Slaygon - Microprose Soccer (Chug it)

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Slaygon Veteran
Member profile:
slaygon
Original SID:
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Original composed by:
Martin Galway
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4 other remixes of MicroProse Soccer Outdoor

Duration:
4:07
Released:
19/07/2021
All-Time charts position:
74
Score:
95%
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My entry for the Remix64.com 20th Anniversary Remix Compo.

This subtune has been remixed before by Feekzoid (Something Stranger), and later polished up by Marcel Donné and sumppi for a SLAY Radio feature that was supposed to go back and re-remix an older remix with a more updated soundscape.

I wanted to explore the darker side of this intriguing 26 second long, one-channel tune by Galway.

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paranoidroid shouts:
EPIC!
LMan shouts:
Epic contemporary movie score soundscape by the community's master of the genre.
Tomsk shouts:
So much to like... The distorted brass and kick ass drums. I've loved this since it's first play in the R64 compo. Fantastic work!
Vaggelis Papadopoulos shouts:
Kudos captain! It slays!!
Ryrynz shouts:
Pretty cool. Take the red.
jemym shouts:
This is fucking unbelievable. Back in the 90'ies I used to put on this tune (that is not even a song) just to annoy the fuck out of people. Then 2021 you make an epic remix of it. We loved this so much
hillsman shouts:
Agree with Monty - low on nostalgia for me.
iolo shouts:
This is great!
omoroca shouts:
I did play Microprose Soccer but cannot remember this tune *at all*.
Review by monty
19/07/2021

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This one is a grower! I think it deserved a better result in the compo and I can only speculate that the slow build-up maybe doesn't work extremely well for a compo entry. However, regarding the slow build-up I think the goosebump-inducing main part (from 2:30 on) should have been extended. Btw. I bought the game back then and I cannot remember that tune at all hence the low nostalgia factor…😉
Review by LaLa
17/07/2021

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Mordi has the mordifier, Slaygon has the slaygonizer. A larger-than-life cinematic version of a SID subtune that is less than 30 seconds long - it has been slaygonized. Dark and gritty, grandiose and in-your-face. If they ever make a Hollywood epic about MicroProse Soccer, this should be its title tune.