It would serve the game, but wouldn’t help to make it stand out.” Myself and the team all felt it was a fine option, but it wouldn’t set the world on fire. We started with orchestral stuff, because Mafia and Mafia 2 had an orchestral score. “We settled with the Blues after our own experimentation,” Harlin said. Harlin, his co-composer Jim Bonney and 2K decided to focus on Blues music when making the score, but not before trying out other styles of music first. “It had made its way from New York City to Nashville.” “The recording console we used was the same one that Prince recorded ‘Purple Rain’ on,” Harlin said. The composers also got to work with a piece of music history. “We had a blast getting to play amazing music through these amazing pieces of hardware,” Harlin said.

These same experiments were recreated for Mafia 3 using old tube amps, recording techniques and more. People started going into the studio in 66, 67 and 68 to experiment.” “Those come out in 1966 and 67, and blew everyone’s minds. “You’ve got 1965 and 66 when the Beatles and the Beach Boys are basically inventing the modern process of studio recording with things like Sgt. Harlin talked about how the late 60s was a huge period of musical experimentation, and it was pretty much all started by two bands: The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Two guitar players, a bass player, drums, harmonica and Hammond organ.” “We spent two weeks in Nashville recording,” Mafia 3 composer Jesse Harlin told iDigitalTimes about the process of making the soundtrack. To capture that feeling, the composers of Mafia 3’s score went to great lengths for authenticity. and the Summer of Love, music was also taking a new direction. While society’s views were changing from events like the Vietnam War, the assassination of Dr. Mafia 3 is set in 1968, a period of massive cultural change across America.

Mafia 3 soundtrack