The conveyor belt fight. The gluon gun, Gordon the interloper. This track gave me chills as I disintegrated them aliens and inching closer to the Nihilanth.
This moment. This moment right here. Let me tell you about this moment and my love for it. In execution, it was so frustrating from a combat design perspective. The stifling of movement from the conveyor belt with little space on the side-rims to take advantage of; the moveset of the Controllers working to a frustrating degree in terms of the arena with controlled Vortigaunts (that you're probably choosing not to kill); the nature of the Gluon Gun's heavy tracking requirement (as it's nature of weapon class) meaning that any Clone Grunts can pop up unannounced or your tunnel-visioning could lead to you popping a Clone Vat unintended. And the gloss-over of the Vorts comes full-circle here now, with the gigantic range of Controller's mind-control and ability for it to go through walls leads to the Vortigaunts with high area of denial at chokepoints and pseudo-hit scan attacks among everything else. Not to mention the fact that there was more than one case of Controllers playing passively, with me in a losing scenario one way or another - strictly adhering to my self-imposed rule of not harming the Vortigaunt slaves. Right there, though. That's the catch. It would be remiss of me to not bring up how Interloper had changed so radically from its initial inception - so much so that they're almost two entirely different chapters. Engagements with Controllers are kept to a minimum, traded instead for their simple counterpart: the Vortigaunts - tired and weary; so much so that they only give you a passing glance on their way to perform their work even still. You're a rogue element - in every sense of the word, but they never seem to recognize that. In fact, they never seem to recognize a life of their own. Work concessions are turned off for your goal, yet their dissonance from the environment keeps them piddling against controls that are fluctuating from expectancy. One later segment has them crowded entirely around destructive green boils, yet they never seem to distance themselves when you shoot at those things. Nor does the game punish you for having them caught in the crossfire. They seem unnerved. Expectant. And why wouldn't they be? Crawling in the vents of the thumping, harmonic machine, where some of their corpses lay. Stepping on the corpses of the "failures" that they themselves had to dictate. It's the build-up, to put it in a word. The entire build up to this one section to make me decide that killing the vortigaunts was something I could not do - even when doing so would help so much more in service of my own goal. And I could still point fingers so much so at all of those bad components on the gameplay side of things, but they falter the moment you realize all the work that was built up to set this situation up from the get-go. The song itself supplements even as a build-up with its diagetic nature. The decisive thumping - rhythmic action; resolve to motion - to the harmonic human voice on the pause to recover your wits and health. And then they come together: the human rogue element - the one Freeman - pounding against it all. Alerts from your HEV are a secondary supplement to the music: a voice brimming with urgency at your condition - a reminder of your mortality. Yet your liberation becomes theirs - those Vortigaunts that watch - and in that moment, you can feel yourself becoming what they embody you as. In this moment, you can feel where the legend culminates and takes form. From that, those struggles of mortality on your health and suit become real. It's why, despite all the qualms I have with this overall, that I can't bring myself to change anything about it. It is simply genius. Thank you, Joel. You, and everyone else in the Black Mesa team, did unrivaled work here. You've made Xen into something so incomprehensibly beautiful that it borders on unreal.
This so well conveys what I was feeling but couldn't quite put into words myself, I did knew though that I was to become their saviour, their inspiration, to the vortigaunts that is, what a great experience xen is overall!
This passage: "The song itself supplements even as a build-up with its diagetic nature. The decisive thumping - rhythmic action; resolve to motion - to the harmonic human voice on the pause to recover your wits and health. And then they come together: the human rogue element - the one Freeman - pounding against it all. Alerts from your HEV are a secondary supplement to the music: a voice brimming with urgency at your condition - a reminder of your mortality. Yet your liberation becomes theirs - those Vortigaunts that watch - and in that moment, you can feel yourself becoming what they embody you as. In this moment, you can feel where the legend culminates and takes form." is fantastic, really amazing.
That hallway was infinite for me, with much enemies and no places to cover, but it was also an epic part with this music, so it was good to suffer there
This track gave me the strongest goosebumps, I felt like I fell out of this world, I couldn't control my smile, I have never felt such admiration while listening to music. You are simply a genius
This is by far my favorite track from this outstanding album. Have taken the liberty to make "my own" twist on this in Audacity. Just removing and reversing some of the choral parts in the middle section, and shortening the silence at the beginning and the end of the track to make a "seamless" transition when repeating it to death. Remains to tripple the section from 0:04 to 0:48. Can,t get enough of this track... Has been circulating with Ascension for the last 4 days on my headphones...... . The track is so crispy, the drums sounds real, it has the right amount of energy and drive that it makes the juices flow in a way that I wanna "break something" (not for real - but the juices are all the way up there)... And it's interesting to analyze it "to death" for all the nuances within the track. And I cant help but finding a sound that reminds me of a harmonica at just about the 28 sec marker. I'd really love to se a "The Making of"-video of this brilliant soundtrack....
