VERTIPHON 2017 REMASTER ~ Gate Of Thunder OST (PC Engine / Turbografx)

Composed and Arranged by EDIT: Nick Wood? See Addendum.
Vertiphon 2017 Remaster
16-bit 44.1 kHz lossless FLAC audio format and 320kbit/s MP3.

WHAT IS THIS?

This is the 15 CD audio tracks from the classic horizontal shoot-em-up Gate Of Thunder by Red / Hudson Software. It’s incredible music but was not mastered particularly well favouring a mid-range mix and printed to CD very quietly. If you enjoy the Ys and Thunder Force soundtracks and/or Japanese styled melodic 80s inspired power rock, I recommend this soundtrack. This unique blend of "sci-fi metal" makes a very refreshing change from the typical / generic metal production.

One of my goals with this endeavor is to present to the community well-mastered Original Sound Version / OST music of the greatest soundtracks video gaming has to offer. I have added some sympathetic mastering and have rearranged the tracklisting to allow this music to flow better as an album. I have NOT changed the lengths of the tracks in any way, even though they could benefit from longer gaps. I’ve done this because these tracks are taken directly from the 4-in-1 Gate In Thunder / Bonk pack in CD that I own and could potentially be inserted back into a BIN image for use with an emulator or the original hardware. I cannot provide assistance with this process, do not ask me.

ADDENDUM

I am certain now that this album is NOT a T’s Music production, and probably isn’t Satoshi Miyashita which the current tags state as the artist. Most evidence points towards Nick Wood of the so-called Syn Sound Design as mentioned in the game and its literature.

AFMG over at this thread (Thread 92690) stated the following:
"Supposedly, the composers are K. Yamaoka, M. Takeda and Syn Sound Design. But Syn Sound Design has other names credited to them ("Syn is a Tokyo music production company co-founded by Nick Wood and Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)")"

Further, VGMDB lists Nick Wood as composer of the GoT tunes included on this CD:
http://vgmdb.net/album/6154
… and as that was an officially released CD, that pretty much cut-and-dry confirms Nick Wood as the composer. I will not be re-uploading the music yet, so for now you may wish to edit the file tags to change the artist / composer etc. accordingly.

TRACKLIST

01 Gate Of Thunder Introduction
02 Gate Of Thunder Title Theme
03 Take Down The Enemy Ship (Stage 1)
04 Asteroid Field (Stage 2)
05 Asteroid Mine (Stage 3)
06 Factory Base (Stage 4)
07 Crown (Stage 5)
08 Dark City (Stage 6)
09 Crown Core (Stage 7)
10 Boss
11 Special Boss
12 Final Boss
13 Ending
14 Continue
15 Rankings

DOWNLOADS

MEGA FLAC: https://mega.nz/#!4Cg1WRwB!TImgJFdcX-d269a0UpnaVoY3MkOEDP_RCkZqoM1njcA
MEGA MP3: https://mega.nz/#!tXw3jbZI!jYAeBOp2zHDGfTnlfRRf_pe9Yeha-2-DeQY7gRGH9Zs
Zippyshare FLAC: http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/1OAx87Ga/file.html
Zippyshare MP3: http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/qX92x9Nh/file.html

Sample track: http://www66.zippyshare.com/v/TQ5SRIkj/file.html

Update: Unfortunately, "loudness war" strikes again!
Audio is over-compressed and sounds distorted and worse than my old mp3 files, which were ripped from the original game. 🙁

Update: Unfortunately, "loudness war" strikes again!
Audio is over-compressed and sounds distorted and worse than my old mp3 files, which were ripped from the original game. 🙁

Each to their own of course. I would recommend that you double check your audio system is gain staged properly.

But two sets of monitors and headphones and 20+ years of listening experience … my ears tell me otherwise. This is rock music, not classical.