ReMix: Dragon View 'Apocryphal'
First off, a happy post-4th to those of you in the US of A. I've never been into it all that much myself, but at least we've got a good repertoire of patriotic tunage, Sousa marches, and a respectable anthem. It was a little odd that the DC fireworks featured the (otherwise awesome) 1812 Overture so heavily, given this fact, but they made up with some good ole Stars & Stripes action. Though NYC had better fireworks and more of them, the music was atrocious, with some embarassingly bad, virtually unrecognizable tunes. All the more reason to download and dig the latest contribution from aluminum, whose sole previous submission was all the way back in November of last year. It's taken awhile, but he's come up with some similarly edgy stuff, rife with interesting sonic ideas and processing and an unorthodox amount of non-percussive segments. This is deliberate electronica, ambient new age crossed with downbeat techno/trip-hop. The main beat drops at 1'09" with a calliope lead carrying the main melody at 1'20", but building up to that you've got a mysterious, ethereal atmosphere introduced by strange digital wind and featuring enveloping sweep pads and chiming, delayed synths like something from Vangelis... good stuff. The piece actually oscillates between this vibe and the more substantive, rhythmic beat, until the truly unusual, abrupt ending that leaves the listener with the same strange, almost bit-crushed noise sound at the end. Certainly a bit odd, but not in a way that's uninteresting or too arbitrary to be enjoyable. The ReMixer notes:
"this remix is my take on the "Dragon Lords" theme from the relatively obscure SNES RPG "Dragon View." Well, I'm not sure how obscure it really is, but I had certainly never heard of it until I received a request to mix this song. The style I went for was kind of a cross between Enigma and Vangelis... I think I came reasonably close. The original is a rather short, looping chord progression (again), so I had to expand on it a bit."
I (honestly) had forgotten that he himself cited Vangelis as an influence until I copied and pasted the above, so I'd say at least for one half of the inspiration, the goal was believably attained :) This is varied, peculiar, and from a relatively obscure game that not many will have played, but is definitely worth your time and is quite the departure from standard electronica fare. Neat.
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