The Songs
This covers the songs heard in Oga’s Cantina, the music on Batuu radio station BSO 401.72, the Galaxy’s Edge locations with ambient music, and other Star Wars sources for music that would fit in a cantina.
In 2026, the park started using more John Williams scores as background music, so some of these may no longer be used. All the more reason to preserve and document them here.
Oga’s Cantina
All songs heard in Oga’s Cantina have now been officially released on two playlists:
18 songs were released as “R-3X’s Playlist #1” on Sep 6, 2019. (6 of those were released as a preview on Aug 23, 2019, the day before the D23 Expo.) This is a digital download that can be purchased from Apple, streamed on Spotify, and heard on YouTube.
9 more were released as “R-3X’s Playlist #2” on Apr 7, 2023, and can also be purchased from Apple, streamed on Spotify, and heard on YouTube.
The one recurring piece used in Oga’s Cantina which is not on either of the playlists is the periodic DJ meltdown, labelled R-3X Opening Track, which was shared from the Brewhouse Music site.
Fans on Disneyland Resort Music Loops have identified the exact pattern of songs played in the cantina. The basic sequence is tracks 1-4 from Playlist #1, then one of tracks 1-4 from Playlist #2, track 5 from Playlist #1, the R-3X Opening Track, then one of tracks 5, 7, 8, or 9 from Playlist #2, then tracks 6-17 of Playlist #1. Yocola Ateema and Doolstan from the official playlists are not in the regular rotation. (Here is a longer discussion from Mousebits.)
BSO 401.72 Radio
In several locations around Galaxy’s Edge, including the garage and the bathrooms, you can hear radio station BSO 401.72. The station plays all the songs from both Oga’s Cantina playlists except Yocola Ateema, but also plays 13 additional songs, plus various news features. Again, fans have identified the exact pattern of tracks. (Here is a longer discussion.)
Three of those songs were released as part of the video game expansion pack The Sims 4 Star Wars: Journey To Batuu, and have been extracted:
- Galma by Guy Mayzig
- Gaya by Yossi Cohen & Avishay Goren
(incorrectly labeled as Victory on Ryloth by Kevin Kiner, which is a track on the Clone Wars soundtrack)
- Ti Lo Laka by Beckerman Green & Douek
One more song is available in the highlight reel section of Michael Kramer’s page:
- Gaya Kaminu by Michael Kramer
One more is available at 7:35 of the multi-hour soundscape released by Disney on YouTube on May 4th, 2026. The others are only available as rough fan recordings. (The one on the soundscape is "U9".)
Starcruiser Halcyon
The Galactic Starcruiser hotel at Galaxy’s Edge has closed, but a soundtrack album with music composed for the hotel was released on May 4th, 2023. It can be purchased from Apple, streamed on Spotify, and heard on YouTube.
Docking Bay 7
There is an audio loop that plays in Docking Bay 7. All of that material appears to be the work of
Randy Kerber and
Harlan Hodges. Once again, fans have identified the exact pattern of the tracks. (Here is a longer discussion.)
Three of those tracks were released in The Sims:
Short samples of 6 other tracks had been available from Harlan Hodges website, but have disappeared. Four of those were identified as part of the Docking Bay 7 loop. About half the loop is available as a fan recording. The highest-quality source for the remaining tracks is these two segments of the soundscape from Disney. The names of most of those tracks are unknown.
Ambient
In addition to the John Williams themes for Savi’s Workshop, Rise Of The Resistance, and Smuggler’s Run, there are at least 2 other locations that have specific ambient music:
At all entrances to Galaxy’s Edge you can hear the Entrance Theme by Randy Kerber, available from the Soundcloud page of Adam Michalak, who recorded and mixed the track.
An hour of Resistance Forest sound is up on YouTube.
Outside The Park
There are many other pieces of diagetic music developed for various Star Wars properties that would fit in Oga’s Cantina.
There are 4 in the movie soundtracks by John Williams:
- Cantina Band #2 by Figrin D’an (background music during Han’s negotiation with Luke and Obi Wan in Star Wars)
- Lapti Nek by Sy Snootles and The Max Rebo Band (in Jabba’s throne room in Return Of The Jedi)
- Galactic Dance Blast by the Max Rebo Band (background music on the sail barge in Return Of The Jedi; never released on any soundtrack album)
- Canto Bight (in the casino in The Last Jedi)
Lapti Nek was replaced in the 1997 Special Edition release of Return Of The Jedi by Jedi Rocks, written by Jerry Hey.
