Sonic the Hedgehog Original Sound Track
Composed by | Hideaki Kobayashi / Jun Senoue / Mariko Nanba / Seirou Okamoto / TAI-HEY / Takahito Eguchi / Tomoya Ohtani |
Arranged by | Hideaki Kobayashi / Jun Senoue / Mariko Nanba / TAI-HEY / Takahito Eguchi / Tomoya Ohtani / Yasutaka Kume |
Published by | Wave Master |
Catalog number | WM-0550~2 |
Release type | Game Soundtrack - Official Release |
Format | 3 CD - 94 tracks |
Release date | January 10, 2007 |
Duration | 03:17:39 |
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Overview
The most infamous Sonic game to date, 2006's Sonic the Hedgehog brought a major disappointment among all the fans that eagerly cluttered around to see this title bring the series back to light. Unfortunately, that ship has long sailed away, but if there is one redeeming factor that can always be brought up whenever this game is mentioned, it is the soundtrack itself. It is quite a shame to see all of that hard work gone to waste, but thankfully, the complete soundtrack is available for fans to get a hold of. One of the largest soundtrack of any Sonic soundtracks in quite a while, with 80+ themes spanned out among three discs, there are plenty of musical variations for fans to give a listen to.
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Part of what made the soundtrack very memorable was its departure from Jun Senoue's musical direction. Jun Senoue managed to establish plenty of memorable guitar tunes in Sonic Adventure. As the series progressed, much of the songs became more or less experimental with heavy emphasis on guitar riffs, most notably with Shadow the Hedgehog. As a result, much of the music afterwards began to be a hit or a miss among the fans. For Sonic '06, Tomoya Otani steps in to produce the music, with Hideaki Koboyashi, Mariko Nanba, Takahito Eguchi, and many more joining the team to create one of the more elaborate Sonic soundtracks in quite a long time.
Sonic the Hedgehog Original Soundtrack features wonderfully selected genres and elaborate instrumental arrangement, which is nothing short of amazing. Previous Sonic soundtracks often took an odd approach to the genre, such as Sonic Adventure 2. It did have its usual Rock, with the simplistic guitar riffs, but it also made full use of Rap, Jazz Fanfare, and even Heavy Metal, but its end result felt way too cheesy and too full of itself that made listening to the songs a guilty pleasure. Sonic '06's goes a bit beyond, with stage music constructed to feel a lot like a real mainstream and worldly music, with a less repetitive feel and well written instrumental solos for the stages.
"Aquatic Base ~Level 1~" uses a duel piano and techno synthesizer trance to give off a cool and soothing feeling of being underwater. The ambient tune also makes a small use of mysterious vocal chants, as well as small sections of marching drums that still manages to keep it ambient. The two variations of "Radical Train" are the definitive classic and progressive rock inspired tunes, with a lead guitar that strongly resembles a style made famous by Pink Floyd. It also carries out a funky bass reminiscing that of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Congo drums fill in the progress, pushing the sense of urgency to give chase against the train. "White Acropolis ~The Base~" sets in the story of espionage in a winter night with its hardcore techno bass and an echoing synthesizer, followed by the use of an equally hardcore guitar riff. In contrast, "Wave Ocean ~The Inlet~" is a wonderful combination of fast pace rhythm guitar chords and drums with the lead guitar playing a beautiful and tranquil solo that fits the mood of a tropical beach.
As wonderful as the soundtrack is, it isn't without its small fair share of problems. The soundtrack also includes all the event tracks that were played in the background during the entire story mode of Sonic '06. Since the game's storyline was immense, the events completely take up more than half of the entire soundtrack. The cues are mostly orchestra arrangements, created to give off the feeling of a cinematic blockbuster. The orchestra, for the most part, is adequate and won't exactly rival other games that are well known for such arrangements. Nothing I can consider bad in any way. It just wasn't too memorable or unique for me. Everything takes it very slow and calming to tell the story of sadness, hope, and love. A recurring theme in all the events is a variation to Sonic's theme "His World" and Princess Elise's theme "My Destiny". It serves only to remind us that this is suppose to relate to Sonic, and it's partially the reason why fans will easily skip over all these events.
