ReMix: Ninja Gaiden 'Ninjitsu Groove'

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Well, I'm back in action at my new house... sort of. As of right now, I have no computer desk, so I'm writing this at an odd angle, sitting on the floor. This should thankfully be addressed tomorrow when IKEA show up, but for now I'm an essay in bad posture and a case of carpal tunnel waiting to happen. ProFiction aka MixMastaMunk submitted this ReMix awhile back, but it didn't pass the judges panel for a variety of reasons. This is where SysteManiac stepped in, took the Reason file, and gave it a makeover, cleaning things up and making them zippier all around. The end result is a more polished arrangement that mixes solid, varied techno with some excellent piano motifs, filtered synths, dancing arpeggios, and notably some nice percussion fills and accents on top of the more rudimentary dance/techno 4/4 groove. From the straight synth chord progression intro to some of the more elaborate piano climbs and falls, this arrangement successfully oscillates between being relatively spartan and more ornate, and does so relatively smoothly. The bassline is a bit underdeveloped, and both the judges and myself are a little unsure what happened around 2'40", but overall the effort that went into keeping this four minute techno piece GOING places is commendable. It can be blocked into discrete pieces that do have significant differences between them, and moves ahead nicely because of this development and variation. As Judge Asulin puts it succinctly: "This is solid and clean techno. Lots of varied drums... lots of varied melody, progression." Psyches me out for the new 3D Ninja Gaiden on the way; guess I'll need an XBOX first though. Good collaboration from ProFiction and SysteManiac, check it out.

― djpretzel