ReMix: Chrono Trigger 'Chrono Moonstone'
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- Game: Chrono Trigger (Square, 1995, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): LSD, Shnabubula
- Composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu, Noriko Matsueda, Yasunori Mitsuda
- Song(s): 'Chrono Trigger'
- Posted: 2009-01-09, evaluated by djpretzel
Sam writes:
"Here is another LSD remix from the same session as the castlevania one. Unfortunately Lenwood had just had his wisdom teeth out and could barely play, so this one is also just Dustin and myself. The title of the song is "Chrono Moonstone" I promise to have some trio recordings to submit soon with an uninjured trumpet player... and one day we'll find somebody to play bass who also loves VGM [that's a prerequisite]"
It'd be awesome to hear the full LSD trio in all their glory, but it's also really impressive that - yet again - Dustin and Sam put together one hell of an arrangement/performance. If you didn't dig their CV3 mix, I can't help you much, and you probably won't dig this either, but otherwise you're in for more live jazz greatness. Not to beat the dead "MAG was awesome!!" horse TOO much more, but it would have been downright beautiful to hear these tracks there, and it's a bummer Sam didn't stick around. There's always next year!
The first minute or so here is just Sam on the ivories, and is somewhere in between Impressionism and jazz, with sustained arpeggios on the left hand and some high-register (and quite lovely) melodic work on the right. You get so lost in it that you temporarily forget that, at some point, drums are gonna come in. There's a pretty seamless transition around 1'12" where Sam ditches the sustain and establishes a basic, faster groove, and Dustin comes in soon after. The syncopation that follows is just really fun to listen to, with chords poking in here and there under the familiar-made-new main melody, and drums peppering the whole thing with sizzling rides and articulate shuffles & fills. The two play off each other, and while for some reason I've always found the word "synergy" obnoxious, that's exactly what they have. Again.
Ever since Neskvartetten stopped putting out new stuff, I've been waiting for someone else to come along and fill the live jazz ensemble void they left. While I love Sam's solo stuff too, his work in LSD is helping to do exactly that, bringing live, dripping-with-ambience, authentic jazz performances right to the doorstep of OCR. Hopefully they'll get a trumpet player and even a bass player (though the three-letter acronym name would then be incomplete) and that'll open things up even further, but with drums and piano alone, Sam and Dustin again prove that knowing your instrument, knowing your band member(s), and having a deep understanding of where a source tune can be taken is all you need to cook up some amazing stuff. As with their CV3 piece, this one's basically an instant classic, destined for heavy rotation on my playlist and hopefully yours as well.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the I would have been happy even if only the first minute was posted as a mix. What follows is just amazing. These jazzy takes on seemingly overused sources really say a lot about the quality of musicians on this site.
The drum solos seemed out of place at first, but, now that I've listened to it umpteen times, they keep the whole thing fresh and unpredictable.
Very slick.
- glasfen on February 20, 2009
- owq on February 20, 2009
- richter on February 14, 2009
- Martin Penwald on January 27, 2009
I absolutely loved this remix and hope to see much more from these guys.
- Random Hajile on January 18, 2009
excellent excellent
- halc on January 15, 2009
Soothing, relaxing, everything that Jazz gives us.
I am falling a sleep to this music tonight... :sleepzzz:
- bamblakopz on January 14, 2009
great work Dustin and Sam - you guys are absolute WIN :-D
- Platonist on January 12, 2009
I've always wanted to learn Bass Guitar too, btw ;)
LSD: PLEASE give me more of the same. Perfect song choice, perfect execution
I love this damn song.
- V-Jolt on January 12, 2009
needless to say, it's still awesome.
- MaxFrost on January 11, 2009
- Lucentas on January 11, 2009
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