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20rd
Game: Kirby's Dream Land 3 *Remix
Title: Iceberg
Composer: Jun Ishikawa, Retro Remix Revue
Nominator: @DoctorJimmy133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgsHRAUj9c

of course as I've said a bunch of times in this topic that considered myself a fan of kirby music. But despite that, I actually never noticed how cool this particular song was before until hearing this remix of it for this topic. I say that a lot of why I like kirby music is how much it reminds me of jazz fusion...but the original of this i never comprehended just how jazz fusiony it was until this remix alerted to me to exactly how well it can fit within that style!

i think part of what obfuscates how well it aligns with my jazz fusion tastes in the original;;;;is that it exudes a very "cartoony" exterior in the original there, and now that IS something i like about kirby. but like when i hear the transposy chord clusters in the original i'm thinkin GOOFY CARTOON as opposed to in THIS instrumentation, where instead i think "ITS JUST LIKE ONE OF MY FAVORITE BANDS TRIBAL TECH"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOT2nINfcE

my favorite bit of this iceberg remix is probably just the start, this cool synth chord transposing around. it's done in a particular way where i find it hard to tell the difference between individual notes in the chord and like "overtones" or whatever, like i find myself unconsciously thinkin "is this just the timbre? or a deliberate Note" and i think that FEELINg is cool, it's actually not that easy to achieve, usually something will solidify itself as one thing or the other to me. but yeah transposing chords around is one of the quickest way to make me like something, especially if the imagery it creates to me winds up being like "cluster of synthetic object teleporting between positions in reality" which this does.

there's so m any fucking cool sounds in this all around. elements i can't tell whether they are a synth or an acoustic instrument all over the place.

a lot of times in this type of rhythmically erratic fusion, i accidentally filter out a lot of bits that'd actually be the coolest parts to me if i were paying attention. here that synth solo in the middle has some CRAZY interactions with the drumss. deliberate shifts to the focus of the music being centered around a completely different grid and stuff like that. they'll be a looping sequence the synth player plays and the drums will follow it in a playful mathematical way that can ALSO on a glance be filtered and interpreted as "smooth and loose". the full circle between [rigid and mathematical]<->[smooth and loose] i think is something i like about this area of jaz fusion. or even "live played 'complex stuff' " as a whole maybe

oh yeah this song goes into odd time for some short blips and that is so fun

so i decided to look up who Retro Remix Revue even was, and i have found out that they are "Blaine McGurty" and have worked on Skullgirls? well that does explain a bit, having a reference point to some of the other material they have been entangled with

wait...WHAT?! WHAT THE FUCK. THE GUITARIST ON THIS SONG IS ........Alex Machacek !?!! HOW

in case you do not know (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Machacek) Alex Machacek has played with Planet X/Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, and also Eddie Jobson of UK, and uhhh. I saw him live at an Allan Holdsworth tribute concert (he was one of the "replacement guitarists" after it became a "tribute to allan holdsworth" concert instead of an "allan holdsworth" concert since allan holdsworth died between the tour date announcement and the concert itself) all sorts of other people he has played with who are names i namedrop as musicians that i like all the time. fucking wild.

I actually consider alex machacek one of my favorite guitaritsts, but i had no fucking clue this was him until typing this part of this writeup around the midnight that happens between apr6th and 7th. how in the world have i been listening to th is track because of this topic for 5 years and didn't even realize it contained one of my favorite guitar players here. thank you for the informative information vgmdb

here is a track featuring alex machacek that i like a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGqeDQT5I0

i still can't believe this...

anyways i was going to comment about how i liked the guitar parts of iceberg (especially how all the guitar volume sweepy distant echoy effects reminded me of "chill parts of planet x songs" (haha)) but then i found THAT out and now i am out of words. my brain has exploded that i did not know this for so long. no idea how they even managed to get someone from the "real jazz fusion / prog metal" world like alex on this humble vgm cover, but i am certainly glad that it is a thing that exists.

(actually all the guest musicians involved on this retro remix revue track are people i'm like "WTF how did they get this guy", bassist toured with chick corea and hiromi and stuff. but i'm particularly fixating on Alex_Machacek because i do legit consider him among my favorite guitarists...now that allan holdsworth is dead, at this time possibly my favorite living guitarist i can think of besides pat metheny...)