VERSUS
July 15, 2016
VERSUS is a two-part album that brings together the Gamelark and Materia Community VGM communites to celebrate decades of fighting music: 47 tracks of fighting game covers, just in time for the 2016 Evolution Champion Series. The album brings in music from world-renown games including Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Pokken Tournament, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, among many others. “VERSUS was a perfect opportunity to show the collaborative nature of the VGM community,” says Allen Brasch, founder and head of GameLark. “We see countless collaborations between individual artists so I thought, why not collaborate between labels?”
Allen Brasch and Sebastian Wolff set up the album to be a friendly competition between the two groups, in the spirit of collaboration and of the fighting game genre.
“I think that both GameLark and Materia Community artists felt compelled to do their best work on this album,” says Brasch. “There was a friendly competition between the labels, but it happened in the best way possible. Everyone was trying to top themselves, to make the best track they could, and I think the end result shows that.”
©Ⓟ 2016 Materia Collective LLC
Track List & Credits
VERSUS was made possible by the following individuals:
Disc 1
1Holy Orders (from "Guilty Gear XX")4:43
2Swamp Stage(from "Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes")3:13
Lord Bif:
Producer, Arranger, Mixing Engineer 3Vega's Theme (from "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior")3:32
4Phantasmagoria (from "Soul Calibur IV")3:15
5Ken's Theme Goes With... (from "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior")4:29
6Xiaoyu's Theme (from "Tekken Tag Tournament")3:03
7Tiger's Family (from "Dead or Alive 5")1:51
8Dr. Doom's Theme (from "Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds")2:18
9Guile's Theme (from "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior")3:18
RichaadEB:
Producer, Arranger, Mixing Engineer 10The Tiger King (from "Street Fighter II: The World Warrior")2:38
11Moonlit Wilderness (from "Tekken 5")3:11
12Theme of F.A.N.G (from "Street Fighter V")2:25
13Theme of Spider-Man (from "Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes")2:59
14Mortal Kombat Theme (from "Mortal Kombat")3:41
15Black Winter Night Sky (from "Tekken 2")4:47
16Orchid's Theme (from "Killer Instinct II")2:33
17Jago's Theme (from "Killer Instinct")4:01
18Antares (from "Tekken 5")4:29
19Main Menu Theme (from "Street Fighter V")3:00
20Sabrewulf's Theme (from "Killer Instinct")4:10
Ubaldo B:
Producer, Arranger, Mixing Engineer 21King George Island, Antarctica (from "Tekken")5:09
Soundole:
Producer, Arranger, Mixing Engineer Steven Morris:
Electric Guitar, Congas, Wine Glass, Additional Synths 22Theme of Jin (from "Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes")4:10
Disc 2
1Select Your Character (from "Mortal Kombat 1")3:11
2Best Friends (from "Persona 4 Arena")3:28
3Guile's Theme (from "Street Fighter")2:35
4Jin Kazama (from "Tekken 3")3:05
5Lust Sin (Jin's Theme) [from "Blaz Blue"]2:30
6Magikarp Festival (from "Pokken Tournament")3:42
Ben Wallace:
Producer, Arranger, Piano, Electric Piano, Vocals 7Reach Out To The Truth (from "Persona 4 Arena")4:13
Viking Jesus:
Producer, Arranger, Guitars, Bass, Drum tracking, Mixing Engineer 8Choose Your Character! (from "Super Smash Bros. Melee")3:22
9✶✷ CONFRONTATION !! ✷✶「feat. MEIKO V3」(from "Soulcalibur II")4:06
10Ultra Sabrewulf (from "Killer Instinct")2:11
11The Last Soul (from "from "Streets of Rage")4:24
12ESAKA Team (from "King of Fighters")3:25
13Stage Sakura (from "Street Fighter Alpha 2")3:39
1411th Street (from "Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition")3:59
15Mortal Skombat(from "Mortal Kombat")2:12
16Dance of Dragons (from "Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection")3:34
17Fighter Select (from "Super Smash Bros")3:05
18The Lives We Left Behind (from "Skullgirls")3:09
Jacob Pernell:
Guitars, Vocals, Strings, Synth, Mixing Engineer, Mastering Engineer 19Forsaken Sanctuary (from "Soul Calibur III")2:56
20Guile's Theme (from "Street Fighter")3:41
Ann Zeng:
Producer, Piano, Mixing Engineer 21Wilderness (from "Golden Axe")1:31
22Escape From The City (from "Super Smash Bros WiiU")3:09
23A Challengers Theme (Eiji Theme) [from "Battle Arena Toshinden"]2:22
24Guile's Theme (from "Street Fighter")2:16
25(I Wanna) Take You For a Ride (from "Marvel vs. Capcom 2")4:29