Headdy is captured and rejected by Dark Demon's forces, and is dropped into the dust cargo to be thrown into the incinerator. Strong sauce, you two."Īgreed kudos to Dustin & Mokram for working hard to make this mix shine in the best possible light.Headdy arrives in North Town to find that the evil puppet King Dark Demon is in the midst of attacking the puppet town to select which of the peaceful toys should be scrapped and which should be converted into his evil minions. Dunno what issues held this back before, but they ain't here now.
A small thought, but I also loved the Eastern instruments at 2:54 for a great dynamic shift before the finish nice touch there. a HEAVY arrangement with lots of energy and some overall strong instrumentation. I haven't heard rock/metal so thoroughly embedded with traditional Japanese folk/theater components, and it's a very fun ride, especially if you're familiar with the latter from anime or other sources. Truly an awesome job this is a ReMix where one artist brought the overall structure and musical core of the arrangement, and the other added a key component that brought the whole thing to life. I only took care of the ethnic parts, mixed the song, and found a translation to the title that wasn't involving "bad luck." D "Zenpyou" means "omen" or "harbinger," which reflects the ominous nature of both the source song and that puppeteer boss fight, known in-game as "The Battle Show." As far as the collab process goes, DusK did most of the job on this arrangement. I added some ethnic flavor on top of Dustin's awesome shreddage, including some dizi, shakuhachi, shamisen, koto, taiko drums, otsuzumi and shime-daiko. "'Ohnami Konami' (and the game sequence associated with it) contains the heaviest and most direct reference to the art of ningyo joruri (or Japanese puppet theater), which is something I absolutely wanted to bring into the remix as well.īlending together two genres as radically different as traditional/folklore music and rock/metal was a bit of a fun challenge. We've heard (and loved) plenty of arrangements that incorporate Asian or specifically Japanese instrumentation into rock, EDM, orchestral, etc., but what makes this mix different is the superb lengths Mokram went to & the diegetic link to the game's own universe he writes: So I asked Dj Mokram to hook me up with a WAV of his sections, and then re-recorded all of my parts from scratch, changed up the drums a bit with better samples and such, and varied up that organ a bit so it's not always centered and fits into the mix better."Įxcellent work cleaning things up - the arrangement deserved it and was well-served by the enhancements. I like to think I've grown quite a bit in my abilities since then. 100% of the judges production crits were about my side of the arrangement: lacking high end, bad balance on the rock side of things, etc, etc. We subbed this remix to OC ReMix around the time Secret Bonus Point was released back in 2011.
When Dj Mokram brought his idea to the table, I listened to a few HeavensDust tracks for inspiration and tailored some of the track specifically to allow him to really explore the leftover space with Japanese instruments, and it turned out way better than I imagined it would. I wanted to preserve the feel of the boss fight in my output, so I tried to really give this mix a tense, yet climactic sound, kind of like if I was making the mix for a remake of the game and setting it to that same boss fight. "I love the source material, it's one of my favorite tracks in the game, and I was really able to pour my heart out into this mix. Originally from KNGI's 2011 Dynamite Headdy tribute album Secret Bonus Point, we continue our quintet of Sega Genesis tunage with a crazy-awesome blend of rock/metal and Asian instrumentation from DusK & Dj Mokram the former writes:
Snacks'N Jaxson sadly doesn't make the cut, primarily because the game's title does not divulge the key decapitation mechanic, but also because it's terrible and manages to simultaneously offend clowns, gameplay, AND breakfast. Dynamite Headdy is right up there with DecapAttack in the annals of intuitively-titled games where your primary form of offense involves willful severance of your head from your body.
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