OCR01221 - Mega Man 3 'Intro Jazz'

[djpretzel]

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

[MistaZanMan]

Aside from the repetitiveness this falls into in the second half, I'd say this piece is pretty jazzy in comparison to the rest of the stuff on OCR. I wouldn't go so far as to show this to some jazz heads and try to pass it off as true jazz, but whatever. Besides the point this piece is awesome. I loved the piano and flute, and what i heard of the bass was great too (Subwoofer broke, cant hear lows that well). I honestly dont know why some of the judges jumped on the quality of the recording, because it worked well with the style of the piece. I'd personally like to hear more "unorthodoxed" (well to OCR) songs like this. Great stuff.

[Simoom]

this is really great, one of the few songs in a good while i'm keeping. Love the piano and arrangement.

[damathacus]

Awesome, awesome stuff. Definitely one of the best pieces I've heard in awhile. It's amazing that it sounds this good and was performed live. The last couple songs I've praised so highly were true remixes, with heavy mastering and arranging, while this is just a few musicicians doing their thing without additional effects added later.

[Slime Master]

A jazz rendition of one of my all time favorite Megaman games. I like!! The efforts really show in this mix. Around 1.30 it really picks with a song that sounds somewhat like something out of Cowboy Bebop. Nice job to the one responsible for making this mix.

[Dash2110]

I'll admit, I'm not a big fan of Jazz. Maybe it's the pace of Jazz songs that never really harped on me, but the more I listen to this, the more I enjoy it.

The first 1:20 is good, I love the piano, it sounds powerful but accompanying at the same time. At 1:30 when things start to pick up, I liked hearing the flute come in at intervals before busting out the backround melody that plays. Around 3:15-3:38 is by far my favorite part of the song, where for me it feels everything falls into place and the remix goes back to the roots. The feeling of nostalgia is always key for myself when it comes to enjoying remixes.

Overall, I liked it. As I've said, not my favorite genre of music, and there certainly some quality issues with it, but I can't (and won't) deny the talent presented in this rendition. Good stuff.

[Navi]

Very nice. I felt a bit of out of tune weirdness at one point at the beginning, but I guess it was just my ears and not that big of a deal anyways... when the pan flute first plays its notes (before it gets into its main part) it seemed a bit dissonant to me...oh well.

Impressive mix. I love the pan flute. And, I love the pan flute. Very nice arrangement. Live? Who cares about EQ and recording quality. This sounds like its being played live at a jazz club and I'm enjoying every second of it. Good stuff here, Zoltan!

[DreamChaser]

It's not bad... a bit repetitive towards the end though the theme is jazz... the repetitions almost become monotonous at the end... which isn't necessarily bad, but a bit outdated.

The 1st few seconds make the piece seem a bit muddled... so that needs to be cleared up, but besides that I would say this is a great piece... I've always liked rockman remixes =)!

[Hy Bound]

I love this piece. Sure, the recording isn't perfect, but holy damn is that a good performance. That flute is amazing!

[Fieari]

Oh man... as a flutist myself, I can REALLY appreciate that flute there. That sounds like it's played on wood to me, one of the more awesome flute materials. When it kicked in, I was floored. For the introduction, when it was pure piano, I was leaning back in my chair, really enjoying the flowing swirls and eddies, and when the flute came it, I jerked into an upright position. As it started to really jam, I just had to drum along, rapping my knuckles on my computer desk.

The poor sound recording? So what. This ROCKS man... ROCKS. Pun not intended.

Woohoo! I gotta listen to this again, get out my flute and see if I can keep up!

[Snyderman]

Reminds me in a way of the Dr. Wily's Wedding track. Which is a good thing. Very lively and organic, not so mechanical and such. Even though I love electronic music, I have to toss out some mad props to the musicians who play live instruments this well. Well done. Definitely a keeper.

[hitokirisabin]

This track reminds me of the techno version titled Charging Up the Buster. I always liked that trance mix and thought it had something to do with Megaman, but I had no idea how correct I was. Charging Up the Buster was a remix of the title theme! After hearing the jazz version, I almost crapped my pants at this realization. It is a good jazz mix of the title theme.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

Piano and flute in a nice collaboration obviously makes for great Megaman jazz . Good work !
It has a cool pace also .

[-RK-]

Okay, the audio issues dont bother me in the least. This song is all about a new approach. A good one at that.

All of the playing of the instruments is masterful. You can tell Zoltan (straight up dude wheres my car reference) knows his stuff. The arrangment, which in my opinion, can make the difference between if a song is good or great, I truly excellent. I bet many of us would dirty our pants if we could play piano like that [cough]me[/uncough].

Tryly, and excellent peice. I would reccomend anyone who is a fan of jazz, or hell,a fan of music, to download this one.

[Joyzilla]

I will not fall in the lenghty critics...

Just one word:




WHHHHOOAAAAAAA!!!!
8)

[Defend]

Arrghh where have I heard this before??? I haven't played the Megaman games, but I know this tune...

