Deus Ex - 057 - VersaLife - Ambient

The music of "Deus Ex".

[@jensvide777]

The soundtrack of Deus Ex is perfect for the enviroments. It doesn't feel like music that's "added" to the level like for example Megaman, but it feels like the soundtrack is coming out or is "made by" the enviroment

[@Grandmaster-Kush]

Yeah I agree it fits like a glove, as if the level was made after the soundtrack, kinda reminds me of Tarantinos movies which has the same feel.

[@roguenova6766]

>>it feels like the soundtrack is coming out or is "made by" the enviroment That's an interesting observation; I never thought this way about soundtracks, but this is completely true in Deus Ex : )

[@Heikkopeikko1989]

Good observation, I agree.

[@julienbeaudelot5269]

That's Alexander Brandon ;), same shit on Jazz Jackrabbit 2, songs are insanely good for the game!

[@iiw2606]

And this fact makes Deus Ex OST so iconic.

[@philipsalvi6627]

Welcome to Versalife, we make tomorrow look like yesterday.

[@SadButter]

Is it just me or does that sound like a terrible slogan for a company specialized in computer technology?

[@nyladreassareloth1713]

It does sort of provoke the idea of tomorrow being as bad as yesterday. What it means is that they're so advanced it makes tomorrow already look technologically worse compared to them. :) But I'm sure you got that.

[@berndschnappi8334]

maybe they are so advanced that they even know what are the new technologies "emerging" in the near future, because its them who will offer it to the public pricely ;)

[@Grapesoflol]

I think the slogan has to do with the future being a dystopian hellhole for the average person, where 50 years ago it was not so bad...

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@Grapesoflol This is exactly right. Hence the relative "golden age" (heh) of HR versus the fucking nightmare of DX1.

[@GRWeston]

"You with Psionics? You look like you could have the gift."

[@Edzhjus]

Could be true.. 👾 Akiza from YuGiOh! 5Ds 🙄

[@lhfirex]

Nah, that's next door at Tri-Optimum.

[@Kris-ck2md]

This is probably my favourite track in the OST. It captures the feeling of what you're walking into perfectly - a high-powered corporate setting that really squeezes its employees, with something (even more) sinister very clearly bubbling under that relatively urbane surface.

[@vape4138]

You feel like Gordon Freeman, traveling through Black Mesa with its robots, lasers and reactors.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Theme of Big Tech and Big Pharma

[@GeneticSteve]

"urbane" ok walton simons

[@Kris-ck2md]

@@GeneticSteve Glad someone eventually caught that, lol. The word was apt here, couldn't help but slide it in.

[@courier6960]

I think it’s a good theme because at this point in the game your pretty well upgraded and have the dragons tooth sword so this is the first area that really seems like a breeze, your cutting through high tech corporate security that would dissuade most like it’s paper and at this point it doesn’t even phase you

[@shadowslayer205]

I remember going into the versalife lobby the first time, thinking "Okay, stealth time!" I then quietly assassinated the security guard in front of the elevator with my stealth pistol... only to take two steps out and realize the lobby was a public area and nobody there was hostile. Whoops.

[@apiocosmico833]

What a shame. He was a good man.

[@idonotsellstolencdsdontask9429]

no way, fuck, that part took me 2 hours ...

[@AidanMclaren]

I mean, that isn't such a bad idea though, is it? If you want to exit Versalife, they're all going to be hostile to you.

[@thomasgraham5840]

You mean you didn't go through the game systematically stealthtazing people for their candy bars

[@frostcore2214]

@@apiocosmico833 what a rotten way to die

[@jamesjam671]

Everybody gangsta until UE-E-E-E-E UE-EE-EE-E-E sounds sound better than most of today's music.

[@genocyberia619]

My music taste is augmented

[@aarondamico2627]

😂

[@CalazaBR]

😂😂

[@Y4LDA]

Mfw It goes bling-ling-ling-ling.. Bling-long:

[@tomypower4898]

Yes -portal able walls do yes affect any porta lability.

