Club Penguin Music #8 - Elite Penguin Force

The theme song for the EPF on Club Penguin is one of two songs that began as songs from the Club Penguin DS game "Elite Penguin Force". Here's how the song came to be and how it was remixed.

[@WeegeepieYT]

Lmao that beatbox song

[@PenguinNation1]

10/10 beatboxing

[@ChrisHendricks]

You're too generous. 6/10 at best. I'd like to keep practicing it, though... :)

[@staticchimera44]

Dude, I miss this game so much.

[@morningowl4768]

6/10 is too low, 9.99/10

[@myco4463]

Lmao

[@WasabiKitCat]

Wow, I didn’t know the theme for the DS game came first! I really loved that DS game, I think I still have it somewhere...

[@fixedkarm8348]

The unused song sounds like a song for a loading screen

[@Smug_Wolf]

Hearing the EPF theme makes me want to cry because it reminds me of all the good times I had playing CP and that exact DS game. If I had to choose ANY Club Penguin song to represent my experience with the whole game, I would have to choose the EPF HQ theme. No other song makes me instantly remember Club Penguin the way this one does.

[@thegoodmudkip3652]

It was awesome to hear an uncompressed version of the Battle of Doom theme! Awesome video man.

[@sparrow5697]

I love all of these videos, and the EPF/PSA themes are always my favorites. Thank you for this!

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

I read the “shoutout of doom” part in Invader Zim’s voice, despite never watching the cartoon. Why am I like this?

[@ichiot]

I love that game oml I played it every single time DX

[@ThemeParkUK]

Reckon you could tab out the bass guitar for the EPF theme? I'm really bad at learning by ear and I would love to be able to play it.

[@Funnybirdproductions]

The music in this game was the best

[@1fanoforange]

The EPF song was actually one of the first “spy-ish” songs I ever heard, so later on when I watched movies like James Bond or Mission Impossible, I was like “Hey! That sounds like the spy theme for Club Penguin!” It’s funny how a song can become so influential that many people hear music inspired by it before they hear the piece itself

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Oh ikr😂😂

[@Skybarrier]

I remember going to school one day and when I saw my friend we were equally **extremely** surprised to find out Aunt Arctic was the Director.

[@1little_danny]

Hey! At least put up a spoiler alert!

[@Rocketpigs]

@@1little_danny I'd agree with you normally but Club Penguin doesn't exist anymore (illegal CPPSes notwithstanding) so you can't really find it out any other way.

[@Rocketpigs]

@Game Chaser Labs. It's the internet. Look up Poe's Law.

[@kevishere_21]

@Merlin the M.S. Empathizer I don't even think there is a joke in that comment that anyone missed.

[@lazlysun]

I loved when ppl would ask that in the newspaper and there would be some cryptic vague answer by aunt arctic

[@JustFlipperZ]

the music for elite penguin force is probably one of favorite cp songs

[@wofi784]

I like how the leitmotif was used for every EPF Operation from then on, like Operation Blackout, or Operation Puffle.

[@notaseat5934]

Right ☺️ feels real sweet

[@elnidodelfenix8200]

It sort of ties the world of the EPF together.

[@thegoodmudkip3652]

MrSpoon 16 oh no, they used it for Hot Sauce too.

[@teovinokur9362]

oh my lord blackout was so sick

[@PVMNHaar]

it was even used in a song for cpi, even though cpi didn't keep the motif for many songs

[@waddle9384]

I bet i can beatbox the song better than Krabs keeps the formula

[@richardbetteridge7914]

YES YES YES YES YES YES THE NOSTALGIA HURTS

[@ChrisHendricks]

YES Music is good for that.

[@richardbetteridge7914]

@@ChrisHendricks I hope you understand the fact that I spent a month playing this game non stop not actually playing the game and using it as a music player😂

[@volatile5460]

Look up “club penguin rewritten”, then

[@Rivalloni]

I always wish they added more point and click missions into CP. It was one of my favourite parts to the game, especially how it told this story that involved you, the player. It's what I wish parties such as Operation: Blackout had in terms of gameplay, because I feel the point and click style would've really boosted it's already interesting plotline - but this time you would be able to do more and talk to NPCs, etc.

[@dragonick2947]

Apparently, they might do some more similar missions for Club Penguin Rewritten.

[@ashlowpancake9418]

SonicFishies Sources? Do you have a link to that? I’m curious!!

[@dragonick2947]

@@ashlowpancake9418 I found it on the page of unused content of Club Penguin Rewritten. club-penguin-rewritten.fandom.com/wiki/Unreleased_Content#Scrapped It's cited, and the reason it wasn't already implemented was because Club Penguin Rewritten shut down temporarily.

[@Tech70]

The beatbox version sung by Screenhog tho 🙌🙌🙌

[@camcam_burger]

It reminds me of the boulder levels from Crash 2.