Just enjoying the moment of trying to remember heh.

Ohhh.. yeah I've got a clip of Sonic anime scenes to this tune. Sweet.. I loved that clip and this mix works it nice.

Sweeeeeet.

[Crono3of3time]

The music feels the same was as I do when I encounter a great new videogame. Its hesitant at first as everyghing such as the rules become layered in front of your character. As the music progresses, feels as if you break through the boundries of caution, and throw the risk of collapsing to the wind. The new land opens up before you, as you begin to delve through these new relms meeting new people and traveling across these far off and mystical places.
That piano...is.. well.. wonderfully played... as for me?... lets just say I can't do Chopsticks...heh..

[Blackwinged Saron]

if i was megaman i would love to throw this into a diskman and kick some ass to it. its just so...melodic and at the same time i close my eyes and i can imagine this being the REAL intro if the music wasnt 8-bit. this encompasses everything about megaman from the sweet levels, to the severe bosses to the killer plot, and of course can anyone else see the blue bomber ducking dodging shooting kicking spinning punching drilling charging and creating mass mayhem through wily's compound to this? kudos to a job well done. I was having a shitty day til i heard this, now i cant stop listening to it and my face hurts from the grin that wont go away. I am not normally impressed by anything. This is fabulous.

[CapnHulk]

This remix is truly good. I just wish their were a higer quality version.

[Wing-Zero]

This is more mellow then Blue lightning and 2003 yet that doesn't really matter that flute keeps buzzing in my head and that percussion is so well timed it's an awsome song and it makes me can't wait for ME to get a studio so I can make a Remix out of this song as well!!!Awsome mix man! :D

[MasterSword]

Wait wait wait....

I'm suddently a jazz fan! And not Utah...they stole Boozer those #$*&@#$&*#@&!

Anyway this is the second piece of multimedia that I've come across in two days that has just completely OWNED (the other being the Bourne Supremacy)

But seriously...this is REAL good. I've heard some good Megaman 3 intros...my favorite is still Slowbro's but this earned a silver medal. Nice WORK.

P.S. Can you teach me to play the piano like that?

[PaginisChord]

Interesting Remix...

The beginning with the jazz-like piano intro is all right I guess. I mean it's not really what I would consider "jazz" along with my friends. But I guess you can't really seem to do so since the music that follows fits perfectly. The transition into a different style -> fade out and follow up with a more smooth jazzish~ style accompanied by a pan flute. Interesting way to follow up the small solo in the beginning. Don't know about what other people say but the more I hear it, the more I think it sounds jungleish. That's probably me though...

[kanime]

I am so glad that everyone else loves this song as much as I did! When Zoltan sent it to me all I could think about was circulating it.

Hopefully Zoltan will do some more for us. I have been trying to talk him into doing a protoman remix.

[Ventrex]

This mix is truly beautiful. I don't have a single negative thing to say about it, right now--I even love the decent-not-great sound quality; it makes it feel more, I don't know, real, somehow.

[Domukaz]

I'd question the "jazz" label, but this mix kicks so much ass it just doesn't matter. Very cool, and the repetition doesn't really matter all that much after one's listened to BlueLightning. I love the piano throughout the mix, as well as that flute. Very good.

[lau]

this is, without a doubt, my favourite remix ever. anyone who'd question the jazz label clearly doesn't know shit about jazz and should get back in their trad box. the intro is a bit reminiscent of some of chick corea's solo stuff, and the whole melodic style reminds me a little of hiromi's stuff (a former student of ahmad jahmal, a little tidbit for the jazz heads). the flute (or wooden flute, which it sounds a bit like) playing is fantastic too, very earthy and rootsy.

sublime.

[GonTribal]

IMHO, the genre doesn't really concern me, however the content is awesome. This being a game I actually fried a T.V. for playing too long (back in them good ol' NES days) I was compelled to download this. I was very pleased with this mix. The flute and drums mesh with the piano extremely well, and create something of a genre that I'm not all that familiar with. All things considered, this mix is definitely at the top of my list.

[Crono_88]

Does anyone know where I can get the piano sheet music for this?

[Ramenking]

this is one of the best remixes i've ever heard. man you get muchos kudos for this one.

[BardicKnowledge]

I'm also interested in the score for this, if it's available...it'd be sweet to get a group together for this one.

[benevolensaurus]

I like it up to 1:23, where it actually sounds jazzy. Then it goes all animal planet mode and... I don't know, it sounds too much like an extended animal planet commercial to me. Seriously. It's not necessarily bad because of that, but I just don't... like what's going on here.

I spose I'd give it a 7/10, since my taste in music doesn't reflect the majority, and I suppose I have a bias against things that sound like they'd come from my TV set when I'm channel surfing.

[Brim]

Pretty good stuff here, though I don't think it validates as jazz the whole song. Its a pretty good rendition.

[DJ Magotrox Brazil]

A Good Job. That´s what I say.