[@Agent8545]

I used to listen to this music (and the OST in general) and fantasize about a life/job in tech ten years ago. Now I have an office and I work in software engineering with complex algorithms, listening to this as I code for work :). The only way is up, never forget that. I don't know if Deus Ex is solely to thank for my career choice but don't hesitate to follow your dreams.

[@Ragitsu]

Also: don't forget to seize that orange.

[@DefaultDerrick]

​@@Ragitsu Lemon lime is far superior.

[@TheChocoboRacer]

@@DefaultDerrick Lemon lime is far too...urbane

[@davidegiovannangelo5394]

Well, thought I was the only one to do that... Thanks my friend😂

[@cardndmch]

Now you should understand that the world is not ruled by scientists, but by the dumbass economists-capitalists-intellectual-property-lovers who should be put in prison. Btw, software is trash, we only need physics and cybernetics; fpga >> cpu; crts >> lcds; analog >> discrete.

[@tnhnoztel]

I played this music while I was doing a presentation about Coronavirus... Needless to say... I got an A+

[@Ragitsu]

Oh...why is that? Surely you're not implying that COVID-19 is a man-made virus?

[@Ragitsu]

@DeadbeatJean Find somewhere else.

[@jamesjam671]

Thing that impresses me the most is that uploader still answers comments on a video uploaded 8 years ago. That's cool.

[@Ragitsu]

@@jamesjam671 There are people who consider me to be an artificial intelligence. All I can say is that they are half-correct.

[@LexPab]

it fits perfectly 😎

[@EveOfMidnight]

that poor poor nervous worker

[@Covolsky]

I'm really glad your character gets to tell him don't just pack his things and book it...

[@doringo3856]

Shame you aren't often in this area for long before the next area which plays a different song. This would be so fitting for all the stuff that you see in the depths.

[@kirylkiryienka6910]

best game on Earth, best sense, best memories, best music. CreatorS Thank YOU

[@RicoJazz]

And visionary. It's all coming true

[@TheThreatActor]

dude nice profile picture

[@PhoenixAriel]

@i hate anime maybe you should try getting a job

[@Ragitsu]

@@RicoJazz No, Rico Jazz, it is not "coming true". The Grey Death is a man-made illness deliberately released into a wide population base; COVID-19 is a naturally occurring illness that escaped due to incompetence, greed and politics.

[@daedalus6433]

@@Ragitsu Pretty sure he's talking about corporate lobbying, the degradation of Western democracies, the military-industrial complex, etc.

[@HunterShows]

This is exactly what work sounds like. On a good day.

[@mooganify]

What’s your pfp from?

[@Ragitsu]

@@mooganify For some reason, Spy versus Spy came to mind.

[@Ragitsu]

@@mooganify When I saw his avatar, "Spy versus Spy" came to my mind.

[@unaikov]

@@mooganify I think that it's from "Worker and Parasite" (The Simpsons)

[@Ragitsu]

@@unaikov *The* secret has been revealed!

[@herobrinesblog]

When you are working at a pharmaceutical company and the lab boys start playing this in late 2019

[@Ragitsu]

...?

[@Ragitsu]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 Strike #1.

[@Ragitsu]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 I discourage political posturing, *you* posted a blatant conspiracy theory and yet _I_ am the one "getting political"? Bizarre.

[@Ragitsu]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 Adios; you won't be missed.

[@Ragitsu]

@@jackknifevideoworks There are other places to promulgate conspiracy theories.

[@galloviking4766]

Welcome to Versalife, where our receptionist has a rocket launcher.

[@ryobibattery]

Cute Furby

[@wornahpid2983]

wow

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

Not true?

[@mustangbeauty4]

Okay furry.

[@galloviking4766]

@Azrael R. My bad. I've replayed the game and it turns out it's not the Versalife receptionist that got a GEP, but the first person you encounter in the Pacific Rim laboratories beneath it. Does that still count? :X

[@smashthestateX]

WHAT A SICK TRACK! forgot about this tune. THAT IS A GENTLEMANS AGREEMENT!

[@Jean-ClaudeGodDamn]

Lol this is what Twitter employees hear at work.

