@@f03105590 i think a fair few games have just one composer. the mario & luigi series soundtrack, for instance, was entirely composed by yoko shimomura, who's also worked on the kingdom hearts soundtrack.
If you're on 90's TV probably not. Audio chip was amazing, TV audio was not. Reason why nobody bothered with Genesis audio until emulation became a thing in early 2000. But between emulators and YT audio, it is indeed the same, except the loss on YT.
I love the music to this game, it's oddly kind of unique among Mario soundtracks. Both in samples and compositional choices. I can't define exactly why, it's like, sort of jazzy and percussiony at times and very "late 80's programmable synthesizer" in sound, but in a way that's pretty different from Sega Genesis's FM sound. Whenever I hear orchestra hits in music, I instantly think of this game.
Devo's album Shout and Mark Mothersbaugh's work on the Fairlight CMI (such as Devo's Muzak arrangements) always vaguely remind me of this soundtrack too.
@@stapler942 Fun thing i picked up as an audio engineer, i noticed that the 2 snare drum samples that appear a ton on BOTH sega and super NES games happen to be either from a Linn Drum 9000 or a Roland D-50 (or a module from the same era), the Linn9000 being the one i hear the most.. Maybe its distinctive gated sound cut through the mix the best and it became a "go to" sort of thing for musicans making music for an old game system in the 90s
@@joshwizinsky1979 That's awesome. I sort of realize the Linn samples were probably recorded from real drums at a low sample rate, but I can't help but imagine that snappy snare sound as being from a carefully processed noise generator signal.
I am no music expert, but Super Mario Kart's musical distinctiveness may stem from the fact that its OST was composed by Soyo Oka, who only composed songs for four Mario games (the others being Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally, Super Mario All-Stars, and the NES release of Wario's Woods according to the Super Mario Wiki).
Usually remasters are disappointing but really nice job. Listening on JBL monitors. Love hearing vanilla lake, bowser's castle and all others so clean and authentic. It's a big ask, but earthbound would be amazing!
I wish they would bring back the character specific victory themes! edit- and I miss when the final lap music would just increase the song in tempo not up pitch key...
It's incredible, the vibe video game music carries with it, especially from the 90s and early 2000s. Legit think this is gonna be my soundtrack for bed tonight.
@@invalid_user_handle Fun fact: Every CPU controlled character is relegated a signature item, which is the only one they use at random times, instead of collecting them from item boxes. Mario and Luigi get stars (thank God they don't get extra speed from them), Yoshi gets eggs which behave similar to fake item boxes aside from not looking like an item box, DK Gets bananas, Bowser gets fireballs which are like Yoshi's eggs except they move around in a circular patter, making them harder to dodge, Koopa troopa gets green shells, and Peach and toad get poison mushrooms, which shrink you when you touch them.
While I appreciate the work, I find it a bit ironic that you're trying to prevent others from burning this to physical media when it doesn't actually belong to you.
Randomally I can hear the sounds of “Mario Circuit” playing in my head and I love it. That’s when I come here to hear the acid remix. Sounds of Boss tb303 emulating against a nice microKorg sounding synthesizer playing harmoniously with a Roland 707/606 playing those tight kick drum snare samples. Ugh. It takes me somewhere like a childhood liminal space playing this on my cousin’s cartridge of Super Mario Kart at his house.
Thank you for doing this. I still think of this as "old Mario Kart" (which yeah fair enough), but the punchline is I think of MK64 as "new Mario Kart." This is still one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks. The guitars in Bowser's Castle, the battle theme, and the trophy fanfare will never not be awesome. I grew up mostly hearing this in mono from the GE 19" TV my parents got as a wedding gift in 1975 (my mom still has it...) so hearing this clean remaster through actual good headphones is pretty amazing.
Kids these days may play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe all they want, but the original game that started the franchise is way more important and innovative in the kart-racing world. This game is legendary.
@@sshaw1182 Not really. They're completely different, separate series. F-Zero is futuristic racer, not kart-racing. The only thing the two original games share is Mode 7 graphics, that's it.
What I loved about the old Mario Kart was the replay value. You had a roster of 8 characters, but 4 different types of karts. Once you got good enough with say Toad or Koopa Troopa whose kart focuses heavily on crisp handling, it would be a challenge to adapt to another kart. I remember full well how overwhelmed I was when switching from Toad to Bowser and had to learn a completely different driving style. It was so rewarding though. Shame they discontinued that and made most karts and driving styles more or less the same. Super Mario Kart has a special place in my heart. Both simple yet challenging. I also loved screwing with the pre-determined order of the field by placing shells and banana peels before big jumps, so the AI would fail the jump. Great times! ❤
Nice mastering dude, I wonder how many ears will notice the diff. I'd really love to know your chain, unless I'm delusion this is some amazingly controlled work here
Well, unfortunately the top rated comments are from people saying they can't really notice the difference. They're probably just listening on their phones. I'm listening to this on a good sound system and the difference is huge.
they also delete comments calling them out on this. no one rips anything to physical media these days anyway (just listen on a youtube app, or download as an mp3 using yt-dlp, etc), but I'm sure if you did nothing would happen.
@user-in8qh3zf9d possibly ripped from the game, most likely downloaded from a website. if you're asking where to download video game music from, search for kh insider, used it for years it's one of the best
@@sallowsandy i'm just a bit confused - do you just mean "they're remastering someone else's songs" or did they actually steal the remasterings themselves
What is this message in the description about a frequency that translates to physical rips? I kinda want someone to try it out to see what that sounds like. XD
I really love SNES Mario Circuit and snes ghost valley being put on Mario kart Wii and I really wish every single track song was recreated in that Mario kart Wii style. Have you always wished that would happen?
My first Mario game along with Super Mario All-Stars, definitely have some fond memories with this game, even if it's slippery as all Hell compared to later Mario Kart games.
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