Here's a cover of the themes from stages 1 & 2 from Kabuki: Quantum Fighter, a late NES era game released in the US in 1991. The plot of this game is particularly unusual in the United States as the localization of the game results in a plot where a soldier with an Irish or Scottish last name, enters a computer to take on a computer virus compromising earth's military defense, but in said computer, he assumes the identity of a Kabuki actor, evidently modeled after his great great grandfather. The game is complete with Ninja Gaiden styled cutscenes not really expounding much on that plot, really making for an unusual game.
In any case, plot and gameplay aside, some of the tunes on this game are real bangers, as is the case with a number of late era NES soundtracks, largely because the soundtracks really lean into the NES soundchip effects in the song orchestration. The stage 1 theme features some really crazy sounding squelchy drones, and the stage 2 theme, after a round of NES Iron Maiden style gallops, features a very maniacal three octave arpeggios section split between two voicings in a way I haven't encountered in vgmusic or regular music, really cool stuff. For said arpeggios, since I am unable to sweep pick, I took one voicing and arranged in two octaves for guitar tapping, and the 2nd voicing I split between two guitars alternating upbeats and down beats. The manual delay created by splitting up the guitars in this way I think gave the part a similar feel to the original NES OST.
Anyway, hopefully you enjoyed this video, it's an obscure set of tunes, but they rock hard!
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