Sgaileach's Music Pack

Post » Sat May 28, 2011 12:59 pm

I’ve recently been scouring my old IDE hard drives for mod files from back when I started playing Morrowind, back in the Athalon XP and ATI 9800 days!

That was a particularly magical time for me. Going to school, learning computers, becoming an advlt, navigating the modern age…

I remember at the time my interests in technology, fantasy, the occult, history, philosophy and psychology, science, space exploration, science fiction (inner space exploration), and a general sense of great things to come all started to really come together.

For some reason, for me and so many here, the idea of building virtual worlds symbolized the “spirit of the time,” and Morrowind with its construction set mature crafted fantasy atmosphere was a zeitgeist, and tangible evidence things were moving in the right direction.

The experience was life altering, in a world where so much is taken for granted, and status quo. It was like a magical breath of fresh life into the doldrums of this mortal condition!

Part of what helped to shape that environment for me personally was the music. I love Jeremy Soule’s work, and the game’s score combined with that of its predecessor, Daggerfall, gave the environment much of its emotionally and creatively evocative depth.

After days of searching I finally found the music pack I used at the time.

Most of the songs are from Daggerfall, however some of the other instrumentals I am not certain about. Copy the "music" folder to your Data Files directory:

http://www.mediafire.com/?kn4yi2i8mblzma4
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Brιonα Renae
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 10:43 pm

Thanks, I could use some more music!
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Cathrin Hummel
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 1:40 pm

Thanks, but my subjective opinion:
1. Video game music should not have lyrics
2. Some of the music sounds wierdly exotic (Middle Eastern or something?) - at a great variance with the included daggerfall music

IMHO Better Music System is still the best choice, followed by original Morrowind music.

BTW, I have a file called sg1_music_pack.rar that is 98 MB instead of your 65 MB, contains many extra songs, and claims to come from Sgaileach. (Maybe it's a newer version.)
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Charlotte Lloyd-Jones
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 10:19 am

That music pack is excellent and there's a good reason for that. It contains a number of songs from legendary band Dead Can Dance (wonderfully "weirdly exotic") and it was probably just a little bit naughty to release it.
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Joie Perez
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 12:08 pm

Hmm... I really want a "Better Music System" that doesn't require MWSE... I find a lot of music tracks out there are pretty good but only really fit in certain places.
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Michelle Serenity Boss
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 10:17 am

1. Video game music should not have lyrics


I have to disagree with this on account that doomsday opera is always an acceptable thing to have for a particularly badass part.
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Shannon Lockwood
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 8:53 pm

Chanting and "opera" are one thing - singing is another.
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