Machinarium Soundtrack

I just finished this great little indie game called Machinarium, which is basically a pixel hunter type quest like Myst, set in a nicely painted cartoony steampunk/cute-ass robot universe. It's a short game, but it's a pretty magical 8 or so hours. The soundtrack is insanely good, too - most of it is really warm ambient in the vein of Eno, but there are some tracks that are pretty funky too. Check:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDvawzJ3s8

Dig?

I would be a happy man if I composed a few tracks this good and they appeared in some videogames.

Has anyone played this game?

Talking about videogame soundtracks, it came to my memory Half-Life 2 music, which is pretty impressive.

Yeah I've played this game. I think I got stuck though. I pirated it and didn't have the patched version and my game glitched. But yeah I too was amazed with the games music. It truly is something.

  On 6/3/2010 at 6:54 PM, Superstix said:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/52998-tomas-dvorak-machinarium-soundtrack/

arg, fuck me. oh well, that thread is dead anyway.

Mr. Handagote FTW

Yeah I'm so glad I bought the soundtrack with it. It's an amazing album. I really like that he changed the music to make it actually work as an album cos good soundtrack music rarely works very well by itself (after all, if it does it's job right, the visuals and the music should be inseperable).

there are a couple songs from the game that didn't make it onto the soundtrack. anyone know where to acquire these?

This soundtrack is incredible, I bought it on vinyl.

It was a limited release, sold out now unfortunately :(

  On 6/5/2010 at 7:41 PM, Frank Pools said:

there are a couple songs from the game that didn't make it onto the soundtrack. anyone know where to acquire these?

There was a bonus ep that I got in the package I bought/downloaded but it was a christmas special, I dunno if you normally get them seperately. As far as I can remember that has the only other tracks that weren't on the album (including the awesome Pipe Wrench Dubstep)

  On 6/6/2010 at 4:46 AM, Springymajig said:

There was a bonus ep that I got in the package I bought/downloaded but it was a christmas special, I dunno if you normally get them seperately. As far as I can remember that has the only other tracks that weren't on the album (including the awesome Pipe Wrench Dubstep)

http://machinarium.net/blog/2009/11/22/free-machinarium-soundtrack-bonus-ep/

By the wall is the gem of that btw.

  On 6/7/2010 at 5:17 AM, Homestar Runner said:

  On 6/6/2010 at 4:46 AM, Springymajig said:

There was a bonus ep that I got in the package I bought/downloaded but it was a christmas special, I dunno if you normally get them seperately. As far as I can remember that has the only other tracks that weren't on the album (including the awesome Pipe Wrench Dubstep)

 

http://machinarium.net/blog/2009/11/22/free-machinarium-soundtrack-bonus-ep/

 

By the wall is the gem of that btw.

Yeah actually... that is probably may favourite track from the entire soundtrack.

By the wall is pretty great. I would say "The Sea" and "Mr. Handagote" are the standouts overall. The Sea is super-lush.

I should just buy the vinyl

"By the Wall" sounds like it uses samples from the orchard sequence in Kirosawa's Dreams, which is Japanese court music (gagaku).

  On 6/7/2010 at 5:17 AM, Homestar Runner said:

  On 6/6/2010 at 4:46 AM, Springymajig said:

There was a bonus ep that I got in the package I bought/downloaded but it was a christmas special, I dunno if you normally get them seperately. As far as I can remember that has the only other tracks that weren't on the album (including the awesome Pipe Wrench Dubstep)

 

http://machinarium.net/blog/2009/11/22/free-machinarium-soundtrack-bonus-ep/

 

By the wall is the gem of that btw.

awesome. thanks a bunch!

InFamous OST is made by Amon Tobin. It's really great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6sb3kJhic&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si33-BZRWd8&feature=related

ive just started playing this and im liking it. the soundtrack is indeed cool.

i always like these kind of games more than the big budget super hyped ones (but then again im not a big video game person)

The Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack is one of my favourite soundtracks ever recorded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1T-f3dIUZE

I remember that it literally blew my mind when I started playing the game. There were moments in which i simply did nothing but staring blankly at the screen. If is anyone left that did not listen to the soundtrack, I would recommend Clockwise Operetta and Mr. Handagote, two really immersive addictive tracks still in my 'heavy rotation' playlist.

I would also slay babies for a vinyl

these are a few im enjoying lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8zZXI_5DuM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIrovVoZsrE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cXsoRRYf5A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_KL7cyTwNU&feature=related

ive been loving most of Jesper Kyd's work, but sometimes it veers into typical overblown cheesiness....i guess i love the undercurrent/ambient soundscape stuff.

theres an awesome track from red dead that i cant find anywhere...and its the one where you get into the Tall Trees area...muted steel drums...really creepy.

just finished listening through the machinarium soundtrack...damn...this is an excellent album.

  On 2/14/2011 at 4:14 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

just finished listening through the machinarium soundtrack...damn...this is an excellent album.

he recently confirmed a new LP release for may this year under his floex alias on the floex facebook page:

  Floex said:

believe me or not, it is almost finnished and should be released in may. i am so much looking forward this release!!!

samples can be heard here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvqmBpKkqw

vvvvvv soundtrack is incredible

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_n0Gv23w5s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7iqAq-eFg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E99qxCMb05g&feature=related

Yeah this stuff is fantastic. Great game, too.

Man listening to "By The Wall" makes me want to play the game through again....fantastic.