ReMix: The Guardian Legend 'Big and Blue and Round'
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- Game: The Guardian Legend (Irem, 1988, NES)
- ReMixer(s): munky
- Composer(s): Masatomo Miyamoto, Takeshi Santo
- Song(s):
- Posted: 2002-06-30, evaluated by the judges
The Guardian Legend has spurned some interesting ReMixes. I think my favorite is still the Rosenthorne mix by The Wingless, but newcomer munky does an admirable job of providing some strong techno mixage that's long enough to develop in interesting ways - a good thing, as often longer mixes based on relatively simple themes can seem to go on a little past their welcome if things aren't kept fresh. munky does this by layering breakbeats with straight electro drums for variety on the rhythm side, switching to several pattern iterations about halfway through, and throwing a key change at 2'28" that really works. Bass is deep and gutsy, and synth textures throughout shimmer with a good balance of digital and analog timbres. Sometimes, on extended (held) notes by the lead on the main melody, I felt the sound stayed too static - a nice subtle LFO on the pitch would have given it a bit more life + luster. Still, the construction is varied, programming present, and sounds of high enough quality to make this mix memorable and certainly above your average techno creation. Good stuff - would love to hear munky work with throwing in one or two acoustic elements to compliment his electronic style.
Discussion: Latest 12 comments/reviews; view the - Bahamut on October 31, 2009
I love that bass, who wouldn't! The lead synths sound kind of lazy to me. The basic sounds is pretty nice, but they sound very static. Need more processing, more variation, especially as the melody repeats so much throughout the piece. There's a little solo in the middle, and a harmony to the lead towards the end - these are very nice, even though more could've been done. Nice little trills in the melodies though! Apart from lead repetition, the structure works pretty nicely. I might keep this!
--Eino
- evktalo on April 29, 2009
Overall a decent techno mix, with a great bass, but the melodic synths aren't doing it for me. They don't really pack a punch, and I can't keep interested towards the end of the piece. Drum loops get repetative, along with the rest of the track at the end, more change ups in general would have helped. Key changes were a good start.
The track still has some good points, and it's worth a listen, I just would have liked a little more punch to it.
- DragonAvenger on November 12, 2008
I am very glad that the vocal samples were removed from this, it would have been atrociously bad with them.
- OA on June 29, 2007
The sounds/textures are a bit dated, working in actual original drum patterns in place of the loops would have been good, and one can hear how the track could be filled out a bit better. But the arranagement's very creative for its day and the energy is excellent.
- Liontamer on February 8, 2007
EDIT: wow, this hasn't been reviewed in a while...
- Myst1278 on July 6, 2006
Wow ,this munky dude should have had more of his great stuff out on ocremix, cause i wanna hear every piece of brilliance he's made. This is funky stuff alright 8) What a strikingly heavy pace !
Thumbs Up !
- RimFrost the Tourianist on September 5, 2005
- Txai on February 23, 2005
Anyway, as for adding an acoustic element, I could definitely see where an acoustic piano could fit where a part of the remix repeated, replacing that synth.(or layered on it).
But overall I like this tune. And I love guardian legend. SO much props to munky!!
-neostorm
- neostormx on July 1, 2002
All in all, I give it 6 out of 10. A solid first submission :)
- Beatdrop on June 30, 2002
Nice remix from the n00b :wink:
- Ebonyks on June 30, 2002
This remix is proof that feedback does help people. See when we judges first got it, it came with a bunch of movie samples that killed it. Now, it's a solid techno track, if a repetative one. Not the best on the site, but not bad either, and still worth a download.
- orkybash on June 30, 2002
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