bshively
08-21-2015, 09:58 PM
Edit: I remixed a couple things to make everything sound better here (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q). Question: Does anyone have interest in an abridged mix? Something a few hours long without layering and probably missing some music.
Edit: Here (https://mega.nz/#!HkARlAga!ql123wH7xQfoCEbcRuNdWcIFCrn4yekeL7THBilfgus) is the 90-minute mix for the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC. Harley Quinn's Story Pack is next up!
Edit 2: Nearly 40 minutes for the Harley DLC here (https://mega.nz/#!PhgGDQKR!PKcl1eVV8yYbG3HA_vYn1zRL9kNHwl-GrMzpr-KRdlE); enjoy! That's it for now.
Batman: Arkham Knight (The Complete Score)
Composers:Nick Arundel & David Buckley
Year: 2015
Bit rate: 320kbps
Format: .m4a, AAC-encoded.
Discs: 9
Length: 18:36:14, 20:45:08 with DLC
As the title says, this (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q) is the mixed, complete score for Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight. I'd made a previous mix for Arkham Origins that I posted to the forum and another mix for Arkham City that I kept for myself as there was already Quantum16's awesome mix of City; however, if anyone's interested, I am more than happy to upload City and/or provide the link for Origins (*cough, shameful self-promotion, cough*).
This rip contains all the music from AK (with the exception of the Batgirl and Harley Quinn DLCs, which have original music that I am in the midst of finding a mixing now). It was far and away the single biggest project I've ever done, being more than twice as long and about ten times as complicated as my mixes for City and Origins. It was all mixed using Audacity. I wanted a bunch of suite-esque tracks on the album, which is why so many of the songs are upwards of twenty minutes. My goal was to recreate the feeling of playing the game via the music while also trying to avoid repetition; luckily, however, it was much easier to avoid repetition because this game had so much music that, even if some music is played more than once, it's been around three hours since you've heard it. There was also an almost ungodly of layering with this music, so I wanted to give every layer its opportunity to be heard in its entirety after I faded it in on top of the previous layer(s), which is more-or-less how it was done in the game. The finished songs themselves are all titled by quotes within the game; I tried to keep spoilers away, but a few things were unavoidable. There are also spoilers inside some of the actual songs themselves (aside from a few musical numbers, I put several aural Easter Eggs into my mixes), but, hopefully, you've already played or watched the game and are familiar with its story. Speaking of the story, the game had a plethora of side missions, almost all of which had entirely unique music (a few reused music from Arkham City, which I didn't incorporate because, again, I already did all that and can upload it if it's requested); I presented the side missions mostly as they appeared in the game. I also didn't necessarily include all the instances of side missions... An example will help: Azrael's side mission occurs in four iterations until its ending, but I only have three iterations and the ending. Again, all the music from the game is included, with the exception of the music for the Harley Quinn and Batgirl DLC, which I am working on presently and will edit this post when I have them finished. Also, most of the AR challenges featured music that appeared elsewhere in the story, so I didn't make new versions to represent the AR challenges; however, there were a few AR cues that didn't appear in the story, but I represented them in the first track which acts as an overture.
As this was the biggest project on which I've ever worked, I have the largest amount of people ever to thank. Firstly, there is garapef, who uploaded the game's files, without which no one would have been able to do any of this work. Secondly, there is VladlenCry, who edited and organized the game's files, again without which none of us would be able to do any of this work. Thanks must also go to SFC1 and Mr.MnM; Mr.MnM is working on their own mix of Knight, and, if it's anything like some of the preliminary work of theirs I've heard, it'll be awesome and almost undoubtedly better than this one; SFC1 is also regularly uploading tracks to their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOniCxaoGqRrYCe2lIKc1_JUlNt38g1m) that is also quite good and far less time-absorbing that this mix (while I'm absurdly proud, this eighteen-and-a-half-hours thing is ludicrous). Thanks should also be heaped upon BlackGatePH, who created all but one of the covers I used with this album; they were uploaded to the Official Custom Covers thread, which is where I got them; there is one album cover I used that I believe was made by Mr.MnM, but I'm not entirely certain. Finally, massive thanks must go to CaptainMcMulla who recorded parts of the game for me, along with Mr.MnM; the first minute of track six on disc nine along with the latter half-ish of track eight on the same disc were recorded by them, and my rip would be incomplete without the recordings.
Below will be the track names and run-times along with the occasional interjection from me. Also, these "discs" are less the length of actual discs and more defined by the change in the story's chapters (apparently there are nine, but I've never encountered this stuff in my multiple playthroughs of the game). Also, here (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q) again is the link because, in the unlikelihood that you actually read all this, you don't have to scroll all the way to the top.
Disc 1:
1. It's the Only Way to Protect Them - 43:53 (This is an overture of sorts, containing the opening logos, the only music unique to AR challenges, the official album track "Remnants", (only the first third was heard in the game) a variation of the official album track "All Who Follow You", and the layering of the main theme).
