ReMix: Klax 'Nine Inch Klax'
Mr. Getman writes:
"Wow, well here I actually have a remix that was not made for a remix project, not from my American Album, not for any sort of tribute or created per request, nope, here we just have a remix that I made for fun. Something I wanted to remix. A new tune I created to celebrate the launch of my new music website, http://www.mazedudemusic.com. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet."
I dig his site, but the big man-in-suit photo really channels Justin Timberlake for me; your mileage may vary. NIN fans will immediately recognize the hydraulic kick-snare combo employed here as being from the epic "Closer," albeit at a faster tempo. In looking back at Klax and remembering it as Tengen's attempt to capitalize on the Tetris-initiated popularity of puzzle games involving things falling with intellectual property they didn't have to steal from a Russian guy this time around, I notice one thing: the game's interface actually resembles Guitar Hero pretty closely. I'm sure this has been noted before, it just hit me specifically today when checking the Wiki article on the game.
At any rate, rather than appropriated Russian folk music, Klax had some rather eccentric tunage that Chris has gone ahead and industrialized for us, with whirrring drillbit synth fx wonders and a heavy downbeat, along with some lead guitar noodling bits towards the end. It's rare that we post anything under two minutes, but this rather brief outing still manages to pack in enough of what makes a Mazedude mix great: quirky arrangement combined with particular, diverse soundscaping and attention to sonic detail. It's not a mashup in the traditional sense of the word, but it does combine a clear NIN influence (made all the clearer with the afforementioned drum samples) with the Klax musics for a curious cocktail of industrial ingenuity.
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