In the prequel trilogy, there is an unreleased diagetic song from Episode 2 called Dex’s Diner.
For the sequel trilogy, Lin-Manuel Miranda was asked by J.J. Abrams to produce several pieces of music:
- Jabba Flow by Shag Kava (as Han Solo, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 enter Maz Kanata’s castle in The Force Awakens; Lin-Manuel Miranda has also done the song as a street performance!)
- Dobra Doompa ("I Am Low-Down") by Shag Kava (later in Maz Kanata’s castle in The Force Awakens; never released on any soundtrack album)
- Lido Hey by Shag Kava (at the festival of the ancestors in The Rise Of Skywalker; never released on any soundtrack album, and there’s no clean clip of it available)
The Solo movie includes lounge music by John Powell. He talked about Chicken In The Pot with syfy.com; it is supposedly in Huttese. Two more pieces are included on the Deluxe version of the soundtrack.
The video game Jedi: Fallen Order has a great song Sugaan Essena by Mongolian folk metal band The Hu.
The Oculus VR game "Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge" has music in Seezelslak's Cantina. One song, Pinteeka Dub by composer Danny Piccione, is available on YouTube.
The Artists
If you’re fascinated by who on Earth creates songs in the voices of jawas and droids, this covers the artists who created the music for Oga’s Cantina.
Overview
The producers of the music for Oga’s Cantina were Matt Walker, the executive in charge of music at Walt Disney Imagineering, and
Yaron Spiwak, a senior creative director at Walt Disney Imagineering. The pair were interviewed by
Billboard about the general strategy for the project.
They credit LucasFilm employees
Matt Wood from Skywalker Sound
and
David Collins for writing the lyrics in the alien languages of Star Wars. Wood is a 5-time Academy Award nominee for sound editing, and also the voice of General Grievous and a few other characters. Collins is the lead sound designer / voice director with the video game division of LucasArts and has done some acting and voice acting for them as well.
Matt Walker also hosted an hour-long panel discussion at D23 Expo 2019 about the music, featuring singer Judith Hill, Disney Group songwriter Jason Mater, Matt Wood, and composer / producer Adam Dorn.
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1.1 Mad About Mad About Me
R-3X, featuring Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes
This is a dance remix of the iconic 1977 John Williams song, known simply as "Cantina Band" on the original Star Wars soundtrack. It later became known as "Mad About Me" by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes.
The purported remixer is R-3X, the robot DJ (originally RX-24 aka "REX") who formerly piloted the Star Tours ride. He is voiced by Paul Reubens, better known by his stage name Pee Wee Herman. The track info does not credit the actual human who did the remix, but this article credits producer Adam Dorn.
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1.2 Turbulence
1.3 Bright Suns
1.16 Doshka
2.8 Til The Spire
Mus Kat & Nalpak
Mus Kat & Nalpak is a play on the last names of the composers, percussionist
Tamir Muskat
and saxophonist
Ori Kaplan.
Both grew up in Israel and now work in Brooklyn. The duo founded
Balkan Beat Box, a world music fusion band with heavy klezmer and punk influences.
Here is an
audio interview
with the duo, with samples of their music.
For More: What they do doesn’t take much alteration to fit in Batuu. If you want more music like that in Oga’s Cantina, definitely check out Balkan Beat Box. They have a YouTube channel with many of their songs; a good place to start is Kum Kum.
1.4 Nama Heh
Laki Lembeng
Created by Francis Ralls, who made his name doing TV show music, including Dancing With The Stars and NBC’s NFL broadcasts. He has done other projects for Disney, including the music for the Color Fest Street Parade at Disneyland Shanghai.
For More: Ralls put out a Christmas album called Oh Christmas Glee. Of more interest to Star Wars fans are the 5 tracks he contributed (Orion's Variance, Supercarriers, Steller Cool, The Millennial Star, and Reset) to a collection called Space Adventure 2 in 2018.
