arrangers: []
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack, Prototype/Unused
composers: []
covers: []
discs:
- disc_length: '48:55'
  name: Disc 1
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Cider Time
    track_length: '2:59'
  - names:
      English: 9-bit Expedition
    track_length: '3:00'
  - names:
      English: Elvish Piper Academy
    track_length: '2:48'
  - names:
      English: Fifty FPS Forest
    track_length: '1:16'
  - names:
      English: Swimming While it Rains
    track_length: '2:40'
  - names:
      English: The Magnetic Tree
    track_length: '4:28'
  - names:
      English: Electric Relic
    track_length: '1:55'
  - names:
      English: It's Not Supposed To Be Snowing
    track_length: '2:37'
  - names:
      English: Pillars of Pepper
    track_length: '3:37'
  - names:
      English: Frozen Hot Sauce
    track_length: '2:13'
  - names:
      English: Sepia Tone Laboratory
    track_length: '3:03'
  - names:
      English: Upside Down Stalagmite
    track_length: '3:33'
  - names:
      English: Baryogenesis
    track_length: '3:22'
  - names:
      English: A Safe Place to Sleep
    track_length: '2:34'
  - names:
      English: Introduction
    track_length: 0:30
  - names:
      English: Your Favorite Color
    track_length: '1:52'
  - names:
      English: Light Pollution
    track_length: '3:40'
  - names:
      English: Dream Salvage
    track_length: '2:48'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/965
  names:
    en: Bandcamp
    ja: Bandcamp
    ja-latn: Bandcamp
  role: retailer
link: album/31351
lyricists: []
media_format: Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2012-01-26T15:12
  edited_date: 2022-09-14T21:53
  fetched_date: 2026-01-11T15:15
  freedb: 4
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 5984
name: Fastfall - Dustforce OST
names:
  en: Fastfall - Dustforce OST
  ja: Fastfall - Dustforce OST
  ja-latn: Fastfall - Dustforce OST
notes: '3 bonus tracks included if you buy the full album.

  Notes from the .txt liner notes enclosed with the release:

  01 - Cider Time

  As development of the game progressed and the seasons got colder, Mary would sometimes
  create

  for us a large batch of warm, spiced, and spiked apple cider.  We would work for
  some period

  of time until Mary would announce that it was suddenly "cider time".  If you listen
  closely,

  around the 0:25 second mark, her voice is introduced as a faint vocal.

  02 - 9-bit Expedition

  This is one of my favorite songs from this album.  I created it specifically for
  the tutorial

  world in Dustforce, which has retro, Tron-style visuals.  It evokes the 8-bit era
  of games,

  but in high-resolution.  That''s why this track has 8-bit style instruments, but
  with a modern

  sheen.  It''s a bit more than 8-bit, hence the name.

  03 - Elvish Piper Academy

  Although this is one of the earlier songs that I made, it turned out to be one of
  my

  favorites.  I struggled a bit with my other early songs, but once I discovered some
  fun uses

  for gating and side chaining, I ended up creating the bright synth wash in the middle
  of

  this track, which I was very happy with.

  04 - Fifty FPS Forest

  One of my earliest tracks.  I wanted to call it "Sixty FPS Forest", because that''s
  the speed

  that the game runs at, but I couldn''t pass up the alliteration.

  05 - Swimming While It Rains

  Before I joined the project, the team had other plans for the music of Dustforce.  They
  were

  interested in having me do the sound effects, but I secretly wanted to do the music
  above

  all things.  I stayed up late to make a track to try to convince them that I was
  up to the

  task, and created this one.

  06 - The Magnetic Tree

  This is the longest track in the album, and it also took me the longest to create.  I
  went

  through many variations, but I could not make progress because I had too strictly
  defined

  what I wanted the style of the forest to be.  I thought this track would be too
  ambient and

  dynamic for the game, but it ended up fitting fine once I heard it in context.

  07 - Electric Relic

  This track and "Swimming While It Rains" share many similarities, because they actually

  started out as the same song.  It eventually diverged too much in style and became
  fairly

  long, so I split it into two tracks.

