ReMix: Life Force 'Pharoah Land'

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This is "The Wingless" j.a. burnett's first submission, of a game that sorely needed some ReMix lovin', Konami's popular shooter Lifeforce. I fondly remember entering the 30 lives up, up, down, down, yadda, yadda, yadda code that Konami loved so much and plowing my way through this game just to see what at the time were failry impressive graphics and of course listen to the tunes. For some reason, I always loved this game a lot more than Gradius, I think because it was similar to Contra in certain aspects of look and feel, and I really dug Contra quite a bit. Konami have thus far failed to capitalize on some of its greatest franchies in the 128-bit, 3d, next-gen arena - hopefully that'll change at some point. In the meantime, check out j.a.'s mix - while at times it's a little over-arranged, there are brilliant passages, the construction is on the whole strong, and there's definitely a lot of energy here. Both the opening, and more impressively and dramatically the closing, begin with nice, soft echoed piano bits, but the bulk of the mix is hybridized orchestral / techno, which Konami's music seems to lend itself to quite well. Judges' comments included compliments on the mix of electro and classical, but concerns over the string patch used, some of notework in the more chromatic passages, and perhaps too little reverb used. Also, the break at 1'42" through most of us for a loop and seemed a little unnecessarry. However, I should note my personal feeling that the source material here is actually pretty difficult to cover in its multiple transition passages and unexpected key changes. I'd say j.a. did an admirable job, given that, and recommend fans of techno / classical hybrids and 2d shoot'em up tunes alike to give 'er a listen.

― djpretzel