Most of my favorite songs, I listen to so much until it doesn't sound as good as I originally thought, but your music keeps me coming back. I keep listening again and again. My favorite song changes daily, but my love for your music doesn't. You make some seriously unforgettable music, and it never gets annoying. I love your music, and I hope to see you get an award for #1 video game soundtrack.
You gotta help out project borealis or something. Though I feel that doing that would take away the special sound of black mesa’s soundtrack. It’s great and doesn’t try to remake half life’s soundtrack. It does it in its own style.
I wish so as well. Would be cool to see a little nugget about how Borealis was stolen from Aperture Science, most likely near the time the Resonance Cascade happened.
@@DevilWolf000 AFAIK Borealis disappeared from old Aperture sometime in 1960-1980 as a result of failed teleportation test, well before resonance cascade.
God, the music in this game just made everything feel so alive and that vocal has such a xen feel to it. It fits so well. You’ve done a very good job :)
The filename for this music has 2 files. Some kind of semi-dynamic track or just like Surface Tension 1 or Surface Tension 3. And will be on the Conveyor belt section of Interloper.
Yeah, can confirm that it plays during the conveyor belt area, and that the soft bits play before, after, and inbetween the two conveyor fight segments.
In these quarantine-times I'm glad there so much time to listen to good music. This particurlar track has gotten 748 rotations since March 20th and still sounding as good as ever. I guess that would amount to almost 27 hours of continous listening.... Still loving it and aiming for at least a 1000 spins before I must go and change the tyres on my car : ))) (Must change them before second monday after easter sunday in my country)..
Just finished Black Mesa and I remember this track in the hardest part of the game. These flying Mind-controller manipulated the Vortigaunts and I don't wanted them to kill
IDK man if you gonna saw my comment or not, but you kinda brings soul to this game, i don't know does any one play with my interpretation or not but i always think HL1/BlackMesa a surviving story....imagine the each chapter as day and night Gordon going through....if you are a anxiety patient like me try to relate with Freeman...if he wants to he can give up and then he would still stuck in a facility but my boy picking up the crowbar again and again...we all have one Freeman inside us , these drums and vocal kinda saying keep your head high...rise and shine !❤
Really like how this track keeps looping until you get to the end of the section rather than only playing thru once and then no music. Same with Ascension. Actually made it kinda disappointing to reach the end of the conveyor section since that meant the music stops. Just because those grunts that come out of the pods don't have their armor or hive-hands doesn't mean they're not dangerous. In fact, they might have been more annoying to deal with than the controllers.
Most people have been talking about how this plays during the conveyor belt section and while it is eargasmic there as it is later, I can't help but feel it perfectly matched the "slow elevator" at the end, the heavenly vocals give a feeling of "Ascension" (heh), which fits thematically with that point as the elevator goes up and you're incinerating Controllers left right and center, heal and recharge HEV suit's energy with the crystals then at it again till you reach the top.
This is definitely my second favorite music in the chapter Violator. When I hear it, I immediately want to destroy the controllers because it is so epic.
I think the vocals are not perfectly in pitch... But I am totally crazy about that. Also this is very hard to sing well, despite the simplicity of the part. When I record vocals it always takes dozens of takes and months of work to get them to sound in tune. I refuse to use pitch-correction on vocals on principle though.
@@JoelNielsenMusic I think you're right. I completely tolerate it in some styles of music (grunge?). Maybe it's the years I've spent singing under a conductor who would not be satisfied with the choir being detuned by intervals none of us could hear after years of training... I guess it's good to be able to perceive that, but often seeking this pitch perfection in singing can be quite... absorbing. I do prefer imprefect, but authentic singing over robotic autotune I guess. I still can hear imperfections in pretty much everything I've published so far, though no one ever seems to notice or care. Maybe I should cut it some slack, embrace the sloppiness and just enjoy the music (both as a listener and as a creator).
I'm sad that I didn't get to hear this in game fully, because I sped through this section too quick. Hard to enjoy music while there are a zillion Controllers shooting at you, though.
У меня лично такая ассоциация с этой композицией, это что то напоминающее тоску по своему дому, Гордон находится очень далеко от нашей земли, один, противостоящий инопланетным существам, эта музыка мне своей мотивацией чем то напоминает песню Татьяны Овсиенко о дальнобойщике, который где то далеко от всех, едет один, так же и Гордон, один пробирается сквозь полчища монстров, наверняка тоскуя по дому... где то между сражениями наверняка сидит и плачет, нет не плачет, ведь мужчины не плачут, они только огорчаются....
