Andrea Baroni - Aztec Challenge (run of despair)
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Duration:
3:46
Released:
25/02/2007
Charts position:
52. in the year 2007
788. in all-time charts
788. in all-time charts
Score:
88%
Story
Well…now you might say: "no, not another Aztec Challenge remix!!" …but it was spinning through my brain for many months by now, 'cause I belived it was worth a new arrangment, a bit different from the others.
I know, maybe it's not perfect, but it's a work from the heart, for one of my favourite C64 games.
Maybe even the game it's not perfect, it could be repetitive and the graphic s it's not always "brilliant", but I always believed to be an addictive game, with a great intriguing theme…..and I always loved the first scene with the poor fella running through the spears (very drammatic! 😉 ).
So…just a tribute, for all the hours spent with my dad when I was just a kid, trying to pass that fu**#ing first level, and for a very intense Sid, made by one of my favourite composers.
Thanks to Francesco Caprina for the guitar parts!
I know, maybe it's not perfect, but it's a work from the heart, for one of my favourite C64 games.
Maybe even the game it's not perfect, it could be repetitive and the graphic s it's not always "brilliant", but I always believed to be an addictive game, with a great intriguing theme…..and I always loved the first scene with the poor fella running through the spears (very drammatic! 😉 ).
So…just a tribute, for all the hours spent with my dad when I was just a kid, trying to pass that fu**#ing first level, and for a very intense Sid, made by one of my favourite composers.
Thanks to Francesco Caprina for the guitar parts!
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I'll appologise right now for never liking Paul Norman's work. So, It's quite hard for me to judge this correctly.
Absolutely spot on. Really nice rendition of the original complete with loud rocking guitars and nice ethnic instruments. Sounds a bit less Industrial than Reyn's version but all the better for it.
Woooahhh, it's.... A.... New kind of arrangement.
Awesome intro, to bad some sounds are a bit disorted.
I think that you lost the feeling for the whole tune by concentrating on the (really! ) perfect sound of the instruments. In parts: outstanding, but overall only a "very good" ;)
Interesting. It's nicely epic, takes some ace diversions, has some great sounds.
A seriously different take on this tune, and for some reason it really does catch my ear.. Bloody nice.
The harmonics is sometimes all over the place, but not with enough hardon to justify it. But it is an interesting remix.
Yeah I love aztec challenge, I expected lotsa piano. To my suprise it didn't have that, but the guitar and other instuments togheter with the piano makes this my fav. AC to date.
Very good atmosphere, I think the best aztec mix
Maybe another aztec challenge remix and a new kind of arrangement, but one of the best aztec challenge remixes I´ve come across so far.
Intro is great! Sound is not clear.
What is this? A new talent? Nice work.:-)
I'm impressed nice pace and feeling.
Very good!! I hope this arranger will work also on other gams :)
Yeah, the despair and the frustration definitely gets thru! =) I like the arrangement, some of the instruments could use refining, though (like that annoying analog lead). Not the strings: they sound nice!
I love it, especially piano sequence
Could have been a red one - intro and mood is fantastic, but there are timing issues with the first guitar part and some instruments seem very unbalanced in the mix.
Thiz gets a red even with timing issues (not only the first guitar part) - but we need much more of new ideas...
Its a very good mix and yes there are issues - but its nice to see a new side to something - nice work
Suspance, pathos, wonderful!
Starts out very nice, with the piano and everything. But then the guitar ruins it. And the drums? Are they supposed to sound tribal or something? Doesn't work for me.
Good effort, but it just sounded a bit too messy to me.
Wonderfull version of a great (IMO) SID!! Wonderfull choice of instruments..
Great interpretation, fantastic, please make more
I would have given it an outstanding, if it weren't for the moodkilling piano at the end.... Nevertheless: great tune!
Differnet and Good
Unbelievable Remix! I can feeling myself ducking and jumping the spears!
Very nice. Just like the game
Outstanding
Not bad, not bad at all. Just a bit too noisy towards the end.
There isn't much to the original, so I really was curious about this one... Well... Fabulous! Very well done. The first guitar leads sound kind of messy to me, but maybe that's just because rock guitars really aren't my 'thing'. For the rest, superb!
Liked the shouting crowd at 1:45 very much.
Very suspenseful and heavy. I like it. The intro rocks!
Brilliance!
Gives the felling 100% back. Mixing and effects could be better but of course outstanding
It has the heart
If the statement 'it is as sick as the original' works as a compliment, well, then it's a compliment. Great work!
Review by LMan
24/02/2007
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Some of the melody variations don't seem to work very well, because the original arrangement is so powerful - kind of disappointed anticipation.
Still - very good effort, only so close from being really outstanding.