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“Night and the City" - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic BGM

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Channel: RainShadow · 2015 · Film & Animation

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“Night and the City" BGM from the episode “Rarity Investigates!” of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” (S05E15).


--Overall Comments--

This episode must have had the most style of any MLP episode so far, and what better character to lead it than Rarity!  If you didn’t catch it, this episode is a homage to the classic black & white noir films of the early to mid 1900s.  From the visuals, to Rarity’s costumes, to the dialogue, to the amazing jazzy music, this was an amazing tribute to a classic film style.  Plus, it’s an episode that featured Rarity and Rainbow Dash, two characters who really haven’t gotten an episode just for themselves in the five seasons of the show so far! Not to mention we get another episode (in a row no less) of a character realizing one of their dreams.  The entire crew, from the writing, to storyboarding, to voice acting, to animation, right on down to the scoring definitely put a lot of love into this episode, and it shows.

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: During all of the black & white noir scenes, the audio editors have made all audio come out of only the center channel, including the backing music.  This means there is no sound in any other channel except a little film scratching sound.  The reason for this is to further enhance the old film feel of these scenes (most films of that era were mono, not stereo).  HOWEVER, this does mean I CANNOT extract any of the score from these scenes, which are unfortunately the highlight of this episode’s BGM.  Only way to get this BGM would be fore William Anderson or Hasbro to release it.  THANKFULLY, we got some more awesome jazz noir score over the end credits, which I was able to extract, so that’s better than nothing! You can find that in the track “Rarity Investigates!”.

In homage to this episode, its music, and its inspiration, I have named most of the tracks from it after classic film noir lines or film names! Enjoy.


--Track Specific Comments--

Rainbow Dash and Rarity attend Princess Celestia’s Royal Garden opening ceremony.  This track consists of our normal regal gala classical score.

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DOWNLOAD:
MP3 (320 kbps): http://www.mediafire.com/listen/2014kgs0zbguuug/Night_and_the_City.mp3
AAC (320 kbps): http://www.mediafire.com/listen/e8h5w25g97hokps/Night_and_the_City.m4a
Apple Lossless (ALAC): http://www.mediafire.com/listen/p0qgqlbpduowggo/Night_and_the_City.m4a
FLAC: http://www.mediafire.com/download/pi7eef3u8a2e54k/Night_and_the_City.flac



----) Download all Songs/BGM from episode: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4be4qy6qh23t4/S05E15_Rarity_Investigates!
(Download all BGM from season 5 will be added at the end of the season at the bottom of the description!)



For a playlist with all of the BGM and songs from this episode in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM9sv7wkNb94xi-7Xm_bDj_MVv-Y9HuoX



Music By: William Anderson
Additional Music & Orchestrations: Kelly Davidson


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