ReMix: Contra 'Feeding Frenzy'

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It's goat, and it's Contra. Do you REALLY need to know more? Are you still reading this?? Back in the days when dial-up was more common, I could count on at least SOME folks reading my labored-over and often even proofread mix writeups as their bits and bytes trickled in, but in these days of broadband splendor, I fear that a Contra mix from goat means that you already had the mix downloaded by the second sentence, and I'm currently addressing a void. Which is good enough for me, actually: there's plenty of bloggers out there who seem to care not that their lives are of general disinterest to the connected public, and proceed with describing them in detail regardless, so I shouldn't be too hard on myself. Right then, this mix is timed nicely as we just learned in the August issue (#218) of Nintendo Power that game composer and game remix scene VIP Jake Kaufman will be handling the soundtrack to Contra 4 for the DS - very sweet. In the same interview, developer Tomm Hulett said:

"It's my sincere hope that cover bands of the future mine Contra 4 for material. If I catch our songs on [website] OC Remix, I'll be satisfied."

As would we! It's great to see a lot of classic franchises being revived due to the DS (and to some extent, PSP) and its enormous popularity. Fingers crossed that it rocks out; screenshots thus far look promising. But back to the Contra topic at hand... goat writes:

"Hi, this is a rock cover of the energy zone and boss music."

Indeed it is. He's a mountain-climbing quadruped of few words, but he chooses them well. He left out a salient detail in that it also kicks major butt, however, but we'll excuse the oversight and chalk it up to equal parts brevity and humility. This one gets progressively aggressive and ends up totally in your face, giving you major beef, steppin', insulting not only your mother but your third cousin, twice removed, and generally making you its female dog. There's some clean wah effects earlier on that add some timbral variety, but this is mostly about frenetic, adrenaline-pumping guitar hero action rock, and on that count it delivers in spades in its 3'10" lifespan. Great mix title, too: if piranhas could be represented as electric guitars, their behavior after being starved for weeks and suddenly presented with a swimming pool full of unsuspecting youths would sound something like this. Give or take. goat continues bowling 300 with his epic rock arrangements, and this is no exception.

― djpretzel