Each disc represents each of the main hedgehogs — Sonic, Silver, and Shadow. It has its respectable colors, and the themes chosen for each disc relates much closer to the character it is included with. Each disc also carries their respectable theme songs. Sonic gets "His World", a nice hard rock performance with bits and pieces influenced by much of the orchestra found in the events. It features a combination of rap and regular vocals by Ali and Matty of Zebrahead. Shadow gets "All Hail Shadow", a cover performance by Crush 40 that was previously performed back in the game Shadow the Hedgehog. And Silver's theme "Dreams of an Absolution" features a simple chord progression on synthesizer arranged by the original Remix Factory artist Lee Brotherton, who we know today as Bentley Jones. Bonus song are also scattered about, such as the complete version of Sonic's theme that was originally heard in the E3 version and even a karaoke version of "My Destiny" for those guilty enough to sing along to.
Summary
It's more than wonderful seeing a Sonic soundtrack step away from the usual cheesiness style of music, especially some of the guitar tunes Jun Senoue is well known for, especially when the music goes an extra length to be as relaxing or as fast pace and, overall, very elaborate. The event themes completely shroud the best parts of the album, but it shouldn't keep a fan from exploring the three disc set to find more than enough memorable tracks to fall in love with. With a combination of classic rock inspired tunes, peaceful piano recitals that segue into an ambient and hardcore techno guitar riffs, and even going far as to be as mysterious ambience with chilling use of echoing guitar solos, it's regarded as one of the best Sonic soundtracks to come out in a long time. Tomoya Otani has done a great job, and we hope to see more of his musical direction for the next Sonic the Hedgehog title.
Rafael Orantes
01. HIS WORLD ~THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Lyrics by Ali Tabatabaee & Johnny Gioeli
Lead Vocals : Matty Lewis
Rap Vocals : Ali Tabatabaee
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Strings : Shinozaki Strings
Strings Arranged by Takahito Eguchi
02. [EVENT] THE SOLEANNA FESTIVAL
Music by Mariko Nanba
03. [EVENT] DR.EGGMAN APPEARS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
04. [EVENT] SONIC APPEARS
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
05. WAVE OCEAN ~THE WATER'S EDGE~
Music by Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
06. WAVE OCEAN ~THE INLET~
Music by Mariko Nanba & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
07. [EVENT] MEMORY OF YOUTH
Music by Mariko Nanba
08. [BOSS] EGG-CERBERUS & EGG-GENESIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
09. SOLEANNA CASTLE TOWN
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Oboe : Hiroshi Shibayama
Accordion : Yoshiaki Sato
10. DUSTY DESERT ~QUICKSAND~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani & Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
11. [EVENT] RUNNING THROUGH THE PLAINS
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings
12. [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER APPEARS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
13. [BOSS] VS. CHARACTER
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
14. [EVENT] EGGMAN SENDS SONIC TO THE FUTURE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
15. [EVENT] THE FUTURE WORLD?
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
16. [EVENT] CAN IT BE TRUE?
