Matt Uelmen - Outtake 1

Outtake from Blizzard's Diablo II.

"Outtake I" - Liner Notes - November 29, 2000

"Hurry up or you'll miss the train! This track is part of a good ten minutes of "Look-at-my-pretty-guitars" garbage that was mercifully tossed before release. Despite a disgustingly cute midgets-in-liederhosen quality, it is given some dignity by the oboe stylings of Roger Wiesmeyer. Like the Monastery intro which eventually became the second part of our Diablo II title screen, this is a good example of how NOT to pace game action music. You may notice an instrument which makes it nowhere else into this little game -- the classical guitar. Even though I have probably fallen asleep to the sound of Segovia more than any other recording artist, I was never able to reconcile the Spanish sound of this instrument with the feel of the game. There is something inescabably warm and seductive about the sound of nylon which just did not fit with the feel that the steel strings established in the original game. The flamenco riffs I tried to insert always seemed a bit forced. Some people around the office liked this track, despite the fact that those open mandolin chords now make me wince."

- Matt Uelmen

Anyways, enjoy!

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Music

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• Diablo
• II
• blizzard
• north
• matt uelmen
• sound
• track

[MisterMetadata]

Matt uelman, is incredible. They fired him for Diablo three. So...you know the music in it is going to utter shit.

[MisterMetadata]

Check out the Diablo 3 overture. I am hating it already. Its definately not the diablo 3 I was hoping for :(

[spyletu]

he should stick to more string instruments in his work.. he is masterful at it. i'm not as much into his low-humming low-frequency instruments

[stevemctowelie]

Damn !! This music is so good !!! Why doesn't it has 3 more minutes at least????

[AsheleeDurg]

@Gondar4321 Yea, He left, he wasn't fired. I'm just glad I got to see him at Blizzcon in 08 when they unveiled it. Besides, hes working on Torchlight 2 now :D

[andraken]

@Hambugenable because Diablo 3 is not made by the people from Diablo 1 & 2. Diablo 3 is made by WoW guys.

[Gondar4321]

@MisterMetadata He left btw...

[SHADOWRENEGADE826]

@MisterMetadata He wasnt fired he left to join Runic games along with a lot of other people from Blizzard north. And a Ps the music in Diablo 3 is great.

[RuberHammer]

Matt wasn't fired, he left.

[forsakethis]

0 dislikes, ofc... that means something :D

[Foxidor]

I red from an interview he left cause Blizzard made him work an amount hour per day, and he was doing fine like "doing he's job and go home". So he left

[thedragoonknight]

People need to quit spreading rumors, its tacky. Matt did not get fired for Diablo III as @jamiecypher already said.