This soundtrack sounds like it could have went well in a movie about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Imagine this: 0:00 right after the grand staircase dome implodes, the protagonist escapes the 1st class gymnasium, water right behind him, he starts running towards the stern of the ship, as the pitch of the vessel increases and the stern rises higher and the water chases him up the boat deck while it swallows the forward part of the ship behind him, funnels collapsing, glass shattering, people screaming for their lives. 0:47 he makes it to the third funnel, the lights go out, he looks around stunned at the sudden darkness as he keeps running, everything goes in slow mode for him out of pure shock and realization that he is about to perish, the deck below him slanting more and more. 1:03 The ship breaks apart, knocking our protagonist to the wooden deck, he gets up as the severed stern of the ship settles. 1:17 As the stern of the ship begins to get pulled under, our protagonist jumps to A deck, then B deck, where the palm court and the 2nd class promenades are and finally makes it to the aft well deck, as he makes a mad dash for the after-castle of the ship (the poop deck). 1:47 The stern of the Titanic goes vertical, our protagonist climbs up the side railing of the after-castle for the very end of the stern as the stern section of the ship begins to plunge, he makes it just in time. 2:01 The stern section of the Titanic finally goes under, plunging our protagonist and over 1500 people into the water, the very vast majority of whom will never live to see daylight.
I kind of envision this music playing in an alternate ending of Half-Life where Gordon refuses G-Man’s offer and fights the battalions of Alien Grunts to his dying breath
60% of the reason I play this game is the music. The rest is no trivial matter, given that the level designs and plot are also epic. My opinion is that, the things that contribute to the essence of Black Mesa are: 60% music 15% plot 5% gameplay 20% level design
I plan on doing a hat *and* pizza run (I'm gonna try to place the hat on top of the box) and after reading all the comments about the trains and stuff I feel like I might hate myself for even thinking of that.
Wowed has been an awesome night of the week and a few weeks of my birthday week with a few people I know and all I can say was the only way I could get the rest I had to go through it and it would not have. WoW has
Ah yes, one of my favorite parts of Inteloper, because of your beautiful music,( and your beautiful wife too) and also flying big heads sending naked buff aliens at me.
Hey Joel, the version heard in-game has a small issue: during the second half of the track (specifically the part that is looped at the end), there are a few vocals that are cut off rather abruptly. Are you planning to fix this? Other than that, I absolutely love this track :)
@@JoelNielsenMusic In the game files, in the "xen-conveyb" WAV file, the issue starts at 0:30 (the equivalent of 1:19 on this TH-cam video), and also occurs at 0:37, 0:45, 0:52, 1:07 and 1:10 (these timestamps are for the file itself). There are some background vocals (with a reverb-like effect) which were present in your original track, but which have been removed from the in-game version, and I guess this is one of the reasons.
@@Rami_Yazbek So for this 'loop' to work in game... I had to pick a point where I could endlessly cut this piece. The vocal 'cut-out' seemed like a great spot, as it gives the song a bit of a pause, and then jumps back into the beat. This spot could maybe be a hair rough though if listened to very carefully. But if you go to the 1:13 timestamp in the 'xen-conveyb' file, you should hear that exact same transition when it gets to the 'end' of the file and loops back around. Both parts should be seemless, and in my own internal testing, they appear to be on my end.
@@JoelNielsenMusic (Sorry for the late reply) Yep, I obviously noticed that it's the same transition; I just thought I'd point out the various cutouts that I noticed, as it wasn't the case original track. But to be fair, yeah, I had to listen very carefully with headphones. Initially it's the vocals at 1:11 and 1:15 (in the xen-conveyb file) that mainly drew my attention. Anyway, I guess it's not a big deal, I'm pretty sure most players won't notice that, since they're too busy with spamming the gluon gun against the numerous alien controllers and grunts :P
I feel like this was the most repetitive of all the tracks in Xen, especially since I died so often and reset so often trying to get the hat and pizza through. Could have had a BIT of variance with the vocals?? It was overly simple for such a complex stage.
The song is meant to be a metaphor of a conveyor belt/system. It's also a section that was designed to be run through very quickly, while ignoring the mobs. As the team has now seen most people are trying to fight through it...
and people got hyped with doom eternal pff what a joke this game is what i call i true hype its amazing how a game who started as a mod became a masterpiece remake of the original half life 1
That is true. Denuvo is trash and should be removed out of Doom Eternal, but you made it seem like Doom Eternal was not worth hyping about despite being very well received before the update.
