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I'm a big fan of video games. I'm also a huge music fan, especially of the electronic variety. Merging the two is one of life's more delicious inventions, like peanut butter & jelly or computers and a musty basement. Unfortunately, it appears that all too many people have not been exposed to this niche genre of music so in order to illuminate and thwart our current update policy, every Tuesday I'll take a short look at one of many fine video game remixes.
This week's remix: Mahoney - M.U.L.E. (Aerobics in the jungle mix)
Don't let the opening scare you, although if the first game you played was FFVII you may have a difficult time discerning the tune. M.U.L.E. started out as an Atari 800 game (later ported to systems like the Commodore 64 and NES) and had a catchy, simple theme. As a great remix should do, it carries the main theme well past it's initial contextual home into a completely different world. In this case, the whole new world is populated by an aural feast of drums, bouncy bass lines, synth lines that blow through the wind, vocal chants, yelps and shouts. Magnificiently constructed and exceptionally produced (just like all of Mahoney's tracks), this mix has the right balance of depth, nostalgia and invigoration that grabs your ears, lifts your feet and makes you wonder why every song can't be this fucking good.
Download Mahoney's M.U.L.E. (Aerobics in the jungle mix)
Want more video game remixes? Visit these fine sites:
Remix.kwed.org - Reinterpretations of classic Commodore 64 tunes. Outstanding quality mixes.Overclocked Remix - Remixes for most every system.Remix64 - Comprehensive coverage of the c64 remix scene.
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