Am 22. August 2012 fiel der "Schatten des Biests" (Shadow of the Beast) über Sony Studio Liverpool, besser bekannt unter ihrem früheren Namen Psygnosis. Nachdem sie 28 Jahre lang großartige Spiele produziert haben, schloss die Mutterfirma Sony die Firma, die uns großartige Spiele wie Lemmings, WipEout, Destruction Derby oder die Formula 1 Spiele schenkte. Ein trauriges Ereignis, das wir in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Demoszene-Portal BitFellas.org in Form eines Podcasts aufarbeiten.

Die Musik für die Spiele von Psygnosis war immer etwas besonderes. In zwei Podcast-Episoden huldigen wir diesem großartigen Unternehmen. Teil 1, der heute veröffentlicht wurde, behandelt die Musik aus den Amiga-Spielen von Psygnosis. Nächsten Sonntag folgt die zweite Episode mit den Soundtracks aus den PC- und Konsolenfirmen der Firma mit der Eule im Logo. Weiterhin haben wir ein kleines "Making of..." verfasst, das die Hintergründe zu diesem Podcast schildert.

Episode #157 - Tribute to Psygnosis, Part 1: The Amiga years
On August, the 22nd of 2012, the SHADOW OF THE BEAST (Sony) fell over Sony Studio Liverpool, better known as Psygnosis. After producing AWESOME games for 28 years the MENACE couldn't be stopped. Game over for a company who wrote a big chapter into the book of history of computer and video games. BitFellas says "thank you" for creating and publishing milestones like Lemmings, Barbarian, the Beast trilogy, WipEout and many more gems, including some of the best box art of all time.
R.I.P. Psygnosis, playing at the THEATRE OF DEATH now.

This is the first podcast episode with music from Psygnosis games. The focus here is on music from their Amiga games, sometimes in their original MOD version, sometimes as remix. Some unreleased tunes are included, too.

BitFellas - playing the tune tonight, which Bobic made to switch from Atari ST to Amiga in 1989 (Blood Money!).

Mixing by Vincenzo, logo #157 by KF, compiled by Bobic

01. (1988) - Menace - Ingame (David Whittaker, remix by Estrayk)
02. (1988) - Menace - Intro (David Whittaker, remix by Estrayk)
03. (1989) - Blood Money - Title theme (Ray Norrish)
04. (1989) - Shadow of the Beast - Intro (David Whittaker, remix by Ruben Monteiro) [taken from Immortal Audio CD]
05. (1989) - Shadow of the Beast - Eerie Forests (David Whittaker, remix by Ruben Monteiro) [taken from Immortal Audio CD]
06. (1989) - Shadow of the Beast - The Cavern (David Whittaker, remix by Ruben Monteiro) [taken from Immortal Audio CD]
07. (1990) - Anarchy (Tim Wright)
08. (1990) - Awesome - R1A (Tim Wright)
09. (1990) - Shadow of the Beast 2 (Tim Wright, remix by Mutagene)
10. (1990) - Shadow of the Beast 2 - Game Over (Tim Wright)
11. (1990) - The Killing Game Show - Loader Final (Ray Norrish)
12. (1990) - The Killing Game Show - Ingame (Ray Norrish)
13. (1991) - Leander - Title theme (Tim Wright)
14. (1991) - Leander - Ingame (Tim Wright)
15. (1991) - Lemmings - Level 05 (Tim Wright & Brian Johnston)
16. (1991) - Lemmings - Music 02 (Tim Wright & Brian Johnston)
17. (1991) - Lemmings - Music 10 (Tim Wright & Brian Johnston)
18. (1992) - Agony - Intro (Tim Wright)
19. (1992) - Agony - Village (Matthew Simmonds)
20. (1992) - Agony - End (Martin "Mantronix" Wall & Robert "Tip" Ling)
21. (1992) - Aquaventura (Tim Wright, Remix) [taken from Immortal 3 Audio CD]
22. (1992) - Bill's Tomato Game - Bigbaddie (Mike Clarke)
23. (1992) - Bill's Tomato Game - Orient Main 1 (Mike Clarke)
24. (1992) - The Carl Lewis Challenge - Main Theme (produced by Chris Hülsbeck, remix by Dr.Future)
25. (1992) - Ork (Tim Bartlett, Remix) [taken from Immortal 3 Audio CD]
26. (1992) - Shadow of the Beast 3 - Intro (Tim Wright)
27. (1992) - Shadow of the Beast 3 - Funeral (Tim Wright)
28. (1992) - Shadow of the Beast 3 (Tim Wright, remix by Paul Blackford)
29. (1993) - Globdule - Madman 1 (Mike Clarke)
30. (1993) - Lemmings 2 - Polar (Tim Wright)
31. (1993) - Lemmings 2 (Brian Johnston, remix by Sean Connolly)
32. (1993) - Theatre of Death - Title (Mike Clarke)
33. (1994) - Benefactor - Loading (Olof Gustafsson)
34. (1994) - Benefactor - Endgame (Olof Gustafsson)
35. (1994) - Benefactor - End (Olof Gustafsson)
36. (1994) - Brian the Lion - Highscore (Rik Ede, remix by Apple)
37. (1994) - Microcosm - Level 3 (Tim Wright)
38. (1994) - Puggsy - Title theme (Tim Wright)
39. (Unreleased) - G2 - Ttitle 2 V1 (Mike Clarke)
40. (Unreleased) - SuperHero - Old Lev3 (Mike Clarke & Ray Norrish)
41. (Unused) - Bill's Tomato Game - Title unused (Mike Clarke)
Total playtime: 1:55:42min.

We say thank you to the following musicians and people, who made this episode possible and bow down for writing some of the best game music ever made: Tim Wright (CoLD SToRAGE), Matthew Simmonds (4mat), Chris Hülsbeck, Ray Norrish (NZO), Tim Bartlett, Olof Gustafsson (Blaizer), Mike Clarke and Jan Zottmann.