āLetās just make it so no one turns off the musicā. An inauspicious first step for one of the best gaming soundtracks in recent memory.
While Red Dead Redemption is wowing people with its characters, open world and Western gunplay, the unsung hero of the title is its soundtrack, which unusually for a Rockstar game features not a single licensed track.
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Exactly. A great piece over on The Guardian goes into excruciating detail on how the gameās original soundtrack was thus composed, including fascinating tidbits on where it was recorded and the deck it was recorded on (which was used on āeverything from T-Rex and Grateful Dead, to Herbie Hancockā).
āThey were showing us the echo chambers beneath the floor that Les Paul made, which are 50ft under the ground,ā says Woody Jackson, one of the two composers. āIt literally looks like a video game where you need to crawl into a hole and down a ladder. They wouldnāt let us go down there, itās too far and too dangerous. But when we were doing the Widmore track, I was like āput the chamber on!ā and we did and it sounded great.ā
So great. Read moreā¦below!
Redemption songs: the making of the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack [The Guardian]
