ReMix: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 '2K3'
- Game: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (Magnetic Fields, 1991, AMIGA)
- ReMixer(s): Cyborg Jeff
- Composer(s): Barry Leitch, Shaun Southern
- Song(s):
- Posted: 2003-01-18, evaluated by djpretzel
It's late and I'm pooped. Hey, at least I'm honest - it's been a week full of lengthy meetings at work, including sobering fiscal year '04 budget planning discussions, which have the amazing power to suck the living spirit straight out of a human being's body through the skull :) Also planning some extensions and revisions to the main database that drives OCR, which takes up time I'd otherwise spend writing amazingly eloquent, proofread prose regarding the mixes I post. Excuses, excuses . . . this latest ReMix comes in from Cyborg Jeff, who's given us some memorable and really rather groovy Fury of the Furries tracks in the past. He now shifts gears (groan) to cover Lotus 2: Turbo Challenge, the Amiga follow-up to the original racer, in a more traditional dance fashion. The intro actually cycles through some other games' music, including fellow racer Outrun, before settling in on a classic four-on-the-floor synth-bass driven dance groove straight outta La Bouche territory (you can actually try to sing "be my lover" on top and it sounds . . . well, bad if you stick to the melody, but at least contextually appropriate) - it's not just auto-pilot hook-driven bass-heavy dance, though, as CJ does the right thing and throws in some stops, breaks, effects of the engine acceleration ilk, and melodic runs. But the key here is that the ReMixer obviously shot for a very specific genre and sound and I can safely say he achieved that. Whether it's your thing or not will dictate your appreciation for the mix, but I can always get down to some guilty-pleasure dance myself, so I was into it. Nice change of styles for Cyborg Jeff, well implemented intro, and great+focused genre adaptation work.
Definitely good enough to keep on my playlist though. :-)
- OA on January 9, 2008
I admit that someone can want to close winamp and delete the file, but if you manage to resist...
then the mix developes in a good way :)
a lot of original creative arrangements here and there. pretty long remix, but not annoying.
with a lot of cars near the middle of the song OMG M I rite?
speed limit is 375mph
- Nineko on November 20, 2005
Vertyos wrote: I've allready heard [this music] a long time ago... Is there a link ?
Why yes, I believe you're on to something. You've just linked us to the original game music. This here would be a remix. Can you believe it?
- Hornpipe2 on June 16, 2003
Keep up the good work :)
Barry
- Barry Leitch on March 9, 2003
And uh.. I've thought a lot of remixing this theme myself, but now there's no need for it. This is exactly the way I would have wanted it to sound anyway. Great work, Jeff! My current OC favourite.
- EmptyMy on January 20, 2003
- d0d0 on January 19, 2003
- Thornado on January 19, 2003
- sgx on January 19, 2003
I've been surfing the net like I do every so often and then I saw this Lotus 2 ReMix... All I can say is "Wow! It r0x0rz my s0x0rz" :P
Well, this being my first post on this board please excuse my n00bish lameness, but this is a real cool ReMix of the main theme of Lotus 2 of which I've always been a fan of in this game, since Amiga days. (ah, the nostalgia...)
Cyborg Jeff did a great job remixing this piece of candy after the Fury of the Furries ReMixes that also rock. :)
Get it now, if you haven't already! :wink:
- nachokun on January 18, 2003
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