Todays rip: 11/04/2024

I will Never be a Redneck

Season 7 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire

Ripped by Madinstance

Requested by Corb and uwustepanne! (Discord, Request Form) (@uwustepanne)

"I'm just kidding, this isn't a blue balls rip. However, you're going to wish it was. I warned you."

Can you IMAGINE being 601billionlazer and getting this rip for Secret SiIva 5?? You hear the silly blue balls and go oh, haha what fun, what a great little bit Madinstance, you always outdo yourself so its fun to see you've taken a funny step back here - only for the truth to be revealed and all hell to break loose? You hear the backing change and think, I swear I recognize that, there's no way he actually did it - the banjo comes in with a gleefully sinister pluck and reaffirms your suspicions. Madinstance fucking did it. The first proper rip uploaded as part of Season 7 introduced the year with a fucking bomb. I will Never be a Redneck.

And look, I've covered some One-Winged Angel rips on here already, One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop and Hen'yoku no Piraman - the latter even being made by Madinstance as well - but I feel like it needs to be stressed how thoroughly deranged this rip in particular is. We ALL know Cotton-Eye Joe, if not the original American country song then ABSOLUTELY the world-famous 1994 Eurodance version - one that, funny enough, was recorded by a Swedish band. Indeeds, its oddly befitting: A culture clash between my homeland, and the nation where a majority of SiIvaGunner's own audience and contributors live - the result is that ALL of us knew well what Cotton-Eye Joe was, a piece of our childhoods for some, or at least for me. Yet its prevalence on SiIvaGunner had been comparatively tame in comparison to that popularity, only appearing in some modest mashups and melodyswaps in Season 1 - seven whole years before Madinstance deployed the nuclear option. Realizing that this overplayed icon of a song even had the ability to be remixed in such a fashion positively blew my mind - I won't sugarcoat it, I will Never be a Redneck completely floored me.

And like, in some ways its to be expected, right? Madinstance is incredible, he continues to show up on here with rips like Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) and Fell From a High Place (Reprise) for a reason - his prowess for these large-scale projects feels like it shouldn't even be humanly possible. I remarked back in Hen'yoku no Piraman just how much the recent trend of One Winged Angel rips impresses me, how each one feels as if the ripper is truly showcasing their worth whilst dedicating it all to the glory of a single meme. That still stands, yes, but to apply it to a song that otherwise had near-no prevalence on SiIvaGunner, no standard set for how remixing it ought to go: To have my FIRST ever time hearing Cotton-Eye Joe pitch shifted be in this absolute behemoth feels downright criminal. And its even crazier how it WORKS the whole way through.

The amount of touches present to make this feel as cohesive as it does is staggering. The chorus' titular line of "Cotton-Eye Joe" replaces the use of "Sephiroth!" in the base track perfectly, the original song's violin instrumental breaks between the chorus and verses are pitch shifted into the ominous tone of One Winged Angel's equivalent instrumental breaks, the banjo going off the shits in the longer break from the main melody midway through the track...really, its incredible how much of the original track's excitement and danceable fun suddenly sound so ominous, with changes so deliberate, substantial yet conservative enough to not lose the Cotton-Eye Joe feel - this ALWAYS sounds like the right amount of both tracks in balance. I love how the song's chanting "Hey-hey-hey-heyys" suddenly sound akin to One Winged Angel's latin choir song, how the vocals of the chorus repeat in a somewhat staggered, haunting way near the rip's end - like Beautiful Dreamer or My Dr. Eggman Can't Be This Evil!, its remarkable just how drastic the change of tone becomes through rips like this.

Most of all though, it is that gradual realization of what you're listening to that has made I will Never be a Redneck such a classic for me - NOBODY could've anticipated it based on the channel's past history, and nobody would've expected THIS would be the way that Season 7 would officially "start". Yet its the kind of rip you can send to anyone - both songs are immediately recognizable, and the effort put in to making the two work in tandem is unmistakably impressive. uwustepanne, who wrote in to request this be covered, included a short anecdote with her write-in, about how this rip showing up in her YouTube feed was what made her realize the channel hadn't ended with Season 6's finale, that I will Never be a Redneck in a way represents everything she loves about the channel, the impact its had on her. And yeah - isn't it crazy how a rip as cracked as this one, still wound up facing incredibly stiff competition for rip of the Season?? 2023 was one of SiIvaGunner's greatest-ever years, and seeing a rip like I will Never be a Redneck uploaded at its very start felt almost like they'd set the bar far too high for the rest of the team. Yet somehow, someway, everyone else was up to the challenge and continued making absolutely incredible rips throughout the entire year. Madinstance continues to raise the bar of quality on the channel at almost every turn, and having him do it at the Season's very start - with a rip as out-of-this-world as I will Never be a Redneck to boot - remains as an absolute power move.

