Rainbow Funk (Rainbow Road Remix)

MP3: http://tweaker.sonicretro.org/music/Rainbow%20Funk.mp3

I love Rainbow Road. It's my favorite level from Super Mario Kart and pretty much every Mario Kart game it's been featured in. That's why when King Meteor (http://www.youtube.com/user/KingMeteorStudios) of VGMusic fame made a remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBBqZxyDPE) of the song using the Ultimate Megadrive soundfont, I was pretty psyched! I really loved the arrangement he made, but I felt that with a better soundscape it could sound even better. 10 minutes after receiving an email with the MIDI as an attached file, I got to work. These are the results.

When I listened to the original remix, I got a super 80s vibe from the bassline; this ended up being the inspiration for my take on the arrangement. I picked an FM bass fairly similar to the instrument used in his version and followed up with some oldschool synth brass for the chords. I made sure to maintain this "retro" vibe the whole way through. It ended up turning out really cool! Here's hoping you guys feel the same. :)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Rainbow
• Road
• Super
• Mario
• Kart
• Nintendo
• King
• Meteor
• Remix
• FM
• Synth
• retro
• oldschool
• FL
• Studio

[tomatzu]

Joint best Rainbow Road remix ever, only because it's the same song from KM lol.

[SonicTweaker]

@tomatzu Indeed it is! If you look at his video I asked if I could make a high quality render of it. This is that render. It seems people are under the impression that I made this entirely on my own--I didn't! Proper credit for this wonderful arrangement (and many others) goes to the original author, King Meteor.

Mind you, I've made my fair share of remixes, but in this case I simply put polish on something that was already very fantastic sounding. Please give credit where it is due.

[ComedyAds]

Really awesome remix! :)

[TheJeli125]

I love the who and come on

wonderful

[amoran0909]

wow it sounds like a really fast version of chameleon by herbie hancock

[Jirashi88]

Wow, this sounds really neat--it sounds rather Sega CD-esque with this sound-type. :3

[MegaMario1500]

Woo ,C'mon and ''Go!'' remastered from Sonic 3 :D

[ultrapyrusbrawler]

tweaker are you still gonna use this channel ?

[nonobaOMGWEEGEE2]

Should of been in Mario Kart 7 as a bonus track to play in Rainbow Road.

[Jeanopilhar]

Wooow, Come on !! :)

[KaikeKioCH3]

if they had a '70s/'80s party they should play this there

[ILikeBlackMage]

Came out pretty well!

[SonicKillMario]

My lord, this is amazing.