DarkPack - Dramatic music replacement Pack for Aquaria/Sacrifice/Other Mods
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I love the music of Aquaria and if you don't you suck. It's beautiful, it's consistent, and it's sublime.
...so anyway, I decided to replace it all.

WHAT?
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Originally I was developing DarkPack for Aquaria's prequel mod, "Sacrifice"... however quickly realising that Sacrifice uses MOST of the Aquaria music I opted to replace the whole lot and give it out for free as an alternative for people playing the second-time through, OR Sacrifice, OR other mods.

INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION
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Create a backup folder, copy the original music (from the aquaria/mus folder) in there, then unzip the contents of the aquaria-darkpack_-_music_replacement_1.zip above into the aquaria/mus folder, overwriting all files.

To uninstall, simply copy the files from the backup folder back to the aquaria/mus directory.


AGAIN, WHAT? ALSO, HOW?
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DarkPack is a replacement pack for all of Aquaria's music, designed for Sacrifice but also for second-time-through players of Aquaria who want a very different feel to the game - and for any other mods people want to play.
I've replaced all of the 53 pieces of game music (excluding the BitBLot logo of course...) with my own pieces of music selected from some 2 hundred pieces composed over the past 17 years. In fact, I've remastered and re-edited 10 of my older tracks that've never seen the light of day, just for this mod. It's taken three weeks to do, and constant in-game testing (oh woe is me! Have to play aquaria... "sob").
I've stuck closely to the intended emotion of each area, while devising my own aesthetic based on the emotive undertones of the Sacrifice mod - war, impending doom, lighthearted comedy, excitement and high drama. It's a more dramatic pack, basically.
What it lacks in the game's original lighthearted and charming new-agey tone, it makes up for by bringing a more serious affectation.
It's more "varied" than the original, which conversely is to say "less consistent".
In particular the battles are slightly more - I guess the phrase would be - 'balls to the wall'-

I'm happy with how it all translates into Aquaria Original - very happy with forestgod, but also the end-battle music and seahorse race.
Give it a go. Who knows, you might like it.
Just don't let me tell you about just how long it takes to select, then properly and accurately loop 50-odd songs and find the optimal bitrates for each of them and and ... what, you don't want to know? Screw you!!!