ReMix: Streets of Rage 3 'Good Ending(BlazeTheSirenMix)'

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Regardless of the actual content of his ReMixes, I personally love Rayza's game/track choices, as he consistently covers some interesting, less obvious tracks. Taking the content into account, the picture's even brighter, because he also consistently does them justice. This time we venture into the third Streets of Rage game, introing with a downtempo, laid-back feel acnhored by a deep bass, with brush snare, distant pads, and a monoglide synth on melody. So, at this point, I was thinking "cool - sort of a ballad thing, then" - ahh, but a more traditional Yuzo-styled jam enters at 0'46" and the bassline gets its thang going, with the addition of some comping piano and - no big surprise - a siren. There's lots of good drop-outs and addition/subtraction work to keep things interesting, and while the ending is a little anti-climactic, I really enjoyed the pace and energy of the arrangement all-around. The piano bares some similarity to the chords in the original Streets of Rage title screen music - same offbeat/triplet rhythm going on - so it sort of reminded me of that. Maybe it was a conscious decision by Yuzo to bring the soundtrack for the series full circle, from the ending of three back to the beginning of one, but more likely he just really digs that house piano sound :) More goodstuffs from Rayza, recommended.

― djpretzel