ReMix: Golden Axe 'DeathAdder Trance'
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- Game: Golden Axe (Sega, 1989, GEN)
- ReMixer(s): djpretzel
- Composer(s): Decky, Imocky, Nankyoku
- Song(s): 'Stage 1: In the Woods'
- Posted: 2000-02-11, evaluated by djpretzel
Some people liked to play as the hot chick, Flare, and some like the beefcake-blue warrior, but let me tell ya, I was ALL ABOUT the dwarf . . big time . . with his little viking hat and his axe, he *owned* . . or something like that . . this track is kinda trancy, despite being at a relatively slow BPM, and is experimental in the sense that the whole thing is filtered through a phaser/delay. you definitely need to pump the volume or listen on a good set of headphones for the full effect . . this is from the 1st stage of the arcade version.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the Ah, remix number 11.
Some of the samples are pretty low-fi, but the treatment of them is very interesting. The delay on the tightly wound organ at the beginning was a bit surprising due to the slightly off-tempo beginning, but it worked really well in filling things out, and when the flanged and leslie'd synth comes in, it gets a pretty good room sound.
I think the drums used are pretty weaksauce though; no self-respecting viking dwarf would be caught dead groovin to these drums. Maybe those little thief dudes. Nothing more satisfying than busting them up after they stole my potions. They would probably like these wimpy drums.
I wasn't really feeling the ending either, as it sortof record-skipped out, which is fine, but it didn't do so on the beat.
Overall pretty enjoyable, but the weak drums and dated synths hold it back.
I give this song two viking-dwarves out of four.
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- OA on February 28, 2008
Some of the samples are pretty low-fi, but the treatment of them is very interesting. The delay on the tightly wound organ at the beginning was a bit surprising due to the slightly off-tempo beginning, but it worked really well in filling things out, and when the flanged and leslie'd synth comes in, it gets a pretty good room sound.
I think the drums used are pretty weaksauce though; no self-respecting viking dwarf would be caught dead groovin to these drums. Maybe those little thief dudes. Nothing more satisfying than busting them up after they stole my potions. They would probably like these wimpy drums.
I wasn't really feeling the ending either, as it sortof record-skipped out, which is fine, but it didn't do so on the beat.
Overall pretty enjoyable, but the weak drums and dated synths hold it back.
I give this song two viking-dwarves out of four.
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- OA on February 28, 2008
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- Audity on October 29, 2006
- Audity on October 29, 2006
HAHAHA, this is actualy funny.
If you are going to judge this song by its title DON'T
It's not a trance song AT ALL.
No way would this ever be called trance
- PatrickWagstaff on January 5, 2006
If you are going to judge this song by its title DON'T
It's not a trance song AT ALL.
No way would this ever be called trance
- PatrickWagstaff on January 5, 2006
Man, Keiseth needs a pair of headphones. Surprisingly, I found this
remix rather relaxing. You can *never* have too many remixes for
golden axe. It's just too catchy. And it brings back memories of
bonking enemies over the head and kicking them off bridges. That's
[i]always[/i] good. Never expected to hear the wilderness song be
this quiet, but it worked well...
Also: Even the death adder can't take fifteen hundred dwarf bodyslams to the back.
- Keiseth on December 5, 2005
Also: Even the death adder can't take fifteen hundred dwarf bodyslams to the back.
- Keiseth on December 5, 2005
Pretty dull, the whole track builds up to a fairly weak ending.
Doesn't really capture anything of the original game. Stereo
seperation is a little annoying with headphones too.
- DarkWolf on November 15, 2005
- DarkWolf on November 15, 2005
Personally I thought that Golden Axe would demand a more orchestral
sound, but djpretzel manages to pull off something weird yet again.
The panning is astounding - listening to this track without
headphones is probably a felony.
My only complaint is that the mix feels like it should have been taken faster - but of course if it was, no-one would be able to hear the reverb and the awesome panning.
Well done.
- Firefly99 on March 26, 2005
My only complaint is that the mix feels like it should have been taken faster - but of course if it was, no-one would be able to hear the reverb and the awesome panning.
Well done.
- Firefly99 on March 26, 2005
The constant filter ride and delay make this a very dynamic
experience in the space between one ear and the other. Somehow for
excitement purposes though, I find the track wanting. For me, it's
in the nature of the Golden Axe melody that it wants to sound big
and melodramatic, and the main organ line in this tune is such an
inherently constrained sound that it seems to fight the nature of
the tune. You could probably make a case for this being the point,
but when the minimally percussive-sounding interludes between the
appearances of the lead sound so cool, I kinda just wish the whole
song had been made that minimal. THEN it would seem like an
avant-gardey minimalist take on the Golden Axe tune! Right now it's
neither here nor there.
- Bloomer on August 2, 2004
- Bloomer on August 2, 2004
I never played many Genesis games, but I like this song, It came
out really nice.
