ReMix: Super Mario World 'Grand Valse Mario'

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Karl pretty much sums it up:

"I'm a crazy piano bastard, and this is what I do to feed the rabid piano remix fan base of the internet world."

There you go, you rabid piano remix fans. Now wipe that foam off your mouth, undilate your pupils, etc., and check out this lovely Super Mario World waltz, hot on the heels of blad's Kirby waltz. The man loves his waltzes, to be sure. Fortunately, this waltz-fondling, crazy, piano-loving bastard was willing to resubmit this short but sweet arrangement when Gray, Binnie and I noticed some distortion/clipping. Different judges had different results depending on their headphones, speakers, etc., but with this cleaned-up recording Karl took the beef to the butcher and made it all better. It was especially important to me because I love what he's done here, and because with an isolated recording like you find with solo piano mixes, any artifacting is all the more problematic and inconducive to focusing on the music. Larry Oji, whose absence the community yet again painfully endures as he experiences further computer ills, quips:

"I better not let my girlfriend hear this one, or she'll leave me for Karl with a K."

Or perhaps not a quip at all? Only time shall tell. The double-fisted chords and gusto the "B-Unit" (to paraphrase Oji) puts into this brief bit is impressive, and at 1'31" Karl lays down the ivory smack with an especially macho quicksilver run, followed by more power chords and some trills. There's not much else to say - this is essentially how to arrange the track in question from SMW in a solo piano waltz, and do it well, and if that sounds like a good gig, you'll want in. Belated birthday props to Karl, who continues to make being a crazy piano bastard an enviable vocation.

― djpretzel