Laputan Machine (Deus Ex Paris Cathedral Conversation Cover)

[@AlexNes]

This song has been released as part of the long overdue Video Game (mostly) Synthwave Covers album on Bandcamp in lossless format. For free of course :) alexnes.bandcamp.com/album/video-game-mostly-synthwave-covers-4

[@lordhoot1]

The fact that there's a whole cottage industry online of people remixing and remastering the Deus Ex soundtrack, more than 20 years later, points to what a great body of work the OST was.

[@AlexNes]

Indeed, there have been some very good pieces of video game music since, yet the tracker music by Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos were something unique

[@nights8880]

@@AlexNes passion give birth to legends, you can't make that up.

[@akrammeziane9979]

You know gunther is a tragic character when even jc says "you sent him because you knew he would fight to death" even jc respects him. He wanted to kill jc so bad but jc shows respect and sympathy despite being the nano augmented cold blood.

[@shanshajahan8160]

JC aint cold blooded. Had he been, he would not have joined the resistance.

[@petrklic7064]

Also that ex-unatco female bartender with augmented arms for "washing dishes". They were all only obsolete tools of cabal elitists without any use in future. Because they had new nano-augmented generation. ps: i have not seen any respect from JC ("stick and stones") hee seemed to him pitifull and cold blood murderer, like Anna Navarre.

[@RamboSnoop]

@@shanshajahan8160 JC is cold blooded if you want him to be, that's why the dialogue options and conversations (and even the direction given to his voice actor) are designed the way they are. You can be cold blooded and still love your brother, or perhaps not want the world to fall into the clutches of mass murdering megalomaniacal maniacs like simons and page 'you've got ten seconds to beat it before I add you to the NSF casualty list' 'you're gonna burrrn alright' pretty cold blooded to me

[@Цегорах-ь5ф]

​​@@RamboSnoop всё зависит от того, как ты отыгрываешь JC и какие диалоги выбираешь. Ты можешь дать батончик, который мог пригодиться тебе самому, тому голодному мальчику в первой мисси, даже не подозревая, что он даст тебе наводку на тайный вход в логово NSF, просто из жалости и из-за того, что авторы показали мальчика в игре действительно страдающим от голода. То же самое с бездомным в парке, который просит убить его, потому что он страдает от вируса серой смерти - игра явно хочет вызвать у игрока=персонажа обоснованные сильные эмоции, и у неё это получается. JC, будучи хладнокровным, вряд ли находясь в розыске и вне закона полез бы в отделение полиции в чужой стране просто потому, что та китайская актриса, связанная с VersaLife, рассказала (соврала) про свою связь с его братом, несмотря на то, что глава или член одной из китайских триад предупреждал не доверять ей. При том, что её квартиру можно было проверить при первом посещении, беспринципно взломав тайное помещение. Так что всё зависит от отыгрыша за персонажа JC и реакций игрока на сложные моральные выборы - и разработчики явно хотели, чтобы характер JC мог значительно отличаться.

[@rashiro7262]

Stick and stones.

[@Darklogic112358]

You have the same level over mastery over the Deus Ex OST that the maintenance man has over the vending machine drink selection. 👍👍

[@claireredfield7368]

I wanted Orange! It gave me Lemon-Lime.

[@saulofogagnolo2859]

The machine would not make a mistake.

[@petrklic7064]

@@claireredfield7368 "Ohhhrrrrange" ☝

[@noobgamersland6969]

@@saulofogagnolo2859 they do zat on purphose

[@daedalus6433]

Hello... Daedalus.

[@Raysystemic]

"I do not make mistakes of zat kind"

[@azuredragonofnether5433]

"Your hand might have slipped."

[@RamboSnoop]

@@azuredragonofnether5433 it vas ze maintenance man... he knows i like orghanzhe......

[@Catholicgauze]

Me: Is there more Deus Ex?! You: Yes, here you go. My day is made.

[@CiradisEttienne]

Always love your Deus Ex covers, Alex.

[@hillelmerkin8498]

You have not missed the mark once on any of your deus ex covers. Amazing as always!

[@AlexNes]

Thanks :)

[@benji-pj4dp]

Champ

[@Electricshrock]

Sticks and stones

[@b10rn]

That is a really cool picture of Gunther. Nice remix as well.

[@user-tx3xh8uf5v]

Think it's AI generated?

[@b10rn]

@@user-tx3xh8uf5v Yes, I assume so. Still.

[@bogart6648]

Amazing cover.

[@nights8880]

once again a masterpiece, and once again waiting for the next one... sticks and stones !

[@UTMadMan]

I wanted orange! It gave me awesome remix.

[@benji-pj4dp]

Now just need the liberty island remix

[@electrictrojan6719]

The fact that Gunthers own employers called him "the whore machine" makes him one of the most tragic characters in the story. All those brutal augmentations to please masters who cared nothing for him. In another way it serves as a warning about transhuman and eugenics - turning human beings into tools enslaves and denatures them.

[@Neogears1312]

There’s a reason the nsa have dialogue discussing how all they see is the machine parts. Because they would just replace him with something less obsolete.

[@greycat930]

That’s what I liked about Deus Ex compared to cyberpunk or CD reds version of it. They actually considering the consequences of being a war machine and not really a normal human while in 2077 characters like that are just regular people with machine guns and rockets built into them, making their arcs literal jokes.

