SquareSaw is a little project about remixing old gametunes, mainly from the C64, but also NES/SNES.
This project started under a different name and got quite far in a very short time, including a few livegigs and such, but the whole thing came to a grinding halt due to different reasons.
There are still plans for the future and a shitload of Samples/Sourcefiles to work with, but at the moment all there is are some pretty amazing tracks and a Myspace-Page that you can use to make friends.
As for the tracks, the best ones are:
Last Ninja 3 Intro Remix (C64)
Quite an amazing track that I am still very proud of, I think I managed to blend the C64-Sounds very nicely together with a Dub-inspired approach and made a really flowing hypnotic tune.
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Maniac Mansion Remix (C64)
The insane theme of Maniac Mansion in an instrumental hiphop-context.
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Turrican Level 5 Background Music Remix (C64)
The original track is really astonishing, it appears to be originally written for a speedmetal-band or similar, it’s just amazing powerchord-progressions all the way with a bassline and drums on the second voice (third voice is reserved for ingame-FX). I made a nice little D&B-Smasher out of this.
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Super Mario 2 Character Select Screen Remix (NES)
And finally the tune that was most fun to do. Most people probably never heard this one because you usually just select your character and start the game. For this I went back to a concept of mine that I have been doing for several projects so far and that I like to call “PC-Punk”. The Drums and Guitars are VST-Plugins, the Bassguitar has been recorded. Really nice little smasher.
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