ReMix: Mega Man 2 'Dr. Wily's Wedding'

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Jayson Litrio's only previous ReMix was way back at the end of 2001, an excellent Zelda 3 piece that coincided with the Yank's tragic bottom-of-the-9th demise at the hands of Arizona Diamondbacks. I still managed to enjoy it quite a bit regardless :) Glad to see he's submitted a sophomore mix, and I think you will be, too: this Mega Man 2 piano-centric arrangement is quite original and flowing. The author's own comments and anecdote are worth repeating: "It's raw and I'm a perfectionist. But I thought it might be interesting for you, and I did it as an experiment - for fun - I didn't want to spend the usual 4 hours on it. I just did it tonight actually, it's now 5:30am in New York. I layed it down on 30 minutes ago as I couldn't sleep. I wanted to try and make an NES tune beautiful by playing it gracefully and "live" - I didn't sequence this. Just sat at the piano and played my rendition of the tune, then added a simple improv. string track and that's about all. NES melodies, even one like this, slowed down, are quite amazing. I once played this at someone's wedding during cocktail hour! Of course, nobody knew what it was I was playing - but I sure had a smile on my face." - moral of that story being: watch who you hire for your wedding music, as you might suddenly start hearing well-arranged works of Yuukichan's Papa, Ogeretsu Kun, and Manami Ietel's as you dance with your bride or groom. If it's an ensemble and they break into "Team Gato" you KNOW something's up. While that particular ReMix would raise eyebrows, this arrangement could (and did, apparently) actually pass as more "legit" wedding tunage. Judges were consistently positive; Vigilante writes: "very sweet. one of the better piano mixes i've heard. very appealing harmonic interpretation. i wish it were longer, but it's very enjoyable. heres my first YES of the day. congratulations." - that's two large quotes, so I'll try to say a bit myself: for a live performance this is great, the improvised augmentation with strings and flute adds the perfect amount of accompaniment without ever stealing the spotlight, the whole thing flows naturally and as mentioned the harmonic revision - the real star of the ReMix - is spot-on, creative, and most importantly works, transforming the original into a totally different, but still recognizable, beast. Nice all-around. Recommended.

― djpretzel