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As a fan of the Skylanders soundtracks, I decided to make a topic to talk about the music of the SuperChargers. Yes, the game was not even released yet, and we have few musics discovered, but we can already talk about it. So, let's start:

New Music

• "Main Theme" (Not confirmed): This music is the "main" one of this game. We not know if is the main theme, but it's frequently used. It's in the Nintendo Guest Stars Trailer, in the Meet the Skylanders trailers, and you can hear each time you finish a race. The song is very good, being very addictive (at least for me).
  
• Meet the Skylanders Theme: In all Meet the Skylanders trailers, we can hear a different music. It also plays in the Overview Trailer and in the Maggi SuperChargers ad. We not know much about that, for being not too used, but I think it's good too.
  
• Dark Edition Trailer Music: This music is used in a trailer of the Dark Edition showing Kaos gameplay. It sounds like a final stage/boss music.
  

Reused/Remixed Music

• Sky Schooner Docks Remix: This music is one of my favorites in the franchise, and I excited to see this remix completely. It is used in the Cloud Factory track in Racing Mode.
  
• Drill-X's Big Rig Remix: Like the previous one, I love this music, and I glad to see a remix of it. It is used in the same track as the previous one.
  
• Chef Zeppelin: It's probable that this music is just used in the demos, but it's worth mentioning. It is used in the first part of the Skytlantis stage.
  
• Chef Zeppelin - Shooting Section: Like Chef Zeppelin, I think that it's just used in demos. It's used in the Land Vehicle Zone of Skytlantis and in the Calamity Canyon track.
  
• Serpent's Peak Remaster: Totally remastered and extended, this music is used in the Frozen Fossil Festival track.
  

Please, post your opinions about the musics.

Every time I bring it up only one or two people talk about it, nice to see this year there are more interested.

Meet the Skylanders theme also plays on the Overview trailer and the Maggi ad.

Sky Schooner Docks and Drill-X instrumental play on Cloud Factory, Chef Zeppelin Shooting Section remix plays on Calamity Canyon and the Land area of Cloud Kingdom, and Serpent's Peak is almost entirely remastered and extended on Frozen Fossil Festival - a great thing because that 10 second abomination became a great 1-2 minute track.

We haven't had much of the soundtrack this year and they definately held Amazon from leaking it early this time, but the remixes show actual effort unlike the ones in SF and the new ones are full of energy and aren't some repetitive loop.

The theme this year sounds MUCH better....I keep checking iTunes but no dice on new soundtrack...

Thanks for pointing all that musics I forgot. I added then in the list.
Also, I always got interest in Skylanders music and videogame music in general. This is why I created this topic and a topic to discuss VG Music in general (it's in the Video Gaming topic).

Yeah So far the music is GREAT! I love it

One thing I know I'll miss will be the Elemental Gate Themes, though. Supercharger gates will be easier on the wallet, but having the strange shift in the mood with the new Elemental energy around was good to break the pace a bit, though mostly in Giants and SF where the gates were much bigger.

I wish we still had Elemental Gate. It gave a reason to buy at least 1 skylander from every element. The Elements don't really have a purpose in Superchargers. Yeah I will miss the music in elemental gates.

True. The musics in elemental gates are good, mainly the Air and Magic ones (in my opinion).

I love the Tech elemental gate music

Other thing that interests me is about licensed music. Trap Team got some licensed non-Video Game Music, and I wonder if they will make this again in SuperChargers.

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Other thing that interests me is about licensed music. Trap Team got some licensed non-Video Game Music, and I wonder if they will make this again in SuperChargers.

Not to say it couldn't happen, but that was just for the villains, which allowed them to cheaply build musical profiles for all 46+ villains. With the game back on a realistic front I suspect that won't be the case.

