Take One
Aug 23, 2008, 04:08 PM
I can't be bothered to look up the definition of 'redux'. Anyway, I get bored quite often and start remaking music from old video games, simply because I can. These are mainly from Unreal, Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and Doom because they're in formats that are easy to strip down and find the seperate notes and samples.
...Anyway, enough rambling. This topic is for showing off remade, remixed and resampled versions of tracks from JJ2 and even JJ1 if you want - if you have any, feel free to post them; I don't like having the limelight for too long.
Right, I'll start off with mine (no, I'm not quite a proffessional):
Jazz Jackrabbit (2) Theme (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17526376e3a0028a/)
Why not start off with the actual theme music? Like almost all of the others, this is nearly finished, but not quite. I thought that I'd take liberties with some of the arrangements, so I added a saxophone solo, 'finished', as such, a piano solo after the first chorus and wrote a neat little intro because I can. I want to add a propper ending, soon, too. The brass comes from a load of jazzy big band melodies cut up, which took a flipping long time... Regardless, here it is, in all its glory.
Tubelectric (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17526845c7cc9ed5/)
Going in chronological order of when I wrote them, here's the second. This one has the distinction of being the only one that's actually finished. Once again, I took liberties with the arrangements, slightly, but all that's really new in this one are the drum loops, ending, break in the middle and samples/synths used.
Colonius (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17527231cac95870/)
Funky. Alright, if you're using any kind of bass amplification on your PC and you value your speakers, I strongly suggest that you turn it off, because the bass in this one is extremely loud and I haven't fixed it yet. I could probably find a better guitar sound than that, too. I want to use a slightly... 'harsher' keyboard sound for the main part, which I'll sort out shortly. In case you're wondering, yes, that drum loop was sampled from Compound from TimeSplitters (coupled with the one from the original Colonius) and the voice in the vinyl scratching is saying 'foxy sista' - don't ask why...
Dark Knight (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17527646b4e7ed33/)
Uh... Whoops, that's definately the wrong name. This is a complete remix of the JJ2 version of Medivo. It started out simply as a test for some new bagpipe samples that I'd found, and decided to turn it into an orchestral test. This is the result. It's not finished, obviously; there's a whole section missing between the first chorus and the ending. The ending that you will hear here is only temporary, too (from straight after the stupidly dramatic part, where the bagpipes begin to play again). I know exactly what I want it to sound like... Anyway, this being one of the best things that I've ever made, enjoy.
Diamondus (http://www.zshare.net/audio/175280463ba43ad4/)
I just finished this one today (or yesterday, now, technically - it just turned 12AM). Simply a complete resampling of the JJ2 version of Diamondus, but I added a quick ending just to make it feel more complete. I actually had to download a few samples specifically to make this one. I couldn't find any timbales, though, so I had to make do with a hard tom. Believe it or not, that bassline was actually fun to recreate. If I could say one thing about the work of the original composers, it would be that it's amazing how they can write melodies that sound so complex when they actually aren't; mainly, they just use alot of octaves.
...I thought that there were more than that. Oh, well... There are more coming. All of these were composed on either FL Studio 7 or 8, so it proves that it's more than dance that you can write on that. Anyway, any kind of constructive or positive criticism is appreciated, and, as I said, if you have any of your, own, feel free to show them off here.
...Anyway, enough rambling. This topic is for showing off remade, remixed and resampled versions of tracks from JJ2 and even JJ1 if you want - if you have any, feel free to post them; I don't like having the limelight for too long.
Right, I'll start off with mine (no, I'm not quite a proffessional):
Jazz Jackrabbit (2) Theme (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17526376e3a0028a/)
Why not start off with the actual theme music? Like almost all of the others, this is nearly finished, but not quite. I thought that I'd take liberties with some of the arrangements, so I added a saxophone solo, 'finished', as such, a piano solo after the first chorus and wrote a neat little intro because I can. I want to add a propper ending, soon, too. The brass comes from a load of jazzy big band melodies cut up, which took a flipping long time... Regardless, here it is, in all its glory.
Tubelectric (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17526845c7cc9ed5/)
Going in chronological order of when I wrote them, here's the second. This one has the distinction of being the only one that's actually finished. Once again, I took liberties with the arrangements, slightly, but all that's really new in this one are the drum loops, ending, break in the middle and samples/synths used.
Colonius (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17527231cac95870/)
Funky. Alright, if you're using any kind of bass amplification on your PC and you value your speakers, I strongly suggest that you turn it off, because the bass in this one is extremely loud and I haven't fixed it yet. I could probably find a better guitar sound than that, too. I want to use a slightly... 'harsher' keyboard sound for the main part, which I'll sort out shortly. In case you're wondering, yes, that drum loop was sampled from Compound from TimeSplitters (coupled with the one from the original Colonius) and the voice in the vinyl scratching is saying 'foxy sista' - don't ask why...
Dark Knight (http://www.zshare.net/audio/17527646b4e7ed33/)
Uh... Whoops, that's definately the wrong name. This is a complete remix of the JJ2 version of Medivo. It started out simply as a test for some new bagpipe samples that I'd found, and decided to turn it into an orchestral test. This is the result. It's not finished, obviously; there's a whole section missing between the first chorus and the ending. The ending that you will hear here is only temporary, too (from straight after the stupidly dramatic part, where the bagpipes begin to play again). I know exactly what I want it to sound like... Anyway, this being one of the best things that I've ever made, enjoy.
Diamondus (http://www.zshare.net/audio/175280463ba43ad4/)
I just finished this one today (or yesterday, now, technically - it just turned 12AM). Simply a complete resampling of the JJ2 version of Diamondus, but I added a quick ending just to make it feel more complete. I actually had to download a few samples specifically to make this one. I couldn't find any timbales, though, so I had to make do with a hard tom. Believe it or not, that bassline was actually fun to recreate. If I could say one thing about the work of the original composers, it would be that it's amazing how they can write melodies that sound so complex when they actually aren't; mainly, they just use alot of octaves.
...I thought that there were more than that. Oh, well... There are more coming. All of these were composed on either FL Studio 7 or 8, so it proves that it's more than dance that you can write on that. Anyway, any kind of constructive or positive criticism is appreciated, and, as I said, if you have any of your, own, feel free to show them off here.