The Sega hotline would use this soundtrack for "hold" music. I cost my parents a small fortune in long-distance charges because I kept calling to listen to the relaxing songs. Finally, Dad got me a Sega CD and said, "This is cheaper."
Because dolphins would overheat and dry out if they tried living on land. They need oxygen to breathe sure because they can't breathe underwater, but they were evolved to spend most of their lives in water.
So much of Sega CD was somehow ahead of it's time, but also steeped in that strange late 80's/early 90's liminal space mood. The games, the music, the whole feel to everything, right down to sounds when you started the console. It all carries with it an unnerving and exciting sense of nostalgia. It's as if the system were designed not for the kids of 1994, but for the 37 year old adults of 2023 thinking about life in 1994.
The color palette was still reduced but the audio & amount of data to be stored went up. It was expensive. So the awkwardness you might be referencing is the imbalance of technology capability of the audio while the rest of the system just stayed the same. Also - it was targeting adults since it was expensive as hell. I had the 2nd gen version (the curved, side-car version -> and later got a CDX for some reason. Still have the CDX. cheers
It seems like a few Sega CD and Sega Saturn titles really went all out for soundtracks. Got any other recommendations? I can only think of Wonderdog (SCD) and Earthworm Jim 2 (Saturn.)
@@101Volts Panzer Dragoon Saga. If you like Ryu Umemoto or other PC98 composers, there are tracks on the Panzer Dragoon OSTs that take some of their motifs and interleave them into an orchestral soundtrack and it's epic.
+Jesse H (Buckycarbon) More like Majora's Mask, since you're heading back in time to stop everyone from dying. Also, because it has a more dark atmosphere.
Majority of kids back in the day had the sega mega drive/genesis version which played the creepy 16-32 bit soundtrack. I was one of them. But like you this is the first time im hearing the Sega CD.
I've noticed that a few of these Sega CD and Sega Saturn games have pretty good music. Well, OK, I only noticed it between this, Wonderdog, and also Earthworm Jim 2 on Saturn. But I wouldn't be surprised if a few more titles are good.
I remember seeing it in Electronic Boutique before it was EB. It was like Sears but had all Computer/TV/Audio stuff. It was around Christmas and they had a Sega CD and TV for demo that you could play. The game was enchanting and the music mesmerising. I highly recommend using an emulator and playing it once, as a bucket list item.
There is something so special about this soundtrack that I wish more people could discover. Like, so much of the obscure music hunting is turning an ear to this kind of dreamy reverbed 80s synth music, so why not this, especially when vaporwave was so huge and the first album of that genre literally named itself after Ecco? Where is the proper reissue it deserves? It's just as well produced and elaborate as any Vangelis album I've heard and clearly appeals to that audience. The thing about this is, it captures just what makes this era so enduring - the charm, the sweetness via the soft warbling of the synths. but also: these glacial, crystalline elements and turbulent, uncertain atmosphere that screams 'distorted VHS end credits' and this shiny, almost futuristic hint of Blade Runner. It's one of the most decadent pieces of new age I've heard if not the most. It's ear candy for a late-80s synth buff like me, but it isn't just quirky fun; it genuinely hits me somewhere deep, on an emotional level.
No doubt!! I know this is a year late but ever since my brother got the Sega CD in the 90's I was always fascinated by this soundtrack. So soothing so .. emotion-filled. The perfect environment for the tale of the Ecco in his travels and discoveries. Like you, I wish there was an awards ceremony like the Grammys for Video Games (and Anime Sound tracks). The best ambiance/synth score in 1992 Goes to Ecco the Dolphin Team. and composers: Spencer Nilsen (MD, CD) Brian Coburn (MD) András Magyari (MD) Csaba Gigor (GG) Gábor Foltán (GG) I have to give them Credit for such a great soundtrack! :)
True, the dreamy soundscape kinda reminds of the windows xp installation music, I love that era music and overall culture, was more lively, colorful, upbeat and hopeful, cause at the turn of the millennium everybody thought it would be a new age for humanity
True!, the Sega CD library has awesome tracks, if fact I never have played the Sega CD but I know a lot of tracks of Sega CD games and I still listening nowadays.
I still have the CD-ROM of Ecco and I still listen to this wonderful music. Now I'm pregnant and it gives me that feeling of peace and security that I used to feel when I was a kid
One of my favourite game as a kid. I was delighted to discover you can put Sega CD games into an audio CD player and just play the soundtrack! 30 years later, I'm still listening to this.
Sega Saturn CDs too. Not sure about Playstation CDs, but I used to put Need For Speed in the stereo and blast the soundtrack when parents weren't home. Sometimes there are even little message tracks (usually telling you to not put the disc in an audio CD player).
