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I haven’t had a chance to listen to the songs yet but from the description I wonder just how “similar” they are? Surely as unique as the Halo franchise is *cough* it couldn’t have sampled some music elsewhere and gave it their own remix…
Hello again, Cynic here with an interesting (maybe) post about a track from
Halo 2 Volume 1.Working with all sorts of media and developing DVD’s and what not, I have access to vast libraries of what is called Music Stock. Basically it is somewhat generic music you can pay a 1 time fee for to be allowed to use it
without paying royalties in your desired commercial use of it. So for instance you need a background song for a documentary you are going to sell, instead of taking time to develop a track, you can just buy some you like
and use them without paying anymore.Well now that you understand that, what i found a year ago was kind of surprising. Being a fan of the Halo series, like anyone else who likes to find more mediums to follow things they like, i got a hold of the Halo 2 soundtrack to listen to on my iTunes. Creating a DVD one day i was searching through catalogs of Music Stock and came across one called “Summit” by a Music Stock company we have the rights to and the similarity to the track “Peril” on volume 1 of the Halo 2 soundtrack was immediate.
The first thing i did was research the copyright dates of both songs, and interestingly enough, the “Summit” track from the Music Stock CD was Copyright in early 2003. The Halo 2 sound track is Copyrighted in late 2004. Coincidence or not? Thats for you to decide. Just like the Tom Petty & Red Hot Chilli Peppers similarities, it could be. I mean there are only so many different songs the world can have right?
My personal opinion? Many people in the industry have access to the music stock and are constantly aware of when new professional music stock tracks are recorded and released. Is it possible that he’s heard this track before?
Yes indeed!! Do i think he plagiarized the song and try and make it his own? I’ll keep it to myself, but what do others think? Voice your opinion, or just enjoy the tracks.
Links follow:
“Peril” Halo 2 Volume 1 Soundtrack (Copyright 2004):
http://www.box.net/public/6ki74yumv0“Summit” Music Stock CD (Copyright 2003) :
http://www.box.net/public/xpzypi3qsp
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Right way I knew a way to debunk this “theory” or whatever it is. Pretty much all of Halo 2’s tracks are just remixes/reworkings of old Halo tracks. I work with a lot of Halo music and knew instantly how unfounded this claim was.
“Peril”, the third track on Volume One of the Halo 2 soundtrack is just a reworking of “Perilous Journey”, track 5 on the original Halo OST.
Go and listen to the song, (There are many legal and illegal ways) and you will know right away where the music came from.
In fact, go here (http://tinyurl.com/jsov3), it’s the amazon listing and listen to the track. The sample is from the middle of the song so it isn’t exactly the part I want you to hear, but you will definitely note that THIS music is what went into Peril, not Summit.BTW, the only “similar” part between Peril and Summit is the beginning and if you listen to Perilous Journey, you will realize that Peril is just a slightly fast and more “modern” version of Perilous Journey. Its quite obvious that there was no plagiarism, or if you want to accuse someone, it’s Summit that stole from Perilous Journey, but even that is ridiculous.
I will advise you to be more careful when making claims like these because people are easily mislead, and while controversy is a good thing, false accusations are not.
So yeah. Perilous Journey came FIRST in 2001 and Peril is just a reowrking of that song. No one copied Summit and if anything, it came after Perilous Journey.
July 1st, 2006 at 9:38 pm -
Wow, very nice input there. I’m not a huge fan of Halo and it’s music just some information I was passing along. However seemingly in my opinion I feel as much effort went into Halo and it’s booming success of that effort more resources should have been used for a unique soundtrack.
Argue in point is that no sort of slim comparison should even surface such as this… just my thoughts.
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:20 am
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