@@cheezysalt456 1.- they abused with the moba arena style gameplay, they moved away from the classic doom 2.- you always run out of ammo very fast and need to find a lonely imp or zombie to refill its annoying, the ammo was never a problem in the classic dooms even doom 2016 you never run of ammo that fast compared to doom eternal
All good dude. Personally I didn't mind that feature since I do like cycling to different weapons automatically, but I can understand it coming from a fan who's used to having it a certain way like in previous games.
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The conveyor belt fight. The gluon gun, Gordon the interloper. This track gave me chills as I disintegrated them aliens and inching closer to the Nihilanth.
It's really hard to pick words to describe how good those tracks are...
...Impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary, Freeman
Silently stares with a crowbar in hand
This is something that only God Himself could put into words
your music played no small part of black mesa making me fall in love with half life all over again. you guys really worked a miracle. thank you.
This moment. This moment right here. Let me tell you about this moment and my love for it.
In execution, it was so frustrating from a combat design perspective. The stifling of movement from the conveyor belt with little space on the side-rims to take advantage of; the moveset of the Controllers working to a frustrating degree in terms of the arena with controlled Vortigaunts (that you're probably choosing not to kill); the nature of the Gluon Gun's heavy tracking requirement (as it's nature of weapon class) meaning that any Clone Grunts can pop up unannounced or your tunnel-visioning could lead to you popping a Clone Vat unintended. And the gloss-over of the Vorts comes full-circle here now, with the gigantic range of Controller's mind-control and ability for it to go through walls leads to the Vortigaunts with high area of denial at chokepoints and pseudo-hit scan attacks among everything else. Not to mention the fact that there was more than one case of Controllers playing passively, with me in a losing scenario one way or another - strictly adhering to my self-imposed rule of not harming the Vortigaunt slaves.
Right there, though. That's the catch. It would be remiss of me to not bring up how Interloper had changed so radically from its initial inception - so much so that they're almost two entirely different chapters. Engagements with Controllers are kept to a minimum, traded instead for their simple counterpart: the Vortigaunts - tired and weary; so much so that they only give you a passing glance on their way to perform their work even still. You're a rogue element - in every sense of the word, but they never seem to recognize that. In fact, they never seem to recognize a life of their own. Work concessions are turned off for your goal, yet their dissonance from the environment keeps them piddling against controls that are fluctuating from expectancy. One later segment has them crowded entirely around destructive green boils, yet they never seem to distance themselves when you shoot at those things. Nor does the game punish you for having them caught in the crossfire. They seem unnerved. Expectant. And why wouldn't they be?
Crawling in the vents of the thumping, harmonic machine, where some of their corpses lay. Stepping on the corpses of the "failures" that they themselves had to dictate. It's the build-up, to put it in a word. The entire build up to this one section to make me decide that killing the vortigaunts was something I could not do - even when doing so would help so much more in service of my own goal. And I could still point fingers so much so at all of those bad components on the gameplay side of things, but they falter the moment you realize all the work that was built up to set this situation up from the get-go.
The song itself supplements even as a build-up with its diagetic nature. The decisive thumping - rhythmic action; resolve to motion - to the harmonic human voice on the pause to recover your wits and health. And then they come together: the human rogue element - the one Freeman - pounding against it all. Alerts from your HEV are a secondary supplement to the music: a voice brimming with urgency at your condition - a reminder of your mortality. Yet your liberation becomes theirs - those Vortigaunts that watch - and in that moment, you can feel yourself becoming what they embody you as. In this moment, you can feel where the legend culminates and takes form.
From that, those struggles of mortality on your health and suit become real. It's why, despite all the qualms I have with this overall, that I can't bring myself to change anything about it. It is simply genius.
Thank you, Joel. You, and everyone else in the Black Mesa team, did unrivaled work here. You've made Xen into something so incomprehensibly beautiful that it borders on unreal.
This so well conveys what I was feeling but couldn't quite put into words myself, I did knew though that I was to become their saviour, their inspiration, to the vortigaunts that is, what a great experience xen is overall!
Oh, man, you did a kinda microreview on the single track!
Holy shit you nailed it. This section will always fucking enrage me but I wouldn’t change it for anything.
Once I won over the hearts of the Vorts I also felt compelled to honor the covenant of peace.
