ReMix: Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 'Dazed & Destroyed'
Loud and relentless DDR beats from Dain, alias Beatdrop. The ReMixer writes:
"I originally started on this back in May or thereabouts for reasons I can't even remember. I honestly have NO IDEA why I chose to remix Hysteria. I got some work done, and before I started on the vocals, I put it on the back burner for about a month. My room mate, Walker (aka MC Mouse the Mighty), happened to have written some compositions of his own, and I found out shortly after I met him that he's heavy into rap music (not the crap on MTV, the real stuff) and had written some lyrics of his own... I turned to my room mate to hook me up. Just the other day, he did. And then he formatted the lyrics from his computer by accident and had to rewrite them from memory. I went to work on the recordings, and here's the result.
Interesting combination of MCing with very aggressive techno - not for the faint of heart or pregnant women, and you wouldn't wanna operate any large machinery afterwards (where applicable), but it's certainly intense. The vocals at times sound industrial/KMFDMish, but whenever they get more syncopated, and especially at 3'10", it's all MC-style frontin', DDR-style. The robot-voice style samples add a lot, as do the breaks. My only potential beef is that the mix seems EQ'd way towards the upper-mid to highs - less of a problem when the bass is firing underneath to beef it out, but sometimes problematic when it drops out. However, there are some really great highlights that make up for it - love the chorus at 1'30", being the hook-addict that I am, and the faux fade-inversion at 2'34" and the ensuing breakdown. In general, this mix started off for me sounding like something that would be unacceptably repetitive if it stayed where it started, but went a lot of cool places and kicked a lot of posterior when all was said and done. Malcos writes:
"Yeah aggressive style is how I like it. I'm very familiar with the source tune, completely different take on it. Production is crisp, nice arrangement. Like the effects and processing used on the vocals to make them stand out more, although the first set of vocals (0.57 onwards) were a little hard to make out at first. We need more DDR stuff people! Good work Beatdrop."
MC Mouse the Mighty certainly turns in an admirable first appearance on OCR as well, and gives Dain's underlying mix additional flavor , groove, and energy. Great stuff, especially enjoyable once you get past the initial shock of the aggressive EQing and get to the chorus and more compelling innards.
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