+Latiran Yeah... I wouldn't want to buy a mega drive or sega cd just for this game, but would love to play it. I do have a Wii and a Wii U, it could be good on that, perhaps.
I Almost hate to admit it, but this cd informed my composition style for years to come, I played the game it’s self for about 10 minutes and then the soundtrack countless times. The Q sound mix is still a trip
I was going to point out that Lords of Thunder was Turbografx CD/PC Engine CD exclusive, but no. You're right. The Sega CD did get a port. Still an amazing OST.
I have experienced the entire collection of video game consoles since Atari 2600. Sega mega cd has the best collection of music ever created for video games.
This will always have such a profound effect on me (and I'm sure some others); being young and seeing this years ago was just like... Something about it (I have my ideas). Anyone else feel the (for real) spirituality of this game?
Oh I've been beaten up by the cops before, but now I see the Ferguson protests via livestream, and then the Media's lies about them rioting, which they didn't do; the cops attacked everyone... So now it's obvious they can lie about an entire city being attacked by the police...
To clarify what WhereThereDude means - the actual history behind the story this game was inspired by was also pretty damn creepy (and by creepy, yeah, fucked up). But the game was haunting too for sure. Especially due to the music (Sega CD's version KILLED it though - this shit is absolutely beautiful).
Unbelievable soundtrack, has to be one of the greatest ever made for any game. I can't think of another game I've played where the music has been so evocative and moving. Clear Vangelis/Tangerine Dream influences. So many highlights to choose from, but that key change at 22:39/23:59/25:19 is just extraordinary.
Could you imagine swimming as Ecco using something more advanced than the Oculus Rift while listening to this most epic music? Somebody has got to make that happen.
True Pontiac the composer spencer nilsen is doing just that he is planning on making a 3d underwater game for the oculus rift..... he has already tried to fund it on kickstarter, but it failed its first try
I truly appreciate this comment section as a hard core SEGA fan all those years and memories as a SEGA gamer still live within me and listening to this and looking back at my gaming life and this game being a part of it only makes me proud to be a SEGA fan and still a fan in 2021!! SEGA forever!!!!
I remember burning the actual game CD to cassette and playing this to relax and get lost in. Still so good! Wish this was accessible on Apple Music. Don’t remember much about the game but the music has stuck with me over the years.
+Fran Hernández I'm glad someone else remembers the Batman Returns OST. It was so good that as a kid I recorded it onto a tape so I could listen to it on my walkman.
Alright students, today is take notes day, get out your notebooks cause this is on the test. [pulls up Ecco the Dolphin OST on TH-cam and returns to the desk]
One of my favorite games. Though it came at the expense of me being a stupid little kid, this was years ago. My father got the SEGA CD for my cousins and had it hidden in the closet. I don't know how I found it but I opened it and started playing it lol. Of course my parents were upset but let me keep it. I had Sonic CD, Ecco the Dolphin and I think it came with a game that had Streets of Rage, Columns and some other games lol. Music for this was amazing though.
I’ve been trying to figure out what demo cd I had as a kid for YEARS! It sounds like we had the same one. Streets of Rage. That’s been at the tip of my tongue for so long. And Columns. I’d completely forgotten about that one. I googled it when I saw your comment and all the memories came flooding back. Thank you for answering my question I’ve had for years!
I love the extremely creepy music in this game, I have the Sega CD version and after almost beating this I don't think I can ever go back to playing this, it still scares me alot.
Still one of the greatest ost ever , I had the chills because I thought I was submerging with Ecco in those seas. I even made a music tribute track for the fans lol
IMO this is the best game soundtrack of all time. It perfectly captures the ambiance of the game, atmosphere of the scenery, and it beautifully fits the story. It was even on a CD so you could actually listen to it if you skipped track 1
The only issue I take with this version is that it reuses uses the same open ocean determined theme over and over again for the Tube, the Machine, the final boss and the end credits. But looking at this runtime I have to assume they just didn’t have any more space on the disc and had to make do.
I used to put the game in my cd player and listen to the music. Idk if anyone knows but if you put a Sega CD game into a CD player the CD player plays the Audio Soundtracks on the game.
I had no idea this game was for Sega CD. I played this game for PC and the music is exactly the same, that's pretty cool! I wish back in the day they did that for Sonic CD.
I had to do a project for English on "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" I used this soundtrack and read the poem over it. Teacher tried to keep the cassette as an example for future classes. I let her make a copy and hounded her until I got it back. I don't know what happened to the tape. .
