ReMix: Super Metroid 'The Mother is in Control'
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- Game: Super Metroid (Nintendo, 1994, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): Revolver Project
- Composer(s): Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano
- Song(s): Brinstar Red Soil Swampy Area
- Posted: 2005-10-26, evaluated by the judges
OCR newcomer Revolver Project, aka Ty Scheuerman informs us that the Mother is, in fact, in control. Most likely he's referring to Mother Brain, but let's not rule out Mother Teresa, Mother Jones, Mother Earth, or Nanny from Muppet Babies, who - while admittedly not a real mother - certainly had both the qualifications and an amazing pair of striped socks. Regardless of maternal identity, this is some nice industrial Metroid mixage, reminiscent of KMFDM in a lot of ways, most specifically the precise, chopped and aligned electric guitar. Sascha Konietzko meets Samus Aran? Might be the closest thing you'll get, who knows... it's late and it's been a rather disappointing evening, so I'm gonna take the easy out and let the quotes do the talking - the ReMixer writes:
"The mix is definitely my own sort of take on the theme.. the flute and strings and choral hits you hear were all created in a (somewhat) faithful sense, but were used primarily to link the track more closely to the original. I just recently returned to the mix after about 10 months of having it sit around, because I wanted to wait until I sort of knew what I was doing. I know the guitar can become somewhat repetitive (or at least it did to me while I was mixing), but I used to support the somewhat "inhuman" theme I had going in my mind while I was working. The two voice samples you hear in the song are both from the Hal 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Oddysey. I've heard that they're a little hard to understand to some, but they seem as clear as I possibly could make them since I returned to the mix. The words spoken are "This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error." Later on in the mix is "I know that you are planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that is something I cannot allow to happen." At the end of the mix, I just wanted to return to the original mix, and tone down the noise, because I think the original melody is really ingenious, and I just really had to make sure it made it into the mix somehow unspoiled by all the noisy guitars and drums."
Can't go wrong quoting from Kubrick films, doncha know (although some of the judges could live without the quotes or were indifferent) - TO writes:
"Scary start going there. Good synth coming in over the distorted percussion and guitar (nice by the way.) The rhythm guitar coming in sounds very eerie and powerful, the reverb is almost a little too much, but I'm willing to give it as it makes the mix sound.. larger, so to speak. I can really dig the industrial sound here. The distortion is overbearing in some sections, but it's done well overall. I was cringing expecting the mix to be a whole mess of these distorted sounds. But after 2 minutes we head into the cream of this mix. The clear guitar, wonderfully clear industrial hits. powerful synthwork still working with that crunchy sounding distortion bordering on being over the top. The sound here is another hit or miss mix. You either like this stuff or hate it. This is produced well enough that I'm pleased with it."
This reminds me of the heyday of Wax Trax! Records, back when "industrial" was a relatively new genre and hadn't splintered off into sub-genres. I definitely had what I would refer to as an "industrial phase", where all I listened to were Pretty Hate Machine-era Nine Inch Nails, Front 242, KMFDM, etc., and while I think I ultimately prefer more melodic/harmonic action than industrial usually encourages, I still love the smell of napalm in the morning, so to speak. Revolver Project provides that smell, and the ballistics report indicates that most anyone seeking a rippled, stark metallic landscape of Super Metroid goodness should sign up for the firing squad, post-haste.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - Bozlifyme on November 10, 2008
- Nutritious on October 4, 2006
- Solid Soldier on December 7, 2005
- Darkmetamorphasis on December 1, 2005
- metroixer on November 29, 2005
- TX-419 on November 29, 2005
The second time, especially with the 2001 quotes mixed in there and the white noise clearing and later returning, it felt like someone was slowly flipping through different radio stations that were all playing variations on the same theme, producing a creepily awesome feeling.
Whether you intended any this or not, I was very impressed with the piece.
- Asterin on November 8, 2005
It's just like some of the earlier posts said, we need more ReMixes like that one.
- Martin Penwald on November 5, 2005
RimFrost the Tourianist wrote:Wanderer wrote: Holy shit. This is one of those remixes that come out of nowhere from a newcomer that just ends up kicking your ass. I freaking love this.
I second that.
And it really starts kicking at 2:00 :P
Amazing submission indeed ! Hope we get to hear many more remixes from this one.
This is so true. This site needs more industrial mixes of this quality. Great job, Revolver. :o
- JimSelve on October 30, 2005
- CE on October 29, 2005
Only 2 small notes of constructive criticism... 1, the melody line. It was always "behind" the groove. I was really hoping that atleast once it would take the forefront via a screaming lead, or an electric guitar solo, or even in some manner of distortion of the original flute sound, but... nope. Didn't happen. Ah well. And 2, the ending seemed just a tiny bit anti-climactic. At first it sounded like it was fading out, and I was like "what?!" ... but then it kinda mellowed out and died out with some soft melodic stuff. For a piece like this I dunno, I just kinda felt like it needed a loud "boom!" at the end, or atleast one last powerful chunky guitar hit or something.
Anyways, that's my 2 cents. Again, I'm very happy to see more industrial mixage on the site. I wonder if this will make good driving music? I'll have to find out.
-Mazedude
- Mazedude on October 29, 2005
Wanderer wrote: Holy shit. This is one of those remixes that come out of nowhere from a newcomer that just ends up kicking your ass. I freaking love this.
I second that.
And it really starts kicking at 2:00 :P
Amazing submission indeed ! Hope we get to hear many more remixes from this one.
- RimFrost the Tourianist on October 28, 2005
Great mix dude!
- JC83 on October 27, 2005
I had a few pieces of advice and critique when you posted the other version on the forums, but this....
This is beyond critisism in my mind. It must have taken alot of effort to go back and change things like this in a work which previously seemed finished. But that's good remixing. REALLY good remixing.
8) Awesome stuff 8)
- Heruwath Lomgil on October 27, 2005
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