#splatune

A while ago I made a post where I shared my rip of the Splatoon 3 OST, and I decided to also upload rips of all the Splatoon CD’s that were released in Japan, which I just finished!

You can download it here from this Drive

In addtion to the rip of Splatoon 3′s OST, that’s CD rips of Splatune, Splatune 2, Octotune, Splatoon Live in Makuhari and Splatoon 2 Live in Makuhari.

These rips have all been uploaded as flacs, so you’ll get the highest possible quality from how the music is found in the game files or on the CD.

I also tagged all of the music and added the respective cover art so it looks neat as well! I also went back to the Splatoon 3 OST upload to add tags and improve the order of the tracks for the Hero Mode music.

Splatune had already been tagged by @kerfuzzle_ who later recommended the Metatogger software to me, which is a super neat tool to tag music. I went and tagged the rest of the albums, and added the composers to Splatune.

"You realize that Octo Valley's energy crisis didn't go away when the Zapfish did, right? There are Octarians still scraping by down here — ourselves included. There's not enough power or hospitality to go around." "So what, are ya'll City of Ember-ing up in this beach?" "We're been taken hostage, Callie; please don't make it weird."

(Album cover, logo, and core concept by @aviivix. Thanks for the commission!)

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Composer Notes: All that blistering percussion is from Indian dappankuthu, (lit. “drum punch”) which has grown into the street-pop staple of Kollywood (not to be confused with Bollywood or Tollywood). Since the heavily-processed samples of Octoling Rendevous are so Indian-flavored to begin with, the collapse of the Octavian regime (along with Octo Valley civilization itself, quite literally) means these inspirations are free to finally "let loose," so to speak. (I'm a bit worried that the common interpretation will be that the Octolings this piece is about are "wild" due to all the foreign percussion. Really, they're just trying to get by in a world that has failed them.

the Culture Shock AU is wild, ya'll.)

Marina and Marie Splatune Animatic 

Audio by PROZD

So I realised that you humans can't really understand what our squid songs mean. I mean, I don't blame you, its hard to understand a language thats main noise is recreated by aggressively gargling water.

So this post will be dedicated to going through the meanings of popular songs in our world!! By the way, I'm not going to give you a 1 to 1 translation, because its much funnier seeing how you guys try to understand the lyrics. Palogy and Caitlin Koi seem to be good at that already.

So sit back and relax, because this is one LONG splat-culture post!!