1.5 Oola Shuka
Gaya
This is by
Judith Hill. She started her career as a backing vocalist, supporting artists like Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, Carole King, Stevie Wonder, and Gregg Allman. In 2013, she won a Grammy for Best Music Film for her part in 20 Feet From Stardom, a documentary about backup singers.
For More: Hill released her debut solo album in 2015, produced by Prince, and has since put out two more albums. Much of that material is available on her YouTube channel.
1.6 Beep Boop Bop
Duro Droids
Composed by
Melissa Atwell, a Disney regular. She has worked on projects for every Disney Park, and has also done work for AT&T, Lockheed Martin, the Orlando Magic, Sesame Street, and Six Flags.
1.7 Aloogahoo
Vee Gooda & Ryco
The band name is a play on the names of the composers,
Valerie Vigoda and
Ryan O’Connell.
Vigoda is a singer, electric violin player, and composer. She linked the song on her Facebook page. She is a founding member of the musical group
GrooveLily,
and has toured with Cyndy Lauper and Joe Jackson. She has written a number of musicals with usual collaborator and now husband Brendan Milburn.
For More: O’Connell’s site lists the other collaborations between the two. One is Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, a stage play that was turned into a movie, where Vigoda starred, and O’Connell was music director. A few songs from that, plus a lot of other material by Vigoda, are on her YouTube channel.
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1.8 Bai Tee Tee
Junee Veech, featuring Gubz
2.4 Blue Milk Surprise
Loth-cats, featuring R-3X
Gubz is
Adam Gubman. He is best known as a composer for video games, having scored over 600 titles since Pirates Of The Burning Sea in 2006. He has also done a good number of commercials, a few movies, and he is a regular composer for Disney Park events. He has worked with Michael Bolton, Carole King, and Spinal Tap. His company is
Moonwalk Audio.
Gubman and Matthew Wood from Skywalker Sound are behind the track Blue Milk Surprise.
For More: Gubman also produced the Grammy winning and Oscar nominated song This Is Me, from The Greatest Showman. More recently he created Seeds, an animated musical.
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1.9 Modal Notes
Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes
1.10 Una Duey Dee
Kra Mer 5
Gaya Kaminu
These songs are by
Michael Kramer. The former is done in the style of the original cantina band, so is “by” Figrin D’an. The latter band is a play on his last name. Kramer was inspired to become a composer by Jurassic Park, and went on to score Lego Star Wars, so is deeply familiar with John Williams’ work. GWW did a great
interview
with him, about his background, his inspirations, and his process.
For More: Kramer’s YouTube channel mostly contains samples from his soundtrack to the Lego TV series Ninjago.
1.11 Goola Bukee
Zano, featuring YS-5755
1.12 Droid World
Sentient 7 and the Clankers
The first track is
Zain Effendi and Tyler Martens, the second is Zain Effendi and Dylan Lane.
Effendi worked on the team that did the music for Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 and a number of other high-profile movies, then went solo. He is represented by Air Edel.
For More: Check out Effendi’s song Dark Mission.
1.13 Utinni
The Dusty Jawas
2.6. Doolstan
Ewok This Way
B. Gaya
Yossi Cohen and
Avishay Goren
are two of the composers at
Brewhouse Music. They are primarily composers of commercials. The pair did
“Movement is Happiness (Find Your Thing)”
for Just Dance 2015. A bio of Goren is available on Sync Summit.
For More: The Brewhouse Music site includes a portfolio, which has one of the Playlist #2 songs, one of the Sims 4 songs, and the unreleased R-3X Opening Track.
1.14 Batuu Boogie
Chaka Mater Laka, featuring MW-59
Jason Mater
is a producer and songwriter with Disney Music Group. The band name is his name spliced into the sounds in the song.
For More: Mater recently cowrote a country hit with Sam Grow called
Nobody’s You. He has a long list of credits on AllMusic.
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1.15 Moulee-Rah
Fytee, featuring RB Snootles
1.17 Huttuk Cheeka
Elem Zadowz
1.18 Yocola Ateema
Fytee & The Sleemos
2.5 Ma Pateesa
The Sleemos
These four are all by
Dan Fontana and
Roger Butterley. Fontana is the founder of
Ty Fy Studios, an industrial music shop in Orlando, which has done a lot of work for Disney.