My grandfather got the PC CD-ROM version of this game packaged with a Packard Bell computer back in the 90s. I took the game home, and when I wasn't playing it I would put the game disc in my CD boombox to listen to the magical music tracks. Good stuff. My favorite track was always Undercaves (17:54) - haunting, creepy, and gives you the feeling that creatures will strike out at you from the darkness.
My parents found a Sega CDX in a pawn shop and brought home over 10 games for it. When I found I could play them in my CD player AND the Sega CDX as a CD player, my headphones stayed in and I would play and play and play. I broke the console from CD playing alone. XD
such an amazing album, truly one of my favs, if anyone is curious for the song titles, they are: 1. abyss 2. botswana 3. the desert below 4. deception 5. deep marjimba 6. blue dream 7. st. gabriel's mask 8. heart of the giant 9. transcended 10. mountains below 11. treefish 12. aqua vistas 13. lonesome search 14. friend or foe 15. motion e 16. the machine 17. sounding echo 18. time forgotten
I'm actually a bit confused about it: for instance, my favourite song is track number 6 (in the ShadowMario's list titled as "The vent (motion E)" and in this list by Reverb Brony, "Blue Dream". If I search for that single song here on TH-cam, if I put "The Vent (motion E)", I find a completely different song, if I put "Blue Dream" I can listen to the song you can find in this video at 21:40. So, which is the real tracklist?
I've never played any Ecco game. With that said, this OST is awesome for when I play space-themed games like Stellaris. Also, it sounds like it came out of an 80s movie.
Vaporwave is the use of the so called corporate music into this aesthetic concept so it lacks emotion and depth. Ecco the Dolphin Sega CD ost though is very semtimental and profound and the composes was influenced by Pink Floyd. Two opossite things i would say.
If I'm remembering correctly, one of the original points of vaporwave is precisely what the guy described, warping and slowing old ~80s song clips (whether emotional or not) to capture corporate emptiness/superficiality (the term seems to be based on the idea of 'vaporware'). It presented itself as "lost" or "junkpile/defunct" media and was really a fascinating thing. But the genre started getting blended with other ones, and people started unironically slapping the 'vaporwave' label on anything that sounds remotely 'retro.' Take all this with a pinch of salt. But I've seen people equate lofi hip hop and vaporwave, and it's just bizarre.
some tracks or on my iphone. I remember playing this on my sega cd and my father was in my room and said this is the first time that i love game music ( and he hates games ), so that is saying something
I first heard this soundtrack at the skate rink. I would roll around the arcade machine just listening. Thanks Ecco, now I never properly learned how to skate!
Fun fact: the sound designer was told to listen to Pink Floyd while creating the music for Ecco. There is even a level called Welcome To The Machine as a small dedication
Ironic since they're total opposites. One is biting social criticism fictional autobiography... Ecco's music... it's calm acceptance. It's peaceful. It's embracing. It allows you and the world to just, be.
Dunno if you'll read this reply to a 3 year old comment, but the reason for that is because he was only given 1 month by SEGA to rescore the entire game (minus past stages due to being midis rather than redbook audio). There are actually some much-improved arrangements of the US SCD tunes in the Sonic Boom album, because he had the time to go back and polish/revise them.
This music brings back so many great memories and feelings! The Genisis soundtrack does not compare, I actually can't stand the tinny video game music used in the original Sega game. This version here is so atmospheric and much better, IMO
![[SEGA Genesis Music] Ecco: The Tides of Time (Ecco The Dolphin 2) - Full Original Soundtrack OST](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RJhTNfZ56-g/mqdefault.jpg)
The Sega hotline would use this soundtrack for "hold" music. I cost my parents a small fortune in long-distance charges because I kept calling to listen to the relaxing songs. Finally, Dad got me a Sega CD and said, "This is cheaper."
i love that
incredible, haha.
It would have been cheaper to just buy the Sega CD game and play the tracks on a normal audio CD player.
For context, the Sega CD retailed for $299. In 1992.
and then everyone clapped
"Ecco, if we breathe air why do we live beneath the waves?"
Because dolphins would overheat and dry out if they tried living on land. They need oxygen to breathe sure because they can't breathe underwater, but they were evolved to spend most of their lives in water.
He's just quoting the game mate.
@@SayBruhOneMoreTime I know that, I played the game.
How can we know for sure that you played it?
'Cause of dank memes, bro.
So much of Sega CD was somehow ahead of it's time, but also steeped in that strange late 80's/early 90's liminal space mood. The games, the music, the whole feel to everything, right down to sounds when you started the console. It all carries with it an unnerving and exciting sense of nostalgia. It's as if the system were designed not for the kids of 1994, but for the 37 year old adults of 2023 thinking about life in 1994.
