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FEZ
Fez Official Soundtrack - Cover Art
The original soundtrack can be purchased here:
The official remix of the soundtrack here:
disasterpeace.com/album/fez
disasterpeace.com/album/fz-side-f
Various interesting things have been said about FEZ’s soundtrack by Disasterpeace
himself, so it’s worth our while to take a look at his comments. Here’s the official trackby-track
commentary. I have added notes with additional information on several
entries.
Adventure
“This track is an anomaly; it’s the first track I wrote for the game, and I had
experimented early on with running it through tape. I initially wanted to run
everything through tape, but this turned out to be too impractical, because of
the way we were syncing audio to things in the game (recordings on tape tend to
fluctuate in tempo ever so gradually). Within a few days of meeting Renaud (FEZ
evil genius programmer) in Montreal, I wrote this track. It represents my first
feeling about how I thought the music in the game might sound. This was before
any deliberation with Phil about the music direction, and it was inspired by
some of the music concepts associated with FEZ pre-2010. Despite the majority of
the music in the game being atmospheric, there are still a few spots where you
will find some more upbeat, percussive tracks. If you look.”
Puzzle
“This track evolved out of messing around with a new instrument I picked up at
the time, called Synplant by Sonic Charge. It’s got a real unusual but ingenious
interface... if you’re into synths I highly recommend checking it out. This song
is a mockup of how the music behaves in the game. In game, this song is broken
up into 27 individual assets, and plays phrases periodically, and moves through
different keys depending on the time of day in FEZ.”
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