ReMix: Commander Keen 4: Secret of the Oracle 'man sieht sich galaxie'

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Commander Keen! He was truly keen. If anyone was ever keen, it was him. Actually, i never really played these early id games, but Prince did the tunes just like for Doom - pretty flexible guy. First off, let's answer the obvious questions as to what's being said at the beginning, and why - I emailed analoq after hearing the mix and was informed:

it's just supposed to sound weird. i was sick, i had a fever and a piercing headache, but i wasn't tired enough to sleep so i recorded that intro. for the record, i'm saying:

i'm not feeling too good,
about this one,
some kind of surreal ex pression,
surrealist ex pressionistic?
whatever.

moving on, 960 galactic alphabet,
960 galactic alphabet!
are you here? please!
thank you.

This has a very euro-pop sound to it, perhaps a bit of a Kraftwerk influence, and there's some tres 80's mangled vocoding of "Goodybe, Galaxy," preceding the lovely old-style recording piano conclusion with a nice cross-panned fade out. The guts of the mix are essentially a laid-back beat, a lil funky, with a squeaky analog monoglide lead and some psychedelic oscillator effects over a plunky bassline that does its own happy little riff. I love some of the progressions and the piano solo circa 1'40" is my favorite bit, as analoq lets it loose with some funkdom. Slick snare fill into some heavier filtered percussion follows that, with a great analog lead that restates the melody in more badass fashion. For some reason, be it the references to leaving a galaxy or the dramatic progressions at points, this reminds me of Bowie's Space Oddity (i.e. "Ground control to Major Tom") - in a good way, as I'm a huge fan. Maybe if you melded that track with early euro-techno, added in some more recent virtual analog sensibilities and processing, and decided to cover Commander Keen, you'd come up with something fairly esoteric, unusual, and quality like this? analoq has answered that question, and for some reason I think he's the only one that could have. This has a VERY distinct flavor that, personally, I love. It feels like one of those tracks on albums that aren't one of the singles but you end up liking more, a rare find, and without being intimately familiar with the original I can appreciate that analoq's really transmogrified it into something different and special. Funky.

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.

The intro with the distorted voice, the funky/groovy bassline, and the piano outro are all wins in my book.


Analoq seriously needs to do some more stuff.

- Tmansdc on August 13, 2009

Awesome.....there's no need to comment with words, let your ears do the talking =D 10/10

- Ascendancy on August 13, 2009

Agreed on all counts. This is in my top 10 from this site without a doubt.

- Antipode on October 5, 2007

Who knows if we'll get anyything that sounds like this ever again. Props to Aaron for making such a unique piece. Back when this debuted for the OCR4 flood, I enjoyed pretty much all of the new mixes that were a part.
djpretzel's Revenge of Shinobi "Consent (Make Me Dance)" was my 2nd favorite and it actually took me a few loops to really appreciate the funked-out electro goodness.
But this one grabbed my ears from the very start. The intro effects and vox were unique. As SOON as the music faded in, I had been hooked.
This track was smooooooooooth to start. And when it switched gears with some more agressive beats, it ended the track with a lot of power. analoq, top of his game.
Nowadays, the guy jokes that he's lost it. If even 1% of our submissions ever "found it" the way this guy did...

- Liontamer on October 5, 2007

thanks guys (:
oh and [b]here's something i noticed recently[/b] :lol:
cheers.

- analoq on January 16, 2006

This was the first video game I ever played. :) For me, that makes this my favorite mix.

- Advenith on January 16, 2006

I never played this game, but this mix is cool.

- Dionyseus on October 27, 2005

I also grew up on Commander Keen loved em all keep em comin'

- Pikeman332 on September 17, 2005

This is great. I grew up on Commander Keen. Excellent ReMix! I hope there are more of them.

- Tomilius on December 21, 2004

HOLY F@#$ING HELL!!! I dunno if it's my absolute favourite OC ReMix, but it sure has a pretty good f@#$ing chance of being the best!!
God, that music just brings back so many memories of all those awsome Apogee games and other MS-DOS games!!! I wanna play some right now!

- RazorVayne on November 30, 2004

Holy shit this is good!!!!!!
Really that's all there is to say, just download it!!
nice ending
nice galaxy style
nice everything

- jordex on November 19, 2004

Well, what can I say. This is one of my most favorite remixes so far! Although it's kinda strange, the voice cuts seem to strangely [i]add[/i] to the song. I was suprised to see such an old game posted, but very happy. :mrgreen: Overall, I'd give this two thumbs up. Ahh... the memories... :P

- SmudgeTheFirst on June 14, 2004

Finally, a Commander Keen remix. I'm listening to it right now. Looking forward to some more Keen remixes.
keep up the good work analoq :)

- Guest on June 12, 2004

Yeah! Another remix would just be awesome. Maybe the tune from the cave (the same tune from Catacomb 3D).

- Amayirot Akago on June 5, 2004

@Snake101
Look at the decription of the remix: :D
http://www.ocremix.org/detailmix.php?mixid=OCR01180
[code]
i'm not feeling too good,
about this one,
some kind of surreal expression,
surrealist expressionistic?
whatever.
moving on, 960 galactic alphabet,
960 galactic alphabet!
are you here? please!
thank you.
[/code]
@analoq
I think the opinions are clear:
You will have to remix another Keen song, as Romero suggested! PLEASE! :D :D :!:
[even if you have to be sick again :wink: LOL]

- AndiNo on June 3, 2004

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[spoken]

i'm not feeling too good about this one,
some kind of surreal ex pression,
surrealist ex pressionistic?
whatever.

moving on, 960 galactic alphabet,
960 galactic alphabet!
are you here? please!
thank you.

[vocals]

goodbye, galaxy

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