ReMix: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 'Monkey Brain Soup for the Soul'

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Can you say "power medley"?? There's so much good music, fantastic arrangement, and such an assortment of feels & riffs that newcomer Trapezoid's ReMix opus could count as three good ReMixes. Seriously. There's jazz, there's electro, there's rock, there's retro, there's hip-hop - it's a smorgasbord LeChuck would be proud of, and it's all here for you, free. If you've never played ANY of Lucas Arts Monkey Island games, you should still be able to appreciate the massive amount of musical motifs and ideas thrown into this "Soup for the Soul" (the full title being a clever play off the insidious 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' series of inspirational/motivational books), and I enjoyed every spoonful. Certainly, there are standout sections and sections that are more transitional, but the level of quality is consistently high. Take the bitchin' piano solo at 0'53"or the awesome dual stereo guitar work at 5'20", and note that both moments occur in totally different musical contexts. I'm still not much one for medleys, and some of the transitions - while well-executed - felt a bit jarring. Nevertheless the quantity and quality of intepretation and the variety are all enough to make this a very definitive SoMI2 ReMix medley that comes highly recommended. It'd be too difficult to do a line-item listing of what's in store for you when you download - I recommend proceeding and hearing for yourself :)

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.

I think i'll be in the minority here and say I wasn't really digging the medley here. Might have to do with an unfamiliarity with the soundtrack, but it seemed to me like midi rip + drum + medley.
Sorry. :-(

- OA on March 18, 2009

Wow, this song brings back memories. As said before, he manages to capture the quirky feel of the OST throughout the medley. Well done.

- Nutritious on October 4, 2006

FM wrote: For anyone Curious, Trapezoid these days goes by the name of "Lemon Demon," and is widely known for his original song The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

They made an animation about it.
The ultimate showdown

- Bummerdude on September 15, 2006

For anyone Curious, Trapezoid these days goes by the name of "Lemon Demon," and is widely known for his original song The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. You can check him out at www.lemondemon.com
As for the mix, I've never played Monkey Island, but I totally dig it.

- FM on September 15, 2006

Smorgasbord? :lol:
OK, to get on the subject, this remix is GOLD! It haves you in its grip from the very beginning, but you're still free enough to bop your head and move your feet along the rhytm. If I would go through all of it, this would be a very long post which even I can't stand to write, but the feeling that goes through this whole song, it's just magnificient. The music style changes like the direction of tennis ball, from happy to chill, and then proceeding to even an even more happier style, and then to a funky and so on. Even if you've listened to it sometimes, you still have a little hard to remember what comes next, so everytime is your first time. This arrangement is funky, jazzy, joyful, evil, dark, something for every taste and type.
It makes me sad that this is the only remix made by Trapezoid, this arrangement just makes me hunger for more of this kind. Kick-assness in a 6-meg musicfile is what this is, you just GOTTA download it! :mrgreen:

- Bummerdude on April 27, 2006

This song is totally awesome, it keeps changing to keep the listener interested. I cant listen to songs for more than 2 minutes cause i bore easily with all music, but this song i can easily sit there and listen all the way through. I've never even played the monkey island series before, but with this song, knowledge of the game is hardly necessary. I play this song all the time and have been for months and i'm still not tired of it! I wish trapezoid made more songs :( again great song, worth downloading 15 times over.

- W_I_N_N_E_R on September 20, 2005

haha oh man!
I discovered that remix listening to the OCRemix Radio and boy am I glad :)
That is really awesome stuff you have here, totally out-there and upbeat. Love the various styles and constant action provided by every layer.
As a fan of Monkey Island music and Michael Land music in general, you got yourself a listener here :) I'm keeping this. And this might just be what I needed to finally get to work on a Monkey Island remix myself.
Good job!

- mv on April 13, 2005

Wow. Just freakin' wow. I never thought I'd see a mix that could change genres so totally and yet seamlessly. I love the piano toward the beginning (what is that, the theme of the first village you're in? I haven't played this in so long, so I can't pick out most of the songs, but that doesn't detract from how much I love it. I can tell Stan's theme, the intro, the Mad Monkey, and LeChuck's theme, what are the rest?). Stan's part is too perfect, with the organ intro followed up with it sounding just as you'd expect. Oh, and the various parts of LeChuck's theme are great too. The beginning of it cracks me up as I keep imagining LeChuck as a DJ ("Zombie P to the Le-C in da house! Woooo! I just wanna give a shout-out to my main man Largo, and a big diss to that cracka Guybrush! Now for my next mix, 'I'm Gonna Voodoo You Up!'" *shot*), and the metal guitar toward the end just rocks. In conclusion, Trapezoid is our new god. Bow before him.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I can also pick out the Phatt Island theme.

- Hogulus on August 8, 2004

The start of the song is a great variation on the (already) excellent opening tune. The other tunes capture the mood of the game perfectly as well. Excellent work.

- Amayirot Akago on June 3, 2004

Wow. Right when I thought this couldn't get any better, BAM! Stan's Theme. That and LeChuck's Theme are two pieces that are often overlooked (even more so than all the other pieces), and having them both in this makes for one helluva Monkey Island medley.

- Zekian on May 25, 2004

The Monkey Island series is my favorite adventure game series of all, and the music rocks too. This ReMix is really great, i love it!

- Neimonster on October 13, 2002

this one's really cool..

- Daanieru on October 13, 2002

Amazingly Excellent. Those two words is the song in a short form ;)
It has enough of the original to be recognized as such, but it's still also got enough new stuff that you're not merely listening to a variant of the original. I simply love everything about it. I don't think that I've enjoyed a remix this much in a long time :)

- Neb on October 10, 2002

There's too much to review in this song, it's just fantastic the amount of work packed into it. I love the intro. I really appreciate the amount of music in this song. I've been getting frustrated with short remixes.
This is one of my favorites in a long time. looping it in winamp long enough to annoy my roommates :)

- Rychan on October 7, 2002

Woffester wrote: My favorite part is probably between 2:53 and 3:49...The synth organ is great....
MORE!

I agree. That's the coolest part. It's the theme played when Guybrush dives down to the sunken ship "Mad Monkey".
Like I said, I would have wanted some other themes to be covered. There is so much to take from. IMO, this remix doesn't capture all of MI2's atmosphere. Just the goofy part.

- EmptyMy on October 7, 2002

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