Friday the 13th "You and Your Friends Are Dead." 4:28

Trick or treat!!! It's a bit of both, as I've outsourced this year's Halloween writeups to the community-at-large, who came through in spades! (If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go as a team!) A tremendous THANK YOU to gravitygauntlet, Chimpazilla, minusworld, The Vodoú Queen, WiFiSunset, and Argle for taking time out, which has easily made this the biggest Halloween ReMix release day in OCR history! Enjoy this magnificent seven of vampire-, haunted castle-, hellride-, dystopia-, greedy-capitalist-, blood-drippingly-, hack-and-slash-appropriate VGM arrangements! :-)

Rounding out our treasure trove of macabre offerings is rock GAWD Juan Medrano with a lil' John Carpenter/Halloween influence on a DASTARDLY NES game, Friday the 13th! We've got Juan, we've got John, and now [/shrieks] we've got JASON! :-O I HATED this game as a kid, not for being bad... for being SCARY and stressful as shit! I could NEVER keep the kiddos or the camp counselors alive, ugh. Well, at least Juan says he had fun:

"Just a remix of the Friday the 13th cabin theme I started several years ago. Wanted an atmospheric, spooky 80s horror film sound with modern, heavy guitars. Pretty simple. Spooky rock/metal/whatev. As always, had a blast playing around with those vintage synth sounds."

The fun Juan had taking on this dark, forboding, earworming theme was noticed by judge prophetik music:

"opens with bells and some distant strings. big prototypically evil bass synth comes in soon after as well as some limited kit with loads of verb on it. [...] guitar comes in at 1:25 and sounds great, as expected. 2:18 the drum rhythm changes a bit and is more intense which is nice [...]

the solo's nice and technical which is a nice change [...] there's some fun harmonized elements at 3:15 which was nice, and i like the expansion of the arps into the guitar lead right after this. that's a nice touch i didn't expect. the bells come back once more at the end to walk through the descending chord pattern, and then we get a less distorted guitar walk through the chords once as well, and it's done. [...]

it's a fun take on a repetitive original. [...] what's here sounds great"

So nice he said it twice... then thrice! :-D I enjoyed the overall dynamics of this as the track gradually rose in tension, complexity, and interpretation. While the source tune's repetitive, I know firsthand about sitting in the tension of it and just not wanting to encounter A MACHETE-WIELDING JASON VOORHEES, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[/breathes]

Excellent way to start with the core source theme and branch out, which made winding back to the arranged melody at 3:21 all the more satisfying. :-) The airier guitar lead at 4:00 was a beautifully melancholy way to finish it, and now I'm wanting to hear another variation of this source done in that style as another fork in the road! Nice work, Juan!

(You scared me and everything, though, not gonna lie...)

Here's hoping your candy buckets are full this Halloween! Musically, we've got the ear candy covered! :-D