New Legacy of Kain Project

[arthureloi]

Hello my friends and fellow Legacy of kain fans.

I'd like to announce and discuss a project I've been thinking about for some time now.
In my precious and scarce free time I produce music.

Since I love legacy of Kain and I think (specially) Blood Omen has awesome music, I'd like to recreate it. My intention is to remaster all of Blood Omen's tracks and revitalize them to high quality, 320Kbps, improved stereo quality, with better atmosphere and feeling to it.

My intention is in no way to modify the originals but since I don't have the source libraries and I'll be using my own material, some parts might be different but I'll strive to make it sound good.
I'd like to make it clear that this is not a remixing project. I want to restore the old tunes as they were, only with better quality now.

I intend to begin with Kain's Mausoleum. After that, I'd really like your input as to which tune should we restore next. Also, I would appreciate you criticizing the tracks I upload so we can fine tune them together for the best results.
If you wish, I can also modify parts of a given upload to give a more chilling feel, add suspense, effects etc. But I'll clearly upload it with the tag "remixed", keeping the original in its place.
At this time I'll only take requests for Blood Omen 1 tracks. As I finish the first project, I might open up to Soul Reaver.

It's going to take some time because I'm usually pretty busy with real life but it's definitely coming. I'd like to see the community's response and buzz. If you like my ideas and my project enough I'll try and do things faster. It's a work of love so I'll really take my time.

Sorry for the wall of text but I wanted to explain in details what my plan is.

I recently opened a soundcloud account and I'm uploading some of my work there. This Legacy of Kain project will be uploaded there. You can check it out in the link I'll post below. My music is not very orthodox and you might find it strange. Also, please don't mind the poor production value of some of my tracks since I've posted some of my first tracks there as well.
If you want, you can follow me on soundcloud and you don't even need an account. A facebook account will do. That way you'll keep track of my Legacy of Kain project easily.

All my tracks will be free for download and I'll credit all original creators.

http://soundcloud.com/arthureloi

Thanks for the attention!

[Zulgbrtzchllha]

I really like that song that plays most of the time when you're outside. It's the song that you hear when Kain exists the mausoleum.

[arthureloi]

@Zulgbrtzchllha
That song is called Awakening. It really sets the mood. I plan on "resurrecting" it too.

[lucinvampire]

I can't wait to see what you produce, I just listened to all the tracks on the sound cloud and they are all really great kind of remind me of Llewellyn and Phil Thornton stuff.

[Strands Of Night]

I enjoyed the spacey tracks, the percussion/chanting thing not for me. Im not saying they were bad. Just not for me.
Since I was thinking of LoK while listening, the Andromeda track has some sounds that sound akin to the soul reaver in SR2 when the reaver becomes aroused and starts to really howl.

This made me think: What better way to tell the story of Raziels entrapment than with an abstract story of music? I think whatever is going on inside the reaver with Razs soul is something that you couldnt put pictures or words to anyway.

Id like to hear that track as opposed to a remixed track from the game. Take the reaver sound effects and strech and skew them into some eerie yet familiar harmonics. Maybe lonely and sad initially as the soul realizes its trapped. Then echoing and more hopeful as the blade soul joins symbiotically with Razs arm/soul. Then hard and intense as it tries to murder Raziel at SR2 climax then triumphant but still sad and mellow at the end of Defiance.

I think it would be pretty schweet. Just brain storming.

[arthureloi]

Originally Posted by Strands Of Night

I enjoyed the spacey tracks, the percussion/chanting thing not for me. Im not saying they were bad. Just not for me.
Since I was thinking of LoK while listening, the Andromeda track has some sounds that sound akin to the soul reaver in SR2 when the reaver becomes aroused and starts to really howl.

This made me think: What better way to tell the story of Raziels entrapment than with an abstract story of music? I think whatever is going on inside the reaver with Razs soul is something that you couldnt put pictures or words to anyway.

Id like to hear that track as opposed to a remixed track from the game. Take the reaver sound effects and strech and skew them into some eerie yet familiar harmonics. Maybe lonely and sad initially as the soul realizes its trapped. Then echoing and more hopeful as the blade soul joins symbiotically with Razs arm/soul. Then hard and intense as it tries to murder Raziel at SR2 climax then triumphant but still sad and mellow at the end of Defiance.

I think it would be pretty schweet. Just brain storming.

Thank you very much for the input! I really like your ideas and that's the kind of response I expected from the community. I'll have to review the reaver sounds and my spacey tracks to get the idea. Can you specify what sounds of the reaver you wanted? Like is there a youtube video or part of the game you remember with those specific sounds?
I like the idea a lot and in fact I could work on it but first I'll finish at least Kain's Mausoleum since I love it so much and am already working on it. Heck, I'm nearly getting done extracting the vocal parts from the original. It's a lot of work =)

@lucinvampire Thank you very much for the compliments, I'm really flattered!
I'll prepare something really special so keep tuned =) I hope you like what I come up with.

I'll use an iterative process of construction so as I progress I'll post the unfinished work @ my soundcloud page so you can criticize it.

Thanks!

[majinkura]

arthur - can you do techno style songs?
i'm looking for someone to do some tracks for an lok themed music fan game im working on.

[arthureloi]

Originally Posted by majinkura

arthur - can you do techno style songs?
i'm looking for someone to do some tracks for an lok themed music fan game im working on.

Majinkura, it's very nice to see you have a fan project. I can mimick any genres, given the time. So yes, I can make techno. It's not my favourite style but I can attempt a decent job.
Unfortunately, today's music classification is a mess so yesterday's techno is pretty different from today's. With the subgenres and subtrees it got even worse. So I'd have to listen to at least one track you have in mind to get the feeling.
Another thing - At the moment I can only tackle one thing - slowly - at a time so I'm working on Kain's Mausoleum "resurrection" amd then I'll be able to produce something else.
But I can definitely help you out (if you're patient). And it's got to be 100% free. Hope that helps!

[Linikratyo]

Oh hallo Arthureloi, I think your work would be much appreciated by the Blood Omnicide development team. Make sure to have a look here

[Strands Of Night]

Originally Posted by arthureloi

Can you specify what sounds of the reaver you wanted? Like is there a youtube video or part of the game you remember with those specific sounds?

I havent had a lot of free time lately to find some examples. I will try to find some this week to give you an idea what i was thinking.

[majinkura]

Originally Posted by arthureloi

But I can definitely help you out (if you're patient). And it's got to be 100% free. Hope that helps!

sweet thanks so much! take your time,as your personal projects come first. and of course the game is free - its a fan project for fun not profit.
(don't worry you will be credited for the music.)

if you want me to pm you with the details of my project let me know.

[arthureloi]

Originally Posted by Linikratyo

Oh hallo Arthureloi, I think your work would be much appreciated by the Blood Omnicide development team. Make sure to have a look here

Thank you very much! I'll take a look into that.

@majinkura Sure. Let's see about those details!

[majinkura]

pm'ed you