27. Thwomp Caverns (M&L: Partners in Time Orchestrated HD ReMIX)

For me, today is Mario Galaxy Movie day! So have a Mario Music from me also! First off, I want to give special thanks to TheRadMusicalAzelf47 (‪@Giratina31290‬) for getting me the original high-quality anvil/industrial percussion samples! They're pretty essential to this track in particular, so I'm happy to be able to include the uncompressed samples here. Whew, this track was quite a beast to work on! A lot of custom synth work had to happen for this one. It took quite a bit to get the resonance sweeps on those long extended synth pads to be dialed in just right, but I'm really happy with how they turned out! Getting the synth bass just right also took a lot of tweaking, but I think it all came together nicely! The most fun part was definitely putting that delay effect on the piano melody. Usually, I'd achieve that effect with two different piano tracks, similar to how the game proper does it, but for this track I decided to use a genuine delay effect. I think it ended up sounding really cool! Especially on those quintuplet arpeggios right before the loop (did you know those are proper quintuplets? It's a little hard to tell with the delay effect going, but I was surprised to learn they were exactly quintuplets! I'm sure I transcribed those wrong the first time around LOL). I've started to build the tiniest bit of a backlog again, so if you're reading this the day this video came out, hopefully the next two videos will be here soon! ======= Have some links! Fellow remixer also doing wonderful Partners in Time remixes: ‪@Toastworth‬ My band: https://overpowered.band/ || ‪@overpoweredband‬ Discord server:   / discord   ======= Original composition by Yoko Shimomura =======