This passage:
"The song itself supplements even as a build-up with its diagetic nature. The decisive thumping - rhythmic action; resolve to motion - to the harmonic human voice on the pause to recover your wits and health. And then they come together: the human rogue element - the one Freeman - pounding against it all. Alerts from your HEV are a secondary supplement to the music: a voice brimming with urgency at your condition - a reminder of your mortality. Yet your liberation becomes theirs - those Vortigaunts that watch - and in that moment, you can feel yourself becoming what they embody you as. In this moment, you can feel where the legend culminates and takes form."
is fantastic, really amazing.
I died like 10+ times in the game where this music appears, just to hear this music ❤
The key is to ignore the enemys as much as you can I think
That hallway was infinite for me, with much enemies and no places to cover, but it was also an epic part with this music, so it was good to suffer there
This track gave me the strongest goosebumps, I felt like I fell out of this world, I couldn't control my smile, I have never felt such admiration while listening to music. You are simply a genius
I swear the hum’s and chorus just makes me wanna cry it’s so beautiful
Never, never stop do it, it so beautiful and crazy, wow, we love it so much, love your music.
This is by far my favorite track from this outstanding album. Have taken the liberty to make "my own" twist on this in Audacity. Just removing and reversing some of the choral parts in the middle section, and shortening the silence at the beginning and the end of the track to make a "seamless" transition when repeating it to death. Remains to tripple the section from 0:04 to 0:48. Can,t get enough of this track... Has been circulating with Ascension for the last 4 days on my headphones...... . The track is so crispy, the drums sounds real, it has the right amount of energy and drive that it makes the juices flow in a way that I wanna "break something" (not for real - but the juices are all the way up there)... And it's interesting to analyze it "to death" for all the nuances within the track. And I cant help but finding a sound that reminds me of a harmonica at just about the 28 sec marker. I'd really love to se a "The Making of"-video of this brilliant soundtrack....
The black mesa soundtrack was amazing especially the soundtrack on xen it was absolute mesmerizing. Great Job!
I hear hope and fear at the same time. The new world... the old enemies. Yeah, it's kinda like time to save the Humanity!
and not just yours
but anothers
Gordon didn't save humanity in hl1. He threw it into the the Combine's slavery 😢
Most of my favorite songs, I listen to so much until it doesn't sound as good as I originally thought, but your music keeps me coming back. I keep listening again and again. My favorite song changes daily, but my love for your music doesn't. You make some seriously unforgettable music, and it never gets annoying. I love your music, and I hope to see you get an award for #1 video game soundtrack.
A music track that plays on conveyor tracks, tracktastic
You gotta help out project borealis or something. Though I feel that doing that would take away the special sound of black mesa’s soundtrack. It’s great and doesn’t try to remake half life’s soundtrack. It does it in its own style.
I wish so as well.
Would be cool to see a little nugget about how Borealis was stolen from Aperture Science, most likely near the time the Resonance Cascade happened.
@@C-F98 The Borealis wasn't stolen and it happened during the seven hour war not the resonance cascade.
@@DevilWolf000 AFAIK Borealis disappeared from old Aperture sometime in 1960-1980 as a result of failed teleportation test, well before resonance cascade.
@@valoch3187 and you can find the it's hangar in a secret in portal 2
@@valoch3187 I don’t think the lore is entirely clear on when the borealis vanished
One of my favourite tunes from "Black Mesa" soundtrack. That female voice sounds so fckn beautiful, trully masterpiece ! ! ! Well Done Mate ! ! !
You are getting closer FREEMAN
God, the music in this game just made everything feel so alive and that vocal has such a xen feel to it. It fits so well. You’ve done a very good job :)
The filename for this music has 2 files. Some kind of semi-dynamic track or just like Surface Tension 1 or Surface Tension 3. And will be on the Conveyor belt section of Interloper.
WOW! I dont even know that.
Yeah, can confirm that it plays during the conveyor belt area, and that the soft bits play before, after, and inbetween the two conveyor fight segments.
My god, xen soundtrach is the best ever created
In these quarantine-times I'm glad there so much time to listen to good music. This particurlar track has gotten 748 rotations since March 20th and still sounding as good as ever. I guess that would amount to almost 27 hours of continous listening.... Still loving it and aiming for at least a 1000 spins before I must go and change the tyres on my car : ))) (Must change them before second monday after easter sunday in my country)..
Update: !! I did it!!! 1027 turns and still going..... Oh shit.....forgot to change my tyres!
Simply beautiful!!!
Thank you so much for this Nielsen, your music is beautiful.
Best soundtrack ever, after listening to this in 2023 it’s still good
Just finished Black Mesa and I remember this track in the hardest part of the game. These flying Mind-controller manipulated the Vortigaunts and I don't wanted them to kill
that was more hard for me, cuz I was with purple hat
@@dreamingsus9996 ?