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Todays rip: 26/09/2023

Every Mob Wants to Rule My World

Season 7 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Ruby

Ripped by Madinstance

Tentative rip name: This player dreamed of ruling the world.

Hey, look - I know I've covered Minecraft a good few times already on this blog, and I'll try not to repeat myself too much. In both my posts on Fell From a High Place (Reprise) and M-O-O-G City, I brought forward a good numbers of reasons as to why Minecraft's soundscape remains so popular and beloved even today. It's nostalgic, it's soothing, it's sad, it's bittersweet...it's a soundtrack that a lot of us hold dear for the times we spent with the game. But "bittersweet" was really the emotion that carried both aforementioned rips to new heights - whilst not entirely void of that feeling, there's also a sort of whimsy present in Every Mob Wants to Rule My World.

Once again, this is a pretty self-explanatory arrangement rip of one song in another song's style, this time of Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears in the style of Cat, one of Minecraft's various pieces Jukebox music. Compared to the music that plays during normal Minecraft play, the jukebox always had a more light-hearted, playful sound to all its music - it was made to be lounged to, after all, to be music you put on to unwind or relax to rather than to explore and take in the sights to. That instrumentation already gives Every Mob Wants to Rule My World a different feel from the two aforementioned rips, only aided by the song arranged. Everybody Wants to Rule the World is a beautiful, healing piece, yet not really one I'd ascribe as either joyful or sad...its always felt more hopeful, than anything - like the sound of a sunrise, if I had to be corny about it. And that vibe matches Cat from Minecraft to a tee - the two tracks harmonize into pure, whimsical bliss.

Its an absolute treat to the ears and incredible material to just zone out to, and shows just how many angles there are to Minecraft content on SiIvaGunner. And yes - there'll certainly be more to come on this blog. We're leaving no brown bricks unturned.

Todays rip: 14/04/2024

Thwâmpröck Desert

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More)

Ripped by Madinstance

So you know how yesterday's post was about a ripper with a very clearly defined niche of work, with Jamangar and Locked In The Underground? And earlier in the week I was covering the sheer prowess of ripper Madinstance, the raw power he exudes with I will Never be a Redneck? And just a few more days before that, where I talked about how much Mario Kart Wii's music means to me with Sweatpants Select? Well amidst my lineup of possible future posts, I slowly realized how perfectly Thwâmpröck Desert fit all three categories - a great way to end the week, and another Season 8 rip to boot.

Madinstance is an exceptionally skilled ripper, that much I hope I've made clear over my past posts on him. But with a few exceptions from time to time aside, he's also a ripper with a rather particular focus - a lot of his greatest rips, such as Every Mob Wants to Rule My World, Fell From a High Place (Reprise) and M​-​O​-​O​-​G City, are all focused on paying respects to Minecraft and its legendary original composer C418, wheras recently Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) appears to reveal a newfound love for the Mario Kart series. You may think at first thumbnail glance that Thwâmpröck Desert is an extension of that, a rip of a Mario Kart game, but there's one more field of his expertise that I'm yet to cover on here. C418 is beloved by many, yes, but within those privy to video game music history, particularly in the chiptune community, few composers are as revered and celebrated as the Follin brothers, Tim Follin and Geoff Follin.

To VGM aficionados, they need no introduction - but then, its those same aficionados who would know such things as that Robocop on Game Boy of all games has amazing music, as I discussed in Viva La Robocop. Most others, those who are primarily video game fans, will simply choose their favorite composer based on their own favorite games. That's completely valid too, of course, many long-running franchises like Kingdom Hearts, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dark Souls and so forth have key people composing for them that are incredibly distinct, to where you KNOW what a Kingdom Hearts game will sound like, what a Dark Souls game will sound like, and so on. Yet what makes the Follin brothers so fascinating in contrast, is that their soundtracks were attached to all kinds of games from all sorts of places: Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast, Silver Surfer on NES, Pictionary on NES, Plok! on Super Nintendo - practically the entire spectrum of games of the 80s and 90s, from shovelware to all-time classics, the Follins contributed to. Yet to them, the individual game quality hardly mattered! Be it Pictionary or Plok, Tim and Geoff Follin composed every soundtrack like it was their life's greatest achievement, creating full-on chiptune prog-rock in games that had NO business going that hard (I know that's a bit of an overdone and reductive turn of phrase, but really - PICTIONARY???) The brothers knew how to make any platform they were working on positively sing, and their obscure weirdo games have become titans amidst VGM enthusiasts as a result. An underdiscussed side of video game history, still cherished by a specific subset of nerds yet today.

