prophetik music ⚖️ Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Aaaaaaaaand another DoD track! This is my submission for the latest free month (March 2025), where I got second place! Chosen source this time was "Chasing the Miniboss" from Kirby: Triple Deluxe, aka the miniboss theme. Ever since I first played through the game this theme caught my ears since it has such a weird chord progression for the first section. I had always wanted to remix it but was never too sure where to take it until this month, where I basically went ham on making it a crazy prog. fusion jam. Main inspirations are bands like Frost* and KNOWER (my template for the drum writing). Also, since there's nothing that Kirby composers love more than cameo-ing old tracks in their stuff I decided to add a fitting cameo, putting a melody from Kirby 64's Boss Theme into the arrangement. As usual, here comes the breakdown! 0:00-0:04: Based on the intro, it's basically the same really. 0:05-0:32: Riff based on the one right after the intro, not exactly the same but pretty similar. 0:32-0:44: Bit of a feel change but it's still based on the main riff, using the same harmony but changing the speed. 0:45-0:59: Now a more direct adaptation of said riff. 1:00-1:11: Melody is based on the melody that plays over the main riff (first around 0:15) but I changed the chord progression completely. 1:12-1:26: The Kirby 64 cameo! Melody plays at 0:55 on the source. 1:27-1:52: Bass riff! Taken from 0:42 on the source. 1:40 has a keyboard solo over the same backing than the source (piano melody included). 1:53-2:05: Second keyboard solo, bass is still based on the previous riff but with some original writing as well. 2:06-2:24: Chiptune arpeggios! These are based on the piano melody from 0:42. 2:25-2:38: Variation over the main riff. 2:38-3:05: Another variation over the main riff, keeping the main chord progression. We then get another repeat of 0:45-0:59. 3:06-end: Intro repeat and the track closes on C# minor. Hope you enjoy! Games & Sources
prophetik music ⚖️ Posted April 3 Author Posted April 3 as soon as i heard the original, i knew what to expect from you =) this is so right up your alley. big Dirty Loops feel on the opening, with the flourish in the keys and the moving synth lines right after. melody's in right away after that, and it's very peppy and has some fun drum work going on. there's a quick half-time(ish?) section right after that which is pretty forward-focused still and has a lot of fun synth work going on. 1:00's a bit of a break, and the kirby 64 cameo comes in right after and sounds great in context, really nice idea giving it a flowing melodic line there. it picks up right after and we get some keyboard soloing. both of these get a touch shrill on the end of each, but i love what they're saying. the chiptune arps bring us back around to the original material nicely, and we're back to a building section with lots of little call-outs. there's one more set of riffs, and it's done on an extended chord. this is a lay-up as expected. tons of clever arrangement, the band sound is great, and it's mixed well and performed better. excellent work. YES
Liontamer ⚖️ Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Oooooh wow, the main verse of this Triple Deluxe source definitely sounds like Nintendo invited Knower to write something for them, this is cool! :-D Kick at :11's too much, then at :19, there's low-end part-writing that's adding clutter and I had to throw on a control track to ensure my setup wasn't messed up. The mixing's nothing dragging this below the bar, but it's needlessly messy and preventing this from sounding its best. The soloing over the bass riff arrangement was cool, though the bass riffing was getting buried from 1:39-2:05, so it might as well not have been there. Brilliant textural change at 2:24, that was beautiful and ended up being quite a shift until 2:51. The little ornamentation notes at 3:12 to close it didn't sound quite right to resolve this, but no big deal. Smart stuff throughout, I just wish it had another mixing pass though, because it deserves it. Great energy per Wake's impressive standard. :-) YES
Emunator ⚖️ Posted April 7 Posted April 7 Fuck you man, you think you can swoop in at the last minute and churn out a brilliant track all on your own and then get second place? Get a load of this guy, everybody. This source was literally made for you - I'm actually starting to believe that the entire Kirby series body of musical work was invented just so you could have source material to remix to perfection. KNOWER is a great analog here, it's pretty much non-stop controlled chaos that teeters on the edge of being a mess, but falls on the right side of that line 100% of the time due to your technical competence and musical vision. It's brilliant. And I hate you for it 🤣 YES
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