, only low-quality versions of the tracks were available in the game's CD audio.
Production
The three music tracks that play during missions in the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders were composed by British artist and musician Marl Boonyer in 1998.[1] Each of the tracks were inspired by, and named after, one of the three cavern environments in the game: rock, ice, and lava; however, the tracks were unnamed on the game's CD.[2] The tracks were produced by composer and sound designer Alan Boorman.[1][3] The LEGO Rock Raiders credits thank Boonyer and Boorman "for their musical contribution"; Boonyer was credited as "Mark Boobyer".[4] A separate "sound and music" section in the credits names John Saull, Jon Harrison, and Joseph Harper.[5]
Although Boonyer's three music tracks were included with the game as Compact Disc Digital Audio (or Red Book audio), the in-game audio is noticeably low-quality. The tracks appear to have been resampled to a quarter of their original sampling rate (from 44,100 Hz to 11,025 Hz) prior to being converted to CD audio – despite the conversion resampling them back to 44.1 kHz, saving no disc space while also not restoring the original audio quality.[6]
Release
On 22 August 2022, nearly twenty-three years after the game's release, composer Marl Boonyer uploaded the high-quality original versions of the three tracks to SoundCloud. [7]
Track listing
All music is composed by Marl Boonyer.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Rock" | 3:03 |
| 2. | "Ice" | 3:26 |
| 3. | "Lava" | 3:05 |
| Total length: | 9:35 | |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Boonyer, Marl (23 August 2022). "RockRaiders Music by Temple Sound". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022.
Composed and produced in 1998 by Marl Boonyer & Alan Boorman
- ↑ Baraklava (23 August 2022). "Also good info: The tracks have names!". Reddit (comment on r/RockRaiders post "The original Rock Raiders composers just shared the uncompressed PC tracks!"). Archived from the original on 21 April 2024.
- ↑ Boorman, Al. "who". Wevie. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012.
- ↑ Data Design Interactive (November 1999). LEGO Rock Raiders (Windows). LEGO Media International. Scene: Credits.
Additional Thanks – ... Thanks also to Mark Boobyer and Alan Boorman for their musical contribution.
- ↑ Data Design Interactive (November 1999). LEGO Rock Raiders (Windows). LEGO Media International. Scene: Credits.
Sound And Music – John Saull, Jon Harrison, Joseph Harper
- ↑ Baraklava (23 August 2022). "No one is sure what happened to the CD tracks given these master tracks, but it was at least resampled to 1/4th the original frequency..." Reddit (comment on r/RockRaiders post "The original Rock Raiders composers just shared the uncompressed PC tracks!"). Archived from the original on 21 April 2024.
- ↑ Baraklava (22 August 2022). "The original Rock Raiders composers just shared the uncompressed PC tracks!". Reddit. Archived from the original on 23 August 2022.
External links
- RockRaiders EP at Bandcamp
- RockRaiders Music EP at SoundCloud
- Wevie, Al Boorman's website
- Wevie Stonder, Boorman's band