There were also snippets of classic songs in some tracks(notably Mars,Bringer of War and Night on Bald Mountain during the final boss), but they were remixed into the track and used mostly to set the mood. I'd rather see new things from Lorne Balfe(or whoever's around this year), the new battle themes in TT were just amazing even if currently underrated. Seriously, look at this:

Phoenix Sanctuary Arena,Monster Marsh Arena and Golden Desert Arena don't even play in actual Arena Battle, but all feel straight out of a movie - kind of expected since Lorne used to work with Hans Zimmer. This as well, though despite the arena opportunity it never becomes one. Definately, they could be remixed and given bigger importance, but how many other great tracks,new ones, can they make that are just as awesome.

I heard that there are more licensed music than that one, but what are the others?

Considering plenty of them have been claimed by third party companies on youtube, it's hard to tell what's ContentID trolling or what's genuinely stock music. Some themes are definately far from Lorne Balfe's style however, like the Light and Dark villain music(except for Nightshade who actually keeps his boss theme).

But back on topic, I really hope the final boss isn't a shameful reuse of themes like Swap Force - yeah, not only you had 3 remixes of Lair of Kaos as usual, you had The Necropolis play in the final area because kids "must" be too stupid to remember it's a battle arena theme. The final part of Traptanium Kaos might have too much wub to be my favorite(over part 4), but it was original as far as we can tell, or remixed enough to be its own thing; if final bosses are supposed to be an intense end, breaking the ice with old songs just doesn't work.

I'd say most are trolling. Those that can try and cheat a system usually do.

Sorry if I haven't seen it, but where's the link to the "main theme"?

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Sorry if I haven't seen it, but where's the link to the "main theme"?

This has the initial notes, and this with commentary has a bit more from the lobby menu. Said menu actually shows more songs in the same channel's followed videos, but they might cycle through different tracks, since one of them is the Race Complete theme.
We can guess that's the theme since it plays when the characters Supercharge vehicles in the Meet the Skylanders released recently.

One question: The music from Buckle Up trailer is licensed, or original? And the one from Swap Force Announcement Trailer?

The one from Buckle Up is the instrumental version of... Something, I know someone in the forum knew it.
Swap Force is Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim. Yes,I only know that because of the music video with Christopher Walken.

And as a bonus, SSA's reveal trailer had Thunderstruck by AC/DC. Kinda weird to see rock on the series even if it's literally the first thing we heard with it. Lorne uses a lot more dubstep and classic.

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The one from Buckle Up is the instrumental version of... Something, I know someone in the forum knew it.
Swap Force is Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim. Yes,I only know that because of the music video with Christopher Walken.

And as a bonus, SSA's reveal trailer had Thunderstruck by AC/DC. Kinda weird to see rock on the series even if it's literally the first thing we heard with it. Lorne uses a lot more dubstep and classic.

Thank you. I love the Swap Force on. I think that Giants is the only original one. It is?

Giants is a different case,they started with an animated short exclusively, not a trailer with music, which I think it never had or used ingame music. SF had all three(music trailer, animated short,overview thingy) during E3,I think.

I was talking about this Giants trailer:



Also, the Battlecast Annoucement Trailer have original music too?

That's definately something I heard in trailers and ads before,but I wouldn't be able to tell if it's instrumental or stock or whatever. Same for Battlecast.

Oh wow I mistook it for the Tall Tales animation,according to the official channel that WAS the E3 trailer, this was released on february.

Ok. Now, if someone knows the name of the Buckle Up Trailer music, PLEASE talk it here. I love that music, and I wish that I know the name.

Any news on the official OST yet?

i think i will just stick to the ssa ost, thats where the magic happened

You're missing out,then.

Don't know if they can be considered as "soundtracks" but I really love this commercials' themes.
There is a different one for each game but it's the same for all these kind of spots:









Can't wait to hear SuperChargers'!

Some of the ads are definately good but they probably don't use original music.

On the sountrack, it'd be good to check on iTunes but it always showed up Amazon first. There are original songs already(Mystical Vault, Chompy Garden, Cloudbreather Dragon land section) but hopefully they won't be too outnumbered by remixes.

Getting off topic, I find funny the ads when it's write in the end Toys do not Speak.

