This is something special -- Chris Christodoulou cracked open his DEADBOLT score and released the individual stems for every track. Each song is broken into its isolated components: bass, drums, guitars, keys, synths, leads, all separated and labeled with their BPM.
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It's less a soundtrack and more a dissection kit for one of the best indie game scores of the 2010s. The naming convention tells the whole story. "Dbf1" at 82 BPM gives you six separate layers to peel apart, from the bass foundation to the synths riding on top.
"Dbb2" at 150 BPM strips down to just three elements -- bass, drums, guitars -- revealing how much punch Christodoulou gets from so few ingredients. The "Dbx6" set at 90 BPM is the most complex, with three separate guitar tracks, leads, and a misc channel, showing where the real layering happens.
For musicians, remixers, or anyone who wants to understand how Christodoulou builds his signature sound -- that dark, noir-drenched blend of rock and electronic that made DEADBOLT and Risk of Rain so distinctive -- this is an invaluable resource.
You can solo the acoustic guitar on "Dbx1" and hear the skeleton of a track before all the atmosphere gets piled on. The numbers after each stem name are the tempos, so everything's ready to drop into a DAW. A genuinely generous release from a composer who didn't have to show his work.