Underrated comment. I agree.
There is lot's of nostalgia feeling in SEGA's ost games of this time. And that's maybe why they are still appealing today.
Well 38, and here we are
@@orkoto6057это были прекрасные времена... Мне 40.
The color palette was still reduced but the audio & amount of data to be stored went up. It was expensive. So the awkwardness you might be referencing is the imbalance of technology capability of the audio while the rest of the system just stayed the same.
Also - it was targeting adults since it was expensive as hell. I had the 2nd gen version (the curved, side-car version -> and later got a CDX for some reason. Still have the CDX. cheers
The production quality on the first track alone is insane.
swell guy right??
Although I love both the Genesis and CD themes for this game a lot, goddamn, this one is so much better.
It seems like a few Sega CD and Sega Saturn titles really went all out for soundtracks. Got any other recommendations? I can only think of Wonderdog (SCD) and Earthworm Jim 2 (Saturn.)
It starts with track 2 though.
@@101Volts Panzer Dragoon Saga. If you like Ryu Umemoto or other PC98 composers, there are tracks on the Panzer Dragoon OSTs that take some of their motifs and interleave them into an orchestral soundtrack and it's epic.
This game was like Ocarina of Time for dolphins
Ocean of Time? Yeah that sounds about right.
+Jesse H (Buckycarbon) More like Majora's Mask, since you're heading back in time to stop everyone from dying. Also, because it has a more dark atmosphere.
+Wafflicious Studios Can't argue with that logic!
Zelda games where never as unnerving as this game was.
Orca-rina of Time
I'm 37 and am listening to this for the first time. I never got to play it growing up but, holy shit. This soundtrack is mindblowing.
true dat they aint make em like this anymore.
Majority of kids back in the day had the sega mega drive/genesis version which played the creepy 16-32 bit soundtrack. I was one of them. But like you this is the first time im hearing the Sega CD.
I've noticed that a few of these Sega CD and Sega Saturn games have pretty good music. Well, OK, I only noticed it between this, Wonderdog, and also Earthworm Jim 2 on Saturn. But I wouldn't be surprised if a few more titles are good.
I remember seeing it in Electronic Boutique before it was EB. It was like Sears but had all Computer/TV/Audio stuff. It was around Christmas and they had a Sega CD and TV for demo that you could play. The game was enchanting and the music mesmerising. I highly recommend using an emulator and playing it once, as a bucket list item.
DK OLDIES ISNT THAT GOOD OF A DEAL .
There is something so special about this soundtrack that I wish more people could discover. Like, so much of the obscure music hunting is turning an ear to this kind of dreamy reverbed 80s synth music, so why not this, especially when vaporwave was so huge and the first album of that genre literally named itself after Ecco? Where is the proper reissue it deserves? It's just as well produced and elaborate as any Vangelis album I've heard and clearly appeals to that audience.
The thing about this is, it captures just what makes this era so enduring - the charm, the sweetness via the soft warbling of the synths. but also: these glacial, crystalline elements and turbulent, uncertain atmosphere that screams 'distorted VHS end credits' and this shiny, almost futuristic hint of Blade Runner. It's one of the most decadent pieces of new age I've heard if not the most. It's ear candy for a late-80s synth buff like me, but it isn't just quirky fun; it genuinely hits me somewhere deep, on an emotional level.
No doubt!! I know this is a year late but ever since my brother got the Sega CD in the 90's I was always fascinated by this soundtrack. So soothing so .. emotion-filled. The perfect environment for the tale of the Ecco in his travels and discoveries.
Like you, I wish there was an awards ceremony like the Grammys for Video Games (and Anime Sound tracks).
The best ambiance/synth score in 1992 Goes to Ecco the Dolphin Team. and composers:
Spencer Nilsen (MD, CD)
Brian Coburn (MD)
András Magyari (MD)
Csaba Gigor (GG)
Gábor Foltán (GG)
I have to give them Credit for such a great soundtrack! :)
Thank you.
Would have been cool for radio stations to play video game soundtracks haha!
90s game soundtracks for the win. There's something to hauntingly beautiful about this soundtrack.
True, the dreamy soundscape kinda reminds of the windows xp installation music, I love that era music and overall culture, was more lively, colorful, upbeat and hopeful, cause at the turn of the millennium everybody thought it would be a new age for humanity
2 other soundtracks that are favorites of mine re from the era too, DK county 2 and Morrowind
This genre of 90 music was something else
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess Don't forget the Y2k scare, but I never paid any attention to it; I was only an 8 year old.
i would use this to go to sleep with!
