ReMix: Rush'n Attack 'HardCore'
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- Game: Rush'n Attack (Ocean, 1986, C64)
- ReMixer(s): Standby
- Composer(s): Martin Galway
- Song(s):
- Posted: 2002-04-09, evaluated by the judges
Fans of trippy hardcore trance, c64 tunage, and the legendary Martin Galway shouldn't be too disappointed with this first submission from WhoAmI, hailing from Sweden. A spacious bell pad with underlying synth whispers is the melody-carrier, with the classic hardcore distorted kick drum featuring very heavily in the percussion arena. Rapidly gated (or LFO on the amp envelope) synths come in later and add to the whizbang fun. Interesting choice and interesting interpretation - judges were split on this one, but some of the criticisms were more a general disinterest in hardcore at large, though a desire for a bassline and perhaps additional arpeggio line were made. Overall, a solid first effort for the genre, with room to grow in the future. Worth checking out if you're into it :)
Discussion: Latest 11 comments/reviews; view the This seems to suffer from the typical problems of the old mixes - very little variation in the arrangement.
- Bahamut on September 28, 2009
Dude, this was an old attempt, you were still young and learning, and that's cool. I'm interested to see where you are at now.
- Master_Yoshi on January 16, 2009
The drums are too repetitive and dominate the track. There isn't enough variation to make it interesting.
- 42 on December 13, 2008
The drums are...wow. They got pretty annoying quickly. The melody is alright, though it gets repetitive fast.
Not a fan, sorry to say.
- DragonAvenger on September 6, 2008
I think i'd like it more if the bass drum was in the same key as the song, but as far as hardcore beats go, they are as authentic as you can get.
- OA on December 17, 2006
The only good part is the part that starts at 1:57 and the intro had sort of a nice feel too ( with the really cuddly pad :D ), but the rest of the mix could have needed a lot more effort and generally more "feel" put into it.
The reason why it is so dull, with nothing really creative in there such as a bassline is simple really. When I was a kid I was virtually tone-deaf and I knew this.
Even though I had improved much at that stuff at the time I made this remix I still had much doubt about myself. I was afraid that if I experimented with layers of
strings or arpeggio synths I would do something wrong, i.e. use a wrong key-tone or something and not be able to hear it.
So basically I feel that I should have waited with submitting it until I was more confident about myself.
I am not tone-deaf at all anymore so I know I could make a much better mix if I tried but it would be a waste of time since ocremix doesn't accept new versions of old remixes anymore. After all I guess this is a piece of video game remixing history, boring as it is, there is at least one small part worth listening to.
Just thought I would let people know that I don't even like this remix myself and explain a bit why it was never as good as it could have been. :P
- WhoAmI? on July 25, 2005
I owned Green Beret for C64 a long time ago. It was actually a pretty fun (but hard) game.
- RimFrost the Tourianist on June 19, 2005
Dakej wrote: This song is not good....
to each his own, eh? i just said that it's catchy, and i'm standing by that, i think.
[quote=]and by the way, I have this game... it's called Rush 'N Attack (like we're not gonna notice that that sounds like 'Russian'). Perhaps it's called Green Beret in Japan or Green Beret is the sequel or something.... but I doubt it.
actually, not that i'm a c64 expert or anything, but this _was_ called Green Beret on the c64 and cpc, then the name was changed to Rush 'N Attack (and yeah, the name is a good one) for the NES. i'm sure that google will back me up on this one.
- dintendo on February 23, 2003
- Dakej on February 23, 2003
the bell tone and synth combo come off as cute-almost-to-the-point-of-annoying area, but they never *quite* got annoying, imo.
in all, this is a fun song to listen to. the melody itself is catchy enough, and the hard (could be harder?) drum track makes the song all that more whimsical, which i think is a good thing. worth more than a few plays, i think.
- dintendo on February 16, 2003
Sorry, but there is almost nothing of interest going on here. Drums get annoying fast. Melody is too repetitive, and without any harmony to back it up, the mix sounds extremely flat. The part around 2:00 actually works a little. Not enough to save the mix, but a little. Overall I really can't recommend this.
- orkybash on May 24, 2002
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