  08 - It''s Not Supposed To Be Snowing

  I love both piano and arpeggios, so this song had to exist.

  09 - Pillars of Pepper

  To create the music for the city areas of the game, I turned to the genre of instrumental

  hip-hop for inspiration.  Yet somehow, the end result felt completely different,
  and was

  probably more appropriate for the lab setting.

  10 - Frozen Hot Sauce

  This is the last song that I created.  I made it in one rushed sitting, one day
  before the

  launch of the game on Steam.  We needed one more track for the city environment,
  and this was

  the result.

  11 - Sepia Tone Laboratory

  I set out to create a song for the mansion setting, but I kept accidentally creating

  sciencey noises: bubbly pops and electrical hums, which kept reminding of goopy
  beakers

  and high-voltage cables, so this ended up being a Lab song.

  12 - Upside Down Stalagmite

  The game already has ambient soundscapes in each area, but I wanted a rainy one
  built into

  this song.  It gives it a texture that makes me imagine that I am hiding from the
  weather in

  a cave, and I stumble across an alien environment, like the whole cavern was turned
  upside

  down.

  13 - Baryogenesis

  This song is a big mashup of every effect and technique that I had used to that
  point, and it

  doesn''t mind being unsubtle about it.

  14 - A Safe Place To Sleep

  Dustforce was originally going to be a game with a huge campaign adventure mode
  that would

  contain all the levels in one giant map (no doors).  We scrapped that idea when
  we couldn''t

  make it flow well.  I created this simple ambient track for the menu areas of that
  campaign

  mode, but it ended up working pretty well for the starting area of the game, as
  well as the

  Park level (which I created).

  15 - Introduction

  Early in development, Woodley drew an animation for the intro sequence of the game,
  and this

  was my attempt to match the visuals with sound.  I think this is my least favorite
  track.

  16 - Your Favorite Color

  I completely forgot about this one when the game launched.  It was one of the first
  tracks I

  made, and we used it in an early trailer, but somehow it didn''t get included in
  the final

  game.  That doesn''t bother me too much because it already sounds very similar to
  "Electric

  Relic" and "Swimming While It Rains".

  17 - Light Pollution

  I really struggled with the city section of the game - I kept making it sound too
  much like

  the lab area, so I went in the direction of this song.  I liked it but my ears kept
  telling me

  something was wrong.  It took me a long time but I decided to abandon it since it
  didn''t fit

  the style of the game enough.  I salvaged the beat from it and put it into "Frozen
  Hot Sauce".

  18 - Dream Salvage

  This was an impromptu track that I made many years ago, when I first got my MIDI
  controller.

  This track is hidden in the game somewhere - go find it!'
organizations:
- &id002
  names:
    en: Lifeformed
    ja: Lifeformed
    ja-latn: Lifeformed
  role: publisher
- *id001
performers: []
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picture_thumb: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/albums/15/31351/31351-1329687699.png
platforms:
- PC
products:
- link: product/15956
  names:
    en: Dustforce
    ja: Dustforce
    ja-latn: Dustforce
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related:
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2014-10-24'
  link: album/53021
  names:
    en: Fastfall - extras
    ja: Fastfall - extras
    ja-latn: Fastfall - extras
  type: game
- catalog: 8BIT-8011
  date: 2016-04
  link: album/55953
  names:
    en: Dustforce
    ja: 'Fastfall: Dustforce OST'
    ja-latn: Dustforce
  type: game
release_date: '2012-01-24'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: USD
  price: 3.99
reprints: []
stores:
- link: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/album/fastfall
  name: Bandcamp
- link: http://open.spotify.com/album/0tmBuZkjQZski3luPJOR9d
  name: Spotify
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/31351?perpage=99999
votes: 0
websites:
  Review:
  - link: http://www.originalsoundversion.com/a-soundtrack-by-any-other-name-dustforce-ost-review/
    name: 'OSV: Patrick''s Review'
