ReMix: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 'Ten Rupees'

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And now for something completely different... following Sixto's fairly conservative but still rockin' Castlevania mixage from last night, we've got a Zelda 3 track from Swedish jazz mixing powerhouse Neskvartetten. We've got a respectable amount of jazz on the site, but none of it sounds quite like theirs. There's a tangible atmosphere to the sheer greasy slickness of their organ work, for one, and performances across the board are really just... in a musical zone. It's nearly impossible for me not to imagine a dimly lit room, intense eyes peering out from individual tables over copius amounts of second AND firsthand smoke, with cheap ceiling fans twirling thins clouds of it around and around, and all toes tapping and heads swaying slowly, whenever I hear their stuff. I'm not really a "laid back" person myself, I'd say, but Nesk ReMixes would chill out Joe Pesci on a bad day. Their stuff should be played for stressed postal workers, suicidial stockbrokers, etc., as it has a distinct, mellowing, not-quite-soporific but definitely spiralling, zen-trance effect. This mix in particular, which loosely covers the dark world dungeon theme, lacks more of a core, guiding melody, and thus strikes me more as an impressionistic meditation on Kondo's original than anything else. A light brush kit and occassionally-walking bass form a bed for organ and jazz guitar, with the former operating in broader, wider strokes and the latter more specific, definite lines. Even those who dig Nesk's other tracks might find this comparatively meandering, but in a sense that makes its transporting effect a bit deeper; as John Popper once sang, the hook does indeed bring you back, and thus, conversely, the lack of a hook lets you... roam a bit. This is a roaming ReMix, not unlike Kerouac (only not overrated), Hunter S. Thompson, or William Burroughs. Male and female alike should watch out, for listening repeatedly may spawn the mad desire to grow a goatee, don a turtleneck, and start composing sound poetry. Actually, given most mainstream hobbies, that's not such a bad thing. At any rate, this mix fell through the cracks during the period when the fellas submitted many tracks in rapid succession, but now their dark world can see the light of day. Abstract at times, but sublimely flowing + growing, you can't beat getting ten rupees absolutely free.

― djpretzel