Ahh, three day weekends are great, unless you spend them cleaning house. I'm not big on dusting so I tend to let things go for longer than I should. When I do clean it's a big job. Thankfully, I have a large collection of MP3s to toss into a play list and listen to as I scrub away. This always leads to me becoming reacquainted with many older songs buried in my music folder. One such is a fun little remix from the original Super Mario Bros. that I thought I'd share with you: “Bowser is Pissed” .
If there's anything I regret about modern video game music, it is that it has rendered the humble melody all but dead. Movie like orchestrated sound tracks are great, but they're a lot harder to hum. Game music composers didn't have a lot of resources to work with back in the 8- and 16-bit days, thus they had to make every note count. The results were some of the most memorable songs ever written. It's no wonder that the favorite inspirational hunting grounds for remixers are among the classics.
Remixer “PriZm” found such inspiration in the classic castle theme from Super Mario Bros. The original music is a bare three measures long but PriZm milked it for everything it was worth with some rockin' breakbeat. When I listen to this piece, I imagine it actually being used in a Mario game. As the music begins, Mario sets out down a long, treacherous corridor, leaping over lava pits and dodging the usual assortment of death traps. Then, just as the music hits the 2'47” mark, Bowser bursts on the scene and yes, he is seriously pissed.
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