What If N. Sanity Beach Went Full Metal? | Crash Bandicoot [PS1]

N. Sanity Beach, the opening theme from Crash Bandicoot on the PlayStation [1996], the very first level of the very first Crash game. Composed by Josh Mancell at Mutato Muzika. That studio name is the whole story. Mutato Muzika was founded by Mark Mothersbaugh, the frontman of Devo, the band behind Whip It, and the WAVE interview documents that Mancell was the in-house composer Mothersbaugh handed the Crash project to after producing the demos himself. It almost did not sound like this at all. The Boar's history of the trilogy documents that Crash was first meant to ship with what the team called an urban chaotic symphony, a mix of random bird noises, car horns, grunts, and fart sounds instead of a real score. Naughty Dog rejected it and went to Mutato. What Mancell wrote instead leaned on tribal, tropical, and surf textures to match the beach and the jungle, and that is exactly what N. Sanity Beach is, a percussion forward island groove. There is a lot of room in music like that for guitars, which is the entire reason this cover works. Turn on captions for 8 facts about N. Sanity Beach, the Devo connection behind the music, the soundtrack that almost was fart noises, and composer Josh Mancell every 14 seconds. ⏱️ CAPTION TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro, the track and the composer 00:18 - The Devo studio behind the music 00:32 - The soundtrack that almost was random noise 00:46 - N. Sanity Beach, where the series begins 01:00 - Naughty Dog's eight-person team 01:14 - The tropical sound and the Mutato name 01:28 - The different Japanese version 01:42 - From PlayStation mascot to Crash 4 🎸 PLAYSTATION 1 METAL COVERS PLAYLIST    • PS1 Chiptune Metal Covers | Retro VGM for ...   🎼 CREDITS Song: N. Sanity Beach (Opening Level Theme) Level: N. Sanity Beach, the first level of the series Composer: Josh Mancell (Mutato Muzika) Music Studio: Mutato Muzika, founded by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo Game: Crash Bandicoot (1996) Platform: PlayStation Director: Jason Rubin Legacy: Reprised in Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy (2017); opens Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (2020) Developer: Naughty Dog Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment Arrangement & Creative Direction: GHUB Metal Covers 🛠️ PRODUCTION Style: Instrumental melodic metal, twin electric guitars and a touch of chiptune. Creation: AI Assisted Mix: Audacity, preserved the N. Sanity Beach melody on the harmonized leads ⚠️ Crash Bandicoot and N. Sanity Beach are © Activision. Original music by Josh Mancell / Mutato Muzika. Fan made metal cover arrangement for artistic purposes. #crashbandicoot #nsanitybeach #metalcover #playstation #naughtydog #joshmancell #ps1 #ghubcovers