Music by tai-hey
17. [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER VS. SHADOW
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
18. [EVENT] ELISE JUMPS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
19. TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE JUNGLE ~ THE SWAMP~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Flute : Bob Zung
Chorus : Miho Fujiwara, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
20. [EVENT] IN THE FOREST
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings
21. [EVENT] ELISE GOES ALONE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
22. [EVENT] EGGMAN'S PLOT
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
23. KINGDOM VALLEY ~WIND ~ THE CASTLE ~ LAKESIDE ~ WATER~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
1stVI : Hiroyuki Koike
2ndVI : Rei Koike
Vla : Tomoko Fukuhara
Vc : Tomio Yajima
Cb : Shinji Tanaka
24. [EVENT] OUT OF CONTROL
Music by tai-hey
25. [EVENT] I WILL CHANGE MY DESTINY
Music by tai-hey
26. [BOSS] EGG-WYVERN
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
27. THEME OF DR.EGGMAN ~FULL VERSION~
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
28. THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ~2006 E3 VERSION~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars & Bass : Yasutaka Kume
29. ACCORDION SONG
Music by Mariko Nanba
Performed by Yoshiaki Sato
Disc-2
01. "Crush 40","ALL HAIL SHADOW ~THEME OF SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG~
Performed by Crush 40
Written by Jun Senoue & Mike Szuter
Vocals : Johnny Gioeli
Guitars & Programming : Jun Senoue
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
02. [EVENT] SHADOW'S INFILTRATION
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Jun Senoue
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
03. WHITE ACROPOLIS ~SNOWY PEAK~
Music by Mariko Nanba
04. WHITE ACROPOLIS ~THE BASE~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
05. [EVENT] TO THE ANCIENT SOLEANNA CASTLE
Music by Mariko Nanba
06. SOLEANNA FOREST
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Flute : Bob Zung
07. [EVENT] TENSION... THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
08. [EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
09. [EVENT] CONFIRMING THE FUTURE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
10. FLAME CORE ~VOLCANO~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
11. FLAME CORE ~THE CAVERN~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Yasutaka Kume & Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
12. [EVENT] THE BLACK SHADOW
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
13.TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE RUINS~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Flute : Bob Zung
Chorus : Miho Fujiwara, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
14. [EVENT] MEPHILES' WHISPER
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
15. [BOSS] MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
16. SOLEANNA NEW CITY
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Toru Kawamura
Flute : Bob Zung
17. RADICAL TRAIN ~THE ABANDONED MINE~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
18. RADICAL TRAIN ~THE CHASE~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
19. [EVENT] THE ACCIDENT 10 YEARS AGO
Music by tai-hey
20. AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 1~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Chorus : Kazuko Hamano
21. AQUATIC BASE ~LEVEL 2~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
22. [EVENT] LEAVING THE SCEPTER OF DARKNESS
Music by Mariko Nanba
23. [EVENT] THE SEALING REVEALED
Music by tai-hey
24. [EVENT] DETERMINATION... OMEGA'S CONFESSION
Music by tai-hey
25. [EVENT] MEPHILES' TEMPTATION
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
26. [BOSS] MEPHILES PHASE 2
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
27. [EVENT] SHOWDOWN WITH MEPHILES
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
28. RESULT
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Performed by Chewtaro Moritake
29. TOWN MISSION 1
Music by Mariko Nanba
30. TOWN MISSION 2
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
31. TOWN MISSION 3
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
32. TOWN MISSION 4
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
33. [JINGLE] INVINCIBLE
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
34. [JINGLE] MISSION CLEAR
Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi
35. [JINGLE] TOWN MISSION CLEAR
Music by Seirou Okamoto
36. EXTRAS
Music by Mariko Nanba
Arranged by tai-hey
Piano : Masaki Matsumoto
Disc-3
01. DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION ~THEME OF SILVER THE HEDGEHOG~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Arranged by Tomoya Ohtani
Vocals & Lyrics by Lee Brotherton
Guitars : Chewtaro Moritake
02. [EVENT] THE RUINED WORLD OF THE FUTURE
Music by Mariko Nanba
03. CRISIS CITY ~THE FLAME ~ SKYSCRAPER ~ WHIRLWIND ~ TORNADO~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Guitars : Yasutaka Kume
04. [EVENT] CONFRONTATION WITH IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
05. [BOSS] IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
06. [EVENT] HE'S THE IBLIS TRIGGER!
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
07. DUSTY DESERT ~THE RUINS~
Music by Tomoya Ohtani & Mariko Nanba
Guitars & Electric Sitar : Chewtaro Moritake
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
08. [EVENT] IS IT RIGHT...?