[@myco4463]

Lmao

[@Gunslingerwashere]

Please tell me that you did the Operation: Blackout theme(s). The music from that party is some of the top soundtrack from any game I've played in the last 8 years.

[@tuxedobird]

Gunslinger was operation blackout the one with the laser-proof vest? It’s all I remember from any of the operations.

[@matheusgomesdesouza3243]

@@tuxedobird Yes

[@zMikexd]

Operation: Blackout was the first party after he left the CP team.

[@r4ls3i7]

@@zMikexd he should have stayed for that ngl

[@27umberhallow91]

lava boots too , dang the memories

[@KeyanCarlile]

I legit hum the EPF song at least once a week! Almost any time I'm doing a task of any kind, it comes out. And I've always wanted clean audio of that "Battle of Doom" rooftop fight. I absolutely love that music, this video, and this channel. Thank you so much for doing this, Chris Hendricks! And March 25th, 2011... my memory of Club Penguin is a bit fuzzy, but I remember that in early 2011, there was a storyline where Herbert reactivated the Protobot and the two of them were gonna attack the Earth Day party. But then it weirdly and anticlimactically wrapped up off-screen through spy phone messages. There was no system defender or anything. Maybe they were planning some sort of EPF event that fell through? Interesting.

[@ChrisHendricks]

You're welcome!

[@Dialga22239]

I can't believe, that Bart Roijmans composed the first EPF Melody! I always thought, you composed it tho :D Could you link to his EPF Theme in HQ of his Channel, please? :D Greetings to Bart (aka Spiresound Music) if you read it. Still honored, that I'm one of the Fan Remixer of the EPF NDS Soundtracks

[@halopona6918]

I absolutely love this seriessss :) The beatboxing had me crying in laughter, I loved it! and that unused EPF track was so cool! it would be awesome to see it being used for something Club Penguin related... or even Epic Snails!

[@itsadamhamilton]

I really want to make some type of intense action movie using the beatbox version

[@Cutiejea1]

I cant wait for Screenhog’s masterclass on royalty free music

[@namhaihatrung4116]

Oh man, it has been 5 years already haha

[@speedways7190]

beat boxing of doom is at the very end. you have been warned

[@KingMondoWWM]

Now I'm interested in the story of the PSA theme and how that came to be

[@daemeongoodwin2985]

It's sampled from the "stealth" piece of royalty free music

[@amesstarline5482]

The unused version sounds like it should be like the 'dramatic trailer/opener'..or even the song when you get invited into the EPF, which is as epic as these other songs [and epic beat box one].

[@DorianC]

My friends and I would use Bionicle pieces to make our own Club Penguin spy phones (if that sentence doesn't scream early-2000's kid idk what does). We even had our own made-up CP villains, headcanon storylines, and special missions and puzzles we would make up for each other to complete. Thanks for helping make my childhood Chris!

[@SamDavs]

Haha club penguin rewritten should use the humming version of the battle of doom in an April fools party 😂

[@nathanalexandre137]

But if "Stealth" wasn't made for only CP, how can it matches with the Aunt Arctic theory of her being the Director?

[@ChrisHendricks]

I've heard that claim before, but there really is no link between that song and Aunt Arctic.

[@PVMNHaar]

@@ChrisHendricks What claim exactly is this?

[@GumSkyloard]

@@PVMNHaar Apparently people found out that the main "beeps" of the song match how "Aunt Arctic is the Head of the PSA" sounds in morse code.

[@pessoa__]

@@PVMNHaar if you convert the phrase "The Aunt Arctic Is The Head Of PSA" (or something like this) to morse code it will match exactly with the Stealth song bpm

[@PVMNHaar]

@@pessoa__ that doesn't really make sense, you can run morse code at whatever pace you want, so you can't say a phrase has a "BPM"

[@kcytoad3001]

Did you compose the startup music for PSA missions? The EPF theme from the DS game is a remix of that I believe

[@sticks_stuff]

im late but the startup music for the PSA missions is also royalty free music kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXe0goBqgq94adE

[@emmab4587]

Did you do the operation blackout music because I’d love to see the process of that one

[@frances2191]

He states in a later video that his last club penguin music was the marvel party in 2012; operation blackout was after that, so no, he didn't

[@nutnutnutnutnut]

I always thought of the EPF Theme to also be Herbert's Theme in a way.

[@petarkovacevic7681]

This video will go viral.

[@ChrisHendricks]

I'd be perfectly happy with that.

[@d_the_great]

I've gotta say, the music was one of my favorite parts of Club Penguin. Thank you so much for all that you did for Club Penguin.

