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Warhammer Online : Theme – Total War
Warhammer Online : Empire – Empire Steel
Warhammer Online : Empire – Bloody But Unbowed
Warhammer Online : Chaos – Fleshmaggot
Warhammer Online : Chaos – Pray For Mutation
Warhammer Online : Chaos – Stark Raving
Warhammer Online : Dwarf – From The Living Rock
Warhammer Online : Dwarf – A Grudge Avenged
Warhammer Online : Greenskin – Stunties Underfoot
Warhammer Online : Greenskin – Embers, Ashes, Bones
Warhammer Online : Greenskin – Headpikes
Warhammer Online : High Elf – Grace, Honour, Strength
Warhammer Online : High Elf – Promise Of The Dawn
Warhammer Online : Dark Elf – Lambs To The Slaughter
Warhammer Online : Dark Elf – The Sundering
Warhammer Online (The Hamtouchers) : Kiss My Axe
Warhammer Online (The Hamtouchers) : Flames Of Steel
Warhammer Online (The Hamtouchers) : War Here We Come
dj_methodikal : nice turtleneck, jackass (unreleased)
dj_methodikal : secrets of the robot (unreleased)
old drum loops & fills:
bdbeats.zip (.wav, 134 MB)
Brad, hey man, really random question but I absolutely had to ask.. A while back (we’re talking Spring of ’08) I believe that you had a list of drum loops/samples at your methodikal.com website. I am a student and musician myself, and I used one of your drum loops in a project I created. It was fantastic and the only loop I could find that fit perfectly. Now I’m trying to remix the project and for some reason I can’t find the sound file of that loop, and I know this is random as all hell, but I was curious if you wouldn’t happen to still have those loops lying around somewhere? If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please feel free to call my crazy.. But if you could help me out I would appreciate it very much. Thanks!
i have no idea what you’re talking about. you’re crazy. :D
that being said, i gathered up all the loops that were on previous incarnations of the bradderrick.com / methodikal.com sites over the years and put ‘em in a .zip here for ya. hopefully it won’t be too difficult to wade through and find the one you’re looking for. the filenames should be the same as you found them back then. and hey…can i hear what you cooked up? that’s always fun for me…
brad, i also still often use your amazing drum loop library, your cool edit presets, and your ubertool! i’ve recently started a D&B project with a friend. we haven’t finished a track yet, but i thought you might get a buzz out of listening to some of your loops (4 of the 165BPM ones) warped beyond all belief through audiomulch with various vst plugins, and then an outboard chain consisting of a pair of chandler germanium compressors, a thermionic culture pullet eq, and a chandler tg2 preamp. check it out here:
http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Drums165.rar
let me know when you’ve snagged it and i’ll take it down. i’ll let you know if we ever finish the track!
all the best,
gregg
Gregg…damn…old school! the Cool Edit presets! wow, i haven’t maintained that stuff on any website of mine in years. glad yer still getting some use out of them, and the loops too. someday i bet i’ll have more drum stuff to post, somewhere. can’t necessarily say the same for the Cool Edit, er, i mean, “Audition” presets. :)
and thanks for putting up the twisted beats…sounds cool. i always get a kick out of hearing what people have done with those things. and i’d definitely like to peep the finished product…
Brad, as a WAR player, I was always very fond of the music you’ve created. I’ve always felt that the music was very fitting to each race and area, exciting and enticing. The only thing I would really like to see is an Official Soundtrack of some sorts. I’m guessing that sadly, this will never happen… And what really pisses me off is that I’ll never be able to listen to your music outside of the game, or even know the titles of the tracks you’ve created!
Even so, I would like to thank you for the excellent music you’ve created. I’ve started an appreciation thread on the official WAR forums. I’m looking forward to your next project!
first of all, thanks very very much for the kind words! i really appreciate it, especially your awareness of the distinct racial musical styles. i put some thought into that. :)
secondly, i’m pretty sure you can grab most (if not all) of the major pieces off the warhammer online site (http://www.warhammeronline.com/music/index.php). oh wait…i just jumped over there and, yeah. it looks like there’s only about 25% of what’s in the game up there (100% of the ‘major pieces’ can be streamed from this page). lame. ah well. yeah, a CD soundtrack was not part of the WAR box because…oh wait, i have no bleeping clue as to why that was. lame. :)
lastly, the appreciation thread. sounds like that could become troll bait pretty quickly, lol. in my experience, most comments about the music in WAR are along the lines of, “there’s music in WAR?”. Or, “nice music…when you can find it”.
while i do think the music itself is good, the integration was not. and the credit for the former and blame for the latter both lie with me. but that’s a much longer story, for another time….
ah, Warhammer.
again, thanks for your comments!
Well, I’m an avid music listener and I must tell you that I’m somehow trying to put the music on my mp3 player! (what I can find at least!) It is really a shame that a CD was not included in the special edition. The dwarven music is valiantly epic, the empire music is majestically cruel, the greenskin music is mindless warmongering in its finest, the high elf music is pompously yet finely passing the decaying grandeur of the high elves and the chaos one is marvelously twisted. And the various percussion pieces are just fantastic.
I think the main problem with WAR’s music, was a byproduct of the game’s direction. I believe that in its initial conception, it was meant to be a combined PVE+PVP experience with the PVE part being the prevailing one. Of course, all the former DaoC players where expecting PVP and nothing else. The combined nature of the game was not properly understood (or advertised for that matter) and the hardcore PVP crowd and the endless bugs slowly managed to suffocate the PVE crowd (which was going to be the larger one anyway) and drove WAR in a PVP-centric design. This resulted in the main bulk of the music to only being heard from people that were questing when they entered the chapter hubs and the PVE instances, which is clearly a minority (and a shame really). The scenarios had a music of their own but their intensive nature hindered the music listening (although I always enjoy the Caledor Woods theme!).
I believe many think the music was great. If you want to have a look, the thread is here
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/232/index/5761757.
Again, thanks!