AmiGamer - Turrican 2: Freedom - Western Remix

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Chris Hülsbeck, Ennio Morricone

3:55

29/10/2005

271

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Hi everybody,
for some reason, one night, just before falling asleep, it suddenly came to my mind that one of my favourite Amiga tunes ("Freedom", from Turrican II) uses almost the same harmonies as a very famous piece of music written by Ennio Morricone ("The Ecstasy Of Gold", from the soundtrack of the Western Film "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly").
In my opinion, the soundtrack of this film is one of the best ever produced, so with a marvellous piece of music by E. Morricone on CD and a marvellous piece of music by C. Huelsbeck on computer, the logical next step for me was to mix them together in one tune.
What you hear in my remix is the original recording from the soundtrack by Morricone, along with the Turrican II tune performed by me on my Korg X3 workstation.
Hope you like it, pardner!

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Hi, just one more note… I just read a few votes from users and appartently one point about this song, although I tried my best to avoid misunderstandings, isn't realized by many of them, so maybe I should point it out again here (hope you're not disappointed after reading):
The main idea behind this was more like an experiment. I wanted to demonstrate how well Morricone's "Extasy of Gold" goes together with "Turrican II: Freedom". That's why I used the original recording of Morricone's soundtrack and put "Freedom", performed by me, over it (the first 30 seconds of the tune are performed by me alone, then Morricone kicks in and me and Morricone play together *l*). I could have performed Morricone's soundtrack too rather than ripping it from CD but in my opinion, using the original soundtrack from CD for it was more original because this makes it 100% clear that not a single note of "Extasy of Gold" was modified to match Turrican II.
Of course, this means that most of the "performing" work in this remix actually isn't mine, but I was hoping for people to vote for the idea of combining these two songs, rather than for the technical performance.
Of course, I mentioned these points explicitely in my description of this song above but it seems many users vote without having read it before. This is probably because when you click on a song that has votings attached here at amigaremix.com, the song is played - to read the votings, you have to click on the smiley (unlike remix64.com, where - when you click on the song - a new page opens on which you can read the votings as well as download the tune).
Anyway, next piece will be 100% AmiGamer again, i promise!😉