Music by tai-hey
09. [EVENT] INVASION... ENCOUNTER WITH AMY AND ELISE
Music by tai-hey
10. [EVENT] NEVER CRY, NO MATTER WHAT
Music by Mariko Nanba
11. [EVENT] DETERMINATION... RETURN TO THE FUTURE
Music by tai-hey
12. [EVENT] THE LAST CLASH WITH IBLIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
13. [BOSS] IBLIS PHASE 3
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
14. [EVENT] YOU ARE MY COMPANION
Music by tai-hey
15. [EVENT] MEPHILES' SMILE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
16. [EVENT] ELISE'S TEARS
Music by tai-hey
17. [EVENT] THE VILLAIN WAS SET FREE
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
18. [EVENT] THE RESURRECTION OF SOLARIS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
19. [EVENT] THE TIME-SPACE RIFT
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
20. END OF THE WORLD
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
21. [EVENT] WISHING UPON THE CHAOS EMERALDS
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
22. [BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 1
Music by Hideaki Kobayashi
23. [BOSS] SOLARIS PHASE 2
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
Arranged by Hideaki Kobayashi
24. [EVENT] SOLARIS DESTROYED
Music by Tomoya Ohtani
25. [EVENT] THE FLAME OF HOPE
Music by Mariko Nanba
26. [EVENT] JUST SMILE
Music by Mariko Nanba
1stVI : Hiroyuki Koike
2ndVI : Rei Koike
Vla : Tomoko Fukuhara
Vc : Tomoi Yajima
Cb : Shinji Tanaka
27. [EVENT] PARADE: PAST MEMORIES
Produced by Mariko Nanba
Music by Takahito Eguchi
Strings : Shinozaki Strings
28. MY DESTINY ~THEME OF ELISE~
Music by Mariko Nanba
Lyrics by Candie Y
Arranged by Takahito Eguchi
Vocal : Donna De Lory
Guitars : Naganori Sakakibara
Piano : Nobuo Kurata
Bass : Takeshi Taneda
Drums : Nobuo Eguchi
Strings : Kuwano Strings
1 | HIS WORLD ~THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG~ | 04:41 | ![]() |
2 | [EVENT] THE SOLEANNA FESTIVAL | 00:59 | ![]() |
3 | [EVENT] DR.EGGMAN APPEARS | 01:05 | ![]() |
4 | [EVENT] SONIC APPEARS | 00:54 | ![]() |
5 | WAVE OCEAN ~THE WATER'S EDGE~ | 03:30 | ![]() |
6 | WAVE OCEAN ~THE INLET~ | 03:06 | ![]() |
7 | [EVENT] MEMORY OF YOUTH | 00:27 | ![]() |
8 | [BOSS] EGG-CERBERUS & EGG-GENESIS | 02:48 | ![]() |
9 | SOLEANNA CASTLE TOWN | 02:34 | ![]() |
10 | DUSTY DESERT ~QUICKSAND~ | 03:46 | ![]() |
11 | [EVENT] RUNNING THROUGH THE PLAINS | 02:24 | ![]() |
12 | [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER APPEARS | 00:26 | ![]() |
13 | [BOSS] VS. CHARACTER | 03:40 | ![]() |
14 | [EVENT] EGGMAN SENDS SONIC TO THE FUTURE | 01:32 | ![]() |
15 | [EVENT] THE FUTURE WORLD? | 00:42 | ![]() |
16 | [EVENT] CAN IT BE TRUE? | 01:36 | ![]() |
17 | [EVENT] TENSION... SILVER VS. SHADOW | 01:08 | ![]() |
18 | [EVENT] ELISE JUMPS | 00:36 | ![]() |
19 | TROPICAL JUNGLE ~THE JUNGLE ~ THE SWAMP~ | 04:17 | ![]() |
20 | [EVENT] IN THE FOREST | 02:16 | ![]() |
21 | [EVENT] ELISE GOES ALONE | 01:22 | ![]() |
22 | [EVENT] EGGMAN'S PLOT | 01:48 | ![]() |
23 | KINGDOM VALLEY ~WIND ~ THE CASTLE ~ LAKESIDE ~ WATER~ | 06:49 | ![]() |
24 | [EVENT] OUT OF CONTROL | 00:38 | ![]() |
25 | [EVENT] I WILL CHANGE MY DESTINY | 01:34 | ![]() |
26 | [BOSS] EGG-WYVERN | 03:37 | ![]() |
27 | THEME OF DR.EGGMAN ~FULL VERSION~ | 03:32 | ![]() |
28 | THEME OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ~2006 E3 VERSION~ | 02:04 | ![]() |
29 | ACCORDION SONG | 01:32 | ![]() |