Out of Bounds, the Boundless Original Soundtrack

[This file is meant to accompany the Boundless OST file.]

[.Space Stories presents,]
[Boundless]
[Created by Isaak Kraft van Ermel]

This document is created to give an insight on how and why the Original Soundtrack has been created.
18 carefully chosen songs are included, all with a meaning, and all specifically picked for specific situations.
The goal was to create a high tech atmosphere with enough room for a variety of different styles.
Porcupine Tree, Paul Oakenfold, Massive Attack, Curve are some of the artists included in the .zip file.
What follows is an overview of all eighteen songs with explanations, thoughts and ramblings.

1 [Trigger Situation – Masashi Hamauzu]
The theme song of Boundless. It’s chosen because it sort of describes the timeline of Boundless.
It starts out slowly, mysterious, with a few piano keys. A choir comes up, higher and higher.
The beginning. What follows is a high paced, action driven composition of percussion and strings.
Trigger Situation has an overall epic feel of heroics, war and drama. And therefore it fits perfectly.

2 [Supermoves – Overseer]
The first action packed song, it is one of the songs described in Boundless (Episode 1 : Go).
It is, I believe, the ultimate high paced tune for any fighter based battle. 

3 [Who Am I? – Peace Orchestra]
This song is of course all about Joe. He can’t remember a thing really.
It is the first slow paced song, and it describes a sense of contemplation and serenity.

4 [.3 – Porcupine Tree]
The first song from Tree featured on this album. It has, like Who Am I? a sense of contemplation.
The strings bring a more dramatic note to the album and of course the lyrics:

Black the sky, weapons fly
Lay them waste for your race.

Fit perfectly.

5 [Conga Fury – Juno Reactor]
Return of the high paced songs in the OST.
You could call it the theme for the Spartinians. It has tribal style percussion, deep notes, and a few vocals inspired by African tribes. Which is a reference to the Tribal age.

6 [Stars Die – Porcupine Tree]
Second song of Porcupine Tree. It describes the death of a star, and its surrounding planets. 
And it fits perfectly because of it.
The phone call with Buzz is a reference to the spacial age that began with the landing on the moon.

7 [Encounter – Nobuo Uematsu]
Short, action song, which describes an encounter between humans and Spartinians.
Naturally the humans make a run for it.

8 [Hell Above Water – Curve]
Heavy, industrial song which breathes anger. It’s machine like structure is a reference to the many ships described in Boundless. It describes the feelings of some of the crew featured in Boundless.

9 [Oblivion – 30 Seconds To Mars] 
Oblivion comes from the self titled debut album from 30STM. The entire album is actually about space, so is this song. It describes perfectly the arrival of the Spartinians and the reaction throughout the galaxy.
It’s a fast song, with a deep bass, but it also has a sense of drama.

10 [Burns Attack – Paul Oakenfold] 
Much like Supermoves, this is a song specifically for action scenes.
It starts out slow, and it promises a good ending. It begins around a minute with a fast techno beat.
And the overall feel is very high tech, which makes it all the better,

11 [Teardrop – Massive Attack]
Relaxed song, and a reference to the name of the new .Space era ‘Rebirth’:
The music video that accompanied the song featured an unborn baby still in her mother’s womb.
It’s another song of contemplation and quietness.

12 [Collapse the Light Into Earth – Porcupine Tree]
A love song, you could say it’s a love song. And that fits of course with Robin and Naomi.
It was also chosen because it had this spacial feel to it. A relaxed, ‘walking in space’ kind of sense.

13 [Beauty Never Fades – Junkie XL ft Saffron]
A dreamy, techno beat driven song. Chosen for its scenic qualities, and it fits perfectly in the high tech mood.

14 [Chinese Burn (Lunatic Calm Mix) – Curve]
This theme is for all the female characters in Boundless, Mary, Naomi and the unnamed Mecha.
But it fits Mary the most. Lunatic Calm is an UK group, which is another reference to Mary.
It basically says ‘Mary gets Mad’.

15 [Renegade Snares – Omni Trio]
A relaxed drum’n’bass song. Features a simple yet effective piano tune.
The lyrics ‘Take me Up’ are ofcourse a reference to ships ascending.
It’s the first song that’s part of the 4 song Ending.

16 [Go – Andy Hunter] 
This song provided the title of Boundless’ first episode.
It starts out slow, with this organic beat. A choir setting a dramatic, though good tone.
Strings fall in, making the song fuller and warmer. Before it blasts off in a high paced techno beat.
It features more religious kind of lyrics, which refers to the mythology behind the characters Brenden Wilson and Joseph Varageva. 

17 [Chinese Burn (Forbidden City Remix) – Curve]
Fundamentally different from the other Chinese Burn. It’s a long, relaxing trance-type of song.
It describes change for the most part, and is still a theme for all the female characters in Boundless.
Burn is one of the last songs on the OST, and it’s therefore chosen for it’s ‘happy-ending’ feel.

18 [One Perfect Sunrise – Orbital]
The perfect song to end the OST. It has everything from the previous seventeen songs:
Drama, techno feel and adds even more. 
Orbital is a reference to everything spacial, and what better way to end a story with a sunrise.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little clarification.
Thanks goes out to everyone involved in .Space and .Space Stories.