Blast Corps Soundtrack "Midi Versions" by Graeme Norgate RARE

These are the original Blast Corps songs created in MIDI by Graeme Norgate. These MIDI files give us a look at what some of the original songs sounded like before they were translated to Nintendo 64 hardware. These were downloaded from Graeme Norgate's personal website about a decade ago before most of them were removed. http://www.graemenorgate.com/main_fil...

Unfortunately they are only 128kbps MP3 encoded :(

[Graeme Norgate] "For the first year and a half of development of this game we had no Nintendo 64 hardware, so some of the music was written on my midi setup at the time. I had no idea what the N64 was capable and had to just hope that I'd be able to recreate these tunes once the equipment finally arrived."

0:00 - Title Theme (Old Version)
2:28 - Name Entry
3:21 - World
4:30 - Fly By
6:32 - Simian Acres
9:14 - Mountain
12:10 - Pool Table
13:02 - Elec
15:39 - Elec (Old Version)
18:21 - Cops
21:16 - Satans
23:57 - Angel City
27:04 - Boots
28:50 - NWO
32:00 - Replay
34:06 - Stats

Original Filenames
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_old_title.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_name.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_world.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_fly_by.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_Simian_Acres.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_mountain.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_pool_table.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_elec.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_elec_old_vrs.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_cops.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_satans.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_Angel_City.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_boots.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_nwo.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_replay.MP3
Graeme_Norgate_Blastcorps_Midi_Version_stats.MP3

Angel City - Midi Version / Old Title Tune - Midi Version
I wrote this near the begining, all grandiose and industrial, quite different to what ended up as the final version.

Pool Table - Midi Version
One of the bonus levels to the game was set on a pool table, stands to reason really doesn't it when you're driving a bulldozer around. Anyway, here's the original version I knocked up for it. I only wish (1) I could play it live and (2) pubs still had pianos. That would then be my party piece, rather than my slightly less impressive party trick of drinking cider until I'm about to fall over and running around the room with a lampshade on my head.

Call the Cops - Midi Version
Can't remember which level this was used in. No prizes in guessing why it's working title was Call the Cops. Had a lot of fun writing this.

Replay - Midi Version
This was the first piece I wrote for Blastcorps, it's quite short as I was still in the Killer Instinct frame of mind where the tracks were about 1.5 minutes. This was supposed to be a mixture between Jean Michel Jarre and what I'd expect to hear when seeing footage of factories and assembly lines etc Not sure what people thought of it, but it was played to Shigeru Miyamoto in my room way back when and he was tapping his foot politely to it so it's probably not that bad.

Elec Old Vrs - Midi Version
I felt the first version was a bit too downbeat - even though the premise of the game was world destruction, but you , know, you've got to keep the energy up