ReMix: Lost Patrol 'In The Air Mix'
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- Game: Lost Patrol (Ocean, 1990, AMIGA)
- ReMixer(s): Makke
- Composer(s): Chris Glaister
- Song(s):
- Posted: 2004-07-16, evaluated by the judges
So, if you crossed Phil Collins, a Roland CR-78, an obscure Amiga game, and a talented Commodore ReMixer, you'd probably end up with something like this. Makke has mixed Lost Patrol's chocolate with Phil's peanut butter and come up with musical reese's pieces, an interesting vocal track that pays homage to the Amiga title and he of Sussudio fame simultaneously. Incidentally, "In the Air Tonight" is considered a bit of a landmark track for some of its more outlandish vocal processing but especially the combination of the VERY synthetic Roland CR-78 drum machine with a much beefier acoustic kit that comes in towards the end and rocks out. Great track; nice to see it assimilated here into a new creation that utilizes some of its structure and instrumentation. From their comments, it wasn't apparent that any of the judges were familiar with the Collins' track this is playing off of, but their opinions were nonetheless positive. Jesse sums up the relative weaknesses and strengths nicely:
"the vocals are campy, the song is on a grand total of 2 (two) chords, the bassline never changes. the production sounds good, the vocals are well recorded, and it doesn't get too repetitive because of a few interludes, some nice synthy sounding strings. very new-wave ballad."
Your familiarity with either half of the source material might prejudice you in one direction or the other, but Makke's certainly come up with something very different, and while that something doesn't work for 100% of the mix, the moments when it's especially effective are pretty cool. You don't have to have a great voice to make a vocal track work, as The Clash helped prove, and while Pavarotti won't have to quit his day job any time soon, the ReMixer does an admirable job of pulling off this innovative, highly conceptual, transporting mix.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - Dhsu on November 14, 2008
I am really impressed with the attention to detail on mimicking the original sound. Sounds great. :-)
- OA on October 7, 2008
Stepping away from all that, however, this one is still one of my favorite arrangements. The vocal homage to Phil Collins fused seamlessly with the Lost Patrol source tune, and is yet another example that shows off the depth of Marcus's skills when compared with the other songs in his career.
It's no shot against Mazedude (and honestly, it's apples and oranges), but especially for those familiar with Makke's works at Remix.Kwed.Org, AMIGAremix and C64Audio.com, Makke may arguably be the most heterogenously genre-talented musician in the scene.
- Liontamer on May 22, 2008
[i]
I can feel them coming in the dead of night
For a lost patrol too weakened to last through the fight
Bombs blazing, lighting up the sky
I can hear them closing in with every hour
On a lost patrol so weak all they can do is cower
Sniper gazing, deciding who's to die
As the end is drawing near
With the light of dawn
I shed a tear for those who've gone
I can see them firing at us from afar
A lost patrol who don't quite know where they are
As the end is drawing near
With the light of dawn
I shed a tear for those who've gone
[/i]
- makke on March 5, 2006
[i]
I can feel them coming in the dead of night
For a lost patrol too weakened to last through the fight
[b]Armies blazing, lighting up the sky[/b]
I can hear them closing in the deadly hour
On a lost patrol so weak that they can't do a scour {I'm very confused about this line}
[b]Sniper gazing, deciding who's to die[/b]
As the end is gone and (here)
With the light of dawn
I shed a tear for those who've gone.
I can see them firing at us from afar
A lost patrol who don't quite know where they are
As the end is gone and (here)
With the light of dawn
I shed a tear for those who've gone.
[/i]
I'm not exactly sure about the "here" I put in parenthesis. It's something that rhymes with tear. Everything else I'm reasonably sure is correct. The bold is the deep voice, if you're wondering.
- Hyouryu on January 28, 2006
- Kurous on November 21, 2005
I love it! it's out there funky, and balanced well. I think the bassline never changing makes it's really sound like an 80's song by Phil. if it was all over the place, or changed at ALL REALLY, IT WOULDn't be 80's :P
- trentonx on August 17, 2005
I didn't thought that somebody would remix a day this almost unknow music.
- VinceBlood on December 29, 2004
- Omnius on November 26, 2004
- Kaleb.G on July 19, 2004
I especially liked those sniper missions 8)
This remix although its nice to the ear ,leaves much to be improved upon. Too repetitive and too similar to the original.
- RimFrost the Tourianist on July 17, 2004
- Zaphlin on July 17, 2004
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