OCR04771 - *YES* Metroid Prime & Castlevania 3 "Livin' Out Our Last Days"

[Emunator]

Artist Name: Lucas Guimaraes

This is a bit tricky so bear with me

Source Breakdown: The entire bassline from Tallon (0:00-1:00? it's the repeating bass line) except the acoustic sections -  (0:00-1:00, 1:30-2:12, 3:04-End)

The melody from Overture (0:06-0:15) lifted to the synthesizer chords and guitar (0:00-1:00, 1:30-2:12, 3:04-End)

The melody from Overture (0:22-0:36) lifted to vocal choruses (1:00-1:30, 2:32-3:04)

The melody from Tallon (1:12-1:47) lifted to the vocal verse 1 (0:30ish-1:00) - The "RIDLEY" is also the first two notes of the melody from Tallon.

There might be more, but that covers the big stuff. All counted, that's almost the entire track with source.

Collaborators:
Lucas Guimaraes - Arrangement, Singing, Lyrics
Ridleysnipes - Production, Mix, Master, Singing (First half of V2 rap + background noises), Lyrics
Zack Parrish - Guitar, Bass
Xaleph - Vocal Retuning

Lyrics:

[Verse 1 - Lucas Guimaraes]
Back when I used to wander around my home
I knew nowhere was safe from the beasts that roam
Maybe we could start over, a brave new land
Out there waiting for you, time to make a stand

[Chorus - Lucas Guimaraes]
Standing in the starlight, easy to say
Everything was alright, face to face
Now we sit in silence, voided in space
Living out our last days, in the rain

[Verse 2 - Ridleysnipes & Lucas Guimaraes]
Plasma beam this fat back thirst trap
Bounty hunter got no contracts
Heard no scream in all that black
Chase this tail in the abstract

You gotta problem? Tank’s empty
Femme fatale reppin’ little Orphan Annie
Back to the nest, can’t handle the nasty
Baby bird thought she could put me on blasty

(Yo) Dracula, ain’t he a spatula?
I got 99 ways that I could deal witcha
Garlic on my neck, mirrors on the pecs
Cross-shaped heater and a god complex

Bitch, you gonna feel my power
Comin’ in at the 13th hour
Wouldn’t even have to touch ‘ya
Fuck boys always tryna bring that thunder

[Chorus - Lucas Guimaraes]
Standing in the starlight, easy to say
Everything was alright, face to face
Now we sit in silence, voided in space
Living out our last days, in the rain

[Outro - Lucas Guimaraes]
Now you’ll see how all you got
Is useless up against me
Now go to hell, just take the L
Tryna act like you was read

Ooookay so this one is a doozy. Honestly, I'll have to update this breakdown before this track gets posted (assuming it does). To start at the beginning, Zack and I just wanted to do something that aped the Gorillaz. I had some of the stems from the track, so we started digging into them. I posted up the first demo of me singing like Damon Albarn and Zack and Trevor (Ridleysnipes) started to get HYPED for this track.

Then everything got tricky. But what was really tricky was getting the arrangement to work. It reminded me a lot of making chamber music - I had very few pieces to work with and I had to make each one of them move correctly. I wanted the Tallon line to ape the vibe of Feel Good Inc but still be its own thing, and, y'know, still sound like Tallon Overworld. I had to grab parts from the Castlevania 3 track that team Whip picked (which, honestly, I think wasn't a great track but I digress). And I had to basically fit 3 tracks into one while including enough source material and still getting that cohesive vibe. We went back and forth around a few times and we all started to vibe with what I threw down.

Then we got to production. A lot of the instrumental production went smoothly, or at least I thought so, Trevor might disagree. But vocals was where we really got into the weaves of it. Trevor and I bounced back a bunch of different lyrics, and this was my first time really getting back into singing on a track. We wanted the most minor details to sing through.

And man, out of all 18 tracks this was probably my favorite one produced the whole GSM. I've wanted to get back into original music and make more vocal tracks for a while, and this was definitely the kick Trevor and I both needed. I'm super happy to have made this track and I hope you all enjoy! (#sorrynotsorry for being your source of eternal source breakdown headaches)

Edit: Important mention. Xaleph did vocal retuning. I don't know if he wants full mixpost credits for it, but he is still definitely worth mentioning. We needed some of the chorus retuned at the last minute and he was the one that had the most bandwidth to handle it while we were busy getting our other two tracks to the finish line.

[prophetik music]

is the first thing that i hear the word 'aflac'? also, 'aping the Gorillaz' i see what you did there.

opening is appropriately funky. Tallon is a surprisingly functional melody line for the verse. the vibe here is pretty solid - the guitar and bass work here is super fitting. chorus shift works well. lucas's voice on the chorus is a little overtuned imo but it fits the style really well. ridley's tone on the rap is great, and the lyrics are honestly hilarious. fat back thirst trap? spatula? i love it. the instrumental section at 2:01 needed a little synth solo or something to keep it moving forward. there's a chorus break after that takes a bit to get to where it's going, which is a nice shift. one more chorus (not much different here this time around). last rap verse doesn't lay quite as well as the first one, but at least you make fun of yourself about it right after.

this is a really fun adaptation! the style lays really nicely in what you guys are trying to do, and the melodic lines fit in really well. zach's guitar and bass work really shines the most on this one to me - i didn't catch the correlations the first time through, but it's really clever how you took an auto-arping bassline from a futuristic track and that wretched melody from C3 and turned it into a really stylized and interesting backing track in such a different vibe. great job. this kind of transformative approach is what i like the most about OCR.

 

 

YES

[Hemophiliac]

When I heard this for the first time during the GSM voting period, I nearly jumped out of my seat when it started. I could not believe how well this adapted The Gorillaz, but also managed to intertwine both Metroid Prime and CV3. The singing fits this stylistically like a glove, perfect; kudos. The production is absolutely pristine, I expect nothing less from RID-LEY. At first glance there might not seem like a ton of source in there, but it's ALL over the place. It's just camouflaged as The Gorillaz.

Absolutely fantastic work.

YES

 

[MindWanderer]

Well, this is definitely not what I was expecting. Took me a while to readjust my expectations.

For what you were trying to do, I think this is an absolute success. Plenty of source usage, used in ways both overt and subtle. Good clean production throughout. The arrangement is... well, it was aiming for a thing, and it did that thing. Not for me, but I can't think of a single objective complaint.

YES

[Chimpazilla]

Ooooo this isn't what I expected either, but it's great.  The first verse vocals are too quiet against the guitars, could be fixed by widening the guitars in that section so they don't compete this much.  The rest of the vocals are clear, and wow all of these vocals are stupidly well done and processed.  Arrangement is excellent, full of variation and fun unique stuff.  Really well done.

YES