One of the most surprising developments came with a message from a fan who said I had been mentioned in the UK edition of PC Gamer Magazine. I even stumbled upon several fan forums with whole threads dedicated to discussing and celebrating this remix. One gentlemen even requested the piano parts so that he could learn and transcribe them to sheet music.
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I every couple of months I would receive the odd letter asking if I was the guy behind the remix and where they could download the track. "That Long Train Ride" became an underground hit with HL2 fans. Then something I never expected began to happen during the in-between years prior to my blog's launch. "That Long Train Ride" and most of my others video-game remixes wouldn't see the light of day again until I started my own blog in 2008 to promote my mash-ups.
I went on to produce other remixes to post on VGMix until February of 2006 when the site was closed due to the exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in the site's database code. After approximately ten revisions, the track was officially released and received decent reviews achieving a site-chart position level of bout second or third tier. As such, the song "Triage at Dawn" was actually labelled something more akin to "Track 17" or "suit_song23", so I ignored the filename when I released the remix or review and stuck with a more attractive, invented title "That Long Train Ride". This allowed me to unpack the encrypted game files and extract virtually all of the audio within the game, including music, sound effects, and even some dialogue. One of my earliest remixes entitled "That Long Train Ride" was an expansion on Kelly Bailey's "Triage at Dawn" - a short transitional song used in Half-Life 2:Īt the time, I could not track down the official soundtrack for the game, so I was left to use a program called "GCF Scrape" (or something similar to the best of my memory). I ended up contributing most of my time and effort to the latter community, which had a much more egalitarian reviewing system, and even offered free hosting for users' mixes. At that time, two major websites dominated: OverClocked ReMix, and VGMix. Many years ago I was considerably involved in the video-game remix community. My name Is Andrew Bowers and I compose, produce and remix music under the handle "DJ Dain". Why yes, I am that Half-Life 2 Remix guy.
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