One of the greatest soundtracks of all time in my book.
chill it's not that good
Tim Chavez I agree. When I was a child, this music scared the crap outta me. Idk why. It was very powerful and very deep.
Tim Chavez Beautiful doesn't even begin to describe it
It really made the game back then. I played on a friend's Genesis using the cart and it just didn't feel the same.
You are inaccurate.
For 1993, this is an amazing soundtrack! I still play this today. The Sega CD library is very underrated
True!, the Sega CD library has awesome tracks, if fact I never have played the Sega CD but I know a lot of tracks of Sega CD games and I still listening nowadays.
11 Games for the Sega CD...
Totally agree.
I am a diver, and this music always makes me think about the ocean...
It's because the Sega CD was incredibly expensive.
I loved being able to take the games and pop them into a music CD player to play the tracks.
Spencer Nilsen was a legend for the Sega CD's library.
The great conposer Of Sonic CD U.S, Wonderful!
I still have the CD-ROM of Ecco and I still listen to this wonderful music. Now I'm pregnant and it gives me that feeling of peace and security that I used to feel when I was a kid
Great story, congrats on the baby!
One of my favourite game as a kid.
I was delighted to discover you can put Sega CD games into an audio CD player and just play the soundtrack!
30 years later, I'm still listening to this.
Sega Saturn CDs too. Not sure about Playstation CDs, but I used to put Need For Speed in the stereo and blast the soundtrack when parents weren't home. Sometimes there are even little message tracks (usually telling you to not put the disc in an audio CD player).
@@TheouAegis Playstation 1 game discs also played the soundtrack in CD players too
Same! I used to actually play the CD in my stereo while I was in the bath and just relax...the soundtrack was therapeutic!
Never thought a game about a dolphin could be so deep
Nice pun
God I wish they would do a HD remaster for all the Ecco games, I still have them but I would LOVE to play them in HD.
+Latiran Yeah... I wouldn't want to buy a mega drive or sega cd just for this game, but would love to play it. I do have a Wii and a Wii U, it could be good on that, perhaps.
DarkAnomaly Ecco the dolphin 3D is a thing on 3DS, but as far as I know it lacks the SEGACD soundtrack in favor of the Genesis version's soundtrack
Wii + component cable + CRT tv = great looking classics
Or a remake.
There's a one in one hundred million chance it would be as great as the original. They'd fuck it up somehow
It's like I'm watching some documentary about space or some new age thing. So 90s!
it feels like I'm watching a lost minds eye vhs with retro 3d animations
This is a great mix of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. Great sountrack!
Skedaren Lol I totally agree.
+Skedaren well put!!!
+Skedaren Hell yeh it is !
+Skedaren I hear a shit ton of Vangelis in this.It could easily be them
+Skedaren This reminds me of the Blade Runner soundtrack so much. :D
My memories of this game were filled with screams of anger but then this comes along and all is forgiven.
This is one hell of an OST. Could be a standalone album without any kind of a game.
I Almost hate to admit it, but this cd informed my composition style for years to come, I played the game it’s self for about 10 minutes and then the soundtrack countless times. The Q sound mix is still a trip
This is great. Sega CD has some of the best soundtracks. Terminator, Sol-Feace, Robo Aleste, Lunar, Lords of Thunder. Add this one to the list now.
salozmen29 final fight !!!
They botched the hell out of the Lunar music in future remakes. So disappointed.
Ultraverse Prime
I was going to point out that Lords of Thunder was Turbografx CD/PC Engine CD exclusive, but no. You're right. The Sega CD did get a port.
Still an amazing OST.
This should be the hold music to a suicide hotline number.
The Vents (21:40) is one of the most beautiful soundtrack compositions ever.
I have experienced the entire collection of video game consoles since Atari 2600. Sega mega cd has the best collection of music ever created for video games.
Agree with you there
I can't believe it. It's even better than the MegaDrive version.
Ofcourse, this is the CD version which wasn't limited by the technical capabilities of a cartridge :)
@@Amuppet that's right!!
This will always have such a profound effect on me (and I'm sure some others); being young and seeing this years ago was just like... Something about it (I have my ideas).
Anyone else feel the (for real) spirituality of this game?
Always reminded me of Blade Runner. I'm definitely hearing some influences by Vangelis!
Makes me remember when I thought the future had something to offer besides cops bashing everyone's heads in.
learrus Now is that a general statement or did something happen recently (just curious)
Oh I've been beaten up by the cops before, but now I see the Ferguson protests via livestream, and then the Media's lies about them rioting, which they didn't do; the cops attacked everyone...
So now it's obvious they can lie about an entire city being attacked by the police...
learrus You're sure they didn't riot for real?
