ReMix: Maniac Mansion 'Manic Mugenical'

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Maniac Mansion

Purty cool stuff from tm revolutionary and his new collaborator, "Dandy-J" (who takes his name from the awesome and overlooked 2d neogeo fighter Waku Waku 7). Together, they've put together a kickin', heavily processed (love them phaser effects) ReMix that uses Rebirth to great effect. The filter resonance or "Q", cutoff, attack, and decay are all played with to create some wicked effects, with some noticeable improvements over previous mixes as far as variety and overall sound goes. Good companion ReMix to Zeratul's more experimental tale on the same theme, as it stays to the basic melody pretty consistently.

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Discussion: Latest 11 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
The drums in the introduction made me think I was listening to a Magitek Factory mix at first.
The mix doesn't really catch my ears though, as there's not that much going on sound-wise. Mainly just a drum and a synth?

- Bahamut on September 11, 2009
Funky.
Still a little too "out there" and repetitive for my tastes.
Ultimately, I don't really care for this mix.

- 42 on December 15, 2008
Definitely an interesting introduction. Everything hitting at 1:00 and getting louder grated on my ears for a second. The synth set-up is very nice, but the "crunchiness" can get a little to much for me. Other than that it seems like it has a continuous drum loop and leads into a little sound effect section that is an interesting portion, but doesn't really seem very impressive. The ending part feels like the most fleshed out part of the song.
I'm not really interested in listening to the mix that much.

- Lint on December 11, 2008
the synth bass is distracting. at 0:58 it really dilutes the rest of the sound.
1:46-2:14 loses my attention really fast. this section goes on for too long.
annnd i think you may have overused the phaser a little bit...

- halc on December 11, 2008
Drums are repetative throughout the mix, which is somewhat of a turn off. I wish more had been done with them. They aren't bad, just repetative.
The melody is catchy, and adding the 'crunchiness' makes me dig it more.
The 'sound effect' section is a bit strange, but it could have worked with more lead into it. Just a bit more of a transition.
For it's age this mix has done well, and I'm surprised there aren't more reviews to it.

- DragonAvenger on December 28, 2007
I played this game too when I was younger. I remember not understanding much of it, but that's about it. It's a pretty cool synth demo, but doesn't really sound that much like a remix. Then again, the source, that of it a quick google let me find, wasn't much to remix anyway. Anyone working with synths should listen to this, just for the synths. That it's a remix of the first game from which the SCUMM engine came gives it a bonus point, too.

- Rozovian on December 6, 2007
Whoo! More flanged percussion! When I was younger, I'd always play this game with my cousins at family Christmas parties, but still I only vaguely recognize this source. The drums are very hard hitting, which I like. The synths sound pretty cool, but sometimes things get a little cluttered. The reverse flange thing around 1:45 was pretty damn cool IMO. All in all, while this did tend to get repetitive, there were quite a few cool things along the way that prevented it from getting boring.

- about:blank on December 4, 2007
some of the effects, like the heavily delayed bass synth is really cool, and a lot of the counterpoint ideas that are used are cool, but the effects-only breakdown went far too long, and the hihats are distractingly boring.
The rest of the drums are nice, and there is a lot of creative processing going on, so overall this comes off as enjoyable if flawed.

- OA on March 23, 2007
Not a bad sound for an old mix. For better or for worse, it still stands alone after all this time. Not sure what the point was of the effects from 1:45-2:14. Pretty pointless. In any case, the arrangement was pretty simple but it has it's place in the older stuff, even if overlooked.

- Liontamer on November 20, 2005
Catchy melody. Nice rhythms on the synth thingy at the beginning. Massive panning effects in the middle followed by a rewinding type sound of the whole song with crunchy noises deafening it. Putting it in this style seems like it would be hard to add something else...without it sounding bad. Maybe an effect here and there could have been added since it likes to screw around with things to make it sound intense.
Download for the melody at least.

- AnotherOneBitesTheDust on February 15, 2003
Maniac Mansion 'Manic Mugenical'
Weird little remix here.. I'm not too big on the scratchy noises, but the
drum track is kinda neat; clean and punchy.

- m68030 on May 14, 2002

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