ReMix: Sonic the Hedgehog 'Collision'
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- Game: Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega, 1991, GEN)
- ReMixer(s): Malcos
- Composer(s): Masato Nakamura
- Song(s): 'Final Zone'
- Posted: 2004-05-05, evaluated by the judges
Been a long time! Seem to be several submissions from those who've been MIA awhile lately, and all of 'em goodstuff to boot. Malcos aka Stephen Malcolm gives us a string-driven bit of Sonictronica with this hip-hoppish bit. At 1'39" something of a chorus comes in, with pizzicato and a cool call-and-answer motif. If you're familiar with the soundtrack to Silence of the Lambs, you might notice a certain coincidental similarity - I wasn't overly familiar with the original piece from Sonic, so to me at times this sounded more like a Silence of the Lambs mix. Kinda weird, I know, but trust me, there's some definite overlap - besides that, the original already had a sort of cinematic flair to it, which is amplified here by the string arpeggio patterns. Stephen takes heavy-hitting drums and uses 'em in a heavy-hitting drum track whose kick accentuates the bass, but lets strings drive the bulk of the melodic and harmonic action, focusing the variety in the arrangement on how they're put together and articulated. Coma summed things up nicely this go round:
"This is a good arrangement of a repetitious song. Violins are an appropriate mainstay, and the play between the pizzicato, synth, and bold drumline is enjoyable. Some of the percussion gets hard on the ears as it drones on throughout the mix; more activity or scaling back on the volume might've helped. Aside from that, there's plenty of variety and balance here."
In particular, I think the comment on the percussive dynamics is apropo, as some more work on variation here could have lent sections more distinct identities, beyond what was happening with the strings, and enhanced the overall mix in terms of development. The effect of keeping things level is that the mix does have more a background, soundtrack vibe, however, which does work well enough, I just think there's enough foreground stuff going on to warrant placing more emphasis there. Regardless, a solid return piece from Malcos of some more untread Sonic territory, which is always nice to see. And heck, for me at least (user experience may vary) it doubles as a good Silence of the Lambs interpretation as well. Kickin'.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the DarkAura;254553 wrote: It's funny, but I had to listen to this song a couple times to get it to connect. Now... I don't know what it is, but there's something about this song that inspires me to try to add rap lyrics to it. I believe this song would do well as a rap.
My thoughts exactly... I even went so far as to write the lyrics from two different point of view. Sonic was the first and Knuckles was the next. Don't ask me where those lyrics are though, I lost them sadly... *cries in the dark* But I still wanna do this track. It deserves the justice of having it done and I think everyone can agree with that...
- Mysterious1ne on March 21, 2008
- Impreza WRX on May 25, 2007
- DarkAura on April 4, 2007
- Chrono86 on April 1, 2007
Bren wrote: Ever since Ive heard Madonna's James Bond Theme, "Die Another Day" I became obsessed with these 'hybrid' songs (techno mixed with orchestral strings)
Yes, I've found those type of songs interesting as well. As the rest, I like this remix as well. The strong and heavy beats together with the strings makes a good team, and reflects that seriousness when you're on the last stage, or at least when you're absolutely sure when you are on it.
Other than that, I don't know what else to say. For me, there aren't any need of changes in this arrangement, since both the beats and the strings cannot stand alone. Being repetive, I might give that a yes, but this rhytm can go on forever if I could decide. Sitting at the computer, your head is bopping while you're listening to this, even if it would repeat itself all the time, you don't really notice.
Awesome remix, I think I'm gonna have this on repeat for a while.
- Bummerdude on July 13, 2006
- MrBogus on March 21, 2006
- supertrunkten on February 18, 2005
This is a compliment. I love the AC04 songs, and they combine a synthesizer and an orchestra to create some "tight new shit." This ReMix parallels their musical quality. I'm impressed.
I love "Final Zone," but, again, it was too repetitive. This has taken it somewhere completely different, and I like it. I think this sort of song is was OCR is all about.
- Linearity on February 14, 2005
- IC_Grave on August 23, 2004
- MrNemo on August 23, 2004
- Zekian on May 25, 2004
Being musically, more specifically rap, inclined...I could honestly say if there were any chance in hell, heaven, eden,utopia, asgard, midgard, nefelheim, paradise, Mt Olympus, or Valhalla I could use this and create a remix for this site to hear...I would.
I do believe that honestly they would like it(being that this beat is so far up my alley you need the "Jaws of Life" to pry it away. 8)
P.S. I had it on repeat as I posted this.
- Mysterious1ne on May 20, 2004
congrats on the awesome piece. Slightly repetetive as said, but i don't mind that at all.
- Syl on May 20, 2004
In the end, I like the way this is arranged and I think if it weren't so overwhelmingly mechanical sounding (and maybe you brought a few more instruments here and there into the mix), it would really help.
- Adhesive_Boy on May 14, 2004
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