trauma - Cauldron II - I am a Pumpkin Man
438. in all-time charts
0:00 - 0:50 Day 1.
Wow, this is the most amazing game I have ever seen… The control is so… wow … I mean… WOW!!!hmmm… This is getting a bit repetitive, and I am not getting anywhere. Is this difficult or am I missing tomething?
0:50 - 1:21 Day 2.
Can't sleep… must be doing something wrong… Keeps jumping into skeletons… What's wrong?
1:21 - 1:53 Night 2.
Okay. Steely determination will do the trick. I will keep on playing until i start to get somewhere!!!
1:53 - 2:24 Morning 3.
F**k, F**k, F**k… Still no better that I was to begin with. GodD***!!!
2:24 - 2:53 Afternoon 3.
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2:53 - 3:01 Evening 3.
I HATE YOU PALACE SOFTWARE! I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN!!!"
3:01 - 3:09 Night 3.
3:09 - 3:10 Early morning 4. (Throwing the game in the trash-can)
2 c64 charts February 2003
1 Best c64 Remix
1 Most Innovative Remix (c64 or Amiga)
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I think this mp3 has a very limited and special target group. It's not anything I would recommend as a download.
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This version offers everything. A typical acapella Trauma start with a 21st century beat kicking in at the right moment. Then building up to a Nine Inch Nails kind of final haunting you way after the tune has finished. If that isn't in spirit with the (mostly hard and frustrating) game I have no idea what is!
I can imagine that a lot of people from the BIT generation are not into this kind of mixing but condemning them for that would be unfair. Because in my opinion it is all still about creativity and fun…
Bit muddy on the mixing, though, for the techno-boffins but nonetheless great!
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I'll be pumpking you. Isn't that supposed to be _humpin'_? 😃
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I'll rate this average for technical and artistic impression because the outcome isn't technically bad. The nostalgic impression doesn't exist for me, because I don't see a relationship here to the C64 nor have I ever played the original game.
I can't stand listening to this tune, but some people will think the opposite, so the arrangeur need not worry. 😉
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I am pumpkin man!
ADDENDUM: Recently I've been listening a lot to this awesome tune, thanks to re-discovering it on the BIT Live DVD. My only gripe about it now is that when the purely a cappella part ends and the drums kick in, the signature base of the original tune (I am a Pumpkin Man and I'll be jumping… jump, jump, jump, jump, jump) is no more. That's a bit of a shame, but I still think the remix is awesome as is. Can't get enough of Pumpkin Man! PS: This will be played a lot on Halloween night to scare the trick-or-treating kids…
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I want more of it! Much more!
Trauma put togheter high quality and well chosen samples, mix and arrange everything perfectly and makes one one of the most original (if not *the* most original) remixes out there.
The final bits are simply outstanding.
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definitly a hit for the dancefloor, i like the details in the voice arrangment and this deep-mad-grooving bassline at the end, before the track stops suddenly… for this ending i can give only 😊)instead of the 😊)) in Artistic Impression 😉
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a really strange acapella start smashes my bad expectations. the tune enfolds, so the original score comes through. what i thought to be an annoying remix of an annoying sid turned into an amusing, wierd and funny tune with a replay-value. it turns to a stomping, sinister parody. did somebody mentioned nine inch nails? the latter half would classify as a soundtrack for a warped quake episode.definately not the music i would play at normal parties, this tune comes with a big wink-wink in the eye.
i LOVE it! NYAHAHAHAAA… oops.
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(sorry, I can't say much more, becase my eglish is a little creepy, but this song is impressive…)
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It's quite a surprise once the beat starts but it all works better than could be expected, although after the first high point it never reaches another climax.
Top marks for originality, something which lifts this remix above most other songs on RKO.
Finally the remix seems to perfectly capture the untangible madness of a lunatic getting more and more insanely frustrated (a situation we all can relate to when trying to beat a monstrously difficult game at 3 am in the morning).
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Just a small thing… since I'm spanish my written english is more or less decent but my spoken one is rather jerky… Could someone post the lyrics just to see if I got them right? I don't know if I'll be pumpkin' you just like pumpkins do and I'm a pumpkin man I love to jump, jump, jumpjumpjump are 100% accurate, or if I'm missing some lyrics along the way…
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This is indeed, a fine tune! Top rated Trauma - showing his individual class - well done.
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One of my absolute favourite remixes, weird atmosphere and funny vocals.
A bit better than the great schizophreniac mix from forbidden forest.
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I couldn't find the lyrics posted anywhere (and some people seemed to be curious about them), so I had a quick couple of listens and jotted down what I could make out. They're not official of course (as I'm merely a fellow listener), and I can't guarantee their accuracy, but I think they're correct for the most part. I couldn't make out most of the a cappella vocals, nor could I discern the 'low grumbling' from 1:30-1:37. Regardless, I have included them below:
I'm a pumpkin man
I'm a pumpkin man
I'm a pumpkin man
I'm a pumpkin man
a, a
[a cappella vocals enter]
I'm a pumpkin man
a, a
I'm a pumpkin man
a, a
I'm a pumpkin man
a, a
I'm a pumpkin man
(g-good day)
[repeats in background]
Aaaaowww…
Aaaaowww…
[following two stanzas in tandem]
I'll be jumpin' you
Just like pumpkins do
I'm a pumpkin man and I'll be chosen like a pumpkin because
I'm a pumpkin man and I will jump, jump, jump-jump-jump
I'm a pumpkin, I'm a pumpkin, I'm a pumpkin, I'm a pumpkin
Jumping, Jumping, Jumping, Jumping, Jumping, Jumping, Jumping, Jumping
Aaaaowww…
Aaaaowww…
I'll be jumpin' you
Just like pumpkins do
[break section with low grumbling]
I'll be jumpin' you
Just like pumpkins do
Aaaaowww…
Aaaaowww…
I'll be jumpin' you
Just like pumpkins do
Whoooaaa…
I'm a pumpkin man
I'm a pumpkin man
I'm a motherfuckin' pumpkin man
I'm a pumpkin man
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I wouldn't have thought it was possible to make a remix of this SID I'd like even more than the 909Sadist's! But here it is! (be sure to check them both out) 😃