This was a perfect piece of music I used in bulding a tribute video for the passing of my Father years ago.
I had this on cassette when I was 11, and played it until the damn thing wore out. Beautiful score.
I was surprised to find this back in the day from some dolphin game, made for good fantasy music to have on while reading.
For some reason I found this game creepy
For SOME REASON?! This game IS creepy!
word: even worst the history behind the investigation with dolphins , man sometimes "science" is really fucked up.
Hola :v
For some reason. >_>
To clarify what WhereThereDude means - the actual history behind the story this game was inspired by was also pretty damn creepy (and by creepy, yeah, fucked up).
But the game was haunting too for sure. Especially due to the music (Sega CD's version KILLED it though - this shit is absolutely beautiful).
Unbelievable soundtrack, has to be one of the greatest ever made for any game. I can't think of another game I've played where the music has been so evocative and moving. Clear Vangelis/Tangerine Dream influences. So many highlights to choose from, but that key change at 22:39/23:59/25:19 is just extraordinary.
Waterworld (snes)
Spencer Nilsen is an underrated G.O.A.T.
Mario Bros. 1
I used to listen to track 7, over and over again. Haunting and beautiful.
Oh nostalgia, you are the 90's and Sega CD.
Could you imagine swimming as Ecco using something more advanced than the Oculus Rift while listening to this most epic music? Somebody has got to make that happen.
True Pontiac the composer spencer nilsen is doing just that
he is planning on making a 3d underwater game for the oculus rift.....
he has already tried to fund it on kickstarter, but it failed its first try
AWESOME!
I would cry if they made a first-person Ecco game, it would scare the crap outta me.
Amazing. I had never heard this soundtrack before, but it's very special. Wow, I'm glad I got to know this piece of art.
Better if you experience the game - adds more meaning to it all :)
@@matrixnemesis I've never played it before. How does it hold up now or has it aged terribly?
@Benjamin Kanoza Wait so this Mega CD game isn't just a remake of the original with better music? They changed the levels too?
I truly appreciate this comment section as a hard core SEGA fan all those years and memories as a SEGA gamer still live within me and listening to this and looking back at my gaming life and this game being a part of it only makes me proud to be a SEGA fan and still a fan in 2021!! SEGA forever!!!!
I remember burning the actual game CD to cassette and playing this to relax and get lost in. Still so good! Wish this was accessible on Apple Music. Don’t remember much about the game but the music has stuck with me over the years.
Ecco 1 and 2 for Mega CD are the bestest Sega soundtrack ever!! Back when games where fascinating and exciting! Spenser Nielsen rules!
Soundtrack is tragically underrated, I get serious ori and the blind forest vibes from this
I used to use this soundtrack to put me to sleep.
Robert Lopresti me too
I still do to this day!
I'd forgotten how high quality this soundtrack is...
The CD soundtrack is gorgeous and sounds more like a film score but I think the Genesis soundtrack is a little more fun to listen too.
This soundtrack is too good. I'm glad I ran into these games. They're so inspirational. The tone and atmosphere is so dark. I love it.
This is like "Pure Moods" Sega CD Edition right here.....Ecco the Dolphin game is truly amazing for the Sega CD.
Agreed. This is very enigma !!
Incredible Ambient sound! MegaCD give to Megadrive one of the best Soundtracks for his games. Sonic CD, or Batman Returns CD.... superb!
+Fran Hernández I'm glad someone else remembers the Batman Returns OST. It was so good that as a kid I recorded it onto a tape so I could listen to it on my walkman.
+1lapmagic Yes!!! the cd-rom contained the soundtrack in .wav format. You can put it on the stereo car or the home cinema and listen like audio cd.
+Fran Hernández Spencer Nilsen is the main composer of these tracks (and Batman Returns!). Check out his other work, he still writes to this day!
Fran Hernández dont forgive to FlashBack CD, this OST, the intro its a very, very awesome!
Yes, very good music. In the other hand, the OST from Ecco the dolphin 2 (cartridge), it´s very cool for the Yamaha Y2612 chip.
This seems super conducive to just learning in general; they should play this in classrooms
LegendByGod I use it to sleep.
Stinger911
Right, for classrooms
Lol just kidding, yeah I bet that works good
Alright students, today is take notes day, get out your notebooks cause this is on the test.