[@ShanonGallaFoe]

lol the beatboxing reminds me of that video of my drunk friend sent me this at 4am in the morning, playing crash 2

[@turgburg4890]

Yes

[@Fupicat]

I do the same thing with the beatbox when I compose! But 99% of those recordings were never turned into actual songs. :(

[@ChrisHendricks]

Yeah, only about 25% of mine actually turn into anything.

[@NootOfRoses]

5:23 Is no one going to comment that there is now a HQ version of Battle Of Doom???

[@julz7300]

is it just me or does the EPF theme sound strikingly similar to Pendulum - Propane Nightmares?

[@giorgio84]

I dont know which part exactly you meant, but i cant think of it

[@eddiegreif2715]

No totally if you speed up the KZbin video of the ds game soundtrack version to like 1.5x you can hear it

[@hi_its_jerry]

im so glad to hear that even professionals beatbox their song ideas when they're not near their gear lol

[@faeriepalace]

okay wow this is everything. ahahha your channel is my new fav thing. being part of the elite penguin force was my entire childhood lolol

[@juanca788]

Men you was the legend that compose this theme? You are really good and i love all you'r themes!!

[@MLGCaptainVirgil]

That beatbox is beautiful

[@garlicsaucer]

Just replace the "ij" with "y" . This works for most dutch words/surnames, which makes it a lot easier to read or pronounce ;) ... Nice video Chris! I'll check out your other videos while I'm here :)

[@TimeLemon]

That last song sounds like a end of level results theme

[@daemeongoodwin2985]

For project TINTTGFR

[@DoctorTex]

This was the man that composed my childhood!

[@orangeflipgram6549]

me humming to my favourite song at 3am 8:07

[@dekutony]

I'm really curious about The Ultimate Mission, Tallest Mountain and Herber's Lair music in the sequel Herbert's Revenge.

[@daemeongoodwin2985]

I'm curious about the DS' ski lodge and dojo themes,like come on rejimans

[@zakattack7585]

That outro was slapping. It was probably intended for an ending of something since its a really good outro. I wonder if you could create a playlist with all of your used and unused work from Club Penguin. Its all amazing. I feel that your artistic skills is what influenced the identity of Club Penguin, at least the initial beacon of light for where its aesthetic direction should go.

[@wiimaster2847]

It sounds to me like that last song would have worked great for a recon mission.

[@Bluestk]

Random trivia, the EPF theme in the DS might have actually been based off a different song, however Bart isn't quite sure as he doesn't remember, but the main theme may be based of the PSA mission intro theme (most likely by Friction Music, but it's mostly comprised of edited music loops from Garageband which were done by Xander Soren (I think). So up to you to interpret that whatever way you want to.

[@epicplaycp]

Perfect, as always! I really appreciate your CP BTS series, but I have one question. Can you please do a list with all the musics you made for CP? Because it can be cool to use it to suggest you a song you can talk about on a video. Thanks!

[@sniderwine]

It sounds like that last one is a “mission complete” song that might have been intended to play at the end of a PSA mission

[@kokosita]

did you compose the dj3k music?

[@ChrisHendricks]

No, though I did animate the penguin at the DJ station.

[@Dialga22239]

The Animation of that DJ is so funny, when all Instruments are used xD

[@mezzdelta]

8:30 HAHAHAH THE BEATBOXED GUITAR BEND AHHAHAHAH Finally catching up on this music series wow I love you Screenhog

[@frazercowan4030]

2:38 when you realise the Command Room in the background actually had different music to the one playing

[@FirePhoenix862]

I was thinking the same thing (sorry for being 2 years late lol)

[@frazercowan4030]

@@FirePhoenix862 I cannot believe it has been two years already what.

[@namhaihatrung4116]

And here is 2 years later, haha The wrong background creates quite a dissonance, but to be fair Chris probably didn't know they remade the HQ theme when they redesigned it post Blackout

[@reubenw_514]

that beat box was friggin legendary

[@tar.and.feather]

wow i can't believe this is real i loved club penguin when i was younger, i didn't pay attention to the music but now i realize that there was some hidden bangers in there. thanks for making these there so interesting!

[@Subscribble]

That last song ( 9:07 )felt like one of those missions where you know the home-base is going to be invaded, so you're setting up traps for the future invaders.

[@messofabeing9392]

It sounds like a “gearing up” song

[@quickfeather]

7:31 I DO THE SAME THING AAAA

[@toonirl6675]

I can only imagine what the person in that house with you was thinking during that beatbox recording

[@ChrisHendricks]

For understandable reasons, I try to find private places where no one can hear me when I do this. :)

[@Rossilaz58]

I used to play elite penguin force, damn. that music was amazing.

[@ElectricSparx]

Oh, and when you said the original PSA headquarters song was royalty-free music, you weren't kidding, I just looked it up and found pretty much the exact song: www.neosounds.com/royalty-free-music/songs/2988/stealth-lynnemusic

[@TheBrickGuy7939]

That EPF command room song is such a bop.

