video game arrangements
it all started with pingosimon's thread on the minibosses message board. pingo made his interpretation of the theme with vocals and everyone started making versions of their own in their own style and language. i made one, too.
despite a few issues i'm generally happy with how it turned out.
last night i was sitting here playing my keyboard (if you could call that playing...) and felt like doing something. then i stumbled upon the thing that the strings play at the beginning of this song. i thought, why not! then i estimated that it would take me about four hours to do this. pretty much four hours later, i was done. the next day i tweaked some stuff for about 10 or 15 minutes.
this is a pretty straightforward cover. it plays the same thing twice and on the third time it fades out. pretty standard stuff.
source song: Death volcano (plays at Mt Pyre). made this one for may 2007 DoD (fire VS ice!)(external link) and got seventh place. i went for something different this time. my goal was to make this song atmospheric and mostly calm, and i think i succeeded pretty well. there's "standstill" in the title because i think it reflects the piece's feeling of "not going anywhere". i know the fake sax is pretty horrible, but for now i can't be arsed to do anything about that (though do contact me if you wish to record live sax for that part :P).
my entry to april 2007 DoD(external link) (placed first). tweaked a bit from the DoD version, should sound "better". sorry, i'm really out of praise and/or background story right now. just download and enjoy.
my alt entry to april 2007 DoD(external link). it's kind of funny. yeah, you're supposed to laugh at/with this. headbanging is also allowed.
i battled it out in stage one, round three of AkumuHau's Street Musician competition against Small child David with this cover/arrangement, and emerged victorious! it's a rather straightforward cover once again, with little actual arrangement. except that i added a solo section.