[pulls up Ecco the Dolphin OST on TH-cam and returns to the desk]
Behold, the intellectual property that inspired Vaporwave! Truly an underrated digital pilgrimage for any lover of ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣＳ
This soundtrack is breathtaking and beautiful! One of the rare gems of the Sega CD Library.💗
Holy shit I never felt so lost and afraid in all my life this is a good album but don't listen to the whole thing driving Interstate at night
Incredible atmosphere. One of the greatest ost ever created for a video game
One of my favorite games. Though it came at the expense of me being a stupid little kid, this was years ago. My father got the SEGA CD for my cousins and had it hidden in the closet. I don't know how I found it but I opened it and started playing it lol. Of course my parents were upset but let me keep it. I had Sonic CD, Ecco the Dolphin and I think it came with a game that had Streets of Rage, Columns and some other games lol. Music for this was amazing though.
I’ve been trying to figure out what demo cd I had as a kid for YEARS! It sounds like we had the same one. Streets of Rage. That’s been at the tip of my tongue for so long. And Columns. I’d completely forgotten about that one. I googled it when I saw your comment and all the memories came flooding back. Thank you for answering my question I’ve had for years!
@@shannono4622 That is awesome! haha I am glad I helped out, yeah it had some awesome games in it!
I had the exact same games plus a few more. lol
I love the extremely creepy music in this game, I have the Sega CD version and after almost beating this I don't think I can ever go back to playing this, it still scares me alot.
Still one of the greatest ost ever , I had the chills because I thought I was submerging with Ecco in those seas. I even made a music tribute track for the fans lol
IMO this is the best game soundtrack of all time. It perfectly captures the ambiance of the game, atmosphere of the scenery, and it beautifully fits the story. It was even on a CD so you could actually listen to it if you skipped track 1
I'd say best OST goes to its last game, Defender of the Future, it's goddamn Tim Follin.
The only issue I take with this version is that it reuses uses the same open ocean determined theme over and over again for the Tube, the Machine, the final boss and the end credits.
But looking at this runtime I have to assume they just didn’t have any more space on the disc and had to make do.
I used to put the game in my cd player and listen to the music. Idk if anyone knows but if you put a Sega CD game into a CD player the CD player plays the Audio Soundtracks on the game.
This also works with Playstation 1 discs, and maybe with Sega Saturn Disc games too
Just don't play that first track or your ears will be mad at you.
I had no idea this game was for Sega CD. I played this game for PC and the music is exactly the same, that's pretty cool! I wish back in the day they did that for Sonic CD.
Sega always doing a good work in soundtrack, but this one hits different, beautiful.
Just listen to the bassline on track 6. INSANE.
The Subnautica soundtrack holds a kinship with this album. Thank you for saving us Ecco ❤
I had to do a project for English on "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" I used this soundtrack and read the poem over it. Teacher tried to keep the cassette as an example for future classes. I let her make a copy and hounded her until I got it back.
I don't know what happened to the tape. .
Reminds me of the kind of music in the Mind's Eye film series.
Yes! I was thinking the same thing.
The sky is our ocean and we are all under it.
Ecco the Dolphin on Sega CD that the soundtrack is awesome, beautiful, realxing and peaceful that would good to exercise yoga and to meditate
Its great listening while sleeping so soothing and mythical
Oblivion cloud I agree. Transports my mind to the mysteries of the deepest parts of the ocean.
My grandfather got the PC CD-ROM version of this game packaged with a Packard Bell computer back in the 90s. I took the game home, and when I wasn't playing it I would put the game disc in my CD boombox to listen to the magical music tracks. Good stuff.
My favorite track was always Undercaves (17:54) - haunting, creepy, and gives you the feeling that creatures will strike out at you from the darkness.
My parents found a Sega CDX in a pawn shop and brought home over 10 games for it. When I found I could play them in my CD player AND the Sega CDX as a CD player, my headphones stayed in and I would play and play and play. I broke the console from CD playing alone. XD
such an amazing album, truly one of my favs, if anyone is curious for the song titles, they are:
1. abyss
2. botswana
3. the desert below
4. deception
5. deep marjimba
6. blue dream
7. st. gabriel's mask
8. heart of the giant
9. transcended
10. mountains below
11. treefish
12. aqua vistas
13. lonesome search
14. friend or foe
15. motion e
16. the machine
17. sounding echo
18. time forgotten
Hi, first time hearing this fantastic CD.Learned about it from someone on youtube.It really caught my interest.Very peaceful.Thanks for song titles.
+Reverb Brony Wrong, these are the titles of Ecco Songs of Time. See ShadowMario64's comment for the real titles.
I'm actually a bit confused about it: for instance, my favourite song is track number 6 (in the ShadowMario's list titled as "The vent (motion E)" and in this list by Reverb Brony, "Blue Dream".
If I search for that single song here on TH-cam, if I put "The Vent (motion E)", I find a completely different song, if I put "Blue Dream" I can listen to the song you can find in this video at 21:40.