2. I've Got Only You Under My Skin - 10:45 (Some of this was recorded directly from the game by me, so the quality isn't the best; hopefully, however, it isn't terribly noticeable).
3. It's Going to Be a Long Night - 26:06
4. Let's Put That Grotesque Egomobile to the Test: - 29:43
Disc 2:
1. Time to Die, Old Man - 29:02 (This track, along with the next one, feature some music recorded directly from the game; again, hopefully the quality drop isn't painfully noticeable).
2. A Billion-Dollar Tank Headed Straight for You - 23:09
3. Patience is a Virtue - 27:33
4. Miss Me? - 26:05
Disc 3:
1. All the Subtlety and Nuance of a Napalm Enema - 26:35
2. It's Dangerous out There - 17:01
3. When Did Catwoman Get So Cute? - 14:42
4. Gotham is Burning - 29:49
5. Not Your Best Day at the Office, Bats - 28:51
6. Feng Shui for Serial Killers - 25:42
7. You Want Your Laundry Done? - 23:07
8. This is Our City Now - 32:41
9. That Fire Will Consume You: 28:26
Disc 4:
1. Prey That No Longer Fears You - 28:26
2. So, Er, We Still Pals? - 24:51
3. You Will Bring Death to All Who Follow You - 29:07 (Some gameplay recording here, so quality may drop but hopefully not too much).
4. Two Knuckleheads Ruining My Game - 31:38 (This track, along with the next two, are from the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC. I put them here because of what happens in the story in the previous song... If you've played the game, you'll get my disturbed joke).
5. Get Rid of the Babies! - 25:28
6. Some Things Run in the Family - 34:34
Disc 5:
1. Whose Throat Are We Gonna Slit First? - 28:39
2. Good Luck with the, Uh, Gardening - 35:14
3. Tonight Ends with Gotham's Fall - 30:59
4. Here Comes the Choo-Choo - 29:56
5. Was I Ever a Part of the Plan? - 27:59
Disc 6:
1. Some Kinda Bat Trick - 28:16
2. The Very First Episode of "Batman Rescues Christina" - 23:20
3. Getting Your Asses Kicked 101 - 16:24
4. Look Who's Laughing Now - 4:22 (Nothing fancy here; just the vocals and instrumental layers. If anyone wants just the instrumental, along with the instrumental for the musical number, I can add them).
5. Clearly Cruel and Mildly Psychotic - 10:40
Disc 7:
1. Do You Ever Rub People the Right Way? - 26:15
2. The City of Fear - 25:57
3. Nature... Always Wins - 30:58
4. This Little Piggy Went Nighty-Night - 37:16 (Harley DLC... this is far from my finest work, but most of it was unavoidable).
Disc 8:
1. On the Stairlift to Heaven - 28:17
2. You Did This to Me - 39:12
3. Crippled by Fear - 11:02
Disc 9:
1. At What Point Does "World's Greatest Assassin" Become False Advertising? (Two things: the music that plays in the latter half of this song, which is essentially the ultimate version of the official album song "Scums, Criminals, and Worse" is for a boss fight that isn't technically available at this point in the game's story, but it made the most sense to put it here for what I was trying to do thematically, which I'll explain in a bit. Second thing: Yes, this album name is a not-so-subtle dig at the asinine boss fight occurring whilst this song plays).
2. What it Means to Be GCPD - 37:57
3. I'm a Freak Because of You - 22:20 (This song, along with the next one, are where I took some artistic license. I wanted to save the side missions with emotional heft for Batman - Friend in Need, Gunrunner, Two-Faced Bandit, Riddler's Revenge - until right before the point-of-no-return happens in the game's story.... If you've played the game, you know why I did this).
4. Some Things You Can't Do Alone, Bruce - 39:50
5. The Die is Cast - 10:03
6. I Just Want to Talk... About Shooting You! - 11:20
7. I Am Vengeance. I Am the Night. I Am Batman! - 17:22
8. Knightfall - 7:15
9. Look Who's Laughing Now (Reprise) - 4:51 (Again, I'll upload the instrumental if anyone wants it).
10. Thank You, Bruce. For Everything - 18:11 (This song plays during the credits, but I embellished the last minutes with some of my own edits of things. I don't want to give away what I did, but I think it provides for a satisfying, full-circle conclusion to the musical journey ).
That's it! If you've made it to the end, I'm proud of you, and I thank you. Here (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q), one last time, is the link so you don't have to scroll. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns/complaints/life issues (I am a psych major, after all). I hope you all enjoy, thanks for reading/downloading, and I'm already working on the Harley and Batgirl DLCs, so I should have those up sometime next week (probably Batgirl, then Harley, as Batgirl's will be more straightforward); I'll update this post with the links.
