Time to return to the soundtrack of 1990's NES game that takes place on at the end of the world, all the way in 1999, Crystalis! This song is the theme for the Angry Sea area that's located roughly midway through the game, and it shares a number of thematic elements shared by the major outside exploration areas in the game. Those elements are namely 3 or 4 major themes that play in sequence, a constant backbeat snare drum, disco bass octaves, and some slight use of unexpected chromaticism. The chromaticism in this tune is particularly unexpected with two notes played a half step apart from each other once in the turn around, a particularly unusual choice outside of dissonant math metal!
For tracking this tune, aside from the usual drum mic configuration, bass direct in, and double tracking the guitars with an sm57 on the Fender Cybertwin, I doubled a number of the main melodies with keyboards. I used the Surge XT synth plugin, the Tyrell N6, and Spitfire Audio Labs for some of this extra layering, as well as the stock keyboard strings patch, which isn't bad for a not quite professional piece of gear. The strings patch and the Tyrell on the 2nd go around of the song really brought a disco sound out of the arrangement, briefly sounding like it channeled Abba (at least to my ears!).
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