ReMix: Ninja Gaiden 'Basilisk Run'

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Vurez is back with his sophomore offering:

"This is a remix of the mine music from the first Ninja Gaiden on the NES. And since this is a mine remix, I used a good amount of reverb and delay in some parts (well, I pretty much always use quite a bit of reverb and delay but at least it fits better in this case)."

Seems intuitive enough. With a guitar-laden conquistador vibe of sorts, venturing into spaghetti western territory, the ReMixer gives a nice genre spin on the original. This makes not one, not two, but three lovely Basilisks, to my certain knowledge, with the recent anime series (long live the Iga, Myth) and 68k Mac emulator being two others that come to mind. Introing with bass and discretely panned latin percussion, quickly articulated acoustic guitar enters and is then joined by panflute. Some of the articulations are quite intricate and graceful, and serve as numerous highlights. Trumpet enters at 1'42" and is not quite as strong as the other elements - a little anemic, but you gotta applaud the variety, and the tremolo electric guitar that comes in right afterwards at 2'04" more than compensates, taking things into Spaghetti Cowboy territory, if not as overtly as Gux did. Shnabubula bubulates:

"Bass and percussion hold down the air tight groove which allow other things to float on top like the pan flutes and melodic guitar parts. Sections flow seamlessly into one another. A good example is at 1:57 when the pan flute is the star player. At 2:05 the guitar shows up to comment and then assumes control at 2:12 but before we have a chance to miss the momentum created by the pan flute, the drums come in at 2:16 to compensate. That's how transitions are done!"

With weed adding:

"the arrangement is fantastic - the transitions are all very well-thought out. this is like ninja gaiden meets gerudo valley so while its extremely cliche in that respect, it still does it seamlessly and with enough panache to serve several arrangements over. the guitar parts are very well written and are loads of fun to listen to even if they aren't real."

Which is a pretty nice comment to get from one of them REAL guitar playin' folks ;) Hell, at 3'00" even you even get funkdafied wah action, and we all know how wah action can add that lil' sumtin-sumtin, and Don also brings in some high-end, almost discotheque strings for the finale. This is simply a very flamboyant, dynamic, and downright good mix, which does synthetic acoustic and electric guitars oh so very admirably and blends some less common genres in at the same time. Impressive.

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.

l really enjoy this mix, the guitar was great while the flute was my favorite. overall this really is a tasty mix.

- metalsnakejuice on April 13, 2009

The mix overall is really good, but what really stuck out to me was that super nicely sequenced guitar. It's really tastefully played, with a lot of detail in both velocities and modulation, and some well thought out slides and bends. The rest of the mix is good too, with some hard-panned pan flutes (haha) and a lot of varied percussive textures. The flow is really well paced, and production is very clean. The adding of additional guitars to build to an exciting ending is icing on this cake.
Tasty! Nom nom nom

- OA on April 2, 2009

i haven't heard the song from the game, but this sounds almost like a Gerudo Valley OOT remix. Morricone western remixes = automatic win.

- your the man now dog on September 30, 2006

nardman wrote: Sounds almost mexican sobraro type to me. I don't even realize what song was remixed on this one. Not bad, could be better.

Rather sad if you don't recognize the original in here. This is very far from a liberal arrangement.

- Liontamer on March 3, 2006

Sounds almost mexican sobraro type to me. I don't even realize what song was remixed on this one. Not bad, could be better.

- nardman on March 3, 2006

Hey, another remix that gets stuck on repeat for hours on end. Great job with this. It definately has a Gerudo Valely/western feel, and I like it. Nice work.

- YellowYoshi1 on March 2, 2006

by far, one of the best translations directly from a video game.
i love the pan flute

- Ruffian on February 26, 2006

This is my favorite song from Ninja Gaiden. Please tell me that there is a guitar tab somewhere! I am dying to learn this and I can't quite get it by ear!

- tsh2596 on January 25, 2006

With the guitar, this sounds like a remix of the Gerudu Valley song, and I'm glad I'm not the only one that is hearing this (yay, I'm still sane)

- 1337pino on January 19, 2006

For real, this sounds like some RPG overworld theme. I ain't no ninja but, if I were, I wouldn't be gettin' my stealth on with this tune. I really can't dig it. Even some of the samples were pretty weak. The guitar is slick. The rest is hick. The drumming and violin at the end is redeeming but, not quite enough.

- meccaneer on October 7, 2005

Very sweet remix. Well done! Make more!

- Rychan on August 26, 2005

OH MY GOSH! I love the source tune for this song! I never ever thought it would get remixed! THANK YOU!
The remix itself is also much, much more than I expected. Gotta love the guitar playing.

- Sinewav on August 24, 2005

I love this piece. The mixture of western and stab orchestral is great. It reminds me a lot of the 80's television theme songs, where it was more of a pop feel song, but then the orchestra comes blaring through as background later on. The ending makes me weak in the knees, and I'm always waiting for the wah-wah portion of the song as well.

- bladiator on August 12, 2005

Nice! Now for some irrelevant observations. You know, change a chord here and there, and this could be a zelda 64 gerudo song. Though, a lot of the times it reminds me muchly of Mega Man music, particularly Mega Man 2.

- Nobbynob Littlun on August 11, 2005

The song is really good and it fits the level cuz Ryu went to touth America. Kudos for the pan flutes.

- cfG-21 on August 10, 2005

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