@@onyxJS if you bring a purple hat to space for an achievement, the game is tedious as you bring it around
IDK man if you gonna saw my comment or not, but you kinda brings soul to this game, i don't know does any one play with my interpretation or not but i always think HL1/BlackMesa a surviving story....imagine the each chapter as day and night Gordon going through....if you are a anxiety patient like me try to relate with Freeman...if he wants to he can give up and then he would still stuck in a facility but my boy picking up the crowbar again and again...we all have one Freeman inside us , these drums and vocal kinda saying keep your head high...rise and shine !❤
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Fuck yeah, man. Wise words.
Really like how this track keeps looping until you get to the end of the section rather than only playing thru once and then no music. Same with Ascension. Actually made it kinda disappointing to reach the end of the conveyor section since that meant the music stops. Just because those grunts that come out of the pods don't have their armor or hive-hands doesn't mean they're not dangerous. In fact, they might have been more annoying to deal with than the controllers.
This just a masterpiece (Eargasm) .
Who sing the vocal ?
The vocalist is my wife Kala. :)
@@JoelNielsenMusic Pure bliss!!
@@JoelNielsenMusic Thats really cool that you made this together. You have made a masterpiece, you should be proud.
@@JoelNielsenMusic Family Work 😂
@@JoelNielsenMusic Your wife has a voice of an angel.
Just miles of conveyer belts with this music is perfection.
This song feels like you’re part on a revolution for independence just like Vortigaunts free themselves from oppressor.
I find peace every time I listen to it.
I love your use of leitmotif in the Xen music.
Most people have been talking about how this plays during the conveyor belt section and while it is eargasmic there as it is later, I can't help but feel it perfectly matched the "slow elevator" at the end, the heavenly vocals give a feeling of "Ascension" (heh), which fits thematically with that point as the elevator goes up and you're incinerating Controllers left right and center, heal and recharge HEV suit's energy with the crystals then at it again till you reach the top.
This is definitely my second favorite music in the chapter Violator. When I hear it, I immediately want to destroy the controllers because it is so epic.
I think the vocals are not perfectly in pitch...
But I am totally crazy about that. Also this is very hard to sing well, despite the simplicity of the part.
When I record vocals it always takes dozens of takes and months of work to get them to sound in tune. I refuse to use pitch-correction on vocals on principle though.
Good ear. I never like to make things perfect. It's the slight offs/human side that brings a lot of the emotion. Whether pitch or tempo.
@@JoelNielsenMusic I think you're right. I completely tolerate it in some styles of music (grunge?). Maybe it's the years I've spent singing under a conductor who would not be satisfied with the choir being detuned by intervals none of us could hear after years of training...
I guess it's good to be able to perceive that, but often seeking this pitch perfection in singing can be quite... absorbing.
I do prefer imprefect, but authentic singing over robotic autotune I guess.
I still can hear imperfections in pretty much everything I've published so far, though no one ever seems to notice or care. Maybe I should cut it some slack, embrace the sloppiness and just enjoy the music (both as a listener and as a creator).
@@unfa00 haha, absolutely. Emotion itself is an impure process, and for me, the most important aspect of music.
I'm sad that I didn't get to hear this in game fully, because I sped through this section too quick. Hard to enjoy music while there are a zillion Controllers shooting at you, though.
thank you for everything Joel!
У меня лично такая ассоциация с этой композицией, это что то напоминающее тоску по своему дому, Гордон находится очень далеко от нашей земли, один, противостоящий инопланетным существам, эта музыка мне своей мотивацией чем то напоминает песню Татьяны Овсиенко о дальнобойщике, который где то далеко от всех, едет один, так же и Гордон, один пробирается сквозь полчища монстров, наверняка тоскуя по дому... где то между сражениями наверняка сидит и плачет, нет не плачет, ведь мужчины не плачут, они только огорчаются....
Awesome Track! and great Game!
I loooove this song. So much.
I'm a big fan HL and your tracks, give your wife her angelic voice
2 meaning of this song
1. XEN Critical Mass OST
2. LIECR DETONATION IMMINENT, ALL BLAST DOOR NOW CLOSING.
Hi fellow nsmrs player
DIVERTING POWER TO BLAST SHELTER AND SHUTTING DOWN MAINFRAME
You are genius!
Necesito una version extendida de este soudtrack :3
This part is really the critical that you MUST not killed the Vortigaunts. Otherwise, you failed to achieve the "PhD in Pacifism" achievement.
One of the best in game moment
Flipping NSMRS?
