Initially, I had already proposed this project to Jimmy back in 2013 (free of charge back then), but it got delayed and did not really kick off before 2016 when it turned into a commission. This creative guy has already shown his qualities as a composer in many Doom community projects (including standalone efforts such as his "Harmony" MIDI Pack), and this debut contribution of his for a Duke3D-related game is a remarkable event that deserves acknowledgement. What you get with this is nothing less than a completely new soundtrack for Duke It Out In D.C. with original music, composed by James "Jimmy" Paddock. (Note: The YouTube version of the tracks are rendered in just the Arachno soundfont - the versions in the download may sound slightly different as I did some additional mixing on them.)Īt long last, the Duke DC Music Pack v2.0 has arrived! There's also a handy YouTube playlist so you can stream the tracks right the heck now. Get EDuke32 - required to hear the tracks in-game You can read a lot more in-depth stuff about the project's (long-winded) gestation in the readme for this project. :P And yes, these are free to re-use in your own projects. Of course you can extract the MIDI/OGG files yourself and listen to them out of context, that also works. This will require EDuke32 to run, and of course it is recommended that you play them with the Duke It Out In D.C. The resultant 12 tracks I wrote are now part of the Duke DC Music Pack 2.0, which features the original looping MIDIs plus OGG renders with added metadata.
I had a good chunk of time over the last Christmas season so that's when most of this project was knocked out, although a good portion of the material in this pack does date back to 2013-2014. The amount of time that has elapsed since that initial proposition has been largely down to my uni commitments, Square, and other big projects getting in the way of me really knuckling down and taking some time to study the works of Lee Jackson, Bobby Prince, and Jenna Ramsey (Duke: Caribbean, The Gate) in order to create a brand new soundtrack for DukeDC that did justice to not just the maps but those original composers too. Waaaay back in 2013, NightFright contacted me about writing stuff for the Duke Nukem 3D addon " Duke It Out In D.C.", which I was happy to do. If you've recently been hankering for some new Jimmidis (and I admit my output has withered down to a trickle lately), then no worries, I gotcha covered.
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