Sonique at FUS posted the following a couple days ago:
Our own Cheezmatt of the FUS board got into contact with Michael Tavera, who if you don't know, was the music composer for the first season of SatAM. Unselfishly and surprisingly, Mr. Tavera was willing to send Cheezmatt a CD of some of Season 1's music.
So a very big thanks goes out to these to for what I am about to present to you.
Such presentation would be 12 downloadable mp3 tracks of Sonic SatAM music, including a handful of opening themes they didn't use, and some background music that was never utilised in the show. Links can be found at Fans United for SatAM.
Excellent! These tracks (the actual used ones that is) provide a compelling reminder of why the SatAM's first season was so great. The score contained elements of excitement, danger and atmosphere. I'll even go so far to say that it was semi-epic. The lack of music like this is part of what makes "Season Two" so disappointing. I wonder why they did away with it.
I have to agree with you there, Reaves. A lot of the musical scores were pretty damn nice. And the Robotropolis battle music was just that damn good.
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MWAH! n_N *Runs off to design more on his work-in progress music, with new inspiration from the scores... not the unused themes of SatAM*
Bloody nice find, Antipod. =D
Ooo, nifty!
I'm Cheezmatt, by the way. I got in contact with Michael Tavera some time in November, and got the CD just a week or two ago. Sadly none of the tracks are labeled, although the first one was definitely intended as a main title since it says so.
You can actually hear track 11 - slightly modified of course - in the ep "Sub Sonic," when Sonic makes his move against Robotnik's drilling platform. I don't know why Sonique listed it as Robotropolis. You can hear snippets of tracks 1&2 in "Ultra Sonic" as both Sonic and Sally take to the skies on their Hoverpad.
The rest were most likely developed while SatAM was still in the conceptual phases... back when it was closer AoSTH's slapstick. Scott Cochran (Michael Tavera's engineer and scoring mixer) suggests they may have been "demos" that were never released. The music style seemed to have been much closer to the synth-pop rock of the games at one point, which may explain why there's an Emerald Hill mix.
Sadly, the REAL SatAM music is solely in the possession of DiC. As Scott says, "The truth is that we didn't have a backup system then, so we just sent the underscore to DIC. We don't have any copies of it." Worse than that, DiC refuses to give Michael Tavera copies of his own music!
Mike and Scott have been so friendly, accessable, and generous to me that I'm still amazed. I am very, very grateful for what they have done.
Here are some nifty photos of the package I recieved:
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Great information, makes this even better!
Thanks, man!
This is cool. Thanks!