So, which is the real tracklist?
Wouldn't be out of place if it was The Orb's album. Quite amazing
I've never played any Ecco game. With that said, this OST is awesome for when I play space-themed games like Stellaris. Also, it sounds like it came out of an 80s movie.
I'd almost forgotten how amazing Ecco's background music was! I love this so much. :D
Anyone else stumble across this OST one day, I just happened to put this disc into my playstation was surprised to find this hidden gem.
A E S T H E T I C
This is early V A P O R
Basically inspired it
Vaporwave is the use of the so called corporate music into this aesthetic concept so it lacks emotion and depth. Ecco the Dolphin Sega CD ost though is very semtimental and profound and the composes was influenced by Pink Floyd. Two opossite things i would say.
Except more natural sounding.
If I'm remembering correctly, one of the original points of vaporwave is precisely what the guy described, warping and slowing old ~80s song clips (whether emotional or not) to capture corporate emptiness/superficiality (the term seems to be based on the idea of 'vaporware'). It presented itself as "lost" or "junkpile/defunct" media and was really a fascinating thing. But the genre started getting blended with other ones, and people started unironically slapping the 'vaporwave' label on anything that sounds remotely 'retro.' Take all this with a pinch of salt. But I've seen people equate lofi hip hop and vaporwave, and it's just bizarre.
Vapor Wave Icons: Windows 95, Arizona Iced Tea, Ecco the Dolphin, Pepsi
some tracks or on my iphone. I remember playing this on my sega cd and my father was in my room and said this is the first time that i love game music ( and he hates games ), so that is saying something
I first heard this soundtrack at the skate rink. I would roll around the arcade machine just listening. Thanks Ecco, now I never properly learned how to skate!
I would always think about this sound track as an adult .. It's so good even today so happy I decide to see if it was available still
Ive played this music out so many times. still can't get enough after all these years.
I think Track 1 is what Ross from FRIENDS was going for when playing with his keyboard. LOL.
Fun fact: the sound designer was told to listen to Pink Floyd while creating the music for Ecco. There is even a level called Welcome To The Machine as a small dedication
Ironic since they're total opposites. One is biting social criticism fictional autobiography... Ecco's music... it's calm acceptance. It's peaceful. It's embracing. It allows you and the world to just, be.
@@XX-sp3tt they arent the total opposites. Pink Floyd has some ambient sounds to their music.
i think i played this music more than the game
the first track is truly something else and to be fair quite a bit better than the rest which are still fitting and well produced
I listened to Ecco whenever I had to pull an all nighter to study in college. It was the perfect backdrop.
Game Sack brought me here. Big Ups Spencer Nilsen
This soundtrack sounds so much like something Vangelis would produce.
Track 13 has that Chrono Cross feel to it
You can buy the soundtrack by just buying the game... It plays like a regular cd
Yes yes yes, I love that stuff, I use to play PS1 soundtracks from my computer, I had no idea it worked for Sega CD's.
Is this what magic sounds like?
Yes
Best Mega CD ost ?
The aliens in the game are clearly inspired by the work of H.R. Giger.
Wow this is great. This is pure ocean music.
I have enjoyed this ost since 1994,and still awesome!!
Whoa this is definitely worth a new run of the game.
Reminds me of Eric Sierra's soundtrack to the Le Grand Bleu.
Music composed by Spencer Nilsen.
My mom got me a sega cd when I graduated. I didn’t know there was an Ecco game for it
i had only one game for the geneses and this was it
Supposedly the same guy who composed the music for the US release of Sonic CD; that's hard to believe though because this music is so much better.
Dunno if you'll read this reply to a 3 year old comment, but the reason for that is because he was only given 1 month by SEGA to rescore the entire game (minus past stages due to being midis rather than redbook audio). There are actually some much-improved arrangements of the US SCD tunes in the Sonic Boom album, because he had the time to go back and polish/revise them.
I hear it. I actually like the US soundtrack of Sonic CD, it's just that I love the original more.
This & Defender of the future, most beautifully atmospheric sound track to a game, imo.
The soundtrack is so amazing !!!! It makes me wanna play it .
This music brings back so many great memories and feelings! The Genisis soundtrack does not compare, I actually can't stand the tinny video game music used in the original Sega game. This version here is so atmospheric and much better, IMO
It’s like underwater cyber punk. Call it “Water Punk”
Cyber Pool
7 people probably have epileptic seizures remembering how god damned difficult the boss fight in this game was.
I was one of those 7, I can't beat her.
@@kimberlykrapohl3238 I only managed once....it was rough.