Thats crushing so many kid dreams xD

And confuses the heck out of kids when they see that yet their Kaos Trap is talking to them while they play. An older person will notice the sentences are prerecorded but when you just introduce a young kid to the game they'll very much believe there's someone inside.

Sorry if this has already been posted, but here's just the audio of the supposed theme~

Woahhh, so much nostalgia from these past game commercials. >.<

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Sorry if this has already been posted, but here's just the audio of the supposed theme~

It's the audio of the Nintendo Guest Stars Trailer. Bifrost already posted a link to the trailer.

If that is the main theme music, BEST MAIN THEME EVER! JUST SAYIN'!

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Sorry if this has already been posted, but here's just the audio of the supposed theme~

Wow, this SO MUCH BETTER than Trap Teams!

I like all main themes(yes, even swap force though it gets stale faster), but this one does have more uses. The others seem to introduce more as trailer or menu themes, this could work even in a level.

Yes. This one is great (but all Main Themes are). The Swap Force soundtrack as a whole was not good as the other (but still being good).

The music during the first part of those presentation videos...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEYrzlbYFqI

I don't like that one as much as the main theme,but I've seen it play in some lobby menu videos as well.

Also forgot entirely about another one. It's VERY brief,but you can hear Drill-X's Big Rig notes and it's not Cloud Factory.
It plays for a few seconds at the start then becomes this incredibly somber song. It might be final boss or final level theme,and it sounds awesome. For some reason it never made it to the official channel.

That new theme seems ok at the moment. It took a few listens for Trap Team one to sink in, and now I think its on par with Giants theme (my favourite).

I still think the soundtracks for these games are some of the best out there at the moment. Maybe as good as the classic games? Maybe... just maybe...

Also, not on the topic of SC for a bit but still on soundtrack... But everyone's been ripping the SSA Boss Battle theme from the game and getting jumbled badly looping messes... While I-Wei(TFB character designer) had a video with a clean raw version of the song in his channel. And it's been around for 3 years. Wow I feel dumb, I watched this before since I love his work but not for a second I noticed this song doesn't have the weird cuts and jumps like the rest.
If you guys've been looking for that for your channel intro or ringtone or whatever, I shouldn't keep this to myself.

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Also, not on the topic of SC for a bit but still on soundtrack... But everyone's been ripping the SSA Boss Battle theme from the game and getting jumbled badly looping messes... While I-Wei(TFB character designer) had a video with a clean raw version of the song in his channel. And it's been around for 3 years. Wow I feel dumb, I watched this before since I love his work but not for a second I noticed this song doesn't have the weird cuts and jumps like the rest.
If you guys've been looking for that for your channel intro or ringtone or whatever, I shouldn't keep this to myself.

This is great. I love the Kaos Boss Battle Theme, and I find the weird cuts bad, but I think that this was the only option. I think that is strange how they make "official" versions of the musics, but don't place in the soundtracks for sale.

Might be some limit on how many songs there can be, since a big chunk of the good ones is always missing every year. Unless you get lucky chances are the best ones have to be recorded most of the time.

Honestly, I think this game has the best main theme yet. SA's is close and gets bonus points for nostalgia, but it takes a little while to start, whereas this one seems to grab you right away. (Although maybe it just seems that way because of how they cut it, either way, I still think the main part sounds a bit better because it's more action-y while keeping the sense of adventure...)

I agree SF had the worst main theme. I like the mood, but it just sounds too simple and barely has any background elements to stay interesting. Giants was really cool and epic, don't have any major complaints about it except maybe the buildup is a little long. I liked TT's but it didn't feel grand enough.

^I agree

SSA's theme was good, but not the best, and I think SSC's maybe my new favourite especially that ending. SG's theme had that whole epic, and "grand" feeling to it, and that's how it was meant to be, and I liked Trap Teams too, it had me humming the tune to it everywhere I went~
Swap Force defiantly had the most lacking theme, nothing really impressive about it, and it felt repetitive and boring.

https://www.youtube.com/channe...rV7lVrng/videos For those who want to, You can sub to this channel because they will be uploading the superchargers music soon! Really excited.