ReMix: Mega Man 4 'LetThereBeLight'

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This ReMix is Amazing. With a clear Bjork influence and impeccable attention to detail, AmIEvil's latest submission was well worth waiting for, and would be so still if it had taken him another year to complete. I consider it to be amongst the very best ReMixes on the site, urge you all to download it, and that's about all I have to say. Every single element is brilliant. Note: this is a ReMix of the Dustman theme, if you're wondering.

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Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
I'm really digging that percussion; it seems vaguely out of place yet just so right. lol
This has a really unique hollow feel to it, which really doesn't detract from it but rather adds to the personality of this mix. Really, this song has a lot of textural value both to the ears and almost tangibly so. While it feels deceptively simple, it is an amazing song to listen to.

- 42 on December 18, 2009
Really cool mix. Love the crazy little synth sounds throughout, adds a helluva lot of character. This song has great pacing and changing textures; it is a real joy to listen to.

- avaris on December 2, 2009
Beautiful gated synth up in here. Seriously that is one of my personal musical weakness, along with tambourine and other weird things. ANyways, I think the kettle drums here really add that certain 'je ne sais quoi' that sets this mix apart from other atmospheric adventures, and subtle panning and a cool quasi-harp keep the interesting elements coming. I think a lot of AmIEvil's work is a bit hit or miss, but there's no mistaking that he was a big name in early OCR, and this song is most definitely a 'hit'. Nice work dude, and thanks for helping to make OCR what it is today. :-)

- OA on December 2, 2009
Do the drums remind anyone else of Bjork's "Human Behaviour"?

- chrisswiss83 on October 20, 2007
I just heard this for the first time today and dug it - a good mix. I didn't think that it was quite as amazing as everyone else did/does, but that's cool. The production was awesome, great industrial feel... some seriously tasty moments with the actual Dust Man theme; I didn't realize how many idiosyncracies there are in the original piece until I heard this remix. However, for me, it was a bit static - didn't seem to have a lot of forward momentum. Maybe it's cool to chill to? Maybe that's the arranger's intention? I don't know, it was cool, but didn't blow me away.

- siven7 on June 8, 2007
Zophar [insert new name wrote: ]
Bummerdude wrote: I really think this REMIX is really cool and all, I really do, and I have played MM4, but....I can´t recognize the song!!WHY?!!! :banghead:

I think it was in Dustman's level

Since djpretzel kindly said that and also put it in the remix info, I kind of knew that. My real question was more like I couldn´t recognize it even when I knew what track it was. AmIEvil has really transformed the original into something almost unrecognizable, I gotta give him credit for that, and he manages to pull it off with many different synths and a good variation of beats. The dark and heavy drums that picked up at 0:38 gave this piece some more power indicating that it now had gotten into its rhytm. The strings that then followed was simply beautiful, and as everyone already said, this is good enough to be music to moviescores.
But my favorite part is still at 1:49, the synth fitted into that trippy melody perfectly, it was the reason that I downloaded this remix. I may not hear the theme so well, but AmIEvil compensates all of it by giving us one fantastic arrangement that works like a scratch behind your ears. This is the result of a true remixer.

- Bummerdude on January 7, 2006
Bummerdude wrote: I really think this REMIX is really cool and all, I really do, and I have played MM4, but....I can´t recognize the song!!WHY?!!! :banghead:

I think it was in Dustman's level

- Zophar [insert new name] on September 26, 2005
I really think this REMIX is really cool and all, I really do, and I have played MM4, but....I can´t recognize the song!!WHY?!!! :banghead:

- Bummerdude on September 23, 2005
I like this song, It reminds works into my daily grind of handling two jobs and few morning classes.
Its even better at night. :wink:

- Zophar [insert new name] on September 22, 2004
Never played Mega Man 4.... but this track is so good.... so so good....
Twisted, Slow industrial. Dark indeed, in a fairly unconventional way, but unmistakable tone.

- NeOmega on September 5, 2004
I can't believe I didn't review this a year ago - This was one of the first mixes I got off WinMX that compelled me to go to this site.
AmIEvil has done some excellent work with other mixes, but this is one of the best of them all. The title is extremely fitting to the atmosphere of the mix - Slow, dark and electronic. Very fine attention to detail, and an awesome remix overall.

- Corporal Eschebone on August 24, 2004
HalfShadow wrote: Given that this is actually the Dust Man theme, shouldn't the title be changed?

Nah, its a completely original song that borrows about 5 seconds of notation from the dust man theme. Very good, but not a remix.

- Protricity on April 26, 2004
Cat Herder wrote: the timpini sounds a little fake

I dunno, it sounds pretty good, just out of place. It's very bright and clean, compared to the rest of the mix, which seems much more dark and slightly distorted.
Lucky for me I decided to look at this one; right from the intro, I knew this was gonna be pretty sweet stuff. It's very catchy, if that's the right word for it; it just feels right.
Twenty-some people can't be wrong! Or at least very far off the mark...

- Uncle on April 26, 2004
Wow - I had forgotten about this song when my hard-drives got formatted. I KNEW I remembered an awesome remix of the dustman song, and I'm glad I remembered this. One of the best remixes on the sight, and it's like, 3 years old too, so a lot has come after it. That's saying a lot.

- Nanaki on April 25, 2004
I only had the gameboy MM3, which had dustman in it. That was the hardest gameboy level for the longest time, it took forever to get far, then the crushing ceilings weren't fun at all, needless to say i still enjoyed the level cause the music was great, but this is something really great. If only the old old gameboy could have packed this much into it i'd just sit in the first area listening to this

- UltimaAvatar on October 16, 2003