ReMix: Super Castlevania IV 'HouseParty'

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Super Castlevania IV

Okay people, lame as it is, I'm putting a huge disclaimer on this one: it was merely a test. Not only a test of my new setup at my new house, but a test of composing a song without a single sound coming from my trusty ASR-10 - everything here is Kawai K5000 or Gigastudio. It ain't great, and I'm not gonna count it as my Castlevania ReMix for the year as I wanna do something with more depth, but as a test run of my setup, and for two hours effort, I deemed it worth posting. Oh well, at least the organ's fun. Humor me and download it ^^

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
A djpretzel mix, through and through.
There is a sense that this was a "quicky", and there is overbearing sense of familiarity in the arrangement. There isn't a whole lot to it, but really, does there need to be? djpretzel does his thing, and then it's over. It's not crazy, it's not sublime. It's just a mix with an intent to please and I can't see a reason why it would fail to do that.

- Marmiduke on June 6, 2009
decent remix, nothing amazing. but as you said, it was merely at test.

- goombapatrol on June 6, 2009
The lead is pretty hardcore in the higher frequencies; I would agree that pain is involved. The arrangement here is really nice though. AnSo style before it was all the rage. :<
Lots of crazy analogue funk, and some great counterpoint. I really think the star of this one is that organ, which does some great syncopated bits.
Cool stuff. :-)

- OA on May 12, 2008
So I just found this in my stash of Castlevania remixes tonight, and it's like being at a roller disco fighting the undead with a whip. It's ridiculous. In a good way. I really like it a lot, as my Last.fm profile will soon betray.

- quoda on August 24, 2007
I dig this tune. I dunno what people are talkin' about with the weird noises and ears hurting... You people need to go listen to more music. [b]For this song,[/b] it might be a little weird... The organ is purty slick, though. And the drum programming is timeless. Download it. Do it now!

- meccaneer on October 3, 2005
:nicework: This was the first remix I downloaded form the site, and it's since dropped down the list in terms of favorites, but I still like it.

- Shwenky on September 11, 2005
I love Castlevania 4's music, and this is a great remix :D

- FatedChild on August 17, 2004
The original song from Castlevania 4 is one of my favorite songs in video games. It is nice to see it remixed this way.

- Scrabble_Ship on August 16, 2004
I seriously like it, it sounds weird, but still good :D

- FatedChild on August 16, 2004
hashahaha this is funkafied, wows

- Julio Jose on April 17, 2004
Hahaha, this is great. Certainly groovy and funkalicious.
Nicewerk Pretz.

- DarkeSword on April 17, 2004
Groovy it is! This is one of my favorites.
If this was merely a test, it is a successful one!

- Xana Taol Vlas Nedak on February 24, 2004
This is really frustrating... CV4 has some of the best music in the series (some argue [i]the[/i] best) and yet there only 3 remixes for it on OCR... 1 of which is good...this one...but of all the songs it could be it's from one which has apeared in every game in the series since Castlevania one. So while djpretzel decided to tag it a SCV4 mix, it could easily be CV1, 2, 3, Dracula X, XX, or SOTN.
Anyway, despite djpretzel's disclaimer this mix actually is pretty good. A couple of those grinding sounds here and there are slightly anoying, but overally it's very catchy and has jazzy feel to it that gives it a sort of unique pizzaz. Great job, just I was expecting an actual Super Castlevania 4 remix.
If he has so little faith in this one, I'm eager to hear pretzel's next Castlevania mix, the one he puts "more than 2 hours of effort into".

- Gnam on July 20, 2003
i think djp is way too humble. i liked this one right off the bat.
the fact that this "mere test" has elicited 7 very positive reviews just goes to show that djp was born with talent (talent he should be making money with, but hey...).
once upon a time the lead would have made me grit my teeth in the high range, but i'm good and deaf now, so HUZZAH!

- MB on August 29, 2002
ya know, i think that DJP could be considered the Moby of overclocked remix... and before you flame me for that statement, it has nothing to do with similarity between styles, but more that ive noticed djp's stuff has a very old school/analog feel to it...like moby.... and i think its pretty damn cool. this particular one is pretty groovy, and the lead line towards the begining is pretty sitar sounding, which i dig. you'll get no complaints here.

- lefty on July 10, 2002

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