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Good luck with this! The Escaflowne soundtrack is some of Yoko Kanno's best work imo, which is saying a lot considering she's practically a musical genius.

Hahaha yes I really wanted this track to be extremely funky! So I'm glad to hear that it is. I like your point about the acoustic instruments, I think the track could've had a neat, different vibe if I had done that. Thanks for the kind words, I'm happy that you enjoyed the track! Thanks so much! Agreed haha, I love all the music in SaGa Frontier so much. Such a god tier soundtrack!

https://youtu.be/YvjoqAdVXh4 This is the winner from my 1k sub special remix poll which won with a whopping 50% among 4 other remixes. I thought this would be an easy theme to just remix and go with flow as I sat there transcribing and arranging it - but no. There are many "empty" sections in the original that I believe weighs up by actually driving this course so I had to come up with something more interesting. I'm not sure I succeeded, but I added some extras at the end of all melody lines, put different chords and some lesser FX between melodies with the help of the same synth that's playing the solo at 1:44. The solo and chord progression behind it is very inspired by the music of Pat Metheny which I listened a lot to back in the days. I thought a more melodic jazz section would fit nice to this song. I also wanted the beat to just go in this remix, never stop, only keep that pace to maintain groove and race feel. The intro was made with a sampled sound of someone sitting in a car accelerating with an automatic transmission (I think). Then I made the first line of music sounding like it would play in a bad car stereo. The brake FX is sampled from Mario Kart 64 along with all voices you can hear of Toad throughout the remix. I only pitch his scream a couple of times. After the solo section at 2:12 I put some different chords on the melody sections which gives them a more interesting approach, I also slightly adjusted the original melodies. The end is meant to represent the culminating last sprint right before the finish line in a race. Other than that, this is probably my top 2 favourite song from Mario Kart 64, along with the Rainbow Road theme. Really love the atmosphere and feeling of free drive when actually playing this course. There is certainly a special feeling when driving by night, it makes me think of synthwave, neon lights and really chill music.

Great remix! Love anything from SaGa Frontier, and even though this isn't one of my top choices from the soundtrack, it's still a really fun remix to listen to!

*sniff sniff* There is something.... Funky in the air. This song just got the stank! The best kinda stank there is. Man you really worked that melody on the piano. I was bobbing my head and moving my body. Really enjoyed the feel of this. The only critique is I wish it was just a little less artifical sounding with some more acoustic type of instruments (even if they were VSTs). However that may have done more bad than good if it was done lazily or just tacked on. I like things as they are. Real good effort and a nice smooth vibe. Thanks for the track and congrats!

Despite this forum topic not being very busy (since 99% of the activity is happening on the album Discord), rest assured we’re making good progress on the album and just had our first WIP check-ins. There’s also still a bunch of cool unclaimed tracks, so if you feel you could do something interesting with them and fit the album disc theme, feel free to join the Discord and hit us up!