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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday to @infinata.bsky.social, who is the voice of DJ Palob Godalhi on Black Spire Outpost Radio, BSO 401.72. Here he is reading an old Batuuan ballad for visiting travelers. (Apologies for the wonky audio quality!)

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 2d

We're playing a game within a game on day 162 of #TheDiegeticShuffle: @codymatthewjohnson.bsky.social's "Rider" is the soundtrack for a vector arcade cabinet in Outlaws. It's got a Knight Rider-esque rhythm track with a melody in a Phrygian (I think) key. youtu.be/OmRTBwL5tXo?...

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Batuu Boogie (From "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Oga's Cantina"/Audio Only)

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 3d

Blink (your ears?) and you'll miss it—we have a three-second cue from the Voxx Vortex episode of Resistance for day 161 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, casino game source music from Michael Tavera.

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 4d

Chaka Mater Laka is Jason Mater, an Emmy-nominated LA-based composer and producer who's worked on "Vampirina," "Wizards Beyond Waverly Place," and "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series." He's on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jasonmater/

A white man with a shock of sandy hair in a black hoodie sitting on a big mixing board

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 4d

Let's boogie down in Black Spire Outpost on day 160 of #TheDiegeticShuffle with "Batuu Boogie" by Chaka Mater Laka feat. MW-59. It's a high energy tune with a clearly Muppet vocalist. As DJ Palob Godalhi says, "Wow, I could oscillate to that all day." youtu.be/hrlSr3OZvw4?...

YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 5d

Cody Matthew Johnson talks about his process for "translating" lyrics into an alien language (Myrran?) for the city of Myrra in Star Wars: Outlaws. Very cool stuff—we've come a long way from pulling random tiles from Scrabble and Perquackey for "Lapti Nek"!

codymatthewjohnson.bsky.social @codymatthewjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

1/3 yea! So Ive talked about this a little bit on podcasts, interviews, and the like, but effectively the hope was to not necessarily use an identifiable existing in-universe language - I didn't want to take players out of the intentional immersionof the cantinas by hiding too many easter ...

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 5d

That's so much cooler than I anticipated! Thank you!

Star Wars: Droids - Intro/Credits (HQ)

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 5d

Correction: it's the back half of "Plans" by Kevin Kiner, available on his website! bsky.app/profile/cgcj...

Clone Gunner Commander Jedi @cgcj.bsky.social · 5d

That's "Plans" by Kevin Kiner. Kevin has it on his website:
www.kevinkiner.com/mp3music/Clo...

www.kevinkiner.com

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 5d

Trandoshan hunters are psyching themselves up on day 159 of #TheDiegeticShuffle. This trophy room chant from season 3 of the Clone Wars was probably composed by Matthew St. Laurent, Takeshi Furukawa, or David Glen Russell.

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codymatthewjohnson.bsky.social @codymatthewjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

❇FOR YOUR GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION❇

Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card & A Pirate's Fortune (Original Video Game Soundtrack) - Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games or Other Interactive Media

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 6d

Oops, Batuu, not Baatu. 😬

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 6d

We travel to the planet Biitu (in the same system as Baatu?) on day 158 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, where Artoo finds his way into a droid Shangri-La in Ben Burtt's "The Great Heep". A pop song with electronically altered vocals is playing in the lush robot spa.

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 6d

…but "In Trouble Again" isn't heard in "The Great Heep". Is this droid spa song their contribution? To my ear the vocal, minus the distortion, does sound a bit like Copeland in "In Trouble Again". If anyone has the skinny, let me know! youtu.be/_Qj3CxXGyCc?...

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 6d

It's not quite clear (to me) who composed it. Patricia Cullen and Patrick Gleeson are credited as composers for "The Great Heep", but Stewart Copeland (of the Police) and Derek Holt have an "additional music" credit. Copeland and Holt famously composed the "Droids" theme song…

Chicken in the Pot (3M18S)

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 6d

We travel to the planet Biitu (in the same system as Baatu?) on day 158 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, where Artoo finds his way into a droid Shangri-La in Ben Burtt's "The Great Heep". A pop song with electronically altered vocals is playing in the lush robot spa.

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 7d

We featured the version seen in the film on day 40: bsky.app/profile/cant...

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · Jun 13

Day 40 of #TheDiegeticShuffle brings one of my favorites: "Chicken in the Pot" from Solo, a Huttese song about being hungry performed on Dryden's yacht by Aurodia Ventafoli and Luleo Primoc (named for Louis Prima, whose voice was on the temp track). youtu.be/8xyk67s5xn4?...

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 7d

From John Powell's Facebook page, here's the great Baraka May in a recording session for the track.

Solo, 08, Chicken in the Pot, A Star Wars Story, John Powell

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 7d

We get the original version of "Chicken in the Pot" from "Solo" on day 157 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, with the high-pitched Luleo Primoc singing with Aurodia Ventafoli. For the film, Ron Howard requested Primoc be a bass, but both versions were released: youtu.be/D6_GuAE8F78?...

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 8d

"My Star" was written by the late Jeff Moss, who is best known for his work on Sesame Street: he wrote "I Love Trash", "The People in Your Neighborhood", and "Rubber Duckie," and helped create Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch.

A black-and-white photo of a curly-haired smiling man with Cookie Monster autographed with "To Jeffie, Me love you"

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 8d

We travel to Endor for day 156 of #TheDiegeticShuffle, where Charal, Witch of Endor and the first Nightsister, lures young Cindel by singing her parents' lullaby, "My Star." Creepy! Charal is played by Marianne Horine in this clip, but the song is sung by the great Siân Phillips.

Clint Bajakian Interview | The International House of Mojo

Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoy a Clint Bajakian interview from 2001: mixnmojo.com/features/int...

This vintage interview with the composer from the archives of iMuse Island took place shortly after the release of Escape from Monkey Island.

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 9d

"Discobaby" was the one non-Williams track from Droidworks, and it was credited to Clint Bajakian, Jeff Kliment, Michael Land, David Levison, and Larry the O. Bajakian and Land were, along with @petermcconnell.bsky.social, the founding members of the LucasArts sound department.

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Cantina Sounds: Star Wars source music @cantinasounds.bsky.social · 9d

We've got an obscure track from 1998 for day 155 of #TheDiegeticShuffle: "Discobaby" (aka "Robot Dance Mix") was the music you could play in the DroidWorks video game to make your droid boogie down. It would reappear in 1999's "The Gungan Frontier". youtu.be/nyXzB6USWyc?...

Star Wars: Droidworks Soundtrack - discobaby

YouTube video by Bobthemanofsteel