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DooM Remix Project - The Dark Side of Phobos
djpretzel writes "The Dark Side of Phobos is the latest in a series of site projects at OverClocked ReMix, which each provide unofficial, non-commercial fan arrangements of entire game soundtracks (Sonic 2, Kirby, Donkey Kong Country, and Super Metroid, to date). This latest addition covers id software's perennial classic, the original DooM, with 23 tracks by 19 artists. More information is available at doom.ocremix.org, or simply download the torrent with both mp3 and lossless FLAC, site unseen. Mars never sounded so good."
I worked on this project, I was one of the coordinators for a while.
The music of Doom has been around for 10+ years and while some tunes bear a striking resemblence to certain Slayer/Pantera songs, the copyright holders have not taken any legal action against id or Bobby Prince.
So yes, I looked into that particular legal implication. It took me all of 2 seconds to realize we have little to worry about.
cheers.
Yeah, getting a cease-and-desist from Bobby Prince is much more likely than getting one from Slayer/etc..
The difference with vgmusic was they hosted the exact copies of Bobby Prince's material whereas we are providing derivative works.
Ocremix has been around for years, and we've had derivative works of Doom music on the site for years as well.
Bobby Prince has shown no animosity to ocremix in the past and I see it unlikely he will suddenly have a change of heart with the release of this project.
cheers.
The midi instruments in my 486 was so annoying that I usually turned off the music in all of my games.
So basicaly I played a silent doom (except for the sound FX), until two or three years later, when I bought a casio keyboard midi-capable.
Motivated by curiosity, I bought a midi cable, connected it to my 486, configured and started doom... what a surprise! The music was very nice, there was a map from episode 3 which used some chorus sound and a electric guitar, it was very post-apocalyptical...
Ok, my casio keyboard may not be the "best of the best", but the improvement from my soundcard was appreciable (at least for me)
It's a sad thing the midi instruments in the (then) most popular soundcards (i. e. sound blaster 16, which was my case) were so bad. The quality of game music from the 90's was simply lost for most of the people because of this. Duke nukem 3D also had very nice music during the game, but my sb16 turned it out to a childish mess of "noise"...
So I'm glad somebody made those remixes, so the rest of the people who never listened to it with the proper equipment (a good midi instrument!) can give it another try...