ReMix: Maniac Mansion 'Flashbulb Junk'

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Dan Studnicky gave us his first submission, from U.N Squadron, back in September of 2002. This jazzier, funkier ReMix from Maniac Mansion is quite the change-up, genre-wise, and really gets things on about halfway through out to the end. The first half of the mix - the intro in particular - isn't as musically persuasive. We intro with a solo slap bass that's got a bit of jerkiness to its rhythm, almost of the type you would hear intentionally applied by They Might Be Giants, and when the drums and minimal brass hits join in, there's a bit of off-tempo lag going on. But, this is cleaned up afterwords, when a more concrete melody is established via a sax/muted trumpet duet. We also get very funky, tremolo electric piano backing chords, lovely delayed acoustic piano, continued (albeit more prominent) brass swells and falls, a great auxiliary xylophone line panned right, and sequencing that ties these elements together well. Malcos summed up the overall reaction of the Judges fairly well: "At the beginning of the mix it feels like there are some sync problems, but the situation does improve drastically. From the last half of the mix it sounds like something I could hear on the radio. Apart from one or two chords I was unsure about on the rhodes near the end, and the slight off timing, this is a good mix. For me, the good outweighs the bad. Funky." A different, interesting, and well-titled ReMix from Dan Studnicky, a change from his first mix but still musically viable, and more challenging as well. Good stuff.

― djpretzel