ReMix:Blaster Master "Fear My Lowering Coefficient of Friction" 4:24

Golly, this is just fucking exploding with legendariness. Legendaryiness is a word I just invented in order to adequately describe the merits of this mix, since no other words would do.

This is a real chugger. Beautifully distorted and slick in a gravelly sort of way. The holy music of guitar-wielding archangels.

So maybe I'm overdoing it. But the point is, this is of top quality and I liked it a whole bunch. Winnar.

This was my favorite NES game EVA. I loved the into, the bgm, the story, the gameplay. And this remix made me love it all over again.

Heh, nice work I used this song as background music for a Physics extra credit video about coefficients of friction, so even though the music was completely irrelevant I can't help but think that the obscurity of the title gave me a few points

Really rockin' though, I don't have much more to say but I enjoyed it!

This is meaty. It's so meaty, it's served with a side of chips and gravy

I was pulled in from the start. The rhythm guitar in this is fantastic and from 0:30 onwards, it was really groovin' (but the again, i like that particular part because the lead and rhythm got a bit more dirty'n'gritty, and I like that). Solo from 3:22 onwards blew me away, the tone of it was high and soaring.

Great playing and a groovin' rhythm, I love it.

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All I know is that the final segment of this song is one of my favorite minutes in music. It's an awesome ride.

My first system was the SNES, so I haven't played many NES games. When I heard this rockin' awesome remix, I checked it out, and it's actually fun. Maybe I'll have to get a copy sometime.

I loved this tune at first hearing it. It brings up in the mind, a Massive HR Giger scene, as you have a large marine group, massive and almost army in scale descending down towards a hive seen from space, the aliens not once stopping in the assault from start to finish of the song. When it seems to quiet, then shifts tune, you almost wonder "what happened?" like a sudden plot twist in a movie. The last minute, you catch the listener up in a great bittersweet moment, and right at end, twist it yet again to leave us wanting more.

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The rhythm parts on this are completely incredible. Meshuggah-esque, without the time-signature wankery. The fact that your rhythm tone is pristine and crunchy as hell, as well as played super tight really sells this track. I'll say it again: Phenomenal rhythm playing.

The lead tones vary from decent to really good, and the synth touches are excellent (especially good is the counterpoint a little after halfway on top of the super-syncopated riff. Completely metal).

I think the drums are too dry in a few areas, especially near the beginning when they are more exposed, but when the track gets busier, it fits perfectly.

Superb arrangement, great playing, and tight production.

This one is a clear winner.

I actually agree with KogeJoe, but I don't know this source tune well enough to be bothered by it in this particular mix. It does bother me when people screw up the chord progressions in mixes of songs like the Dark World (Zelda 3) or Big Blue (F-Zero) themes, mostly because it doesn't sound like reinterpretation, but rather, misinterpretation.

One thing I've gotta say is, I'm a stickler for keeping true to the original melody line. Hate to say it, but the guitar is off in more places than one. Maybe problems with accuracy? You can always play it off as "it's my arrangement," but I don't wanna hear that crap. Once you delve into improv, you are free, but at the beginning, when the melody was introduced, I was put off by the ad-lib of some parts. It would be nice to hear the guitarist give me the original melody at least ONCE in the arrangement, and true to the game music.

Yes, clearly to make a viable arrangement, you just have to reference the melody verbatim. None of that "interpretation" crap.

It's his arrangement. Tough shit if you didn't get exactly what you wanted. No one has to reference a melody verbatim; that doesn't make any arrangement inherently better.

Yeah I did simplify the bassline in a few parts.

The one during the intro where it goes root-4-5-octave at the end of the intro, I probably could have pulled off by doing bass tapping in hindsight. I would still fudge it a little bit since that particular pattern doesn't lend itself to tapping too well, I probably would just stay up at the octave a little instead of going back down to the root. I could have gotten it perfect if I punch in every rising arpeggio seperate if I was feeling ambitious.

I'm a lefthanded player and I borrow a righthanded bass to record with. That makes a few of the basslines a huge sonofabitch to play.

During the 6-7-8 chord section with the double kick I didn't match the original bassline because I wanted to lock in with the doublekick because that was the way I specifically wanted that part arranged. The switching back and forth between the root and 5th there on the bass wouldn't have fit in very well with the guitar rhythm, or it just would have gotten lost in the mix unless I boosted it to a stupidly high level. I was tempted to throw in sweep arpeggios in that part, but I had a similar thing in a mix last year.

When you refer to the 1-7chord part I have no idea which part you're talking about give a time reference.

It's been a while since I've posted, and those that have read my posts before know that I can get pretty nasty. I could follow the "if you can't say something nice" rule, but then, what would posts and forums like these be if all you heard was praise? You gotta get negative feedback at somepoint. It's the whole point of publishing your works. Take the good with the bad.

First, I liked the thought of hearing this piece in actual instrumentation. Love the effects and the improv in this arrangement. Hearing many things at once.

One thing I've gotta say is, I'm a stickler for keeping true to the original melody line. Hate to say it, but the guitar is off in more places than one. Maybe problems with accuracy? You can always play it off as "it's my arrangement," but I don't wanna hear that crap. Once you delve into improv, you are free, but at the beginning, when the melody was introduced, I was put off by the ad-lib of some parts. It would be nice to hear the guitarist give me the original melody at least ONCE in the arrangement, and true to the game music. Not to mention a lot of the time the guitar was LATE as hell. Annoys the hell out of me to hear an instrument trying to catch up. The other thing I've gotta complain about at the beginning of the piece is the un-changing base-line. The game is much more elaborate, and again, it just sounds like the player isn't competent enough. (Sorry, he may be a competent player, but this line doesn't change at all. If he/she is a better player, it isn't doing him/her much justice...) Is it that hard to play the root, 5th and root again up top at the same time? And is it really that hard to shift between a i and vii chord on a base?

Otherwise, I thought it was an awesome idea. Sunsoft tends to have really good, nostalgic bits of music in its games, and Blaster Master is no exception. I've heard very little at OCRemix that I've liked from Blaster Master, and I actually like this one. Interesting work in the changing meters. And this may be just me, but I swear I can hear some influence from the Doom department. Love the echo effect in the electric guitar at 3:30.

Some sharpening of the melody would be nice. It makes the player sound like he/she has a really bad ear, or that he/she is getting a little bit to creative. But overall, good work.

I (and many other people) have been enjoying this for about 6 months now. It's one of my favorite DODs ever -- nice to see it on OCR so that it can get more ears.

Ok, those guitars are awesome. But the drums aren't real, are they? Even though very nicely arranged, they're a little weak, and this song would have been better still with some "rawer" drums - particularily the snare drum feels a little "held back". Also, the drums are so perfectly in tempo all the time, unlike the guitars, which causes a little friction (see what I did there?) between the live and the non-live parts. Other than that... nice work!

Great "prog-metal" arrangement! I wasn't so keen about this mix at the start, but the part that begins 01:15 totally won me over. The beginning sounds good to me now as well. Minor flaw of this tune is that to me the non-solo lead sound is a wee bit tinny. More serious flaw is that the drums have a mechanical feel to them and would in my opinion benefit from a more "roomy" sound, they don't much blend with the other instruments which I would prefer. But I have to say the drum arrangement itself is creative, versatile and enjoyable!

The use of the choir synth at 02:51 is a fantastic touch. It really makes the part. Very nice solo of course too. No arbitary wankery there. Nice "gliding" sound. I like the ending as it is. I much prefer that cut-off with reverb to a fadeout. EDIT: Whoops, I now realize that there's a cutoff in the reverbed stuff; true, that's an unfortunate glitch.

--Eino