ExoticA Forum

Posted: **Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:24 am**

Ey up!

I don't know if anybody else has felt the release of Immortal 3 dragging on for longer than the release of a new Amiga by Escom or Gateway 2000 ever did!

If you haven't already downloaded and listened to these, then there are a handful of sneak previews of what is on the new double album, being a Tim Follin fan I'm blown away by the first preview: -

Ghouls 'n' Ghosts [Title]

...and then there's...

Ambermoon (Needs RealPlayer)
Cardiaxx
No Second Prize (Needs RealPlayer)

The rest of the tracks in alpha order are: -

Agony
Alien Breed
Amberstar
Apidya
Aquaventura
Brat
The Chaos Engine
Death Mask
Defender of the Crown
Denaris
Disposable Hero
Elfmania
Fire & Ice
Gods
Leander
Lotus 3: Ultimate Challenge
Obsession
Ork
Overdrive
Pinball Dreams
Pinball Fantasies
The Plague
Shadow of the Beast 2
Speedball 2
Supercars 2
Theatre of Death
Trolls
Turrican 2
Turrican 3
Uridium 2
Wings of Death

Apparently, "The Killing Gameshow" and "Blood Money" were also to be included, but the tracks couldn't be finished in time.

Maybe we might see this album before Xmas 2005?!?

If you're into Atari ST soundtracks, then the yet to be released album "Revival ST" should whet your appetite. Still being a biased Tim Follin fan, the following preview was very impressive: -

L.E.D. Storm [Title]

There are previews for the rest of the album available here.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:44 pm**

I've been looking forward to this album for a long time.

Matthias Steinwachs (Thalion musician) who donated his original disks to Exotica completed his immortal 3 tracks almost a year ago.

I do hope that Amberstar (Jochen Hippel, another Thalion musician) is good too.

Thalion were only an ickle company, but they had 2 tracks on the last immortal, 3 tracks on this immortal, quite impressive.

Posted: **Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:35 pm**

Ey up!

There's been another progress report: -

Jan Zottmann wrote:My apologies for the recent lack of news! It's a busy time for me at the moment - I've only got the weekends to work on the album, but it's happening. In the meantime I thought it would be nice to let you have a look at the making of one of the tracks: "Shadow of the Beast 2" was orginally to be arranged by "Immortal" series creator Ruben Monteiro for CD; unfortunately, he only found the time to work on the intro and make a hurried attempt to re-orchestrate the ingame mod. Since this was the only track left unfinished I decided to give it a hand myself and teamed up with a friend to sample a whole load of quality sounds from our synth racks. In addition to the exchange of samples and some careful changes to the song structure we re-arranged the climatic string part at the end of the piece with a Kurzweil K2500. The result was finally approved by composer Tim Wright and will hopefully please the many fans of the Amiga original...

http://www.zottmann.com/beast_v1.mp3 (an excerpt from the Amiga mod)
http://www.zottmann.com/beast_v2.mp3 (the re-orchestrated Monteiro draft)
http://www.zottmann.com/beast_v3.mp3 (a glimpse at the CD version)

...but still no release date.