ReMix: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project 'Turtle Wave'
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- Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (Konami, 1993, NES)
- ReMixer(s): Mazedude
- Composer(s): Keizou Nakamura, Tomoya Tomita, Yuichi Sakakura
- Song(s): Let's Go Turtles
- Posted: 2004-03-20, evaluated by djpretzel
Surf's up! ... kay, that was an embarassingly trite and predicatable fashion to intro, but at least it's contextual to the mix and not yet more blog-esque facts about my semblance of a life. Mazedude gets peppy, poppy, and heavily sequenced with this energetic ReMix from TMNT 3, rife with slap bass riffage, precision-timed brass hits, almost motown-philly style percussive intricate goings-on, more synths than you can shake an oscillator at, an unorthodox change in tone for a slower ending, and an extra helping of sugar. If this ReMix were a human youth they'd be prescribing a shitload of Ritalin, let's just leave it at that. If Chris can be said to have a "style" - his work spans multiple genres and he's proven quite flexible - I'd say it's that his pieces are consistently intricate, and are particularly polished in the arena of sequencing, with runs, modulations, breaks, transitions, and fills all implemented like someone who knows all the combos in SF3 and can apply them at will. This is very thick in terms of layers; it's not something you'll want to listen to if you need to concentrate on something else per se, as there's simply so much going on. Sort of an upbeat, new jack swing vibe to it, refreshingly indulgent and extremely ornate, this is a fun jam in the fairly irreverent style of the games and cartoon. Nostalgic but interpretive, in other words, and brimming with energy. Good stuff.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - Liontamer on February 22, 2009
Audity wrote: My sentiments exactly. Only...is there a higher bitrate version of this? I think a couple of my friends would be like ARGH THIS IS TOO HARSH 128KBPS LOL. Please thanks. Dunno if it would actually sound better. I never really get higher bit rate versions from OCRemixers so I'm just assuming it could be a lot more enjoyable when it might sound a lot the same.
playingtokrush wrote:
Mazedude, would you ever marry a man with a vagina?
I wonder if people who say such things as this realize how freaking weird it sounds.
I do realize that. That's the point.
- playingtokrush on August 6, 2006
Audity wrote: My sentiments exactly. Only...is there a higher bitrate version of this? I think a couple of my friends would be like ARGH THIS IS TOO HARSH 128KBPS LOL. Please thanks. Dunno if it would actually sound better. I never really get higher bit rate versions from OCRemixers so I'm just assuming it could be a lot more enjoyable when it might sound a lot the same.
playingtokrush wrote:
Mazedude, would you ever marry a man with a vagina?
I wonder if people who say such things as this realize how freaking weird it sounds.
Sometimes, remixers will skirt the file-size limit on OCR by posting their songs on VGMix.com, which is unfortunately down right now.
The other option is to go to the remixer's home page. which you will frequently find at their profile page.
In this case, there is no higher bitrate version of this song. The one at Mazedude's site is also 128kbps. You could probably ask him to make a higher bitrate encoding of the song, but don't expect him to give that request a high priority.
Now, this song is quite energetic and smooth. The lead synth works really well, and all those vocal shouts really get the body moving.
Edit: I just listened to Jeroen Tel's NineOneOne that Mazedude has on the download page for this song on his website. There are definitely elements of Tel's style in Turtle Wave.
- I.Medley on April 15, 2006
playingtokrush wrote:
Mazedude, would you ever marry a man with a vagina?
I wonder if people who say such things as this realize how freaking weird it sounds.
- Audity on April 14, 2006
Very good instrumentation. Very cool ideas. Great and nice stuff.
- Txai on November 4, 2005
Mazedude, would you ever marry a man with a vagina?
- playingtokrush on January 31, 2005
- The Orichalcon on November 3, 2004
- Less Ashamed Of Self on July 13, 2004
- Paladin-01 on March 27, 2004
Nice combo. Good job.
- Protricity on March 27, 2004
This game actually frustrated me to no end when I was a kid, but I too give this one top-notch ratings.
- fisherman on March 27, 2004
-Mazedude
- Mazedude on March 24, 2004
But this was not at all meant to dis :wink: I really liked the tune! Brought me back to the happy FastTracker II days, obviously because it reminded of the tune mentioned above. Nice work![/url]
- rentokil on March 24, 2004
Christopher Blue wrote:WoR wrote: More Mazedude like this!
I mainly came here to say....WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE????? I know I have heard this melody before, and I'm pretty sure I've never played the game, and it feels like I've known this song for a long time. Is this song anywhere else in the world? Perhaps another mix I might have heard?
It kinda reminds me of "Angel Island Zone" from Sonic 3. The first level btw.
maybe you lived next to me and heard it because when I was a kid, this and megaman were all I played.
I dont know if my weakness for nostalgia has anything to do with it, but I love this remix. 10/10 as far as Im concernced
- Twobitmage on March 23, 2004
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