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 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.
Info
Composed in 1998 by Marl Boonyer and produced by Alan Boorman.[1] Each of the three tracks were inspired by and named after one of the three cavern environments in the game: rock, ice, and lava.[2]
Although the 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.[3]
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. [4]
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
