We gave plugs to some of Sonic Boom’s debut music earlier, and one of the more requested songs so far has easily been the Classic Remix of “Escape from the City” that will be used in Sonic Generations without any of the audience voices.
We hear you loud and clear. While the recent dissection of the demo yielded its own musical results, Escape from the City was missing from the included files.
But Sonic Retro has its ways…
And in this case, it was as simple as just catching a Summer of Sonic livestream and recording a CLEAN version of the song.
Points to how the autotuning was used (Sonic 3 fans should pick up on it immediately) and a small techno line at the end just because it references the original (and, in my opinion, better) version of the song in the Dreamcast’s Sonic Adventure 2: The Trial, where the vocals were replaced with an energetic guitar lead.
Opinion injection and bitter old man rambling aside, I bet you all want that song. So, I’ll shut up and offer this tasty link for your downloadable consumption. Please right-click and save to your hard drive or just stream it from below.
[audio:http://www.sonicretro.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/GenerationsClassicCityEscape.mp3|titles=GenerationsClassicCityEscape]
37 Comments on this post
Leave a CommentI never knew I could Escape from the City, in such high quality.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Malady
This comment and topic had made my morning.
Thank you, Gene and Malady. :)
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by Roya Rockwood
wow... that was bad pun.
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by SJXD2
WTF, the link doesnt work anymore!!
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Ricardo G.
Working fine here. Check it again?
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by GeneHF
I’m actually more excited to hear modern sonic’s rendition.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Persondude
Ooooh no you won't! ;P
Reply left on 7.9.2011 by Nano-JX
Nice catch. I hear major differences in the versions from SOS and Sonic Boom. The unclear one from SOS is almost pure techno, but there is clearly guitar in the one from Sonic Boom. Probably just the more recent version, but it could be cool if there were two different versions of the song.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by IceFlux
I agree. The guitar was pretty awesome in the original one from Boom.
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by Trogdorbad
Unclear from Sonic Boom I meant, not SOS, it would be nice to have an edit button cause I'm the only one here who double posts.
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by IceFlux
techno>guitar c: I love this arrangement. Thanks for the high quality
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by RayAndFlare
I dunno why but this song is so damn uplifting…wow…NICE JOB!!! It just makes you feel right at home LOL.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Shadowbane2009
Some aspects of the song remind me of Happy Hardcore, though this isn't as quick.
Reply left on 7.7.2011 by Compsense
Thanks for the great music, Retro!
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Ricky
What I find interesting is that, a while back, someone by the youtube username of n0neimp0rtant i believe made a giant mash-up of sonic music called Sonic Blast. I don’t know if it’s still up on youtube or anywhere, but in a part of the second Sonic Blast mash-up he put Escape from the City from ‘the trial’ and Endless Mine together at one point. xD
Man, sorry if this comments a bit irrelevant, just thought it was an interesting bit.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by zeroro
yeah actually he himself acknowledged it, he thinks it's awesome (and it is). Now he's s0me0neimp0rtant lol
Reply left on 6.29.2011 by Jaseman
Oh come on! I had a HQ file on my desktop! I was late to the party.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by sonicdude558
Thanks so much for the link!
Also, what’s the autotuned part from? I can’t place the original song, and I’m about to tear through the S3 soundtrack to figure out where that rift is from…
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by nesdude
I'll make your search easier: it's a multiplayer stage.
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by GeneHF
THIS made my birthday (today) Better
!
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by TheSifHer
Well, a happy birthday to you then!
Reply left on 6.28.2011 by GeneHF
Oh my god. Thank you SO much for this. I LOVE this rendition, though I’m still curious as to how the Modern version sounds, merely because it should just be a touched-up version of the original. And hey, I got two awesome Sonic Generations things for my birthday: The demo the day before, and this four days after. Now all I need is to hear how they handle Open Your Heart in the Perfect Chaos battle and see what they do for Metal Sonic.
Comment left on 6.28.2011 by Trogdorbad
i will put this song on my mp3 and do a lot of exercise also i have alot of sonic music in my mp3 i hear them when i am doing exercise and yes i do exercise everyday i a gym lol
Comment left on 6.29.2011 by danieruteirusufan
WOW
i love this song 
D
Comment left on 6.29.2011 by Spikey Blue Thing
I really love this version over the original one. Anyways, both them are pretty good.
I’ve put this to my cellphone for listen it before school
Comment left on 6.29.2011 by CplFoley94
Really enjoying the song until it hit 1:00 and turned into a T-Pain/Cher suck fest. Guess I’ll be muting the game for this level and playing some good Sonic remixes from OCRemix.
Comment left on 6.30.2011 by Needlemouse
Doesn't sound much better than anything I've heard on there. Besides, the autotuning is a nice touch for how it was used instead of just a generic voice filter because the person can't sing worth a crap.
Reply left on 6.30.2011 by GeneHF
…how is modern pop music considered “classic sonic”?
Comment left on 7.2.2011 by Phoenix
Rollin’ around at the speed of sound,
got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow(Epic Endless Mine Autotune). I’m going by the name of Scott4 now (formerly ScottQB4)
Comment left on 7.5.2011 by Scott4
I like this version (not any more than the original, but still good). I just have one big problem with it: does anyone else feel like Rebecca Black is being channeled throughout? I definitely got that vibe around 1:05.
Comment left on 7.5.2011 by mechdrew
Modern version sucks so far…
Comment left on 7.7.2011 by Chris K.
It took me a while to realize this was paying homage to Endless Mine! That’s awesome!
Comment left on 7.7.2011 by BlueAuraEX
Awesomnes!Thanks a ton for that link!
Comment left on 7.8.2011 by amiterisu