ReMix: Sonic the Hedgehog 'sonik special'

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It's all about that funky bassline, jeeves. analoq gives us our first ReMix of Sonic's bonus music - light, trippy fare to begin with - and mixes it up with true electro-funk style. You've got excellent, funky, articulated acoustic drummage, a noticeable and noticeably good bassline that bends the genre more towards funk than any other element, some wonderful pads, and - becoming something of an analoq signature, and I've got no complaints whatsoever - a great variety of processed guitars. Oh yeah, and some rippin' and rupturin' analog synth grooving's thrown in there for good measure, too. What shines to me on analoq's work is that no one element has been neglected, or is serving a purely auxiliary role - each bit gets attention, is worth noting, and could serve as "that little bit of something extra" that would set an average mix apart from the crowd. Here, every instrument/track fits that description. Good arrangement too, taking a pleasant, albeit repetitive theme that almost sounded like elevator music originally and making it much livelier, expanding on the melody with the solo guitar, etc. Having high-quality equipment - and knowing how to use it - combined with an ear for arranging and genre adaptations are two deadly ingredients for ReMixing, and analoq uses them both here to great effect. Recommended.

― djpretzel