Category Archives: Music

The Sound of Updates 2: Stock Music Edition

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Music

We are happy to bring you a big music update today! Included are many stock music tracks that were used in a variety of trailers and promotional material for Bionicle over the years. They’re all in their own album that you can download or stream from the music page (scroll down to the Misc section).

We’re also planning a gradual transition to FLAC over mp3 where possible – you can see this reflected in the changes.

And there’s plenty more new beyond that! Here’s the changelog:

Music 2.2.3

  • General
    • Various albums had slight name changes and album art changes
  • Animation Music
    • Renamed TLR and JTO albums for consistency
  • Game Music
    • Redid Quest for the Toa soundtrack in better quality, added HQ Kopaka track from Huai Snowball Sling standalone release
    • Quest for the Toa and Heroes GBA downloads include midis and tracker modules respectively
    • Heroes Mobile and Challenge/Defenders downloads have been updated to their original midis
    • Updated Legend of Mata Nui soundtrack. Download now includes WAVs from Dave Madden
    • Added beta placeholder tracks to Bionicle Heroes soundtrack
    • Updated Bionicle Heroes GBA soundtrack to use HQ versions from Tom Miller
    • Renamed Bionicle Heroes mobile track names
    • Renamed Mask of Control track names
    • Updated City of Legends music to PS2 versions (which are better!)
    • Removed Agori Defender music (source now in stock music)
  • Stock Music
    • Added stock music
  • Miscellaneous
    • Removed tracks that now have full versions in the stock music album
  • Added links to Spotify playlists of music we can’t host to downloads

Classic Style Guide 07 + Michael Dorn AVO

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Classic Style Guide 2007
Mata Nui AVO
Style Guide 2009

Big day for Bionicles! Thanks to an anonymous former Lego employee and BZPower we are able to bring you a new style guide, a bit more from the 09 guide, and a disc with Michael Dorn’s uncut recordings for the 2010 Mata Nui Saga.

Despite being from 2007, this Classic Style Guide actually covers miscellaneous stuff 2001-2006, separate from the main 07 guide.

While we had already received the discs from the 2009 guide as ZIPs from another source, you can now also find DMG images of the discs, as well as a clip from a BZP stream where Black Six shows the contents of the booklet the discs came in.

Enjoy the stuff!!

 

Piraka Rap Extended Version, Jam 2K2

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Ganonthegreat recently acquired a rare promo disc from Jetix and found some 06 Bionicle material on it, including this new mix of the Piraka Rap! In addition to being much longer than the only version we’ve had up to now, this one appears to be more polished, with a proper ending instead of cutting off.

We’re also adding the Bionicle Jam 2K2 to the Miscellaneous music section in this update. This is the audio track that accompanied the live Bionicle Jam performance at Legoland California in 2002. It’s been floating around for a while now, but better we add it late than never! Thanks to DoomTay for preserving it on Internet Archive – they apparently got it from BZP back in the day. I’d wager it was probably originally posted on the website of the production studio, PRP Inc.

These tracks are now both streaming on the Music page (under Songs->2006 and Miscellaneous->Miscellaneous, respectively) and included in the appropriate download packages. Here are the individual mp3s if you prefer – enjoy!

Piraka_rap.mp3
01 Bionicle 2K2 Soundtrack.mp3

Music Update

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Hot off the press, it’s an update to the music archive! You can download it now on the music page, or stick around for the changes to be rolled out for streaming in the coming days. Here’s the full list of changes:

  • Animation Music
    • Merged “Movie Music” and “Flash Episode Music” into “Animation Music”
    • Replaced trilogy film soundtracks with a single album of the tracks not availible in the official releases from Nathan Furst
    • Added The Journey to One soundtrack
  •  Game Music
    • Added Bionicle Heroes mobile soundtrack, provided by MisterJulius
    • Updated Bionicle Heroes DS soundtrack to HQ versions of tracks from the composer, track titles now reflect official names (Thanks Skelly for ripping this in the best possible quality from YouTube!)
    • Updated Bionicle: The Game console soundtrack to new version by That1Cactus and Hexadecimal Mantis, complete with unused tracks.
    • Added Mask of Control app soundtrack
    • Added “Other Games” album with music from City of Legends, Bionicle Defenders, Bionicle Challenge, and the Mask of Creation app. City of Legends music provided by Hexidecimal Mantis, mobile game music provided by MisterJulius
    • Updated The Legend of Mata Nui soundtrack with tracks from alpha v.006 and final build, album compiled by Vahkiti
    • Updated Mata Nui Online Game soundtrack
      • Updated “The Charred Forest” and “Defense of the Kini-Nui” with higher quality version of the “Predators” cue
      • Added Takua (Unused Track)
    • Removed Mistika game track in Misc album (redundant in light of Closer to the Truth demo)
  •  Songs
    • Added Bionicle Age, Barcodemegamix, and The Bionicle Music (Extended) to 2001 album.
    • Added Closer to the Truth demo
    • Updated Gravity Hurts instrumental to much higher quality
    • Labelled Creeping in My Soul demo track
  •  Miscellaneous
    • Moved Toa Evolution here from Bionicle: The Game soundtrack
    • Moved Mask of Light and Legends of Metru Nui trailer music here from their respective soundtracks
    • Moved Barraki Trailer music here from the Barraki game soundtrack
    • Added “Obey the Force,” a 2009 Paul Hardcastle composition that uses Bionicle samples (thanks again Skelly)
  • Fan Music
    • Removed Fan Music from main download. Music from this is still accessible in separate archives on the Fan page.

ADDENDUMS

2020/03/20

  • Added new mix of Piraka Rap to Songs (via Ganonthegreat)
  • Moved Voya Nui Adventure reward songs to their own download separate from Songs package – most people looking to download Bionicle music won’t be interested in these and they take up quite a bit of space
  • Added Bionicle Jam 2K2 to Miscellaneous (via DoomTay)