[@gazbot9000]

Theme for CoVid19.. oops I meant Gray Death sorry

[@llili408]

Gary Groeneweg gray death was the first thing I thought of when they were talking about a new virus in the news

[@Ragitsu]

@@angus6858 Very subtle with the Iron Cross, you pro-Nazi POS.

[@Matt16006]

I imagine Hundley listening to this song while making his rounds

[@jozinek876]

This was the perfect track for a creepy government base like VersaLife, where almost inhuman, cybernetically enhanced MIB roamed the corridors with plasma guns and nano-swords, where employees worked in authoritarian conditions and where there's a grey alien-looking mutant lying dead in a lab....

[@doncornetto]

There was not a single enemy in this game with a nano sword

[@jozinek876]

@@doncornetto wrong. There were some MJ12 MIB with nanoswords.

[@lemonismq4642]

@@doncornetto Also, how could you forget about Maggie Chow?

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

@@doncornetto Female MIBs have swords.

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

A few are even alive in the chamber.

[@lhfirex]

Thanks for uploading all of this soundtrack in such good quality. It's still some of the best music I've ever heard, from my favorite game of all time.

[@cacomeat7385]

Probably the best rip on KZbin. I like how it's extended.

[@Mooshi256]

"Why bother data entry? They had me on a forklift! Am I just a common laborer?"

[@washerman8336]

Sadly on the PS2 version this track was removed and replaced it with the Hong Kong sound track

[@ancientapparition1638]

what a mistake

[@washerman8336]

Ancient Apparition yeah it was

[@seanjenkins6947]

Washerman 83 what a shame

[@daedalus6433]

It was a good track. What a rotten way to die.

[@Abdega]

Daedalus 000 *_Lip Smack_*

[@MarshmallowMadnesss]

My favorite of the whole soundtrack.

[@AmalekIsComing]

I *really* like the beginning first 10 seconds

[@static.6524]

Same, I wish there was remix with just that and the beat.

[@PhoenixAriel]

i I like the whole song

[@Squiddy0912]

hi pablo

[@rubimalone8253]

1:15 ☝

[@Teigism]

So many memorable tracks in this game. I missed out on it back in the day, but I have to say it holds up so well. Plus I'm now also reminded of the distorted version of this track in Butane Boss's break room conversation video....

[@eileennoise9515]

What a great game a great music, i would have been 17 years old, miss me the brothers Denton!

[@Ragitsu]

"i would have been 17 years old" How do you mean?

[@eileennoise9515]

@@Ragitsu i mean when i play this game for the first time i have 17 years old:)

[@PhoenixAriel]

@@eileennoise9515 i finished the game today and i'm 17 now ... fa... father?

[@musicmusic6595]

This music is just really phenomenal one of the reasons deus ex was so successful, set a great atmosphere with the areas.

[@Chickidydow]

damn if this doesn't hold up fantastically

[@vsx1955]

that intro sounds very depeche mode inspired :)

[@captaincommando9839]

100% sounds exactly like "Nothing" kzbin.info/www/bejne/amrOeYCgh9p2nrcsi=nel7eqQtv-W31NMz

[@captaincommando9839]

Actually kind of sounds like barrel of a gun mixed with nothings samples.

[@horaceb2614]

Welcome to Versalife---oh shit you're JC Denton--oh you have a visitor pass, right this way

[@CheesyCola1]

0:37 that part is just priceless!

[@olaveiras]

First UNATCO theme wins, but this one comes just after. So damn good

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

Theme of the big oil executives offices

[@Ctrekoz]

I love this.

[@nono-nt8je]

big screens that say "OBEY"? Yeah, real subtle versalife

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

They live?

[@nodeberiaestaraqui93]

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 that, and a 1984 reference

[@wildebur]

Before I played the game, I thought this theme would be for some kind of nightclub. It goes WAY too hard and has too much life to be corporate music. I love it.

[@dotcomgamingd5564]

how did they make this song so good tho?

[@tay9682]

Easily my favorite soundtrack from any game I've played.

[@Ragitsu]

Taste level: 1,000.

