ReMix: Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 'Dazed & Destroyed'
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- Game: Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 (Konami, 1999, ARC)
- ReMixer(s): Beatdrop, MC Mouse the Mighty
- Composer(s): Naoki Maeda
- Song(s): 'Hysteria'
- Posted: 2004-12-11, evaluated by the judges
Loud and relentless DDR beats from Dain, alias Beatdrop. The ReMixer writes:
"I originally started on this back in May or thereabouts for reasons I can't even remember. I honestly have NO IDEA why I chose to remix Hysteria. I got some work done, and before I started on the vocals, I put it on the back burner for about a month. My room mate, Walker (aka MC Mouse the Mighty), happened to have written some compositions of his own, and I found out shortly after I met him that he's heavy into rap music (not the crap on MTV, the real stuff) and had written some lyrics of his own... I turned to my room mate to hook me up. Just the other day, he did. And then he formatted the lyrics from his computer by accident and had to rewrite them from memory. I went to work on the recordings, and here's the result.
Interesting combination of MCing with very aggressive techno - not for the faint of heart or pregnant women, and you wouldn't wanna operate any large machinery afterwards (where applicable), but it's certainly intense. The vocals at times sound industrial/KMFDMish, but whenever they get more syncopated, and especially at 3'10", it's all MC-style frontin', DDR-style. The robot-voice style samples add a lot, as do the breaks. My only potential beef is that the mix seems EQ'd way towards the upper-mid to highs - less of a problem when the bass is firing underneath to beef it out, but sometimes problematic when it drops out. However, there are some really great highlights that make up for it - love the chorus at 1'30", being the hook-addict that I am, and the faux fade-inversion at 2'34" and the ensuing breakdown. In general, this mix started off for me sounding like something that would be unacceptably repetitive if it stayed where it started, but went a lot of cool places and kicked a lot of posterior when all was said and done. Malcos writes:
"Yeah aggressive style is how I like it. I'm very familiar with the source tune, completely different take on it. Production is crisp, nice arrangement. Like the effects and processing used on the vocals to make them stand out more, although the first set of vocals (0.57 onwards) were a little hard to make out at first. We need more DDR stuff people! Good work Beatdrop."
MC Mouse the Mighty certainly turns in an admirable first appearance on OCR as well, and gives Dain's underlying mix additional flavor , groove, and energy. Great stuff, especially enjoyable once you get past the initial shock of the aggressive EQing and get to the chorus and more compelling innards.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the I agree with it being mixed too high. I'm expecting a lot more bass out of this, but perhaps I'm too used to the 'typical' setup for a rap song?
Anyways, good job by Beatdrop and MC Mouse.
- DragonAvenger on October 1, 2008
Beatdrop wrote:Azure Haights wrote:xtishereb wrote: Ok, I'm pretty sure Hysteria is from DDR Solo and [b]NOT[/b] DDR 4th Mix.
Agreed.
Yeah, I goofed on this one for some reason. Sorry 'bout that. I have no idea why I made the mistake. Simfiles probably aren't sorted properly.
No worries. We fixed it. Mouse has a co-credit now as well.
- Liontamer on August 28, 2006
Azure Haights wrote:xtishereb wrote: Ok, I'm pretty sure Hysteria is from DDR Solo and [b]NOT[/b] DDR 4th Mix.
Agreed.
Yeah, I goofed on this one for some reason. Sorry 'bout that. I have no idea why I made the mistake. Simfiles probably aren't sorted properly.
- Beatdrop on June 23, 2005
I do plan to make easier steps to go along with this, but for the moment, when I finish the hard steps, I'll upload it.
- Kiyobi on January 17, 2005
xtishereb wrote: Ok, I'm pretty sure Hysteria is from DDR Solo and [b]NOT[/b] DDR 4th Mix.
Agreed. Then again, if we moved Dazed from 4th Mix to DDR Solo, 4F73R M3 could take its place. Maybe all the songs in one Bemani series should be put under the same game? Has this been discussed?
- Azure Haights on January 16, 2005
- xtishereb on January 16, 2005
(check out BemaniStyle.com in the coming week. If I do finish it up, it should be there!)
- Kiyobi on January 15, 2005
- Kiyobi on January 11, 2005
This remix of Hysteria is a welcome thing to return to- one of my most disliked DDR tracks turned into a nicely mixed piece of audio that I would be honoured to have grace my $20 speakers and subwoofer. (They were a backup set that never got replaced by expensive ones.)
This song differed from most of your songs though in the fact that it didn't have too much bass. In fact, it had too little. It really could use a bass boost. Not that I don't have Winamp EQ set up to cover that error.
According to my "friend", I can't critique your music because I can't read music. Man, she's so arrogant and conceited. Heh. I'll leave now.
- Debonaire on January 11, 2005
I'm a big SM fan, so if someone does a good job on syncing, I'd love it!
I'd be so appreciative I'd even, I dunno, perform it live for your highschool...or batchelor party...
- zillford on January 4, 2005
I like the agressive nature of it and the fact that it sounds good loud.. the louder the better imo.
- Sega. on January 3, 2005
- Brim on December 29, 2004
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