The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild "Hyrulian Helminths" 3:36

Behold the first-ever collab from Chimpazilla & Treyt! What that's you say?? They had their amazing Helldivers II collaboration posted last month?!? Well, sometimes the allegory *requires* posting out of cycle. :-P So let's rewind just slightly and drop upon you their first temporal team-up, hard-hitting sand monster psytrance of Molgera & Molduga's themes from Breath of the Wild and The Wind Waker! The ReMixers each conveyed their respective points of view about the other, including how the collab took shape, starting with Treyt:

""Who is Chimpazilla?"

My first interaction with Chimpa was through the Star Fox album project headed by Darkflamewolf. Chimpa was the dedicated mastering engineer for the album, and though I'd seen the profile picture around and knew she was responsible enough to master an entire album, I didn't have much of an opinion on the character. Lack of information really.

That changed when Chimpa got around to mastering my 2nd submission, and I had some questions about general feedback I'd gotten secondhand from Darkflamewolf.

From this point on, I got to know the ball of endless positivity that is Chimpazilla. Talented, great ear for production, and more of a Zelda fan than thezeldafreak on Xanga (that was me in 2007, haha).

We eventually decided we liked the cut of each other's gib, and put out some feelers with what I can only describe as an art trade with a twist. She had a psytrance work-in-progress (WIP) that hadn't seen love for months. I had a psytrance track WIP track I'd just conceptualized.

We both liked the other's WIP.

...so we traded!

The track I gave her was a remix of the Helldivers 2 theme. Will, the composer for Helldivers 2, has been a part of the OCR community, and with the success of the game and his soundtrack, we both agreed that paying homage would be a pretty cool move. You should check that out if you get the chance.

The track she gave me was this: A mashup of both Molgera's theme from Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Molduga's theme from Breath of the Wild. Both of the original tracks mean a lot to me, from the terrifying battle in the Wind Temple as an adolescent, to the surprising (yet significantly easier due to age and experience) battle in the Gerudo Desert as I made my way toward the rampaging Vah Rudania. Both tracks were also produced by Hajime Wakai, 15 years apart!

Her track didn't need much. There was a lot of love already in it, and she'd already done some great sound design. Outside of my collab with Ridley Snipes on "DRWNXD", this was quite possibly the easiest collaboration I've ever been a part of! I was very happy to contribute to this piece, and I hope you enjoy listening to this track as much as I enjoy playing it back!"

Treyt's so modest! Since "her track didn't need much", you might think he worked with a nearly-finished piece and merely sprinkled some Treytdust on it. Thank heavens for the ladies, who typically have better recall! Chimpazilla explained how she hit a creative wall with a promising concept and how it fully developed thanks to Treyt's recruitment:

Chimpazilla: ""Who is Treyt?"

Before I dive into my writeup, it needs to be mentioned that the "chicka chickas" in this mix were recorded by Emunator. Thanks, Wes, they are perfect!

I will attempt to keep this short, lest this become a meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society (which this definitely is, but I digress).

I recognized Trevor's producer skills from his submissions that I voted on, but I didn't think much more about him until I mastered his Star Fox track "Initiate Code Blue". That track is so badass and it melted my face in the best possible way; that track got my attention 100%. When he reached out to me for feedback on a different master, we got to talking and I brazenly asked him if he'd collab with me. He agreed, and two days later we were off and running with the Helldivers 2 WIP he had started, and my "Molgeraduga" WIP that I had shared with him. We had a little stem exchange party. After working with Trevor on these two tracks over the past two months, I now know that in addition to being immensely creative and talented, he's also a genuinely nice, funny, intelligent, witty, trusting, and trustworthy guy. He's right, this was an easy and joyous collab.

Regarding "Hyrulian Helminths": I love Zelda games, as anyone who knows me for five minutes or longer can attest. I love the themes from both of these worm-boss battles, and they seemed to mesh well together in my head, so I laid out a psytrance track with both themes intertwining together, and the arrangement took on life as I continued to write. It was still fairly bare though, and I kind of ran out of ideas on it. After I passed the stems to Trevor, the track took on even more life with the amazing amount of detail, layers, textures, ear candy, and sheer badassery that he added. To say that I was impressed with what he did is a massive understatement. Trevor said initially "I have never done psytrance" which greatly confuses me, because he does psy like an absolute boss. Our Helldivers 2 remix, also psytrance, will prove this out even further.

We hope you enjoy "Hyrulian Helminths". There will be more Chimp-Treyt collabs, that's for sure!"

More collabs??? Y'all better! Treyt's past work here illustrates that the bro brings the intensity. And, much like Link triumphantly holding up the precious Triforce, judge prophetik music held Treyt & Chimpa's ReMix up as a gleaming source of arrangement and sound design synergy:

"opens with some really fun sound design elements, and quickly brings in the molduga rhythm in the bassline. i really liked the distorted synth that builds up through 0:45. there's an extended drop before the beat finally hits. 1:26 is a great feel - i love the variety of stuff going on, lots of filter LFOs. it gets pulled back around 1:52 for some new feels, and i think the timing was good for this. some altered chords around the 2:10 helped mix it up. 2:40 is a nice recap of the molgera stuff and includes some variety in the melodic line for good measure. i liked that the bass finally switches from 16ths to instead be quarters at 3:07 as a way to mix it up a bit right before it's done. there's a not quite fade for the ending, and it's done.

as expected, this sounds ridiculously good and is a banger. i don't have any complaints other than i wish it was already on the front page!"

OK OK, we've got it posted now, no more complaining! Let's just rewrite that to say he's complaining that we don't have even more Treyt/Chimpa collabs in the hopper, he's gotta be thinking that too. ;-) Fellow judge and frequent Chimpa collab partner Emunator admired the results of this new musical alliance, even though he had a stank face about it. (Oh... that's a good thing! ;-D):

"Kris has always been a wizard of psytrance, but the extra levels of grit that Treyt brings to the table make this an especially hearty meal - full health restored! Each successive section hits harder than the one before it, with my level of stank face increasing proportionally with each drop. The last one with the borderline-hardstyle sounding kick drum floored me. Liontamer used the word "kinetic" and I couldn't have put it better myself - this track goes places. The production quality is unimpeachable, mixed cleanly without lacking teeth, and the integration of orchestral instruments gives extra opportunities to go beyond a stereotypical psytrance pallette.

This is a slam dunk of a submission, and just a taste of what's to come from these two. The rest of y'all aren't ready for what they've both got cooking ;)"

Dynamic structuring and solid sound choices produced with power! Indeed, to me, this has the imagery of a challenging and kinetic battle where you need to keep your wits about you. It's a fun fusion of the two Zelda battle tracks with some bubbly sounds, yet it's substantially unsettling with nice tension throughout. When you've got themes for two killer sand monsters, it takes a double dose of equally killer musicians to tame 'em! We can only wait with bated breath (of the wild) for the next time these powerhouse producers dare to tag up again. :-)