[@jaked4736]

Is this the Coronavirus theme?

[@Ragitsu]

Is it? I do not get that vibe at all.

[@emperorcokelord1021]

Isn't the Gray Death made of nanomachine?

[@Ragitsu]

@@emperorcokelord1021 Too true. By the way, it seems that Deus Ex videos attract all sorts of conspiracy theorists.

[@revolverocelot1380]

@@Ragitsu Yeah but if gray death is made of nanomachines stimulating sickness in the infected, them it makes sense why it's so controllable and why no one can find a cure. It can kill as many people possible but it will always will have an off switch. Loosing pandemics in real life is playing with serious fire.

[@Ragitsu]

@@revolverocelot1380 That has nothing to do with COVID-19, though.

[@KnoxCarbon]

This track perfectly sums up what it's like to work in corporate hell

[@firstdragonporn7798]

OBEY

[@not_ryuka]

DUTY

[@erikklberg2031]

@@not_ryuka RESPECT

[@Ctrekoz]

@@erikklberg2031 TRUST

[@Gliese380]

CONSUME

[@michaelandreipalon359]

I really need to reread a lot of George Orwell.

[@seachicken1104]

This was in my head the whole time I was doing my private pilot check ride.

[@sal_277]

Hey Ragitsu, do you have a link to the original picture shown in the video? I've been looking for a while but I can't find this exact one.

[@v00idless72]

Every year i coming back to listen to this track.

[@soldier22881]

this would fit in an unreal map real nice

[@HussPOE]

Mr Hundley. Shift supervisor, who might you be?

[@AidanMclaren]

This really wouldn't be out of place in Hotline Miami, would it?

[@mohammed-wp5wz]

why are you so correct

[@noxKayin]

If humanity has come to this, it means that we have not been able to question ourselves

[@radiosuitcase1]

god imagine how awesome this level would've looked like if the game wasn't 24 years old

[@nathanielstewart5073]

You might have bass padding on your speakers to rewire your fear of blow-outs, But I’ve got beats of steel. - DJ Denton

[@silbaslack2616]

музыка для взлома пентагона

[@LexPab]

when the covid-19 pandemic appeared I just remembered this game, and thought about the coincidences with Deus Ex… Anyways I was just passing by, just finished Deus Ex 2 Invisible Wars and felt a little bit nostalgic. I liked more the first one tho, it’s longer than DE2 and has a waaay better soundtrack :3 Thanks for sharing!!

[@ismaciodismorphus3320]

Shame its used for 1 room in the entire game

[@gamerman7276]

Ikr it's my favorite track

[@xDShot9000]

Wasn't it used on several places actually?

[@arindammukerji1133]

Lovely Music for Versalife ❤❤

[@v0idthrashtilldeath127]

Deus ex is literally the phrase catching thunder in a bottle.

[@Ragitsu]

"Lightning in a bottle", maybe?

[@v0idthrashtilldeath127]

Yeahh right.@@Ragitsu

[@tomypower4898]

Yes Sign-up or Log-in Required..

[@loveace2430]

This one has to be my favourite.

[@Toulouse41000]

9 people working at versalife

[@_teenxbabe]

9 people are making tommorow look like yesterday

[@anamiranda5888]

FUN IS INF1NITE WITH THE PR0D

[@kakolykia]

Great theme. It could be used in some IT commercial

[@Chickidydow]

straight up sounds like an autechre track

[@thomasgraham5840]

Would totally fit in as a bonus track on Amber or Incunabula

[@gizelbelcoot]

1:15 , best part and to end the loop

[@tombickers]

If this were real life, Versalife theme would be plucky ukelele plinka plink plink slong.

[@Ragitsu]

Why?

[@Neophage]

@@Ragitsu I think he's referring to painfully bland, bright and optimistic corporate music.

[@stevenbazinet3404]

"Welcome to Versalife, we make tomorrow look like yesterday"

[@TrevorPhilips]

Trevor-Page Industries!

[@NCBob]

In a former life i was a mule dragging stone plow up a hill in Northern Thailand

[@coelakant]

AYYYY LMAO

[@Ragitsu]

?

