ReMix: Mega Man 5 'Good Night Lil Man'

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I was a big fan of texx sound's initial Jurassic Park submission - to me it showed surprising subtlety and musicality and lent itself well to simply turning on "repeat" and listening for extended durations. While not quite as catchy, this Mega Man 5 ReMix - OCR's first - has much of the same appeal that made that ReMix enjoyable, and is a little cleaner and from more immediately accessible (read:popular) source material as well. It's good to see MM5 finally covered - I admit I've scoped it for a potential mix a couple times but was never particularly stricken by any one piece, but texx has picked a winner and handled it with lovin' and care. This is a soft, lullabyish instrumental with piano and acoustic guitar as well as solo & ensemble strings (the former stronger than the latter), an emotive flute, and dark, atmospheric, muted timpani that add just the right amount of percussive oomph while not constituting a rhythm track per se. For the first half-minute I thought "cool - a good solo piano mix". Then strings entered, and while I was initially a little iffy on the ensemble string patch used, a beautiful acoustic guitar soon entered and made all things right. Expressive playing on the acoustic and just the right amount of processing so as to avoid sounding too distant and maintain an aura of intimacy - this is some good stuff. I urge you to check out texx's previous mix if you haven't, but be sure to grab this MM5 classical instrumental - great music, well-arranged, evocative and soundly mixed. Recommended.

― djpretzel