Mechanical Media Music

GAMING (REGGAE) MUSIC

Arrangements of three different music pieces (Click Clock Wood, Hornet and Bloody Tears) from three video games (Banjo Kazooie, Hollow Knight and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest) into three different Reggae genres  (Rock/Reggae, Dance Hall and Dub Reggae) to give each  of them  a unique sound, treatment, and atmosphere, as well as to explore different Reggae elements and techniques that could be applied to video game soundtracks.

BLOODY TEARS

Bloody Tears is one of the most iconic songs not only in the Castlevania series but also in the whole video game industry. This song debuted in  Castlevania II: Simon's Quest and since then has made an appearance in almost every Castlevania game in the franchise.  The song has a very characteristic melody and is one of the most recognizable musical pieces in video games. Since the song has had a lot of arrangements, we decided to work with the original one, that was composed using only chiptunes. This arrangement was not so difficult to develop and the song really adapts well to almost any musical genre. In this case, we decided to work with Dub, more specifically, Dub-Reggae that is a sub-genre of Reggae music. This genre consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece and emphasizing the drum and bass parts. 

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