Tim Forsyth - Scarabaeus - The Escape

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Duration:
5:12
Released:
24/04/2023
All-Time charts position:
41
Score:
96%
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I've been wanting to make something from this memorable tune for ages and figured I'd do something I never managed as a kid, escape.

 

The arrangement constantly kept me on my toes (being a terrible keyboard player) as the original keeps changing key and seems to be half built from sus chords. My poor brain keeping track of all those chord inversions in keys I don't use very often was often disorientating.

 

After submitting the track, I kept hearing these big resonant peaks from the bass in the car and once you hear something, you can't unhear it. Also the sub-bass was a good 1.5db louder or so and was a bit much on an old pair of headphones. So this is a note to future Tim.. listen to the final mix on as many devices as possible *before* submitting the track!

 

I fixed the mixing issue and resubmitted. Hope it's come out ok.

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Very nice one! + superb usage of the sub
Starts to become good from 1:19 and awesome from 4:05!
The quite ambitious low end is entirely under control and sounds great - the whole remix is (to me at least) a substantial improvement of the original!
This just builds and builds and suddenly it's massive, without ever becoming overwhelming. Brilliant job, Tim!
Very cool, not heard this one before, eats the original. Good job.
This is truly inspiring work!!!!!! Thankyou!!
Review by LaLa
24/04/2023

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Sounds like a hit soundtrack from a 1990s blockbuster movie. Amazing combination of synths, pads and other elements as it builds up to a crescendo , which suddenly ends, only to be followed by yet another amazing buildup in the second half. Tim: this is just superb! What a fantastic tribute to an old game from a Hungarian software powerhouse!

UPDATE: The more I listen to this remix, the more I admire it. This is sooo good!