Butterley is a Senior Music Producer at Disney. Here is a genuinely heartwarming picture of the duo at Oga’s.
For More: Ty Fy Studios has a ton of samples on their music portfolio page.
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2.1 Squip
Kai Vokals
Kai Vokals is a play on the last name of L.A.-based Israeli songwriter and producer
Nitzan Kaikov, a.k.a. K-KOV.
2.2 Bight Size
CU on Naboo
This profile on the Avid site introduces Jintae Ko as "a GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter and producer for the Disney Music Group and its subsidiary Hollywood Records".
For More: Check out his Spotify page.
2.3 E.L.E.E
Mon Destras, featuring So-Klang
Stephen James Taylor is a long-time film and TV score composer. He got his start on 1980s hits like The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. He has done a number of projects with Disney since the 1990s, including TV shows Jungle Cubs and Raw Toonage, and received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Music Direction for his work on the TV show Timon & Pumbaa.
For More: He has a ton of samples on his personal page.
2.7 Shakawalla
Kushmara
This song is by Israeli musician
Reut Yehudai.
For More: Check out her Spotify page.
2.9 After Hours At Oga’s
Bluetopian Blues
Credit is to Louis Johnson.
For More: He posted a rejected Galaxy’s track on his Instagram feed. And check out his YouTube channel.
A. Galma
Galma was written by
Guy Mayzig, an Israeli musician from Lod.
For More: Check out Mayzig’s YouTube channel.
C. Ti Lo Laka
Ti Lo Laka is by Beckerman Green & Douek. Beckerman is probably Joel Beckerman, since his company Made Music Studio does other branding music for Disney.
Douek is probably
Joel Douek.
The Lyrics
Some of the songs are nonsense, but there are a few written in the languages created for the films.
Yocola Ateema, Huttuk Cheeka, Moulee-Rah, and Goola Bukee are in Huttese, which is a well-developed language. The subject matter of the Huttese songs is entertainingly gangsta.
Utinni is Jawa. Una Duey Day is Gungan for "One Two Three"; there is not a large enough Gungan vocabulary available to do further translation. Batuu Boogie is possibly Ithorian?
The vocabulary for the translations is from Ben Burtt's Galactic Phrase Book & Travel Guide and Complete Wermo’s Guide.
1.18 Yocola Ateema
Major credit to Anthony for tackling the first one, getting it perfect, and figuring out that translation was even a possibility. (The rest are mostly collaborations.)
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| Yocola Ateema | Drink Now |
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| first verse (0:04) |
| yocola ateema | drink now |
| yocola ateema | drink now |
| chowbaso mikiyuna | welcome everybody |
| ateema yocola | now drink |
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| repeat first verse (0:12) |
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| second verse (0:19) |
| chowbaso ateema | welcome now |
| yocola yocola | drink drink |
| ateema ateema | now now |
| ateema ateema | now now |
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| third verse (0:27) |
| chowbaso mikiyuna | welcome everybody |
| yocola ateema | drink now |
| yocola yocola | drink drink |
| yocola yocola | drink drink |
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| repeat first verse (0:35) |
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| repeat first verse (0:43) |
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| yocola | drink |
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1.17 Huttuk Cheeka
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| Huttuk Cheeka | Hutt-Sized Woman |
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| chorus (0:04) | |
| huttuk cheeka | hutt-sized woman |
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| first verse (0:09) | |
| dobra chik youngee | I am dancing girl |
| uba naga, uba sleemo poy | you want, you drool |
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| second verse (0:25) | |
| yuna puna whirlee | first class dancers |
| jeeska kapa ovv | keep hands off |
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| repeat chorus x 5 (0:38) | |
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| repeat chorus x 5 (1:26) | |
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| third verse (2:01) | |
| dobra chik youngee | I am dancing girl |
| jeeska kapa ovv | keep hands off |
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| repeat chorus (2:14) | |
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1.15 Moulee-Rah
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| Moulee-Rah | Money |
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| verse (0:07) | |
| dobra moulee-rah nek | I am money man |
| jee wamma uba | I pay you |
| smeeleeya che je | smile for me |
| jee wamma uba | I pay you |
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| chorus (0:16) | |
| oto moulee-rah | I want money |
| kava kava kava kava | how much, how much, how much... |
| oto moulee-rah | I want money |
| tagwa tagwa tagwa tagwa | yes, yes, yes, yes |
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| repeat verse (0:38) |
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| repeat chorus (0:47) |
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| repeat chorus (1:18) |
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1.11 Goola Bukee
The [unknown words] and the slightly mocking ~second voice~ are marked.