- zdude255 on June 26, 2004
- zdude255 on June 26, 2004
Whoo...where is everyone!!! This remix brought me back memories
from the game for Sega Genesid when I was young...oh yeah, a killer
beat-em-up game. I like the trance-feeling to the song. Just
well-done! Someone's gotta create other tracks to this game as
well!!!
- maplejet on September 23, 2003
- maplejet on September 23, 2003
good mix! hah thats funny- i used to be fricking addicted to this
game and i CAN'T PINPOINT the basis of this song- this is from
golden axe?!?!? 8O wow now i gotta get a sega emulator fast
- typhoidmary66 on May 16, 2003
- typhoidmary66 on May 16, 2003
I, too, am obsessed with the CSE. I just love it. I barley remember
Golden Axe, much less the music, but I really dig this song. It
just goes up and down, left and right, loud and soft, all around
here and there, EVERYWHERE! While wearing Headphones, try following
the sound with your eyes. They will fall out of your head, you're
movin' em so much.
- DragoonFenix15 on January 14, 2003
- DragoonFenix15 on January 14, 2003
I love this mix. Just having deemed Rolling Thunder "El salsa" as
repetitive and forgettable, I was comparing it to works like this.
I've never heard the original, nor paid much attention to the
actual tune, but I like it for one reason: the Cool Sound Effect.
(CSE)
It is very difficult to explain the CSE in words. I do not know how it was produced, but if I wished to emulate it, I would suggest the following.
WARNING!!! I take no responsibility if anyone chokes to death while trying this!.
First, take air into your mouth, like a chipmunk. If you hit your cheeks, and a fart sound comes out of your pursed lips, you are doing it correctly. Now, you need to place an object in your mouth. It must be spherical, about the size and weight of a marble, but also be hollow and around the size of a ping pong ball at the same time. Next, you must wobble it around your mouth. It must never touch the sides of your cheeks, while at the same time, touching the sides of your cheeks which are, of course, lined with both metal and tissues. Having done this, and with your mouth wide open and tightly closed at the same time, you must move your tounge to alter the pitch, whilst controlling the balls movements using the Jedi force powers. Finally, place a microphone into your mouth, and turn the reverb up to 11.
The sound is really that cool.
But about the actual mix...
It starts off with the sound straight away, with a bit of a melody, and some electronic instruments. A nice drum beat comes in a 0:15, suiting the mood perfectly. At around 0:30, the melody does some stuff, breaking into the chorus again at 0:45.
It all changes at 1:00, getitng intresting, with some more cool sounds, just before the chorus again. BTW, the cool sound effect has been playing the whole time. The rest of the mix continues much like this. It is repetitive, but in a good way - it suits the genre.
I say this is a must downlaod if you are on broadband (and not in Autralia, and thus limited to a 3 gig, sorry, 300000 byte bandwidth cap) and a highly recommended download on a dial-up. Hey, its free.
Subjective-jedi-force-marble-ping-pong-juggling-O-Meter:9.324/10
- JamPaladin on October 4, 2002
It is very difficult to explain the CSE in words. I do not know how it was produced, but if I wished to emulate it, I would suggest the following.
WARNING!!! I take no responsibility if anyone chokes to death while trying this!.
First, take air into your mouth, like a chipmunk. If you hit your cheeks, and a fart sound comes out of your pursed lips, you are doing it correctly. Now, you need to place an object in your mouth. It must be spherical, about the size and weight of a marble, but also be hollow and around the size of a ping pong ball at the same time. Next, you must wobble it around your mouth. It must never touch the sides of your cheeks, while at the same time, touching the sides of your cheeks which are, of course, lined with both metal and tissues. Having done this, and with your mouth wide open and tightly closed at the same time, you must move your tounge to alter the pitch, whilst controlling the balls movements using the Jedi force powers. Finally, place a microphone into your mouth, and turn the reverb up to 11.
The sound is really that cool.
But about the actual mix...
It starts off with the sound straight away, with a bit of a melody, and some electronic instruments. A nice drum beat comes in a 0:15, suiting the mood perfectly. At around 0:30, the melody does some stuff, breaking into the chorus again at 0:45.
It all changes at 1:00, getitng intresting, with some more cool sounds, just before the chorus again. BTW, the cool sound effect has been playing the whole time. The rest of the mix continues much like this. It is repetitive, but in a good way - it suits the genre.
I say this is a must downlaod if you are on broadband (and not in Autralia, and thus limited to a 3 gig, sorry, 300000 byte bandwidth cap) and a highly recommended download on a dial-up. Hey, its free.
Subjective-jedi-force-marble-ping-pong-juggling-O-Meter:9.324/10
- JamPaladin on October 4, 2002
great!
i got these songs on my Multimega Golden Axe edition, which features the arcade soundtrack. It KICKS ASS ! :)
- AndreasNystrom on September 22, 2002
i got these songs on my Multimega Golden Axe edition, which features the arcade soundtrack. It KICKS ASS ! :)
- AndreasNystrom on September 22, 2002