Edit: Here (https://mega.nz/#!HkARlAga!ql123wH7xQfoCEbcRuNdWcIFCrn4yekeL7THBilfgus) is the 90-minute mix for the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC. Harley Quinn's Story Pack is next up!
Edit 2: Nearly 40 minutes for the Harley DLC here (https://mega.nz/#!PhgGDQKR!PKcl1eVV8yYbG3HA_vYn1zRL9kNHwl-GrMzpr-KRdlE); enjoy! That's it for now.
Batman: Arkham Knight (The Complete Score)
Composers:Nick Arundel & David Buckley
Year: 2015
Bit rate: 320kbps
Format: .m4a, AAC-encoded.
Discs: 9
Length: 18:36:14, 20:45:08 with DLC
As the title says, this (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q) is the mixed, complete score for Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Knight. I'd made a previous mix for Arkham Origins that I posted to the forum and another mix for Arkham City that I kept for myself as there was already Quantum16's awesome mix of City; however, if anyone's interested, I am more than happy to upload City and/or provide the link for Origins (*cough, shameful self-promotion, cough*).
This rip contains all the music from AK (with the exception of the Batgirl and Harley Quinn DLCs, which have original music that I am in the midst of finding a mixing now). It was far and away the single biggest project I've ever done, being more than twice as long and about ten times as complicated as my mixes for City and Origins. It was all mixed using Audacity. I wanted a bunch of suite-esque tracks on the album, which is why so many of the songs are upwards of twenty minutes. My goal was to recreate the feeling of playing the game via the music while also trying to avoid repetition; luckily, however, it was much easier to avoid repetition because this game had so much music that, even if some music is played more than once, it's been around three hours since you've heard it. There was also an almost ungodly of layering with this music, so I wanted to give every layer its opportunity to be heard in its entirety after I faded it in on top of the previous layer(s), which is more-or-less how it was done in the game. The finished songs themselves are all titled by quotes within the game; I tried to keep spoilers away, but a few things were unavoidable. There are also spoilers inside some of the actual songs themselves (aside from a few musical numbers, I put several aural Easter Eggs into my mixes), but, hopefully, you've already played or watched the game and are familiar with its story. Speaking of the story, the game had a plethora of side missions, almost all of which had entirely unique music (a few reused music from Arkham City, which I didn't incorporate because, again, I already did all that and can upload it if it's requested); I presented the side missions mostly as they appeared in the game. I also didn't necessarily include all the instances of side missions... An example will help: Azrael's side mission occurs in four iterations until its ending, but I only have three iterations and the ending. Again, all the music from the game is included, with the exception of the music for the Harley Quinn and Batgirl DLC, which I am working on presently and will edit this post when I have them finished. Also, most of the AR challenges featured music that appeared elsewhere in the story, so I didn't make new versions to represent the AR challenges; however, there were a few AR cues that didn't appear in the story, but I represented them in the first track which acts as an overture.
As this was the biggest project on which I've ever worked, I have the largest amount of people ever to thank. Firstly, there is garapef, who uploaded the game's files, without which no one would have been able to do any of this work. Secondly, there is VladlenCry, who edited and organized the game's files, again without which none of us would be able to do any of this work. Thanks must also go to SFC1 and Mr.MnM; Mr.MnM is working on their own mix of Knight, and, if it's anything like some of the preliminary work of theirs I've heard, it'll be awesome and almost undoubtedly better than this one; SFC1 is also regularly uploading tracks to their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYOniCxaoGqRrYCe2lIKc1_JUlNt38g1m) that is also quite good and far less time-absorbing that this mix (while I'm absurdly proud, this eighteen-and-a-half-hours thing is ludicrous). Thanks should also be heaped upon BlackGatePH, who created all but one of the covers I used with this album; they were uploaded to the Official Custom Covers thread, which is where I got them; there is one album cover I used that I believe was made by Mr.MnM, but I'm not entirely certain. Finally, massive thanks must go to CaptainMcMulla who recorded parts of the game for me, along with Mr.MnM; the first minute of track six on disc nine along with the latter half-ish of track eight on the same disc were recorded by them, and my rip would be incomplete without the recordings.
Below will be the track names and run-times along with the occasional interjection from me. Also, these "discs" are less the length of actual discs and more defined by the change in the story's chapters (apparently there are nine, but I've never encountered this stuff in my multiple playthroughs of the game). Also, here (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q) again is the link because, in the unlikelihood that you actually read all this, you don't have to scroll all the way to the top.
Disc 1:
1. It's the Only Way to Protect Them - 43:53 (This is an overture of sorts, containing the opening logos, the only music unique to AR challenges, the official album track "Remnants", (only the first third was heard in the game) a variation of the official album track "All Who Follow You", and the layering of the main theme).
