Marathon remixes (2021) by Cory King Tucker (composition by Alexander Seropian for Bungie, 1994)

[@fractalis2948]

This version of Rushing is such a slapper. Great running music.

[@Cheese_Cretin]

God the remix of "Splash (Marathon)" on this... Incredible.

[@navarroguard7911]

This is great. It still preserves the aesthetics of original while just updating it.

[@CKT1138]

I wanted to make a version of the OST that people would actually want to use in their gameplay, I felt like all the existing remasters and remakes of the soundtrack were either sloppy and auromated ( just playing the midis through a soundfont), or that they changed the music drastically (Craig Hardgrove's versions, which are lovely mind you).

[@IPEsometimes]

@@CKT1138 Glad you actually took the time to do this. So tired of "remasters" of music sounding like absolute ASS, lmao.

[@CKT1138]

@@IPEsometimes thank you so much!

[@IPEsometimes]

@@CKT1138 no problem, dude.

[@prochristus]

Couldn’t agree more! 💙💙

[@kabob0077]

Here's a strange yet fitting thing, reading the Digsite posts from 343 on Halo Waypoint while listening to this... Makes me wonder, what would the music of Halo before Halo became Halo Combat Evolved sound like?

[@sErgEantaEgis12]

I don't care what anyone says, "Leela" is the best track in Marathon and you nailed it.

[@ms.blackfire2927]

I think you're correct it is a very beautiful song like if you're in a castle standing before the royal family sending you on a quest that is at least what I felt when listening to the song🏰👑📜🏹

[@necrosteel5013]

Marathon is its own beast entirely even back in the day. Hexen was another odd ball that stumped some folks back then. Despite being called doom clones the stuff that stayed behind now paint a rather diverse range of pixelated artstyles and gameplay

[@RianReview123]

Rushing has such deeper bass, it’s so great dude

[@muwuny]

Probably the best fan remix I've ever heard

[@ciaranmeehan5481]

Wow, this is brilliant. I'd imagine this is what it would sound like if the og game got a 10 year anniversary remake. Awesome job.👍

[@ActuallySettle]

10 year anniversary was like 19 years ago sadly

[@astor78]

I hope they put old soundtracks in the new one for some nostalgia

[@Vain737]

THERE'S that nostalgia kick.

[@BlackChaosX12Gaming]

I love the remix of Rapture, such a sombre track.

[@CKT1138]

Rapture was fun, lots of very diverse instrumentation on it! The secret to getting a lot of these tracks right was to quietly mix in a lot of little segments of the old QuickTime versions with the top and bottom end rolled off, to get the perfect texture to the sound.

[@CKT1138]

Thanks for sharing this with your audience!

[@MarathonVidmaster]

No problem; thanks for letting me post it!

[@MarioPfhorG]

Ahh my childhood. The soundtrack will stick with me forever. *pfhor worbles in approval*

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

err-err oooh-oooh.

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

Actually a track with Pfhor worbles and other Marathon sounds mixed in would be sick.

[@centurychum]

God, Flippant sounds so good here thank you for this!

[@emmet_xrcmiy3]

Aw man! I never really realized how good this version of Rushing is! Thank-you!

[@R0bertRodriguez]

Been listening to this for many, many months now and never thought to drop a comment. Superb. It's like Seropian made the soundtrack today.

[@Fractal_blip]

Thanks for the dedication to this fantastic title

[@Powerof7even]

This is a real gem.

[@heartless7494]

commuting to this is awesome, these remixes are perfection

[@MetaCinema]

Excellent job! Some of the songs have a whole new mood to them, like "Swirls", I love that one, and it's always good to hear variations to it

[@CKT1138]

"Swirls" came out to be one of my favorites... "Splash" was the most fun, but the way "Swirls" turned out really leaves me satisfied. With the new instruments, I think the beautiful sad emotion of Alex's original score comes out in full.

[@keeperofsecrets3886]

Its a shame bungie has abandoned so much of its past

[@charlesballiet7074]

gaming in general has become design be committee, timid ,profit chasing crap

[@如來-c3l]

Apparently marathon IP is being resurrected

[@boldfacedbroom3374]

This was a funny comment to read today lmao

[@Randomtunez11]

Bungie has entered the chat.

[@Vid_Master]

there is a new Marathon game coming out soon! However it will be a PvP extraction style FPS

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

I love this music!

[@SpiritOfHalloween31]

Wow. You did great on this. I haven't had time to listen to the whole thing just yet, but Landing is already giving me chills, and that's a song that normally doesn't do that to me at all. You nailed it.

[@CKT1138]

Thank you!

[@squishyblanket]

New Pacific (reprise) was always my favorite.

[@ironmaskofhell1877]

This sounds better then the original soundtrack. Some of the songs do kinda have a blade runner feel. It's a shame the sequels didn't get an OST.

[@MWilmott]

I completely agree with your statement about the sequels not getting an OST, but you have to take it in the context of its time. Ambiance in video games was never really a thing prior to Marathon 2, as immersion in a pseudo-3D 16 bit game like DOOM was never really possible. So for Bungie to come around and immerse you in the atmosphere of Lh'owon with wind, flowing water, bird sound and distant explosions, it wasn't just revolutionary, it was transformative. Of course, stuff like that isn't special in this day and age, so nowadays we feel like we need both ambiance and soundtrack, but I think Bungie made the right choice for the time that Marathon 2 came out.

[@CKT1138]

I'm really happy to hear you say that!

