ReMix: Mega Man 3 'Magnet Man Goes West'

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This is just crazyfunstuff, that's all there is to it. Mr. Cabrera has taken the Magnet Man theme and turned it into a sugar-sweet dance track with some excellent, shufflin' snares, a great kitschy guitar lead that actually often sounds a bit more Hawaiian than it does "Western" but rocks out with the heavy melodic emphasis, harmony, and pitch bend magic. This is a bit more flagrantly "happy" than Dan's other pieces. Not that they're macabre in any sense of the word, it's just that this is pretty flamboyant and jolly work, with roots, conscious or not, in the synth-pop factions of Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order and the like. I'm definitely into what Dan's doing with his recent submissions, blending non-synth instruments like banjo and guitar into an otherwise electro-mix and making that work. Sometimes that sort of transplantation will just end up sounding out of place, but with this and his previous mix, he's blended such timbres in seamlessly. There's a bit of repetition in the five or so minutes this ReMix consumes, but some of that is addition/subtraction overtop what is a sturdy enough percussive groove to hold interest and energy. This is definitely the type of piece that gets in your head and stays there... which sorta sucks as far as timing goes, because I need to write a take-home essay for a final tomorrow, and I know as I write about the subtle intricacies of how Tolstoy deals with notions of democracy when compared with Sand and Stendhal, I'm gonna stop writing mid-sentence and start humming this. I blame Dan. At any rate, I think this mix captures something about the happy-go-lucky, melodycore nature of Capcom's NES tunage in general, esp. for the Mega Man games. Recommended.

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Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
another great Disco Dan piece
and even if this one and (the all famous) Triforce Majeure were posted so far back i still can't stop listening to them.. iPod, winamp, foobar .. they're everywhere ^^

- Platonist on September 29, 2008
Hmm, I made a comment about clipping before, and I really don't know what I was talking about ... maybe something wrong with my speakers then. It was a while back.
Anyhow, I had to re-DL pretty much everything, and came across this again. Oh man, it's so happy. I love it; it's one of the best. ^_^

- Clumsy. on February 11, 2007
I listened to this a while ago and didn't like it enough to download it, but I did this time around. The "lighter" sounding instruments sounded a bit strange with the "heavier" beat in the background, but it's no biggie after a couple of listens. You probably could have gone without quite so many pitch bends with the guitar-like thing, though. Those can get irritating in mass quantity. Overall, good job.

- Steve1 on February 25, 2006
I'm a sucker for MegaMan remixes since MegaMan is the.... man... I do really enjoy listening to this tune but, to criticize:
1. There isn't much depth. The sound field is not filled and thus not as exciting as it could be. There are some strings but, not until the very end.
2. It sounds more Hawaiian than anything. I suppose Hawaii is west...
3. Dance has been done. Change the beat up or shorten the song's length.
4. There hasn't much changed from the original.

- meccaneer on October 2, 2005
Good to know that Discodude is capable of something with a more positive feeling, this mix really proves it. I just can´t figure out why he want to go west, what´s wrong with north? :?

- Bummerdude on September 23, 2005
Magnet Man's theme is probably my favorite piece of MM music. The stuff you've done to it is perfect. Great job :D

- BobTheDog on December 10, 2004
This is probally my favourite Mega Man mix outa all of them! Nice one dd!!

- jordex on November 22, 2004
Clumsy. wrote: I like this piece, but the quality of it really gets on my nerves ... there is so much clipping :? it should've at least been dusted off before being posted on OCR. My 2 cents.
Rock on Disco Dan.

You must listen to your music too loud alot or something. I listen to this remix on a regular basis and I can assure, there is no clipping.
Seriously, this is Disco Dan we're talking about. You really think he'd submit a low quality mix. I think you'd lost your bloody mind.
No offense. :)

- Flare4War on July 15, 2004
Yep....this is still one of the greatest ever.

- Flare4War on July 15, 2004
Clumsy. wrote: I like this piece, but the quality of it really gets on my nerves ... there is so much clipping :? it should've at least been dusted off before being posted on OCR. My 2 cents.
Rock on Disco Dan.

There is no clipping. I've listened to this with three different sound systems (mp3 player and two computers) with headphones, earplugs, and speakers, and I simply didn't hear any. It's probably you :D

- zircon on July 14, 2004
Positively brilliant! Sparkling with a dancable, deleriously happy beat, this remix can be truly called something brought from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First century, while still exuding that coy innocent sweetness found only in the Mega Man series.
It should be said that one the most enigmatic songs out of [i]Mega Man 3[/i] is Magnet Man's stage. The stage itself is break-your-controller hard, and features a villian that is both mad-looking and just plain mad (like when he uses his magnetism ability -- :twisted: )It comes as a surprise, therefore, that the music for the stage is so giddily happy.
Disco Dan's superb remix for this song comes as a surprise as well. Instead of merely taking the original song and filtering it through another medium, he comes out with a tune that [i]actually enhances[/i] the way the original feels.

- Royal Sovereign on July 14, 2004
Sorry to be a late replyer to this topic. Anyways Magnet Man's music was always my favorite out of Megaman 3's soundtrack and I would play his stage first just to hear this tune. Now Disco Dan comes along and takes and excellent song and makes it better. I always listen to this tune whenever I drop by OCremix.com.

- Slime Master on June 20, 2004
Y'know the original version of this song is addictive enough. Now Disco Dan does THIS to it, and totally blows me away. This is definitely one of those songs that must be had. You [i]will[/i] be bopping your head to this tune. Great job, Dan!

- CJ_Sparx on May 31, 2004
This is, hands down, my favorite Megaman Mix on the site, despite the lack of depth, that Geko mentioned. it helped that this is my favorite track of all the Megaman tracks ever :D
A while back I found Dan's gallery of MM3 Mixes. Good stuff, but I've been looking for days now and I can't find it again. does anyone know if the site is down and if its not, could someone pass on a link or somthing
Many many thanks, and again a most execellent mix indeed

- Crazyonr1 on May 21, 2004
Since the last time I played MM3 (on emu of course), I just realized how fun of a song Magnet Man's level was. So I checked here for a remix of it and I was more than happy to come across this great remox from none other than Disco Dan himself! There are tons of things I like about this song, including the buildup of instruments and that (hmm how to word this) "slide thing" the synthesized intrument that sounds like a guitar does. Know what I mean? Kinda like a "boing" sound. Thats cool.
Nice one Dan!! :)

- Bren on February 5, 2004

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