ReMix: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 'Froggy Mosh'

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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

It's goat, it's CV, and it kicks. Need you know more? It's rather late, and I have some quality sleeping to do... don't wanna spend the time convincing you if it's not necessary, doncha know... Ah, well, I owe it to Chris to at least put in the good college try... not that I ever particularly tried in college. This arrangement of "Dead Beat" is from a CV3 project the ReMixer's been working on, and features all of the strengths goat's previous mixes displayed (raw energy, awesome performances) and, yes, some of the weaknesses (questionable samples, mostly); when you've got a single element as powerful as the lead electric that goat wields, I suppose it's a bit more challenging to find accompaniment instrumentation that doesn't sound comparatively pale. Said guitar has never yet failed to galvanize the overall production, however, and the panel was in agreement that the end result was true to form and quality stuff. Larry writes:

"Loved all the tangents you went off on with the arrangement. 2:44-onward kept things strong for the rest of the track. Nice subtle speeding up of the tempo for the end, including some nice shredding seguing into the organ-driven finish. Organ was a little too rigidly sequenced as well, but again the overall skill is just too strong. Chris had several unique variations on the source and so many adept transitions where nearly everything flowed well from one concept to the next. I hate to say this is better than the original, as it might offend goat's own reasons for tributing the soundtrack. But on an individual level, I didn't care for the source tune, yet the arrangement generated an interest and respect for what could be done with it. Around here, that's when you know it's a job well done. Keep 'em coming, Chris."

For my money, I love the subtle little pitch bends right in the intro, the menacing chromatic chugs not too long afterwards, and the synth arpeggio and running piano work towards the end; as Larry also points out, the tempo acceleration is really a nice touch. Heavy, high-impact stuff.

― djpretzel

Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
Lead tone was overly muffled, but it's clear Goat knows his way around the Castlevania world, trusty axe in hand, rocking those skeletons to dust. The drum sound seemed a little overly canned, and some of the synths seemed a little forced (that weird sweeping one near the beginning that was way loud and treble heavy in particular), but the guitar performances were good.
Not my favorite Goat mix, but it has some cool moments.

- OA on March 24, 2009
Nice rock song that gets really good from 2:59 on. Though I think that the climax is somewhat on the short side.

- Martin Penwald on October 14, 2006
Pretty cool song

- Adam_Slight on September 28, 2006
With a very critical eye, because I love the track and composition:
Samples (comparatively to goat) suck - everything sounds very synthetic, which means it's better than about 96% of the things that get entered to OCR. The percussion set sounds like it was overused and overemphasized, as well.
I agree with all of you, plus the fact that this sounds completely not live and really would benefit from adding some things - a concert audience background, more dynamic contrast, etc.
Aside from that, I don't believe that I've heard very many remixes of this particular track and it's something fresh for me as a Castlevaniator from way back (not really).

- estêvão on September 27, 2006
Joshua_Morse wrote:
Liontamer wrote:
Joshua_Morse wrote:
Mustin wrote: Not goat's best. Samples here are bad.
Go to goat's site and get all of his other stuff - amazing stuff. This "Froggy Mosh" not so much.
http://www.powergoat.com/

Yeah, he should probably just start using Kompakt presets for every track he does from here on out. :roll:

Ha! Clearly, he might as well just threaten to pull all of his mixes off the site due to the criticism. :lol:

While he's at it, he could start shoveling out critiques based off of a subject he knows virtually nothing about! :idea:

Better start paying for lessons with Vivaldi now. Need to gain some street cred around here. :lol:

- Liontamer on September 23, 2006
Liontamer wrote:
Joshua_Morse wrote:
Mustin wrote: Not goat's best. Samples here are bad.
Go to goat's site and get all of his other stuff - amazing stuff. This "Froggy Mosh" not so much.
http://www.powergoat.com/

Yeah, he should probably just start using Kompakt presets for every track he does from here on out. :roll:

Ha! Clearly, he might as well just threaten to pull all of his mixes off the site due to the criticism. :lol:

While he's at it, he could start shoveling out critiques based on a subject he knows virtually nothing about! :idea:

- Joshua Morse on September 23, 2006
Joshua_Morse wrote:
Mustin wrote: Not goat's best. Samples here are bad.
Go to goat's site and get all of his other stuff - amazing stuff. This "Froggy Mosh" not so much.
http://www.powergoat.com/

Yeah, he should probably just start using Kompakt presets for every track he does from here on out. :roll:

Ha! Clearly, he might as well just threaten to pull all of his mixes off the site due to the criticism. :lol:

- Liontamer on September 22, 2006
Not goat's best in the least. Like the others said, go to his website for total ownage of the Castlevania empire.

- Chickenwarlord on September 22, 2006
Mustin wrote: Not goat's best. Samples here are bad.
Go to goat's site and get all of his other stuff - amazing stuff. This "Froggy Mosh" not so much.
http://www.powergoat.com/

Yeah, he should probably just start using Kompakt presets for every track he does from here on out. :roll:

- Joshua Morse on September 22, 2006
Ahhh, more goat goodness. Great job as always.

- Vurez on September 21, 2006
What can I say? I've listened to a few of Goat's submissions before. But not having listened to them for a while, I've forgoten his style.
I downloaded this expecting to be another mindless head banging heavy metal that's going to give me a headache. Instead, I love the song right away. The intro build up was awesome and kept that nice nercoslaying theme with the right ammount of rock.
Look forward to your next one.

- Azure Prower on September 21, 2006
What an awful name. Aside from that, awesome!

- Trygon on September 20, 2006
The samples sound perfectly fine :o

- Audity on September 20, 2006
Nigel Simmons wrote: Whoa, a heavy rock remix of a Castlevania tune. That's NEVER been done! :o

Who cares if it has or hasn't? Besides, as far as I know, this particular source has never been covered previously. So even if it is from a Castlevania game, it's at least unique source material. :P

- KyleJCrb on September 20, 2006
Nigel Simmons wrote: Whoa, a heavy rock remix of a Castlevania tune. That's NEVER been done! :o

y u h8?

- Liontamer on September 20, 2006

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