[@reidparker1848]

Are you French? "Laputan" refers to Gulliver's Travels, an English novel.

[@jamesrosewell9081]

​@@reidparker1848 interesting

[@roachdoggjr1454]

@@greycat930cyberpunk 2077 was such a damn letdown

[@FortyNCandyBar]

Alex Nes blessing us with yet another banger

[@romesq]

Mindblowing! Keep on doing those amazing covers Alex!

[@Anvilshock]

Alex Nes confirmed to be The Maintenance Man.

[@AlexNes]

Daaaaaamn after 23 years my cover is blown :/

[@georgkeller3225]

​@@AlexNeswtf? Did you do this in the year 2000? KZbin is fucked up if this is true ...

[@noobgamersland6969]

​@@AlexNesbro fucked with bots like gunther from 2000 to 2060s...respect...

[@kot7634]

that's an awesome mix of appearances of Batou from GITS and Gunther Hermann! And the music is incredible, thank you!

[@Cybersomnia]

Just found your channel last night. Immediately subbed after listening to the Chateau DuClare talk theme I've had bad luck finding covers of the Deus Ex music, but damn have I struck gold this time

[@thetikijam]

Fits very well with the 80's style synth. Rock on

[@Tigershark_3082]

Goddamn, this is absolutely incredible

[@TommyEfreeti]

Relax. I disabled the detonator. You can continue to rock on.

[@helios6992]

Awesome remix as always man ! It's getting pretty groovy at 1:30 love it !

[@benji-pj4dp]

Bless you for the nostalgia

[@paulvarus859]

Eargasm

[@verified_JC_Denton]

This. This looks like how we remember Gunther. A mountain of cold steel with a broken heart. Edit: And on the musical side of things; simply masterfully. You are Illuminated.

[@augmentedfascist5055]

badass dude

[@jmm1233]

He wanted orange , he got lemon-lime , now he out to wreck the maintenance man

[@Editaz3]

I love these so much, thank you :)

[@piggosalternateaccount4917]

Fantastic!

[@yasieyva3469]

This is so good 👏👍

[@benji-pj4dp]

A gentlemans agreement

[@WaterMusic34]

Listening to this awesome cover makes me wish I had command of my body.

[@bobpage6597]

An interesting take on Gunther with this image. His augs have the same appearance as the ones we see in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. He's probably similar to Lawrence Barrett, who in turn think was a nod to Gunther, both of them being massive heavily augmented walking human tanks.

[@AlexNes]

Definitely, and in turn Gunther himself is an amalgam of Batou from Ghost in the Shell and Roy from Blade Runner :)

[@bozoforce]

I'm not a machine... *BOOM*

[@valabius]

Восхитительно! 👏

[@matejsteinhauser3974]

Unreal 1 Planet Na Pali. Breton like Society and Beautiful Alien Landscape and Kauai style Jaws Mountains

[@Sunl1ght_]

Nice job, ❤ Deus ex

[@MrCrown25]

🎼----> 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheMostSteelDooshbagEver0451]

No offense, but the picture of Gunther looks kinda AI-generated. The remix is cool though.

[@GrigoryRechistov]

It is because it is. Welcome to the new world. What Deus Ex laid down as fiction in 2000 is becoming reality in 2020, no need to wait for 2050.

[@apieceoftoast768]

An inefficient machine, generated by an inefficient machine. A Laputan Machine.

[@radscorpion8]

@@apieceoftoast768 *clap clap clap*

[@jambone4464]

You make him a thumbnail, then. Go on. Get to work.

[@UtubeH8tr]

i wonder if gunther inspired atom smasher's new design.

[@daedalus6433]

Sticks and stones.

[@polskizwiazeknaczelnychhej1100]

of course you are metal ball

[@electrictrojan6719]

Any chance of releasing the source audio files for a remix?

[@AlexNes]

I don't have any source audio files, the entire song is made of MIDI tracks with software synths and effects, only the drums are samples

[@electrictrojan6719]

@@AlexNes I meant bounce/print the tracks as individual audio files, but oh well

[@mr.huygens1273]

Who made the art seen in the title card and in the background of the video?

[@AlexNes]

It was me, using AI and Photoshop :) - edit just to clarify AI as in artificial intelligence not Adobe Illustrator :)

[@mr.huygens1273]

@@AlexNes Ah ok nice I like your art there. I'm familiar with and know how to use Photoshop along with Illustrator.

[@БодяДробовик]

Shame, NSF and Knight Templars were watching your deeds, try to not make such mistake, maybe they will give you some kind of offer in near(relative) future@@AlexNes

[@Lornext]

@@mr.huygens1273 Not his art, anyone can use a prompt to make a picture like this and whenever people point out "I also used photoshop" that just mean they tweaked the saturation or anything to do with lighting because they never show any actual art skills in making these pictures, but only attempt to not sound so pathetic when making AI pictures.

[@hbard3208]

@@Lornextdont cut yourself on all that edge lol

[@metaridley77]

I hate when remixes don't nail the musical notes... Next.

[@БодяДробовик]

AI-"art' freaking sucks so much, maan, but your music makes it on another lvl, proving decency of human mind. Maybe, we will make our way out of this, maybe, New Sons of Freedom gave their lives not in vain