[@anapaocastro]

these are my favorite songs from the whole game :,) thank u so much for making these videos!!!

[@nept2ned]

was there a prevention for transfering action replayed coins?

[@NotPuffal]

I remember I once had an amazing idea for a song, in the middle of the SAT. I was so disappointed and to this day I still can’t remember

[@Titan_Nebula]

The sercert agents thing in cp was where i got my name! Its what created my name

[@diogodavid3557]

That Beatbox of Doom was 👌

[@Baileyando]

9:11 omg that was like a week after I joined club penguin when I was 10 LMAO

[@watchmedo635]

I have a vidid memory of playing that game at the hairdressers, listening to the song on the DS game for hours. Can’t believe I never recognised the HQ music was a remix of it!

[@sarahbuela3337]

Holy snot am I late to the party..! That last song you made sounds awesome!!

[@Chino_The_Muted]

Imagine the a penguin entrering the bath and starts changing his clothes while humming 8:20

[@Giovanni2929]

The beatbox song sounds likes the unused song

[@alhadeff9797]

I do exactly the same to not forget a music that I make

[@whitemask279]

OOOhhhhh the Hydra EPF battle was soo cool ♥ I had so much fun ^^

[@VIRMSKVLL]

I just started watching these a few days ago. And I've found out I've been humming the secret agent theme from CP for years now without knowing!

[@volosami]

yessssssssss finally

[@playcenter6272]

ora ora qm está aq

[@volosami]

o de cima e ado ado ado

[@river8322]

Man, I'm in love with this song so much. I had the second DSI CP game and I would leave it on for ages just listening to the music and wandering to different areas for the different pieces.

[@ChrisHendricks]

I've done the same thing with many video games myself. I always appreciate when a video game includes a "sound test" mode so that you can easily listen to everything without having to actually travel there.

[@Dialga22239]

I also love that too! In PMD2 Explorers of Time/Darkness it also excist a Debug Mode with Soundtest. Unfortunately they removed it in Explorers of Sky :C

[@creak3293]

@@Dialga22239 Yeah. Those games had incredible soundtracks too! DS music is honestly really amazing a lot of the time!

[@iLiveExtreme]

This is super interesting! Thanks for posting this! EPF music was always so badass.

[@nomipafu2442]

That last song is like an ending credits song

[@L00PdeL00P]

8:08 why does this remind me of regular car reviews?

[@Titan_Nebula]

Wow

[@KingMondoWWM]

Is there a way to download these in good quality?

[@FoolishFrankie]

This is so awesome! I really enjoyed hearing about your writing process at the end as that's something I struggle with. Thanks for sharing!!

[@Nilzzze]

8:07 this shit go hard

[@mossuhmo]

Who else only bought Herbert's Revenge just to get the code for the Elite Puffle then to never touch the game ever again, then proceed to flex on every other penguin with your puffle.

[@theabstractchicken3998]

Bruh I played the hell out of both DS games. But yeah, I did flex that puffle.

[@godsguitar7]

Really interesting, I enjoyed the EPF's music direction (ignoring what I thought about the whole EPF idea). The music was well done, VERY similar to old spy movies and such.

[@nathanalexandre137]

The beatbox version is freaking funny :D

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

I genuinely didn't realize the DS game's music came first! It is such a good track. I don't really have a favorite song.

[@JD-fg9rg]

8:31 I can’t

[@burntbeanies7886]

I got both DS games and might I say, I love you so much, you're a pretty cool dude. :) Thanks for contributing to my childhood, had no clue that it was a remix! I wish I noticed that as a kid!

[@olliever817]

god, pullin out that DS on me, i played way too much of that game on road trips and crap

[@jorgilusty]

I've been binge watching this whole series i loveeee

[@drpepper497yeet6]

roi-he-man-his

[@_GhostMiner]

I remember another EPF song from that was in Club Penguin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaDdmZ9mrZKabJo Who made it?

[@shinezin]

Dude,perfect.

[@Ensign_games]

Funfact this game was the only experince I have with club penguin for most of my childhood.

[@wyalex015]

I am over 13 years old and I still bought Club Penguin: EPF. *Come at me.*

[@pablo-gb5th]

bigna

[@AmiiboDoctor]

I'm 22 and I bought a copy last week to play before I went to law school. Get old, but revisit youth.

[@avi12]

8:07 You are officially one of the bravest people on KZbin I would have never shared my "beatbox attempt"

[@ChrisHendricks]

Yeah, it's putting myself out there. But it shows the work in progress, which is the point of the video, so it's worth it.

[@Pinkyshy101]

I remember sitting on the ds game title screen just having the music playing when I was little because it was so catchy lol