ReMix: Knuckles' Chaotix 'Door Into Chaotix'
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- Game: Knuckles' Chaotix (Sega, 1995, 32X)
- ReMixer(s): Willrock
- Composer(s): Junko Shiratsu, Mariko Nanba
- Song(s): 'Door Into Summer'
- Posted: 2009-10-28, evaluated by the judges
Ahh, Knuckles Chaotix. For that matter... ahhh, Sega 32X. While it prevents me from candidacy for President of the United States, I've admitted in the past to owning Sega's ill-fated add-on, and I did in fact have this game as well. Miraculously, I was not beaten up at school for this. Hindsight is always 20/20, as they say, but at the time it DID have the best port of Space Harrier available, and that game is my joint. Dodecahedrons ftw. But I digress... my memories of this game mostly consist of the bizarre tethering of characters, which felt like a strange form of anthro S&M... BUT IT WAS 32-BIT!! It didn't matter. Plus, the music was pretty good, and now Willrock's here to prove it. The artist writes:
"This remix for me is a return to my old sound that I had before I joined ocr. My music used to have more of a chip-tune flavor, and I decided to make a remix in that style, utilizing techniques I learnt from my time at ocr. Basically, this is the result. It may be a little too chip-tune like for ocr, but that's the intention for this mix."
To clarify, we are not and have never been members of the anti-chiptune party (if one even exists)... we do however factor in production when evaluating submissions, and the genre allows - but does not dictate - verbatim, unprocessed usage of rudimentary waveforms that significantly reduces the number of mixing decisions an artist is responsible for. Plenty of folks have been illustrating recently that the "chiptune sound" is not incompatible with OCR, and I'd say the panel's actually passed "chippier" mixes than this. Let's see what OA says:
"Production is decent, one of the nice things about chippy stuff like this is that everything is so clean, you can do some crazy arrangement stuff, and with this track, Will doesn't disappoint. Great panning, stutters, and all kinds of other tomfoolery. Nice and peppy source, and though some of the sound quality is a bit weak (specifically that bass for me), it's still carried by a strong but loyal arrangement and some cool processing ideas."
Palpable adds:
"Love the sound of this actually, it's like enhanced chiptune. Reminded me of the Monkey Ball series, which has a similar style of music. The drum processing section was pretty sweet, and there were a number of trills and synth ex
pression things I enjoyed."
Vinnie and Andrew covered it pretty well, but I especially like the ritard on the book-ended fade/filter-out percussive ending - it's the little things, you know? Happy, chipper, solid stuff from Willrock; if you're like me, and I know I am, you're cheering for the Yanks in the World Series, and for every game they win, this seems like excellent "happy dance" music.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the I'm pretty familiar with the source tune, which gave me even greater appreciation for how its represented here. There's some really excellent, really playful alterations to the melody that lift the mix, both in tone and quality. This genre of music, for me, is such a celebration of classic game music, and I think that comes through in this (despite the fact that the game wasn't from the same NES-style chiptune era).
There's not a lot I can say about mixes that have nothing wrong with them, except that I enjoy that people are still making unapologetically blissful music here on the site. Great stuff.
- Marmiduke on November 21, 2009
I always love the chiptune-y stuff, so I'm digging this. Thanks Will, for a good mix and some Chaotix love.
- metaphist on November 9, 2009
Nice work.
- Martin Penwald on November 6, 2009
- jintoreedwine on November 5, 2009
Well, I do like your new (old?) style over your old (new?) one. Though it feels as if you forgot to turn off the hi-pass filter after the intro there, bass is a little weak. I think.
Keep chippin' away! :nicework:
- Dafydd on October 30, 2009
I actually had this on repeat and when it looped to the beginning of the song, it felt exactly as a video game tune should when looping. If I were to be use this for a video game programming project at school, I'd give credit first though.
Since this give the source alot of credit, and enhances it with not just arrangement play but well-placed key change, you get 10/10.
- A-RoN on October 29, 2009
- ProtoDome on October 29, 2009
- Lucentas on October 29, 2009
Nice work Willrock :D
- OA on October 29, 2009
- FlashX on October 29, 2009
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