2. I've Got Only You Under My Skin - 10:45 (Some of this was recorded directly from the game by me, so the quality isn't the best; hopefully, however, it isn't terribly noticeable).
3. It's Going to Be a Long Night - 26:06
4. Let's Put That Grotesque Egomobile to the Test: - 29:43
Disc 2:
1. Time to Die, Old Man - 29:02 (This track, along with the next one, feature some music recorded directly from the game; again, hopefully the quality drop isn't painfully noticeable).
2. A Billion-Dollar Tank Headed Straight for You - 23:09
3. Patience is a Virtue - 27:33
4. Miss Me? - 26:05
Disc 3:
1. All the Subtlety and Nuance of a Napalm Enema - 26:35
2. It's Dangerous out There - 17:01
3. When Did Catwoman Get So Cute? - 14:42
4. Gotham is Burning - 29:49
5. Not Your Best Day at the Office, Bats - 28:51
6. Feng Shui for Serial Killers - 25:42
7. You Want Your Laundry Done? - 23:07
8. This is Our City Now - 32:41
9. That Fire Will Consume You: 28:26
Disc 4:
1. Prey That No Longer Fears You - 28:26
2. So, Er, We Still Pals? - 24:51
3. You Will Bring Death to All Who Follow You - 29:07 (Some gameplay recording here, so quality may drop but hopefully not too much).
4. Two Knuckleheads Ruining My Game - 31:38 (This track, along with the next two, are from the Batgirl: A Matter of Family DLC. I put them here because of what happens in the story in the previous song... If you've played the game, you'll get my disturbed joke).
5. Get Rid of the Babies! - 25:28
6. Some Things Run in the Family - 34:34
Disc 5:
1. Whose Throat Are We Gonna Slit First? - 28:39
2. Good Luck with the, Uh, Gardening - 35:14
3. Tonight Ends with Gotham's Fall - 30:59
4. Here Comes the Choo-Choo - 29:56
5. Was I Ever a Part of the Plan? - 27:59
Disc 6:
1. Some Kinda Bat Trick - 28:16
2. The Very First Episode of "Batman Rescues Christina" - 23:20
3. Getting Your Asses Kicked 101 - 16:24
4. Look Who's Laughing Now - 4:22 (Nothing fancy here; just the vocals and instrumental layers. If anyone wants just the instrumental, along with the instrumental for the musical number, I can add them).
5. Clearly Cruel and Mildly Psychotic - 10:40
Disc 7:
1. Do You Ever Rub People the Right Way? - 26:15
2. The City of Fear - 25:57
3. Nature... Always Wins - 30:58
4. This Little Piggy Went Nighty-Night - 37:16 (Harley DLC... this is far from my finest work, but most of it was unavoidable).
Disc 8:
1. On the Stairlift to Heaven - 28:17
2. You Did This to Me - 39:12
3. Crippled by Fear - 11:02
Disc 9:
1. At What Point Does "World's Greatest Assassin" Become False Advertising? (Two things: the music that plays in the latter half of this song, which is essentially the ultimate version of the official album song "Scums, Criminals, and Worse" is for a boss fight that isn't technically available at this point in the game's story, but it made the most sense to put it here for what I was trying to do thematically, which I'll explain in a bit. Second thing: Yes, this album name is a not-so-subtle dig at the asinine boss fight occurring whilst this song plays).
2. What it Means to Be GCPD - 37:57
3. I'm a Freak Because of You - 22:20 (This song, along with the next one, are where I took some artistic license. I wanted to save the side missions with emotional heft for Batman - Friend in Need, Gunrunner, Two-Faced Bandit, Riddler's Revenge - until right before the point-of-no-return happens in the game's story.... If you've played the game, you know why I did this).
4. Some Things You Can't Do Alone, Bruce - 39:50
5. The Die is Cast - 10:03
6. I Just Want to Talk... About Shooting You! - 11:20
7. I Am Vengeance. I Am the Night. I Am Batman! - 17:22
8. Knightfall - 7:15
9. Look Who's Laughing Now (Reprise) - 4:51 (Again, I'll upload the instrumental if anyone wants it).
10. Thank You, Bruce. For Everything - 18:11 (This song plays during the credits, but I embellished the last minutes with some of my own edits of things. I don't want to give away what I did, but I think it provides for a satisfying, full-circle conclusion to the musical journey ).
That's it! If you've made it to the end, I'm proud of you, and I thank you. Here (https://mega.nz/#F!S5ZXGQTA!Rgfd2QUZCPcMgJChaFsV2Q), one last time, is the link so you don't have to scroll. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns/complaints/life issues (I am a psych major, after all). I hope you all enjoy, thanks for reading/downloading, and I'm already working on the Harley and Batgirl DLCs, so I should have those up sometime next week (probably Batgirl, then Harley, as Batgirl's will be more straightforward); I'll update this post with the links.