Sorry for appropriating your thread (and for changing the title), testudo, but this thread seemed the most appropriate for this discussion.
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Originally Posted by joethelion
which reminds me...
did anyone ever manage to extract the audio from the game?
I've never seen it (as I never even owned a PS2), but I seem to recall that someone said that - while some "songs" are background bits (with no discernible end/beginning - kinda like "Kippers" off the old UW live) - there still were some distinct songs
...and I feel like someone said there's a different version of "Ansum" on it too?
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You inspired me to pull it out and try again. I tried a few years ago, but wasn't able to make much progress. This time I actually got some working audio. Also, having a
working PS2 emulator helped give some much needed context to the audio. It's not perfect though; the emulator froze up in several places and there were graphical glitches in others. But it was still enough to explore a lot of the disc.
There are 4 sections to wisp. "Phonology," "Miracles & Wonders," "Latlong," and "Sleeping Eye." According to the credits, Smith/Hyde is responsible for the audio for almost everything except "Latlong," which is by Johnny Conquest (aka Tomato).
"Phonology" crashed on me in the emulator, and I wasn't able to extract any music. I think most of it is assembling sounds from a lot of small samples. I think.
"Miracles & Wonders" has "8 different remixes of Underworld Ansum." In truth, I wouldn't really say 8 different remixes. It's mostly just pieces of Ansum chopped up. Nothing too special, and I've had a hard time extracting the audio properly. There are a lot of nice spoken word samples though.
"Sleeping Eye" is the most interesting part. I believe it is the "play" part of the title, and it has about a dozen different mini-"games". There's a lot of audio design here. The problem is that a lot of it is assemblage, and not much in the way of "songs." As testudo mentioned, Darc makes an appearance here as the "Advice from a Horse," a wacky interstitial. The horse has 11 different sayings. Here's one of them:
http://www.bangerter.org/todd/underw...ICE-AUTO2.flac
Here's another one that has Mo Move elements. There's a lot of Mo Move used in "Sleeping Eye."
http://www.bangerter.org/todd/underw...isp/GRAPE.flac
This one is my favorite. It starts off as Mo Move and ends up as Soopher. We always knew they shared a common lineage, but it's cool to hear them mixed together like when they play Rowla and Cherry Pie together live.
http://www.bangerter.org/todd/underw...isp/MOVIE.flac