The Good News
Very good arrangement. Nice pool of instrument's. The first piano part I liked very much. The changing to the flute and soft beating was great: it shows a fine musical sense, and sensibility. You have a future on the thing...

The Bad News
It´s sad to know that you have done only this lonely mix. :cry:
Tell me whem you make one more nice mix. I´ll be glad to hear it. :wink:

[the_mayor]

if your a fan of jazz fusions it's kinda hard not to like this song. while the recording may not all it could be, it still earns plenty of points for originality. you simply must download this song!

[Txai]

Simple, beautiful and solid stuff. Varied melody. Fantastic array of ethnic drums. Sweet.

[Bummerdude]

A jazzversion eh? This ain´t bad, it´s real good. Suddenly I feel like I´m on a pub in New Orleans digging to the local band that just happens to play Zoltan´s remix. I admired the pan-flute, I´d like to hear more from you, Vegvari.

[Deeps]

This definately one of the best songs I've heard submitted here. The use of the pan flute was a perfect way to let the music flow. This is definately one of the best songs out here, if you don' believe so, I will fight you. (Ok, so I stole that from Anchorman, :P)

[Drack]

"ZOLTAN!!!"

Excellent mix. I had always thought the intro theme from M3 would sound awesome played by a small jazz ensemble.

I'm saving this one to my playlist =)

[Emura]

It's been 4 months since the last review of this piece, but I felt I just had to add another one. A few weeks ago we celebrated a birthday for a very good friend of mine, and one of her friends wrote some very fun and clever lyrics to this piece, and sang it for about 15 of us. I won't post the lyrics here, mostly because I don't have them, but also because they're most likely meaningless to those who aren't "in the know."

As djp mentioned in the write-up, there are some recording issues with the piece, but they also give it character at the same time. By default, live recordings always impress me much more than SoundFonts and drum loops, and in this case make the pan flute all the more impressive to me. I'm reminded of a few tracks from the Xenosaga II soundtrack actually, which is a personal favourite of mine, so bonus points to this mix. This one has a special space on my hard drive.

[nardman]

This is definitely the best mega man3 intro i've heard ever.... The fact that it's live makes it ten times more respectable

[Rennoc_Attamenski]

I feel this remix is unique to the others, in the fact that it's not as conventional, as say, about half of the Chrono Trigger remixes. I really enjoyed the transitions and everything, and being a musician myself, I have to say: One day, I will attempt to top that. :3

The feel of the song rivaled that of classic ReMixes, such as "Enter the Frog". My suggestion: showboat more. Everyone likes to hear showboatsmanship on an instrument you're fluent with. Polyrhythms <3.

Though at times, the song felt a little repetitive, redundant. I realize that song is like that, owning the actual game, but around 2 and a half minutes into the song, it just repeats for about a minute. Perhaps you could have inroduced new themes, maybe?

Of course, I shouldn't say anything. I haven't actually made any remixes of submitted any. I'm picky. :mrgreen:

[Fridge]

Wow, the only true negative about this piece is that it took me so long to run into it, absolutely amazing stuff. The clipping on the intro piano is mildly bothersome, but even through my headphones it's never even close to deal-breaking. The flute playing is superb, and the percussion quite possibly the best I've heard on this site, certainly if you discount percussive parts given the focus. Excellent, if you somehow don't have this yet (like I didn't) definitely give it a listen.

[KogeJoe]

Great elaboration on the intro. Really liked the extention of the VI/IV, IIV/V, i/vi chord progression. It's only very brief in the source, but in the remix it's this beautiful extended version. Does a good job of highlighting other parts of the intro too.

[42]

This isn't quite the convention that I'm used to, but...
It's still good, original, and worth listening to.

[ZoltanPiano]

Hi there,

I'm Zoltan - and I recorded this remix a couple of years ago. My friend asked me to remix this Mega Man song and I send it to him. He told me that he submitted it to this website but in the last years I traveled around a lot and I never really kept track of this particular recording. I just searched my name on google and found this link.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions. It makes me happy to see that the "live" feel is greatly appreciated.

The way I recorded this mix was with one little keyboard where I played all the instruments in seperate tracks in real time. At the time I had very "limited" resources available so I had to work with what I had available.

I hope I will have some time to make some more remixes in the future - if I do I will post them here as well,

peace,
-Zoltan

[Gario]

Sweet, he wants to post more remixes on here :)

I'll be honest, I personally think this is the single best rendition of this source on this site, right now. I just love the jazz sound that's in it, and it reminds me of the many times I've played the theme myself on the piano, but this takes the theme to a whole new level.

Great piano, tasteful flute, great drums - this is some sweet, sweet music. If you haven't already, do yourself a favor and download it.

[OA]

This is an exceptionally classy mix; everything clicks together and there are some great piano runs. The production is fine I think; it has a really nice atmosphere to it, and the instruments are all mixed pretty well. I'd bring the percussion down slightly, but otherwise, this is an excellent mix. :-)

[WesternZypher]

A man with a name like Zoltan NEEDS to put up more remixes on this site. Fresh, unusual, and amazing.