ReMix: Mega Man 2 'Duck And Cover'
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- Game: Mega Man 2 (Capcom, 1988, NES)
- ReMixer(s): Star Salzman
- Composer(s): Manami Matsumae, Ogeretsu Kun, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
- Song(s): 'Flashman Stage'
- Posted: 2004-06-02, evaluated by djpretzel
...We now return to your regularly scheduled programming. Perhaps I shouldn't even try to take vacations - my recent hiatus from OCR led me to the beach for a single day, during which a seagull relieved itself upon my arm and I lost my only pair of glasses washing off the goo in the Atlantic Ocean. $260 and four hours later I could again see, but I'm about ready to get my eyes lasered and start an international association dedicated to the extinction of seagulls. At any rate, our new design has been live for over a week, people have had a chance to adjust to it a bit more, and we've made a couple small changes/additions here and there and will continue to do so. Meanwhile, back to the music - Mr. Salzman's last mix was a magnum opus, classic on every level. To expect every mix he makes to be as consistently singular would be unrealistic; however, this coverage of the oft-tread Mega Man 2 Flashman territory does add something new to the fraternity of mixes the original has inspired, and is still very kickin' and worthy of your love. Starting off with a funky-phat synth bass, the beat and familiar melody drop right away, so you wonder where Star's gonna take things for the rest of the four minutes. At 0'45" he pulls an orchestral string break that illustrates the type of direction the mix is headed - lots of melodic variation, including a soaring synth solo and timpani-laden symphonic original bit. At 3'23" Mr.Salzman pulls an interesting little stunt with another symphonic break that does a nice changeup before the quick organ slide conclusion. There's some well-placed modulation on the ends of notes in the synth lead lines and the mixing is on par with SS' other efforts, i.e. rock solid. Think of this as a synth-hero arrangement of Mega Man 2 that happened to invite the Warsaw Philharmonic along to the party, or something of that nature, and you'll have the right idea. You've heard some dern good quality mixes of Flash Man in different genres, with wailing guitars and electrified beats, but Star's submission is different, perhaps a little more audacious at times, and goes new places with the material. When you see the Flash Man, Duck and Cover.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the Overall quality all around. Highly recommended.
- OA on June 3, 2009
ok, so the intro is slightly questionable, going for a funky vibe I guess, but then the mix rounds out.
Kinda groovy, kinda orchestral, kinda adventure movie soundtrack. Like Bach meets disco meets Indiana Jones soundtrack, except it totally isn't like that. :<
wow, it's kinda hard trying to label this mix.
imho, it's too liberal. I checked this against the source and don't really think there's enough source tune in there.
- 42 on January 11, 2009
As the name implies, this would be a track with ass-kicking techno rave, but it´s not. This is more of a philharmonic techno soundtrack suitable more when Flash is showing of his skillz on the dancefloor. It´s too calm to not be a chasing battle theme, but dude, that´s not the problem. Or to be prescise, there are no problems, this is a great remix that I don´t hesitate to download. Star, you rule at this.
And now, just t-
fake reviewer wrote: Bummerdude, DUCK!
:ducks:
fake reviewer wrote: Quack, quack
- Bummerdude on November 18, 2005
Am I the only one who noticed the Neon Genesis Evangelion "Decisive Battle" theme from 1:45 to 2:35? You mixed it into the Mega Man music so well that it fit naturally :)
- Chandra Alex Radford on March 14, 2005
Star Salzman >> j00
- BlueMage on February 23, 2005
- Brim on August 4, 2004
- RimFrost the Tourianist on July 22, 2004
- CobaltDelta on July 22, 2004
- Kxo Krazoa 6 on July 16, 2004
- Wing-Zero on June 28, 2004
This song's making me happy. It's not the best remix I ever heard, but it is a good one. One problem's coming, the Flash Theme is going to be OVERMIXED :twisted: . That's not good, but this songs O.K., more than O.K. :D
- Bundeslang on June 28, 2004
- Dr. Wily on June 13, 2004
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