Totta - Tetris - OxyMix

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My third remix for RKO

As you all are all aware of, Tetris is a really hard song to cover. Not only is Wally Beben's amazing song 25 minutes long but it also uses a rythm that is out of this world, making all attempts to remix it to sound more like a remake than a remix.

But there are also so much talent in the song. Wally really poured all his creative genious and artistic musical skills into this one. I'm sure noone could have done it better and it surely must be the musical masterpiece of his life so I still wanted to give it a try.

So how would I approach it?

I first tried it as a techno song but soon realized that the song's 3/4'ish rythm with a twist got totally lost in a straight 4/4 world. All soul just went out the window. I then persued it as a reggae song which actually translated quite well but I don't have the skills to make a reggae song sound realistic so that was also a dead end for me.

Finally I thought like this: Ok, the song is pretty close to a double time walz anyway. What songs are out there using this rythm (besides 90% of Iron Maiden's work?) Then it struck me… Oxygene 4 by JMJ uses that very rythm so why not create a mashup between them, just to see if it works!

So I sat down and tried to recreate the sound from Oxy4 but with the melody from Tetris instead… and it actually worked quite well.
Sure, it's not 25 minutes anymore, sure it's in a different rythm than the original, sure there's a more dominant bass drum in it, sure there's an electric guitar at the end. But it's still Tetris, right?

And before you ask: Yes of course it's intentional that I have changed the original chord progression in a few places to use the ones from Oxygene 4 instead. That was just to poke fun at their similarities. I'm a huge Jarre fan myself so I kindof like the end result quite much.

The question is: Can anybody find the original drum samples in my mix? They're there as an homage.

Another question is: How on earth did I find the time to do this remix when I also released this at the same time:
https://market.android.com/search?q=rummyfight&so=1&c=apps

1 c64 charts November 2011