This soundtrack sounds like it could have went well in a movie about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Imagine this: 0:00 right after the grand staircase dome implodes, the protagonist escapes the 1st class gymnasium, water right behind him, he starts running towards the stern of the ship, as the pitch of the vessel increases and the stern rises higher and the water chases him up the boat deck while it swallows the forward part of the ship behind him, funnels collapsing, glass shattering, people screaming for their lives. 0:47 he makes it to the third funnel, the lights go out, he looks around stunned at the sudden darkness as he keeps running, everything goes in slow mode for him out of pure shock and realization that he is about to perish, the deck below him slanting more and more. 1:03 The ship breaks apart, knocking our protagonist to the wooden deck, he gets up as the severed stern of the ship settles. 1:17 As the stern of the ship begins to get pulled under, our protagonist jumps to A deck, then B deck, where the palm court and the 2nd class promenades are and finally makes it to the aft well deck, as he makes a mad dash for the after-castle of the ship (the poop deck). 1:47 The stern of the Titanic goes vertical, our protagonist climbs up the side railing of the after-castle for the very end of the stern as the stern section of the ship begins to plunge, he makes it just in time. 2:01 The stern section of the Titanic finally goes under, plunging our protagonist and over 1500 people into the water, the very vast majority of whom will never live to see daylight.
this is amazing!
After listening to this I have decided that I'm gonna go replay the game..
This Is fkin awsome Song !!!!! Please make long version ❤️❤️ i really love IT. All songs in Black Mesa Is awsome. You Are awsome ❤️❤️❤️
I kind of envision this music playing in an alternate ending of Half-Life where Gordon refuses G-Man’s offer and fights the battalions of Alien Grunts to his dying breath
I would love to see that.
Now i need an Anti-Climax mod remake
This amazing song man wow
Ah, of course, conveyor dance
Nope, across the conveyors. Ascension plays while you go up the Xen Elevator.
60% of the reason I play this game is the music. The rest is no trivial matter, given that the level designs and plot are also epic. My opinion is that, the things that contribute to the essence of Black Mesa are:
60% music
15% plot
5% gameplay
20% level design
БОЖЕ КАК ЖЕ ЭТОТ ТРЕК МНЕ НРАВИТТЬСЯ КАЖДЫЙ РАЗ АЖ ДО МУРАШЕК . ТЫ ГЕНИЙ СПАСИБО ))
да трек шикарен!
Great!
oh i cant wait for the conveyor belts with a certain purple hat
I plan on doing a hat *and* pizza run (I'm gonna try to place the hat on top of the box) and after reading all the comments about the trains and stuff I feel like I might hate myself for even thinking of that.
@@TheEmeraldSword04 You can't carry both to the end though. The vent in Interloper doesn't let you drag both of them.
@@dudded2 well s%^#.
I love it!
Seni çok özledim ferhat 'ımmm❤💕Ferhat &SERAP
I’ve never wanted to play interloper more
Fight, fight on. You're gettin closer 🙅🏻♂️
I hope if Half-Life 3 ever becomes a thing (its been 20 years+ already but I still cling on to hope), I hope you direct the entire soundtrack for that
well its really only been 13 years, you cant count since the beginning of hl1
ent_remove_all npc_xontroller
*battle? what battle?*
POV: You turned the LIECR into a fusion anomaly and it collapses
Wowed has been an awesome night of the week and a few weeks of my birthday week with a few people I know and all I can say was the only way I could get the rest I had to go through it and it would not have. WoW has
1:18
“Who ya gonna call, BITCH!?!”
- Me, the moment I figured out the gluon gun has infinite ammo in this section.
Critical mass... The smallest amount of fissile material required for a sustained nuclear reaction
Ah yes, the track of myself dying dozen times in a fight on a conveyor belt ride.
I don't know why but that name sounds familiar
POV: *Superstructure explodes into a million pieces*
What the heck is superstructure? What are you talking about? 🤔🤷
@@elreno2013 ah I see never played Roblox? find the word "LIECR" in the comments on newest first
Reminds me Project Borealis OST a little bit.
nah
Still waiting for that extended version...
Ah yes, one of my favorite parts of Inteloper, because of your beautiful music,( and your beautiful wife too) and also flying big heads sending naked buff aliens at me.
_How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?_
Is it just me or can you hear a faint headcrab at 0:16?
it's just you
Nah, i think it's just you.
Xen industrial alert 🚨🚨
*music played
Is it just me, or does the drum sound like the melody from ''We've Got Hostiles''. It might be an easter egg, or I might be losing my mind.
When LIECR turn into some sort of white fusion core
White fusion core? More like Fusion Anomaly!
