You guys remember Renegade on YouTube? Well he’s been doing a lot of work on Mega Man tuns recently, specifically Sega Genesis remixes and I have to say, I’m very impressed. Dude uses various samples from different Genny games to bring about amazing results. Just take a listen.
Wanted to hit you guys up with another one of my favorite 8 bit pieces. I know earlier that I said that Capcom and Konami came the hardest when it comes to music on the NES. I also think that Sunsoft did a damn good job to, so check out some of the OST’s from there games as well. I give you, Journey to Silius Stage 2, just listen to the complexity of this shit. Not many games on the NES had a tune that last more than 30 seconds. Maybe memory had something to do with this. But everytime I hear an artisit go beyond that point to give you the goods, I like it. This is a great game IMO so check it out when you get a chance.
I can usually hear the capcom or konami in most games but sunsoft has a unique sound that I can never seem to pick up on just by hearing it. I think Rare’s games have pretty good OST’s to for the NES.
Tim Follin was a very resourceful composer, given the soundchips he worked with and the sounds he got out of them. Examples: The famous Silver Surfer OST, this song (Amiga GnG):
So I just got hip to Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold’s music. I had no idea the themes were arranged from what they were in SFA2. There’s an element of jazz to a lot of themes. Cammy’s theme from X-Men vs. Street Fighter has been rocked out hard.
Without being able to see the link, I’m gonna guess Wolverine, or Silver Surfer music?
Also this guy made a bunch of NES OST’s in pseudo stereo. Original tracks, no remakes, just very nicely separated.
OMG that stage one theme is CRACK in stereo.
What people call “SFA2 Gold” music, is actually vanilla SFA2 PSX and Saturn arranges, which also happens to be on PSX/Sat SFA2 gold with SF Collection 1. The Arcade Alpha 2 Gold (SF Zero 2 Alpha) has the same music as vanilla CPS2 arcade.
Mega Man 3 ‘Mega Manhood 3: The Blasting of Hard Man’ by Danimal Cannon
Sources are ‘Dr.Wily Stage 1’ and ‘Dr.Wily Stage 2’. ‘Forgive me for what I have done…’ My brain immediately does that now upon hearing the first few riffs of Wily Stage 1 now. This is a relatively straightforward rocking ReMix of these 2 themes done by Mr. Cannon. Both sources are easily recognizable and seperated. He does get to adding a bit more of his own flair during the second half using the second source. This was part of a Dwelling of Duels competition apparently.
Sonic & Knuckles ‘Funky Side Up’ by metaphist
Source is ‘Death Egg Zone Act 1’. Wow…never thought I’d hear this source as funked up as this. That was quite some slap bass going on in this ReMix. Main parts of the source are recognizable quite easily even with the notes being heavily bassified and stuttered. Also really like the use of various sound effects from the game strung throughout the track…thought it was quite tastefully done probably a similiar way that halc does his stuff.
Mega Ran recently put this up on his youtube channel
<font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>You guys know what was a sweet game with a sweet soundtrack? Jazz the Jackrabbit 2 from Epic Games, yes, THAT Epic Games. Someone posted the whole score on YouTube and even included a download link in the description box. The tracks don’t have any fadeouts but the quality of the rips is high.</span></font><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjM9mFy22ks</span></font><br></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>And I know Final Fantasy XIII gets a bad rap but the soundtrack is godly. <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th2jeYakyAY”>Blinded By Light</a> is one of my new fav FF battle themes.</span></font></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>And speaking of dope FF battle themes, why does the Dissidia 012 soundtrack not have a longer version of this godly <a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OILUu8dkw_s”>Force Your Away</a> arrangement?!</span></font></div>
