djpretzel Posted May 17, 2004 Share Posted May 17, 2004 Can someone track down an original MOD or MIDI? -djp If Laser Squad is familiar game from Amiga then you've heard the original. This remix is bridge between Spacesynth and Electro-breakbeat styles, some trancy elements too I'd say. Made in two evenings. The vocal sample in the intro is "naturally" me. Original song by Matt Furniss and he gave me his blessing on this remix The electronic rain sound in the intro has been sampled from my friend's Korg M1, bassline from his Juno-106, some samples are from the original module song (with some pre-processing for higher sample quality), drums are samples sequenced in Orion (no loops), otherwise sounds from softsynths. They say intro is little bit long, but it is still shorter than in the original (and personally I like it this way). Some counterpoint melodies added. download: Artist Name: Mark Vera Name: Jouni Airaksinen Email: markvera ( at ) spacesynth.net Homepage: http://www.markvera.net/ // Jouni -- Jouni Airaksinen // www.markvera.net www.spacesynth.net the place where spacesynth scene meets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protricity Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 Pretty cool intro/sq. Lets go for song now! GO GO GO!! YEA! GROOVE! GROOVEH !12 ROFLICIOUS so yea, typical mark vera goodness. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted June 5, 2004 Share Posted June 5, 2004 Great intro. Very substantial stuff. Typical Mark Vera HQ sounds. No complaints there. The arrangement is nice and dynamic, with a good amount of variation. 3:17 in particular really rocks. Very groovy stuff. JA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analoq Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 hmm, it's been a long time since i've used an M1.. i can't recall that rain sound. anyways, i checked out the original, lasersquad1.mod, you can get it off Mirsoft's game music site. i was gonna complain about that annoying 'ba' sample but it's apparently from the original and it's even more annoying there! jouni is right about the intro, it's long but not too long. the eq'ing here is overly bright, the mix sounds shrill. the interpretation here isn't very exotic, he's changed the instrumentation around and has added new stuff.. but a lot of new stuff. that juno bass sounds very good. i was never a fan of the junos sound but jouni apparently got it to work well. it's a little longer than it should be, but i'd say it's passable. yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny B Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I'm going to go the cliche route and mention that this is "typical Mark Vera" something-or-other. Great mixing and mastering, great authenticity in regards to a retro electronica sound, and a very focused, defined development from intro to ending. Great work. Personally I don't know why Mark's tracks are hitting the panel at all . YES -D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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