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| Goola Bukee | Bad Boy |
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| verse (0:40) |
| jee bolla bu coo jee no [bee] nobata konchee | lots of pieces, which don't add up:
jee = I, je = me, jee-jee = we,
bolla = go, bu = the, coo = who,
no = no, nobata = no, bata = back, konchee = where |
| jee [kwanla] bu coo jee no [bee] nobata konchee |
| jee-jee no bu coo jee no [bee] nobata konchee |
| jee [kwanla] bu coo jee no [bee] nobata konchee |
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| chorus (0:58) | |
| mikiyuna chess ko, yuna, uba goola, uba goola | everybody be careful, body, you bad, you bad |
| mikiyuna chess ko, yuna, uba goola, uba goola | everybody be careful, body, you bad, you bad |
| ~ wamma jee ~ | ~ pay me ~ |
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| repeat verse (1:40) |
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| repeat chorus (1:50) |
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| bridge (2:05) |
| hotsa yuna, hotsa yuna | hot body, hot body |
| whirlee jee uba | dance me you |
| mee sa gusha, mee sa flootah | I am lucky, I am fresh |
| wata jee jah pawa | here I the power |
| ~ wamma jee, sleemo ~ | ~ pay me, slimeball ~ |
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| repeat verse (2:25) |
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(The verse is obviously a mess; it's not even completely clear where the word boundaries are. "mikiyuna chess ko yuna" doesn't entirely make sense; perhaps "jeeska" (keep) or "cheeska" (cheat) instead of "chess ko"? "wata" in the bridge is a guess; it could be "waba" (wish) or something else.)
1.13 Utinni
The dictionary of known words in Jawa is small, so this is just a fragment.
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| Utinni | Wow |
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| first verse (0:50) | |
| [seetooya] bok okka | [?] far up |
| [seetooya] bok okka | |
| utinni [voxaga] | wow [?] |
| utinni [voxaga] | |
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| repeat first verse (1:00) |
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| second verse (1:09) |
| m'um m'aloo lopima | greetings stars |
| m'um m'aloo lopima | |
| eyeta [kokoozah] | friend [jar k'osa = large??] |
| eyeta [kokoozah] | |
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| repeat second verse (1:17) |
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| repeat first verse (2:03) |
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| repeat second verse (2:12) |
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2.5 Ma Pateesa
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| Ma Pateesa | My Friend |
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| oto (mayoka) pateesa | I want ??? friend (nayoka = joke?) |
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| scat verse (0:06) | |
| ya ya, ya ya, ya ya ya |
| ya ya, ya ya, ya ya ya |
| ma pateesa | my friend |
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| first verse (0:18) | |
| dobra loca | I am crazy |
| dobra goola | I am bad |
| dobra wonky | I am mighty |
| dobra inkabunga | I am incredible |
| ma pateesa | my friend |
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| second verse (0:32) |
| dobra (slymo) | i am ??? (sleemo = slimeball) |
| jee (boota) no creedas | I ??? no credits |
| jee yocola gocola | I drink wine |
| (jee ma bukee) | ??? (jee = i, ma = me, bukee = boy) |
| ma pateesa | my friend |
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| ma pateesa | my friend |
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| repeat scat verse (1:03) | |
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| repeat first verse (1:16) |
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| repeat second verse (1:30) |
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| bridge (1:45) |
| loca ma loca | crazy my crazy |
| loca pateesa | crazy friend |
| loca ma loca | crazy my crazy |
| (kanka too ta sah) | ??? |
| loca ma loca | crazy my crazy |
| loca pateesa | crazy friend |
| loca ma loca | crazy my crazy |
| (kan see see soh) | ??? |
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| repeat first verse (1:59) |
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| repeat second verse (2:14) |
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