Firefly MMORPG Announced
bishiraver writes “Multiverse has announced that they have gained rights to a Firefly Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Multiverse is a company started by several former Netscape employees, and they have developed an engine/network that works for all of their games. They intend to break into the MMO industry by being an MMO publisher of sorts. By standardizing, they can provide a less expensive alternative to the tens of millions of dollars and several years it takes to currently develop an MMO. They have said they will hire out a studio to build the game for them. Corey Bridgets, Massive’s Executive Producer, says: ‘If you’re doing science fiction, you have to really think it out and create an incredibly rich environment that is compelling in its own right, and worth exploring and going back to week after week. That’s what Joss Whedon did with Firefly.’”
From the moment I experienced my very first brilliantly stupendous episode of the Ren & Stimpy show my brain has ruminated on how to get my hands on that wonderful vintage “incidental music” that sets the tone for their zany, wacky, madcap antics. Eventually the internet taught me that the music of Ren & Stimpy comes from all over the place. Some was written for the show, some are well known classical pieces, and there are quite a few works by Raymond Scott. For me, the most elusive stuff has always been the authentic “production music” from the 1950s. The bulk of the tracks they used came from just three albums that belong to the ever popular KPM music library. (The discs are KPM 81: Light Activity, KPM 82: Drama, and KPM 83: Showbiz and Romance.) A handful of these tracks were released a while back on a compilation called Music for TV Dinners. It literally took me three unfulfilled ebay transactions and a cancelled Amazon order before I finally obtained this CD. Now anyone can just grab it HERE.
(rather HERE.)
Then a couple months ago I discovered that some dear soul (or souls) had assembled a massive collection of these aural delights, and made them available on a torrent site. It was as though the Gilded Yak had answered all of my letters at once! And you guessed it, I’m making this marvelous collection of classics available to you today, free of charge!
Put simply, these melodies have enriched my life. Play them on your drive to work and you’re the star of an instructional traffic safety film, turn it on during dinner and mealtime becomes 80% happier (but be careful.. play the wrong track and you could wind up with a touch of Space Madness). Best of all you can listen and imagine that you live in the world of Ren and Stimpy where the walrus-napping horse is your next door neighbor, where the toy stores are stocked with Log from Blammo, and a visit from Powdered Toast Man is just a complaint away!
Since this stuff is already ‘out there’ I decided to add some extra value before I handed it off to you folks, and therefore I did the following..
-Designed an “album cover” for the collection (as seen above)
-Hunted down and tagged the name of every artist for every stinkin’ track
-Added a couple tracks that I had that weren’t included in the bundle
-Crated a track listing based on musical styles. It kicks off with some general ’50s domestic lollygagging tunes and then it gets more downtown hustle and bustle-ish. After that it goes glamorous, scary, romantic, and finally dramatic.
It is my pleasure to present you with the unofficial Ren & Stimpy Production Music collection. Be happy happy and enjoy joy joy it!
109 Total tracks (MP3, 192 kbps)
Download from Sendspace (All one ZIP file, 208MB)
Download part I from Rapidshare (72MB)
Download part II from Rapidshare (70MB)
Download part III from Rapidshare (67MB)
(these are not ’split-archives’ so you don’t need all three files before you can start extracting and listening)
