Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Wu Shi Academy - Practice (ST)

NetherRealm Studio : Mortal Kombat 1™ (2023)
Lead Composer : Wilbert Roget, II
Additional Music : Joel Corelitz, Stephanie Economou, Casey Edwards, Dean Grinsfelder, Dan Negovan, Nathan Grigg, Dan Forden
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/ @ermaccer : for the free camera mod
#MK1 Playlists
▶️Story Stages : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Ka...
▶️Kollection HQ : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : HQ...
▶️Extended Kollection : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Ex...
▶️Ambient Playlist : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : In...
▶️Practice : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Pr...
▶️Kollection (Old) : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Ko...
▶️Extended Kollection (Old) : • Mortal Kombat 1 ™ : Ex...
✅Injustice 2 Playlists
▶️Story Variations : • Injustice 2 ™ : Stages...
▶️Stages Variations : • Injustice 2 ™ : Stages...
✅MK11 Playlists
▶️Story Stages : • Mortal Kombat 11 ™ : K...
▶️Kollection : • Mortal Kombat 11™ : Ko...
ℹ️The Story versions are specific introductions played during the campaign. It's basically one of the round stage track recordings with less instruments (most of the time, sometimes it’s a true different introduction). I've built up this edition with the game sound files and mixed it with the music round (used stingers for intro and links between)
ℹ️Extended Kollection is a mixed work between the round music files and the kollection soundtrack. Each stage required fetching at least 13 files. Sometimes more when i needed to fetch specific stingers (musical transitions)
ℹ️The practice sessions play a specific round music with several variations, so the length of the video is actually the true length of the file (with a small repetition of the track's first seconds in the end)
ℹ️The Kollection HQ is the standard version used in the OST. Yet, those have been enhanced by the extended version tweaks i've covered (higher density), stingers additions and better fading to better the listening experience.
Credited Scores (Officially and extra sources - composers themselves or post related)
Wilbert Roget, II : The Pyramid, Menu / Cinematic Themes
Casey Edwards : Cage Mansion, Ying Fortress, Shang Tsung's Laboratory, Corrupted Forest
Joel Corelitz : The Hourglass, The Gateway, The Great Hall, Tarkatan Colony
Dean Grinsfelder : Sun Do, Hanging Gardens, Temple of Katara Vala
Stephanie Economou : The Fire Temple (feat. Ari Mason)
Dan Negovan : The Living Forest, The TeaHouse Night
Dan "Toasty" Forden : Treasure Chamber, The TeaHouse Day
Nathan Grigg : Flesh Pits, Wu Shi Academy
ℹ️ Audio source : extraction from game datafiles.
ℹ️ All musical rights (material source) belong to Warner Bros. WaterTower Music Label

[@CienCarasWC3]

This freaking song is FIRE! And its just the practice round?? Shame it won't be heard in tournaments.

[@SexyPotatoDancer]

I get the feeling the artists put the most time into these practice themes as they know you'll likely be listening to them more than the stage themes themselves. 😂 Keep in mind, this is ten minutes long. I didn't notice a single loop; maybe there was one? That means each of these are about 5 - 10 minutes long. Imo we haven't seen a fighting game ost like this since KI 2013.

[@curvenist]

They are ~1:01 minute loops of round 3 wu shi, yet because each variation plays a specific set of instruments / voices, we pay less attention to transitions between loops. Nowaday musical technologies allow this separation in a very easy way :) . The issue however is when you go live recording, because it's trickier to get each instrument family playing together at the same time (to get the same BPM recording) and separatly (strings only / brass only / percs only...)

[@SexyPotatoDancer]

@@curvenist innnnnnnteresting. So they are distinct loops. Even though they repeat, you hear new instrumentation each time.

[@princeyeed]

8:57 its giving Shang Tsung's Island Ruins theme vibes!❤

[@dewforpolitics]

The practice theme for this stage is beautiful ❤ Good for working out

[@curvenist]

Totally agree on that ;)

[@individualthought3844]

Best music in the game! A part of it sounds like the 3 storms theme in the movie Big Trouble in Little China starring Kurt Russell

[@Lawrang]

6:34 & 6:43 I love that part so much... The scream and the seriousness are so intense in the Wu Shi Academy

[@denpadream]

3:41

[@BestyBattalion]

Easily the best one, close second is the Pyramid.

[@fayan6os]

10:00

[@AeromaticAero]

0:40 - 0:58 is beautiful.