ReMix: Streets of Rage 3 'Good Ending(BlazeTheSirenMix)'
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- Game: Streets of Rage 3 (Sega, 1994, GEN)
- ReMixer(s): Rayza
- Composer(s): Motohiro Kawashima, Yuzo Koshiro
- Song(s): 'Good End'
- Posted: 2003-02-09, evaluated by djpretzel
Regardless of the actual content of his ReMixes, I personally love Rayza's game/track choices, as he consistently covers some interesting, less obvious tracks. Taking the content into account, the picture's even brighter, because he also consistently does them justice. This time we venture into the third Streets of Rage game, introing with a downtempo, laid-back feel acnhored by a deep bass, with brush snare, distant pads, and a monoglide synth on melody. So, at this point, I was thinking "cool - sort of a ballad thing, then" - ahh, but a more traditional Yuzo-styled jam enters at 0'46" and the bassline gets its thang going, with the addition of some comping piano and - no big surprise - a siren. There's lots of good drop-outs and addition/subtraction work to keep things interesting, and while the ending is a little anti-climactic, I really enjoyed the pace and energy of the arrangement all-around. The piano bares some similarity to the chords in the original Streets of Rage title screen music - same offbeat/triplet rhythm going on - so it sort of reminded me of that. Maybe it was a conscious decision by Yuzo to bring the soundtrack for the series full circle, from the ending of three back to the beginning of one, but more likely he just really digs that house piano sound :) More goodstuffs from Rayza, recommended.
Discussion: Latest 13 comments/reviews; view the some of the synths are a bit weak when exposed, such as the opening strings, but they are used well, and are mixed in with some strong synths, including some nice subtle ones underneath the piano when it comes in.
It's unfortunate that it's winter and freezing right now, because this would be a fantastic summer mix. The siren gets to be a bit much, but the fact that it matches the beat helps it a bit, and it's ending was really classy.
You can bet that in 6 months I will be jamming to this mix on a near-daily basis.
- OA on December 17, 2007
- Liontamer on May 1, 2006
- Kamikaze Noodle on February 12, 2003
but your remix is a good one indeed.
Probably put it in my overclocked compil for my car !
- Doulifée on February 10, 2003
- Culgan the Duck IV on February 10, 2003
This is one super-housey tune, while the drums sort of bring it more towards Euro-Dance than House, it's a good crossover. I absolutely love the little falling synth in the background of the intro. This has a nice flow to it, although I think the piano sounds a bit lo-fi... could just be these crap headphones I'm listening through, but if it was intended, it works quite well none the less. I also really like the little skipping that the open-hat does in this track... adds a lot to what would otherwise be a boring drum pattern.
Very enjoyable shtuff :D
:nicework:
- Beatdrop on February 10, 2003
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- ngaleano77 on February 10, 2003
That scream? I liked it. Thought it worked nicely.
What I'm still not to sure about is the siren. Fortunately, it's in and out. Took me a listen or two to determine if I really liked it. I decided that it wasn't that bad... but something more could have been done with it.
I think the ending was fine. Big punch, ends with the flute. Good stuff.
My favourite part about it was the callback to the opening music of Streets of Rage 1. I'm glad djp pointed that at. I didn't know if that was the original track or a choice by Rayza, but the fact that it was in there makes this song [i]really[/i] cool.
Good stuff, overall.
- endblink on February 9, 2003
K-Wix wrote: 0:48 - What was that? some sort of Scream?
That scream is from the game.. I dunno, i try to incorporate a little bit of the game into my mixes.. it was one of the voices that didn't distort horribly..
And the ending, yeh I know, lazy as hell i suppose.. maybe next time..
- Rayza on February 9, 2003
0:01 - Cool beat..
0:18 - Like the sort've Trance effect this section has over you..
0:48 - What was that? some sort of Scream? **Oops! my bad..from the game eh?** ..eh.. Better things could've been done.. On the bright side, what follows is some tight work, the piano medly is Great. And the Beat complements it nicely!
1:18 - Tight work here, im dancin' in my chair man. The backround effects really do a great job of accenting the mood your trying to create, and help bring everything together.
2:10 - Im not sure if i like the Siren-thing very much..but .. i suppose it fits..Again..that scream-type thing **Oops! my bad..from the game eh?** ..ugh..could've been better.
2:34 - Excellent work on the beat though, this part is awesome, probably the best part of the mix -> but i feel more could've been done.. you could've pushed a few extra harmonies out..this is the ending after all, man, pull out ALL the stops!
3:21 - Bad ending. Bad bad ending. it didn't even FEEL like an ending..just like it stopped.. work on that.
- k-wix on February 9, 2003
- sgx on February 9, 2003
- SsaiskK on February 9, 2003
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