Hey Joel, the version heard in-game has a small issue: during the second half of the track (specifically the part that is looped at the end), there are a few vocals that are cut off rather abruptly. Are you planning to fix this?
Other than that, I absolutely love this track :)
I have not noticed this myself... When exactly does this happen?
@@JoelNielsenMusic In the game files, in the "xen-conveyb" WAV file, the issue starts at 0:30 (the equivalent of 1:19 on this TH-cam video), and also occurs at 0:37, 0:45, 0:52, 1:07 and 1:10 (these timestamps are for the file itself). There are some background vocals (with a reverb-like effect) which were present in your original track, but which have been removed from the in-game version, and I guess this is one of the reasons.
@@Rami_Yazbek So for this 'loop' to work in game... I had to pick a point where I could endlessly cut this piece. The vocal 'cut-out' seemed like a great spot, as it gives the song a bit of a pause, and then jumps back into the beat. This spot could maybe be a hair rough though if listened to very carefully. But if you go to the 1:13 timestamp in the 'xen-conveyb' file, you should hear that exact same transition when it gets to the 'end' of the file and loops back around. Both parts should be seemless, and in my own internal testing, they appear to be on my end.
@@JoelNielsenMusic (Sorry for the late reply) Yep, I obviously noticed that it's the same transition; I just thought I'd point out the various cutouts that I noticed, as it wasn't the case original track. But to be fair, yeah, I had to listen very carefully with headphones. Initially it's the vocals at 1:11 and 1:15 (in the xen-conveyb file) that mainly drew my attention. Anyway, I guess it's not a big deal, I'm pretty sure most players won't notice that, since they're too busy with spamming the gluon gun against the numerous alien controllers and grunts :P
The music you hear on the conveyor belt from hell
POV: The L I E C R Is About To Detonate.
NSMRS Reference
Is ded now. Saddest moment in history
@@JBMGAMER2008 yeah, i miss the entire scifi generation where it used to be
r.i.p core
Do you mean reactor core
Press 6 to repeat
(on roblox)When the fusion anomaly of the LIECR appears then starts to collapse and explode.
(Or during December when the entire bottomside complex is about to collapse)
I’m tired of those bot from Roblox spamming the entire music.
This song fits Gordon.
玩黑色高地聽到這個BGM直接高潮
Is there a second version of this music? Mr. Joel
Man, this track gives me flashbacks to a very annoying section of Interloper. The track itself is good, but the area it's featured isn't.
Adventuregamer the conveyer section? I found it super challenging but thought it was great.
I feel like this was the most repetitive of all the tracks in Xen, especially since I died so often and reset so often trying to get the hat and pizza through. Could have had a BIT of variance with the vocals?? It was overly simple for such a complex stage.
The song is meant to be a metaphor of a conveyor belt/system. It's also a section that was designed to be run through very quickly, while ignoring the mobs. As the team has now seen most people are trying to fight through it...
0:49
Чотка
and people got hyped with doom eternal
pff what a joke
this game is what i call i true hype
its amazing how a game who started as a mod became a masterpiece remake of the original half life 1
What's wrong with Doom Eternal?
@@cheezysalt456 they added denuvo and you cant no longer play offline the campaing
That is true. Denuvo is trash and should be removed out of Doom Eternal, but you made it seem like Doom Eternal was not worth hyping about despite being very well received before the update.
@@cheezysalt456 1.- they abused with the moba arena style gameplay, they moved away from the classic doom
2.- you always run out of ammo very fast and need to find a lonely imp or zombie to refill its annoying, the ammo was never a problem in the classic dooms
even doom 2016 you never run of ammo that fast compared to doom eternal
All good dude. Personally I didn't mind that feature since I do like cycling to different weapons automatically, but I can understand it coming from a fan who's used to having it a certain way like in previous games.
I wonder why there wasn't any epic music during final boss fight
I just imagine an animation about Pillagers raiding the Village with this song, and Steve fighting'em all
Maybe Nihilanth used creative mode to build his massive tower
@@georgemccartney8906 Nihilanth just uses antiknockback, that's all
I WILL USE IT FOR MY SUPER REACTORS MELTDOWN
Easy there on those asteroids. Easy ... Xen Dance seek portal , destroy alien encounter! Seek ...
What better song for a trial-and-error level than the most repetitive thing imaginable?
when does this play in the game?
I think it's played somewhere in Interloper chapter, probably at a factory.
It plays during a section of Interloper where you're running around in an area full of conveyor belts while trying to evade Controllers and Grunts.
@@Tuxflop told ya
Tuxflop evade? I beat the fuck out those niggas.
@@barryromano0451 either you play on Easy or talk about different segment...
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