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Join Date 09/2008

What's the Name of the Song Playing in the Bazaar?

It's a great jazzy little foxtrot or quickstep, and it sounds very familiar; very Benny Goodman-esque, "Things go better with Coke"...no no, that's not it. Damn, I can't place it. Somebody help me out here!

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I feel like i heard somewhere before too. Either the song is already exist or it use the same tone and theme as the one i heard. Such a happy little music to hear when i was choosing which of you little killing machine money hunger gonna serve me for galactic conquest.

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Oh man, you whipper snappers. It's from Star Wars which I guess to be fair is 40 years old. The cantina.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo

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I like it and it is very cool with the fun looking guy in the shop

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Quoting AU_Armageddon,

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Oh man, you whipper snappers. It's from Star Wars which I guess to be fair is 40 years old. The cantina.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6PDcBhODqo

Nope, you need to listen again. The song in the Bazaar is not the song played in the Star Wars cantina scene. I would have recognized that, believe me.

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It's named "Bazaar_Loop01" and it sounds nothing like the cantina theme...

Probably a custom track. It's just similar sounding to other things. Actualy, reminds me of the music in Discworld Noir.

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I went through all my Benny Goodman songs and it's neither in there nor is it amongst any of those chord progressions. I'm sure it's an original composition written for the game, but I still take it as a "Benny Goodman-esque" song.

The Bazaar song is in 4/4 time and is a basic foxtrot or quickstep. It's actually a little fast for a proper foxtrot and a little slow for a proper quickstep. I'd probably dance it as a foxtrot. It's more along the speed of a swing or jive, but the feel of the song is definitely foxtrot. I like it and would like to learn more about it (and all of the songs used in the game).

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It really does have a Star Wars episode 4 cantina sound to it, but I suspect it is more because of the sound of the instruments than of the tune. The tune is nowhere similar, but the instruments sound remarkably like the instruments in the cantina scene.

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Wow, you are all right and I am way off. In my head it was always cantina music, but actively listening I can't believe how distant that is in terms of tune.

My new assessment is that it sounds like a Cantina version of the bar song "Tequila".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H6amDbAwlY

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Yeah, it's not Tequilla either. I would have heard the chord progression and rhythm. Tequilla is not a foxtrot anyway, whereas the Cantina song is AT LEAST a quickstep, AKA, a "fast foxtrot", which does make it more similar to the Bazaar song than Tequilla.

So, l'm still searching. Shazam is of no help, not here anyway...

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Somewhere the composer Stardock hired is shaking their head and thinking to themselves "why can't they just let what's mine be mine?".

Though you might want to try looking here http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/collections.php

If there's a common track origin between game titles these days, then it probably came from here originally. You probably won't find the main melody as those are often custom tracks layered on top, but it's not uncommon to run into the backing baseline being used as a foundation from here.

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