an important role in its popularity Atomic Heart played the game’s soundtrack. Well-chosen songs in the trailers got the whole internet buzzing. And the excellent musical accompaniment in the game itself, as well as interesting gameplay solutions, perfectly complemented the atmosphere of the project. And Atomic Heart managed to cross the boundaries of the gaming community, thanks in large part to “virusized” songs like the Komarovo remix. In this article we have collected all the information about music in Atomic Heart.
Funk and rock versions of popular songs “of that time”, as well as their various remixes – one can hardly find the best option for an alternative, dystopian version of the USSR. By the way, the authors quite deliberately approached such a careful selection of the soundtrack, as they once wrote in the Discord channel:
We have a team of real audiophiles, we believe the music makes up 50% of the scene, so you almost always hear something in the background. For Atomic Heart, we searched through a thousand songs from the 50s-80s and selected the best works from those years that convey the positive, cheerful mood of the Soviet Union. You can hear all this from the speakers, on the radio and during important cutscenes.
Initially, the developers shocked the audience by using the song of the Mirage group – “Music connected us” in their trailer. Some players approved the choice, another called the selected number not too suitable for what is happening on the screen, the scandal caused by copyright infringement even more agitated the information field. Judging by the fact that the trailer is still up on the game’s channel, Mundfish managed to defend the license.
The release of the new trailer, which demonstrates the combat system, caused quite a stir. It contained a remix of Alla Pugacheva’s song Starry Summer, which, by the way, can often be heard in the release version of the game, in the open world.
At the time, many thought that Mick Gordon was working on the remix. This composer’s name added a few more hype points to the outgoing project. But no – Gordon wrote several songs that sound in the open world and during the battle with the bosses, and the author of the “Starry Summer” remix is called GeoffPlaysGuitar. This YouTuber is just famous for publishing rock covers of the soundtracks of various games on his channel, which sound like an OST for Doom (2016).
All songs from Atomic Heart Vol. 1
So far, Mundfish has released the first part of the Atomic Heart soundtrack on all major streaming platforms. The list of songs you can listen to now includes the following songs:
- Kosil Jas’Konjushinu (Mujuice Acid Rework) – Mujuice, Pesniary
- Trava u Doma: Geoffrey Day Remix – Geoffplaysguitar, Grounders
- Arlekino: Geoffrey Day Remix — Geoffplaysguitar, Alla Pugacheva
- Ya ne Casanova: Geoffrey Day Remix — Geoffplaysguitar, Vladimir Kuzmin
- Komarovo: DVRST Phonk Remix – DVRST, Igor Sklyar
- Komarovo (delayed): DVRST Phonk Remix – DVRST, Igor Sklyar
- Komarovo: DVRST DnB Remix — DVRST, Igor Sklyar
- Stoyat Devchonki: Geoffrey Day Remix — Geoffplaysguitar, Maria Pakhomenko, Alexander Kolker
- Stoyat Devchonki: Bad Fame Remix – Bad Fame, Maria Pakhomenko, Alexander Kolker
- Golden Hope: NOSE Remix – Nose, Olga Voskonyan, BIO
- Golden Hope: Gamma Intel Remix — Gamma Intel, Olga Voskonyan, BIO
- Golden Hope: Mujuice Remix – Mujuice, Olga Voskonyan, BIO
- Zvyozdnoe Leto: Geoffrey Day Remix — Geoffplaysguitar, Alla Pugacheva, Rhythm
- Libertango – Boogrov, Anton Mikhailov
- Tango – Boogrov, Anton Mikhailov
- For the Good of Humanity – Geoff plays guitar
- PT-1X12 – Played guitar
The playlist can be found in VK, Apple Music, Spotify, Yandex.Music and Youtube:
When will Atomic Heart Vol. 2
As you can see, there are a lot more tracks in the game than we heard in Atomic Heart Vol. 1. In any case, there are not enough compositions by Mick Gordon (Mick Gordon), various ambients and the theme that sounds while interacting with Eleanor.
According to the developers, the second part of the soundtrack for the game will be released on streaming platforms in a few weeks. Mundfish also said we’ll hear more Soviet music in future DLCs for Atomic Heart.
Where all songs of Atomic Heart can be listened to
Fans of the game are actively extracting and processing music from the game. So one of the communities dedicated to Atomic Heart released its unofficial playlist of the game’s OST. You can find it at this link.
It is possible that the list of songs in this playlist is not complete – the players are still examining the game files and will soon update the playlist again and add the missing songs there. Yet there are several times more songs in this playlist than are officially available now.
We also want to warn you – it’s not a fact that the compositions will sound the way the authors intended, so if you’re under the impression of Atomic Heart Vol. 2 – better wait for the release of the album. In addition, some songs may be blocked for copyright infringement.
Who worked on the Atomic Heart soundtrack
There was an opinion on the Internet that Mick Gordon mainly worked on the soundtrack for Atomic Heart, but in fact the composer prepared only a few compositions for the project, and the rest of the songs were created by other composers.
Many remember Mick Gordon from his soundtrack for Doom (2016)Mick Gordon wrote some of the ambient tracks, tracks for some of the trailers, and boss fights. Until the second part of the soundtrack came out, it’s hard to tell exactly what songs he worked on. But two videos have been posted on his personal website: “Atomic Heart – Official Teaser #3 – Polymer Vaccination” and “Atomic Heart – Official Gameplay Trailer #2 – Meet Plyush feat. Mike Gordon. numbers worked.
Geoffrey Day is a composer and owner of the YouTube channel GeoffPlaysGuitar. It was he who worked on the viral cover of Alla Pugacheva’s Starry Summer, which we heard in the trailer showing the combat system. Jeffrey also created other popular compositions: covers of the songs “The Girls Are Standing” by Maria Pakhomenko, “Arlekino” by Alla Pugacheva and “Grass at the House” by VIA Zemlyane.
DVRST is the pseudonym of Valery Zaitsev, a Russian musician who took first place on the Yandex.Music chart with a phonk version of Igor Sklyar’s song “Komarovo”. It is not yet known whether the artist worked on other songs, but Komarovo, having won the charts, got on Yandex billboards and even on television.
It is also currently known about other artists who worked on the Atomic Heart soundtrack. Mundfish brought together composers from all over the world: Colombian group Nose wrote original songs, young musician bad fame showed his vision on the song “Girls are standing”, and a DJ from the Netherlands Range Intel and Russian musician Mujuice made remixes for Olga Voskonyan’s song, the lyrics of which are based on the poems of Osif Mondelstam.
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Source: VG Times