This is...avaris??? Aight man, quit playin'. - LT
name: Shaun Wallace
email: avaris.studios@gmail.com
remixer name: avaris
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Game: Super Dodge Ball
System: NES
Composer: Kazuo Sawa
Year: 1989
Copyright: Sony Imagesoft
Source: Team China
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/index-sz.html
This mix is for the Super Dodge Ball: Around the World Project. Please do not release the song until the project is released. Tanks.
There is a description about the field recording tagged in the song. Please leave it there for legality reasons. If you dudes got any questions please feel free to PM me or visit http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ .
Ok so this isn't the most uplifting or emotional source tune ever. It is however probably the most stereotypical representation of China in sonic form ever created.
The beats were heavily inspired by ziwtra. I took one loop in Reason and then wrote some drums behind it. The volume of the drums I wrote are slightly automated by the volume of the loop. I then recorded both instances into Live where some massive slicing and dicing occurred.
Since there is really no melody in the source I tried to carry the song with a catchy groove. The bells and plucked sounds were from SteamPipe2 and the synths were done with feldspar. The dizi and erhu were free vsts from Kong Audio. Thanks for listening.
~Shaun
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http://akumunsf.good-evil.net/S/Super%20Dodge%20Ball.nsf - Track 7 ("Team China")
Now saying there's not really any melody to work with is kind of a cop-out to do your own thing, so let's see what you did with the actual theme.
The percussion fading in at :12 and lasting until :37 is liberally arranging the source melody, so that was cool. At :43, we start it off with some pretty loose arrangement. Chorus section from 1:06-1:16 sounds pretty damn nice. Good sound variation, solid effects, solid enough integration of the SFX, slick production, nice use of the stereo field, and the groove was sweeeeet.
EDIT: The arrangement basically keeps going on like this, but has solid development and variation within the sound framework Shaun set up, plus the source plays it fairly straight. Didn't mean to imply it was getting too liberal at any point. "Loose" in the sense that the flow was a lot less rigid than the source. Not the best use of the word.
2:19-2:39 and 3:04-3:22 got rather piercing with some of the higher frequencies and should have been pulled back some. Not a huge deal, but would be nice to have that tweaked.
Wow, in terms of cohesiveness, this was leaps and bounds over any of your other stuff. Plus, props for this being a solo piece. Let's see if you can be consistent with future submissions. For your sake, I hope you haven't jumped the shark. Keep learning, keep developing. Damn son, you had it clicking with this one.
YEAYAH