#The secret of monkey island midi pack update
It's a wonderful update to a piece of music that's been embedded in the pop-culture consciousness of an entire generation of gamers. The percussion, while uncomplicated, is paired well with the guitar work and make sure that you listen with a good pair of headphones to hear the bass.
This remix and modern reinterpretation, composed by Portuguese musician Eduardo Gouveia in 2002 and called "Monkey Island Rocks", starts off lightly with the familiar refrains of the theme tune and homages to the blippiness (and '80s rock), recreated with light guitar plucks, but then later there are some surprises with fantastic guitar-heavy rock and a great solo. The score was especially impressive to those of us who had the DOS version of the game as the sound output was made to seem polyphonic due to the skill of the composers in using arpeggios. (I love it dearly and for years I've been trying, with no success, to find a ringtone of it in all its blippy glory, rather than a MIDI version.) The theme was composed by Michael Land and has heavy Caribbean influences, as does the game's entire score, which was composed by Michael Land, as well as Barney Jones, Patric Mundy, and Andy Newell. The original theme was a blippy 1-bit composition (certainly in DOS, played via the PC speaker) that pushed computer audio systems to the limit quite skillfully.
#The secret of monkey island midi pack for free
To mark the occasion I thought I'd write a short Music To Note piece about a remix that you can download for free of the game's catchy theme tune. Hilarity ensues, of course, as he has to solve puzzles and meets an assortment of odd characters, and his nemesis, the ghost pirate LeChuck, in his quest. Today (according to at least one source) is the 20th anniversary of the release of the LucasArts game The Secret Of Monkey Island, an epic third-person point-and-click adventure in which the (rather misguided, somewhat inept, completely out of his depth) hero, Guybrush Threepwood, sets out to become a pirate. Eduardo Gouveia: "Monkey Island Rocks" (Two Versions)įrom 's Collection Of Music To NoteĬelebrate 20 years of piratey one liners and insult swordfighting*, secret immortality**, and repeatedly falling off a cliff ("rubber tree!"), with two great remixes of the theme tune to The Secret Of Monkey Island.
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