ReMix: Super Castlevania IV 'The Belmont Chill'
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- Game: Super Castlevania IV (Konami, 1991, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): Blak_Omen
- Composer(s): Masanori Adachi, Taro Kudou
- Song(s): Simon Belmont's Theme
- Posted: 2004-06-11, evaluated by djpretzel
Ahh, Super Castlevania 4. The sheer goodness. From the intro to this mellow mix from Blak_Omen, you might think it's gonna be electronica, but in fact that flavor goes mellow jazz (not soft jazz, there's a difference, yo) pretty quick, with acoustic upright organ and piano, as a hiss that sounds sort of like air escaping and sorta like a continuous brushing segues into a brief doubletime polyrhythmic bongo break that serves to lead into a saxophone taking over the melody. Dig the chromatic run, stage right, at around 1'00", and the piano turns soonafter. The obviously intentional hiss reenters towards the end of the second minute as there's dropout and a solo piano bit - interesting effect, not sure if I'm 100% on it, but it does make things a bit more atmospheric and the overall presentation a bit riskier. The ReMixer does a great job of branching out from his previously piano-centric sound into some more varying instrumentation here, and the sax lead has enough articulation and syncopation on it to make it credibly jazzy and interpretive. Great stuff, if short, that aims to lend a jazz mentality to some previoulsy upbeat, very driving source material, and succeeds in tempering back the pace and making Simon Belmont take, as the title suggests, a short breather from all that vampire-hunting and what not.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the I have heard this theme metalled up a few times and it's almost always been awesome, so hearing it all chilled is pretty refreshing.
The samples are pretty good, and the rain sound effects give it a springtime ambiance. A rainy afternoon... a small cafe... a single rose and a promise...
and the topless medusa boss at the end of stage 2...
The level of arrangement on this specific mix is really nice, some great bass voicing, and some nice comping on both the piano and organ. I wish the sax had been real, but as is, it is still pretty nice.
It's been awhile since this track got any review attention, and it really is a nice mix. Check it out.
- OA on May 27, 2008
*gone*
"down down, to your revelation..."
- CE on October 29, 2005
- Oruroku on July 20, 2004
if you liked this mix, you should check them out too. :)
- kanchou on June 27, 2004
- Jarrid on June 26, 2004
- Nobbynob Littlun on June 25, 2004
- RimFrost the Tourianist on June 14, 2004
- CykoticZZ on June 11, 2004
First of all let me congratulate Blak_Omen on a job very well done. All I have to say has been said already, but I have to add that the piano sounds very stylish and soothing!
9/10 Keep up the good work!
- Sir Harmony on June 11, 2004
This has to be the best mix I've heard in a long time, and if everyone who remixed this tune did it this well, it wouldn't matter how many people did it, it would always be seriously undermixed...
First of all, the percussion. Interesting, un-repetetive, and it fits in perfectly, moving the song along, because it feels like that without it, the song would get stuck, not looping, but it would just keep going (Not sure if that would be such a bad thing though).
Second, the sax. Is it sampled or live? I'm going to guess that it's sampled, but the articulation is done so well that it wouldn't surprise me if it were live. The melody, is obviously not blak_omen's composition, but I find this a very good interpretation of the original.
The piano and the organ. They make very good bass for the sax, though I can't help feeling they're just the slightest bit repetetive in the non-melodic parts, although it doesn't really matter because they're not the melody, and what you listen to (consiously) anyway.
The bass seems slightly uninteresting, and does a job which could just as easily have been done by the organ, except that for that part the bass sounds better. I guess that didn't make very much sense...
The sound effects like the hiss and the thunder sounds at the beginning are very well placed, and enhance the overall feeling of the song very well, especially the hiss which has a strangely calming efect, exactly what you'd like when listening to a chill/jazz mix.
101/100... or something...
- NembaTheKid on June 11, 2004
Not really, Blak_Omen gets all the credit for it. He did a GREAT job on a truly legendary PRC (mostly dictated by mediocrity, where yours shined through).
And I just have to say, THANK GOODNESS.
Thank you Blak_Omen.
(wondering who's next. Trenthian's Sami mix? hehe)
- estêvão on June 11, 2004
- Dhsu on June 11, 2004
omg omg omg omg omg omg omg Direct Postage Direct Postage my life is complete! Now I can finally say, out loud and proud,
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"I helped Dj Pretzel!"[/b]
Thanks for all the support that people gave for this song, the previous reviews on VGmix (which I wish I could go back and read but meh)
I think I have sheet music for this somewhere, so if you're really really desperate for it you can email me and I'll see what I can do. (I know I'm just gonna regret this, I get enough email with Waltz of Pain and Hunter's Etude-Scherzo as it is ^^")
Super thanks to DjP, much love, thanks to DjOrange who hooked me up with the soundfonts I used to make this song...oh yeah!
\o/ If anyone has any questions just post them here I'd be happy to answer. Enjoy!
- Blak_Omen on June 11, 2004
Congrats Blak_Omen. I think I voted for you on this one. ;)
- The Orichalcon on June 11, 2004
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