Interesting Discovery

[DarkestRafflesia]

My friends and I were playing old-school arcade games last night. We started playing "Golden Axe: Return of Death Adder".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOTJ8Om9oO4

This is a clip from the game. The music from 00:08-00:59 sounds very much like "Immortal Madness". Too much so to be a coincidence. We all know how obsessed Mana is with old video games

Anyway, just thought I'd share that.

If anyone else knows of any other sampling Mana may have done from video games or whatever, your knowledge would be greatly appreciated

 

[flowersofnight]

OMG hahahaha
I loved "Golden Axe" but I never was able to beat it so I never played the sequel.
As far as I know he mostly "borrowed" from silly pop songs and/or classical music though. Totally keeping an extra eye out for this now though

 

[Berserk]

That is awesome! I remember playing Golden Axe when I was a wee lad.

I don't think Mana actually sampled from this, though. There are tons of rhythms and musical structures that could be considered "tropes". 90% of the time, when you see YouTube mashups of songs that "copy" or "steal from" older songs, it's just a bunch of bull. It's the equivalent of saying Agatha Christie "stole" from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle because she uses red herrings or plot twists or something.

 

[DarkestRafflesia]

I think the equivalent would be taking two paragraphs from said writers and lining them up sentence by sentence and seeing distinct similarities in their rhythms and musical structures.

I'm not comparing themes here. If that were the case I'd be saying Mana borrowed dungeons, fire, swords, armor, darkness and supernatural elements from Golden Axe. Clearly that is not the case (or is it? ).

You'd have to explain to me the similarities between plot twists and red herrings, while the similarities heard here, kind of present themselves as such and don't need much explanation.

 

[flowersofnight]

Clearly that is not the case (or is it? ).

Obviously you never heard of Mana's short-lived session band "Gilius Thunderhead"

 

[akiramariage]

Clearly that is not the case (or is it? ).

Obviously you never heard of Mana's short-lived session band "Gilius Thunderhead"

Tell me please about these ..

 

[~Z e n c h o u~]

Clearly that is not the case (or is it? ).

Obviously you never heard of Mana's short-lived session band "Gilius Thunderhead"

Tell me please about these ..

^ oh my god

 

[DarkestRafflesia]

lolol the mystery deepens.