[@ianb3515]

1:15

[@JohnFortniteKennedy_]

Tong be Tracin the beat 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@pt8306]

In a previous life I was a mule dragging a caravan up a mountain in ancient china.

[@arindammukerji1133]

Secret Government Office Suspense Music 🎶 🎵 😳 😀

[@satbsw8256]

Man with sunglasses and back side, brutality unknown future, so sad this

[@Alex_Guy1011]

I came here from Goldeneye with Deus Ex sound effects.

[@olaokolaok]

This is what i hear when taking the elevators inside the stock broker i work on. Jokes aside it is so funny that Versalife was made to be the actual description of a mega corporation who doesnt care about its employees even tho it looks fancy, but then its all propaganda. Employees working long hours, some so expendable that they would poison them with gray death instrad of making them sign a NDA to minimize the chances of loose ends to the minimum (because of compromising job positions that require handling of sensitive data) rofl so funny and over the top cartoonish way to portray it like that i love it.

[@bangasou12]

has anyone every found a sheet music, piano or synthesia playthough of this song? I wanna play it but i cant find any covers or anything

[@FFFFindoor]

The songs are mod files, so you if have a tracker like OpenMPT then you can see the notes.

[@vektor451]

Wait why is all video game music uploaded by this one guy

[@Ragitsu]

@James Monroe I wish.

[@darkseetop]

I would like a look at those labs.

[@DONKFORTRESS6956]

wrote an essay listening to this, got a 95

[@acles7937]

sick

[@michaelandreipalon359]

0:11: For me, this bit sounds like it came from a certain Adventure Time: Distant Lands song's beats.

[@H3llBaron]

It's the industry where all smartphones come out?

[@7Tomb7Keeper7]

Emmmmm the mood of some silent melee kill (////‿◢)

[@voli6570]

"Fucking hell. Armstrong really should've bought a cleaner for these vents."

[@captainkeyes9913]

I aught to give this game another chance, still has a learning curve tho

[@Primentis]

Just spend all your upgrades on the assault rifle, then it's smooth sailing

[@Ragitsu]

@@Primentis No skill points in Swimming?

[@daedalus6433]

@@Ragitsu Nah dude, spend it all on Environmental Training.

[@Ragitsu]

@@daedalus6433 You can't Hazmat suit your way to China, but you _can_ swim there :-).

[@yikeyikeyike]

this song was actually composed in the 19th century by french freemasons

[@bagotky]

Crash Bandicoot vibes

[@legendarysjs6491]

No I do not know you. Maybe you work for VersaLife?

[@Onobody]

Help! First day in a corporate job and I ask my boss "whats that computer system for? The one with the blue face for an interface." Does that mean I don't get the job?

[@Alex_Guy1011]

May 1981, Unknown Facility, Polish People's Republic. 0:12 *A Polish People's Army soldier is patrolling down a hallway, when a mercenary-dressed insurgent comes out behind him and takes him out using chloroform.*

[@Ragitsu]

What's with these comments of yours?

[@CannibaLouiST]

​@@Ragitsu A lot of 90s games up to 2000 are heavily influenced by stuff from the Cold War. Red Alert, heavy metal, James Bond, special operations, agent assassinations... Deus Ex 1's world map is basically the world just after the Soviet Union collapsed.

[@unr34L-]

Gemmie

[@icarushelios3935]

Coronavirus theme

[@dariusnikbin1695]

Again? Dubai… END

[@Edzhjus]

Extra caution need to happen. Too many 🤕 people. 😓😪

[@Ragitsu]

Huh?

[@galacticnerds5276]

we need this with the harder, better, faster, stronger, video

[@junoachilles2456]

2023

[@gottabeinspiring]

O remaster dessa mysica no Mankind Divided é... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoS6hYiefpqrnqM

[@PhoenixAriel]

beleza

[@kelso2951]

5612

[@Mister_Stink_Drink]

me: getting fired from versalife for crumping in the lobby all day.

[@Ragitsu]

"crumping"?