Surgeon Pretzel's Warning: Listening to this ReMix at anything less than deafening levels could cause premature loss of soul, squareness, and severe mojo deficiencies. It's nice to see some new faces on the OC ReMix field, especially when their opening ReMixes are as balls-to-the-walls fun as MR_44's industrial techno take on the boss theme from Yuzo's masterful Streets of Rage soundtrack. Heavily distorted and cross-delayed synthage is the staple food, with some heavy drums, even more distorted industrial "shrieks", and lovely audio quotes towards the end as the satisfying ala carte items. This track opens strong and stays that way. Interesting sidenote - I tend to stay away from boss themes, myself, because they're often more repetitive than actual level bgm, but 44 has picked a genre and implementation that well suits this particular type of bgm, which is one of the better boss tracks to begin with. The ReMixer added: "made with a Yamaha rm1x, Waldorf Q, Korg Electribe S (sampler), Roland AX-1 midi controller keyboard (the kind with the guitar strap :) )and recorded to a Roland VS-840EX digital multitracker." Brother got some gear. Gotta check this one out - it packs a lot of whoopass into 2 megs.
Rexy on 2011-12-27 17:01:30A 2001 mix, covering a very unmelodic source. I know it's Streets
of Rage, but it makes it hard to evaluate in regards to arrangement
standards.
Admittedly there seems to be some good synth manipulation work with
the amount of decay and variety of textures being brought into the
track. It stays fairly well towards the source, but even then it
only really used the accompaniment part as just the main beef for
the track. The driving percussion actually feels really weak and
muffled, and even then I felt really questioned about the ending
with the voice samples in; seemed to feel out of place.
In regards to setting, this one didn't quite age as gracefully as
some of the other tracks I've seen around here. It can be fun if
you like the game, but otherwise I can't really make a serious
recommendation :(
WesternZypher on 2010-11-13 23:08:42Is awesome in its own way. Or they're all awesome in the same way.
They're either good music ramping up to beating down some street
thugs, or winding down from said delivered beating whilst
overlooking the city skyline-by-night. Preferably from a bridge or
rooftop. This is squarely in the former category.
Bahamut on 2009-09-13 00:31:01So one of the first things I noticed was the 2:11 length - as
suspected from the length, there wasn't really much substance in
this song. It was mostly the same loop playing over and over again
with very minor variations, which for 2:11 doesn't cut it.
Definitely not a fan :-( .
Master_Yoshi on 2008-12-30 18:34:49I really wanted to love this mix, but even for only being just over
2 mins long it felt like it was really dragging. I would have liked
to see some more ideas introduced here, it just didn't catch
me.
Love the ending though. Nice touch!
prophetik music on 2008-12-30 12:25:18and the last 7-post review bites the dust.
i loved the mix. a bit repetitive, but as a whole i thought it was
great. one of those mixes i never got around to listening to,
because i never played streets of rage.
nice work.
42 on 2008-12-13 22:22:18I am definitely sensing feelings of dire urgency and seriousness
throughout this mix and not much else.
The vocal samples at the end aren't really used to their fullest
potential, and everything before that, well..., there isn't really
anything noteworthy before the vocal samples.
Ultimately, it's really too repetitive to be interesting.
DragonAvenger on 2008-08-28 20:35:33Seems a lot longer than 2:11 to me. A bit too repetative for my
tastes, combined with not really enough going on. I can't say I'm
crazy about it personally.
OA on 2007-07-03 13:15:10Mortal Kombat anyone? I could totally hear the low voice announcer
start listing off the MK fighter's names through this.
The transition between the solitary synth back to the full mix is
all kinds of akward, but I gotta say this mix is pretty sweet; very
driving, But maybe a bit too repetitive.
I remember seeing that movie, and it is possibly the worst movie I
have ever seen that I loved.
LinearX on 2005-06-22 16:15:03This song grabs you by the genitals and slams you onto the
concrete. It could have used a little more variety even for a short
piece but I still like it and had the nerve to bump it loudly in my
car.
Mr_44 on 2003-06-26 01:04:37Thank you, Mr. 'Nuff.
Son Goten on 2003-06-06 17:13:32Hey that voice sample is from that movie Berry Gordy's The Last
Dragon. Cool! I loved that movie and so this remix ROX! 8)
bartkusa on 2002-06-09 02:52:44One of my favorite songs to kick ass to. This has a spot in the
"get carter" soundtrack.
Who's the master?
Mr. 44!
Ginnsu on 2002-05-26 14:42:13Streets of Rage 'The Last Dragon'
I love very deep 303’s. This mix defiantly has a lot of that going
on. As well as a whole bunch of awesome distortion, and some kick
ass vocal samples to wrap it all up. I must say Mr. 44 this one is
a treat, excellent work.