[@tarunvesireddy9360]

@@MWilmott true, but some of the sound effects and the sound design in marathon isn't really immersive. To be honest, i think marathon should have an adaptive soundtrack, like the system shock remake. but the "combat soundtracks should be the ones from this remix album.

[@DeathWithinTenSteps]

Thanks for this!

[@brucesshipyards744]

Lord knows I need Fat Man remixed into some dance music or something. Its just got too much power to be left behind on a 1994 computer game, and I say this as a guy who loves the series. I could still get down to this version.

[@MarathonVidmaster]

good news: 1drv.ms/f/s!AuD0MykSsmaRrDrdZilwAtq7gnZf?e=loSYMR or in the context of the full soundtrack, 1drv.ms/u/s!AuD0MykSsmaRnUJawmCYx8my2zSS?e=9rRYFa (track 36, starting at approximately 1:28 into it) these aren’t up on KZbin yet because the OST is not yet finished

[@brucesshipyards744]

@@MarathonVidmaster Hahaha! Very surprised, thank you.

[@intrepidolivia482]

@@MarathonVidmaster Totally delightful. Glad to hear more is coming!!

[@astor78]

Beat is fire. Ugh I hope the new marathon isn’t a flop praying 🙏

[@jerrychandler7094]

Sounds just like the original! Good work!

[@reastmanable]

Hrrng, Chomber!

[@Sir_Double_D]

New Marathon game announced just a few hours ago holy shit this doesn't feel real!

[@giordanogarduno9207]

The JJARO THE JJARO WERE AT TAU CETIIIII can we get much higher? *Splash playing on the background

[@BladedEdge]

These aren't remixes. I don't hear any arrangement differences at all, even minor ones. This is more like the soundtrack redone with high quality instruments. Which is still lovely work, take the thumbs up.

[@CKT1138]

That was the idea! I wanted to clean up the tracks using their original midi data. There actually are a few changes, mostly I just cleaned up a few extremely sloppy off time notes here and there (not all of them though, because that would have been an impossible undertaking!), And I did add some instrumentation in places, like the bass guitar in "What About Bob?", Some sound effect abd ambient stuff in "Landing", and the icy synth stabs in the second mellow part of "Splash". Basically the intent was to make the soundtrack Alex Seropian could have made if not for technical limitations. I even stuck to using only synths that existed by 1994, particularly the Kawai K1 II.

[@prochristus]

@@CKT1138 ​ Bro are you on Spotify or Apple Music?

[@prochristus]

as in your content?

[@ZapWires]

Can I have the marathon text and symbol together as a wallpaper please

[@MarathonVidmaster]

The one used in this video? I didn't make one of it. This may serve your purposes though. Maybe. www.reddit.com/r/Marathon/comments/qqrqk9/cryos_from_the_discord_made_this_hires_poster_and/ I don't know what dimensions you want, so I don't know if that would work or not (there is a version without text, so you can just put the text in whatever place you want at whatever size you want).

[@odinlindeberg4624]

So what happened to the download link? If this was ever posted to Bandcamp I suppose it must've been taken down from there.

[@MarathonVidmaster]

Simplici7y has been down for a while, and the album was never posted to Bandcamp, AFAIK. I’ve reuploaded it to Discord. FLAC (ideal for out-of-game use): cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669769856974979093/1104457744800567336/Cory_King_Tucker_-_2021-03-12_-_Marathon_OST.zip Ogg Vorbis (in-game use): cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669769856974979093/1104458274394345512/Cory_King_Tucker_-_2021-03-12_-_Marathon_OST_Ogg_Vorbis.zip Note that, although Aleph One 1.6.1 enables FLAC soundtracks for the first time, it apparently still doesn’t look for FLAC in Marathon 1-style soundtracks, so you’ll want to get the Vorbis version if you’re looking for a version you can use in the game.

[@odinlindeberg4624]

​@@MarathonVidmaster I'm back and trying to download the tunes on a new device, but the links seem to have expired.

[@MarathonVidmaster]

@@odinlindeberg4624This is where I direct several curses in Discord’s general direction. The Simplici7y link should work again; if it’s not in the video description, check my soundtracks page at aaronfreed.github.io/soundtracks.html

[@slowneutron6163]

This riff should have been played by Tool.

[@sphtpfhorbrains3592]

Boomer shooter? Honestly, isn't it more of a shooter played by Millennials, made by Gen Xers?

[@MarathonVidmaster]

The term “boomer shooter” refers to any FPS made in the 1990s, or any more recent game whose mechanics, design, and/or appearance are made in the style of ’90s FPS games. It’s never been meant literally, and it’s most often used in a tongue-in-cheek fashion (as it was here). The term “boomer”, in common online parlance, hasn’t specifically referred to the Baby Boomer generation for years. (Generations are a fairly silly concept, anyway, but for whatever it’s worth, my dad plays Halo.)

[@willbill808]

@@MarathonVidmaster When I think Boomer shooter, I think Duke Nukem 3D. Duke embodies many Boomer like characteristics, like the kicking ass and chewing bubble gum line and his love of muscle cars and whiskey.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

In Marathon's case, "Boomer" is a reference to an important detail from the story, so there are several layers of meaning at work, here. Boy would I love to see something more done with this story now that the expressive capabilities of interactive technology have caught up to its level of depth.

[@Matrix_XV_Personal]

Yo

[@ms.blackfire2927]

this is such a fantastic remixes of all the songs but it also keeps all the beauty of the original music I don't know I really like this music not many games have today🎶🎵🎛🎚