Video Game Remixes
All music pertaining to video game covers, arrangements and remixes.
Altered Gangsta
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Nau, Toshio Kai – SOURCE: Altered Beast (Game Over) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Loops, Phat Beats | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 9 “Non-Sonic Sega Games”: May 2nd, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
TONY IS DOING HIP HOP!? WHAT IS HAPPENING!? DID SOMEONE DIVIDE BY ZERO!? Well, it’s kinda hip hop. Hip hop was the original intention, but since it was instrumental it turned out being more funk than anything, but Will Smith could totally rap over this song if he wanted to….*cough* *cough*…uh…yeah…
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Neo Turf-Square Masters
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Takushi Hiyamuta – SOURCE: Neo Turf Masters (Grand Canyon Golf Course) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Crappy Fake Saxophone | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 8 “SNK Games”: March 14th, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
Do you like T-Square? I know I do. This song totally SCREAMED T-Square when I first heard it, so I did the arrangement in T-Square fashion. Not proud of the fake sax or lead guitars, I’ll fix them later.
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Lewenda’s Lovemuffin
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: John Baker – SOURCE: Toejam & Earl 2: Panic in Funkotron (Lewenda’s Love) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 7 “Sequels”: January 23rd, 2010 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
One of my best attempts at a Punchfest song. I did this because the source has the absolute phattest bassline ever written. This Punchfest track also inspired me to do a full Toejam & Earl album which will (hopefully) be released next MAGfest. This track isn’t the original Punchfest version, I’ve worked on it a lot and the last thing left is redoing the guitars. For the original Punchfest version go HERE. The intro clip is of supremely funky bass player Sekou Bunch going nuts over his new bass.
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BRICKWALLER
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Jake “virt” Kaufman – SOURCE: Contra 4 (Base) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Strings, Percussion | |
| GENRE: MEHTUHL | |
From the arrangement album CONTRA 4: ROCKED ‘N’ LOADED. SERIOUSLY, IF YOU HAVEN’T BOUGHT THIS YET THEN THERE’S SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH YOU!NOTES: After 2 freakin’ bullshit-filled, bad luck-ridden years, Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded has been released! From 11 of the most metal people in the remixing community, we have delivered only the most manly metal album ever created. With music from BrainCells, Chris Dlugosz, Christian Pacaud, Danimal Cannon, Marc-Andre Gingras, norg, Norrin_Radd, Prince of Darkness, Snappleman, Travis Moberg and the game’s very own composer, virt, the album has 13 tracks of face-melting, testicular-fortitude improving crotch rock. …and here’s a track! My arrangement of the Base level in pure metal form. We’ve also released norg’s track “Balls of Steel” at the album’s main website. So GO HERE to check it out AND BUY IF YOU HAVEN’T YOU JERK. |
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This Chase is Haunted
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: David Wise – SOURCE: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest – (Haunted Chase) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths | |
| GENRE: Metal | |
From the OCR project DKC2: SERIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS.NOTES: OverClocked Remix released it’s 17th album a couple weeks ago. DKC2: Serious Monkey Business has been in the works for about 2.5 years and is the best OCR album since Project Chaos. Many people think it’s the best one yet. I’m happy to be just a small part of it. My song, “This Chase is Haunted” (play of words off of the video game band “This Place is Haunted”) is a relatively simpler arrangement style as compared to my other arrangements. I actually seemed to have a little bit more difficulty arranging the source because it was pretty much the same motif over and over, so I had to add a lot of original stuff (and a Lamb of God reference) to push the song just barely past the 3 minute mark. It’s short and sweet I suppose, and we can’t have 7+ minute epics all the time! As a funny sidenote, ever since I got on DKC2, projected deadlines and release dates have always been within a week or two of Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded’s dates and deadlines. So SnappleMan and I kept trying to plan around this, but it always came back to bite us. |
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SnappleMann is an A**hole
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Scott Schreer – SOURCE: NFL on Fox, MLB on Fox |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Brass, Strings, Percussion | |
| GENRE: Epic Sports Theme | |
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JUST RENAMED THIS BACK TO “SNAPPLEMANN…” BECAUSE PUD’S DUDS IS GOING BE NAMED “PARAGON…” NOTES: So uh…this song…yeah…Let me give you a little backstory. Early February I decided I wanted to participate in the Dwelling of Duels of that month, the theme was Sports Games. I talked to Snappleman about it, and we decided to collaborate. We brainstormed several ideas but never settled on anything. Finally, Snappleman gets the idea that he and I should have an epic DoD battle, where he would cover the NBA on NBC theme, and I would do the NFL on Fox theme. Both are in video games. So we start trash-talking and I get pumped up. Snappleman sends me a link to the NHL on ESPN theme, which is likewise as epic and he tells me that he was going to add it to his song. Not about to let him one-up me, I added the MLB on Fox theme. The battle was ON! …but Snappleman flaked out a day later and told me he wouldn’t do his song. I kept on trucking, because I was hoping that he would make the song 3 days before deadline (which he always does, mind you), but if he didn’t then I still had a cool song to enter. But time apparently was not on my side in February, and I found myself scrambling hardcore to finish up the track, and I was in Super-Punchfest mode the day of deadline to get tangible material in to compete. The shred section was meant to fill length and really didn’t add much musical content. But, apparently I had another dilemma. Those sports themes were not created for video games, and there’s been a constant debate and grey area over at DoD about such songs. Not to mention, there was no section created on the DoD page to address music of this manner, but I was way too far in, I submitted, and prayed that Paragon would understand, and I threatened to kick his ass if he disqualified me. So he did. This is why Paragon is also an asshole. Without negotiation, my track was demoted to Alternate and taken out of competition. It was originally named “SnappleMann is an Asshole (part 1)” obviously because of aforementioned reasons, but also because this track is more of a beta track and I will develop it into the original vision I had for it. It’s not NEARLY the song I want it to be. Plus, it’s a parody of a couple of Snappleman’s song names: “Manning Up (part 1)” and “Where No Mann Has Gone Before (part 1)” So just be wary. You might think this arrangement rocks, you might think it sucks, but do know there’s a LOT more to come and I guarantee it will give you chest hair and increase your testicular fortitude when you hear the final version. |
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Toejam & Hurl 2: The Eyes of Satan
ULTRA! Lemmings
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ORIGINAL ARTISTS: Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, Malc Jennings, Tony Williams, Tim Wright, Jeroen Tel – SOURCE: Super Lemmings |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 5 “Sunsoft vs. Data East”: July 12th, 2009 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
Good ol’ Lemmings. Cutesy music in a goofy medley with cartoon SFX.
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The Kollosal Kotsamanidis Klub
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SOURCE: Over Drive |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 3 “Konami Arcade Games”: June 7th, 2009 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
Ever heard of Over Drive? Neither have I. Over Drive is an old school Konami game from the early 80′s. I don’t know who the original composer is, as SnappleMan sent me the song and told me to do it. So I did. I named the song after him, since his real name is Andreas Kotsamanidis. |
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Black Bad Drum Quantization Society
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ORIGINAL ARTIST: Isao Abe – SOURCE: Saturday Night Slam Masters (Titanic Tim) |
| ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson | |
| INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards | |
| PROJECT: Punchfest 2 “Wrestling Games”: April 19th, 2009 | |
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NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Kwakfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).
This Punchfest was the second ever, and I also only had 90 minutes to make something. Since I play drums on keyboards, I had very little time to make sure everything was right, therefore, I quantized once and submitted.
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