Which, then, brings us back to Thwâmpröck Desert - an arrangement of one of Tim Follin's most insane pieces, the title screen music for NES game Solstice. It deserves a listen all of its own - the way it fakes you out with the most barebones little ditty of all time before switching into a rock masterpiece is an absolute work of art, and the piece just keeps growing from there, at once impossibly layered yet incredibly cohesive. Madinstance LOVES ripping the Follins' work, he's made a name for himself in part for ripping the SNES game Plok! in particular during Season 6 and Season 7, yet even still I was unsure how well Thwâmpröck Desert could really work. Its not a rip of a Follin composed game like the aforementioned Plok! rips - its arranging this impossibly dense piece of music into a song that already sounds like the violin version of pure, yet elegant, panic. Yet I suppose that also makes it the perfect fit for the Solstice title theme's sheer density - and when actually listening to Thwâmpröck Desert, its hard to imagine that Thwomp Desert ever sounded any different.

It's just - GAAHH!!! Its fucking mind-boggling how good it sounds, how this odd song I'd barely thought about from Mario Kart Wii wound up being the perfect template to arrange Follin's music into. The melody's string instruments are perfect for the Solstice title theme's pure distilled chaos whilst still capturing that sense of elegance and flow, and the most quirky instruments still present in Thwomp Desert add a delightful texture to the arrangement. I have to pause it every 10 or so seconds I listen to just process all that I've heard - the percussion, lead, backing, the progression of the song, its all handled absolutely masterfully, I cannot BELIEVE this was just dropped on us on a normal tuesday! I will Never be a Redneck was at least a season premiere!!

Whew...well, alright, I hope you get the picture - The Follin brothers' music fucking rocks, and I am SO glad that a ripper as amazing as Madinstance has taken it upon himself to pay regular tribute to their work. Games like Mario Kart Wii are leagues more mainstream than the games that the Follins typically worked on, and the idea of SiIvaGunner getting less VGM-savvy viewers to find out about these legendary composers - it just makes me really happy! Madinstance's rips are bangers to be sure, but much like Beautiful! ~ Curveball of Sean Kingston, like Beyond the Floating Isles, like Gate Happy: they're bangers that can also open up a whole new world of musical interests to viewers like you and I. And isn't that just the coolest way for SiIvaGunner's art of subversion to live on in?

(oh, also, its called Thwâmpröck Desert because the Solstice NES game takes place in "Kâstleröck" and I just found that very funny)

Todays rip: 19/09/2023

G.A.B.E.N's Valve Factory

Season 5 Featured on: Bloodstained Bounties ~ The SiIvaGunner All​-​Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection [Event Side]

Ripped by Madinstance

Requested by @undertale-vs-fortnite-who-wins !

Part of what makes the regular events on SiIva so fun, as I've likely talked about before, is how it opens the doors to an onslaught of jokes we'd otherwise barely seen on the channel before. The Gabe Newell takeover of Season 5 is a pretty standard example of such - Gabe Newell shitposting has been commonplace online ever since Steam became a household name, and this event sought to truly take advantage of that within the confines of SiIvaGunner.

Though I was somewhat inattentive during this takeover - I have little attachment to PC gaming in general, personally - I can't deny just how many bangers and inventive ideas came out of it. Part of that is due to just how much public speaking audio there is of Newell, which lends itself amazingly to YTPMV-esque editing. That's what G.A.B.E.N's Valve Factory employs - using layers of Gabe voiceclips to harmonize with the original Fear Factory tune playing in the background (along with the addition of the Half-Life credits theme). Its always a treat to get these kinds of rips just to see how far people can push any sample possible into being considered "instruments" - despite the absurd sound of the concept, the Gabe Newell soundclips eventually just slot in perfectly with the melody.

I wish I had more to say on the rip, but its just a damn good one! Excellent choices of voiceclips, excellent layering, very funny choice for source track to build upon, and it enhanced an already great takeover that I'm a bit sad I missed out on now in hindsight.

Todays rip: 11/12/2023

Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before)

Season 7 Featured on: Now That's What I Call Quality! 3

Ripped by Madinstance

Tentative rip name: Initial Deluxe - I've just raced on this Course before

This is another recent one - as recent as just the beginning of this month, to be precise. And if you're keeping up with the channel, I don't really blame you for missing it: it was uploaded right after the conclusion of a day-long mini event in Fisher-Price Day on the 29th, and just a few hours before the way-too-big Goomba Got Back Day event - squeezed in the middle alongside just a half dozen other rips. Frankly I was almost about to skip this one to focus more on catching up with the prior events, yet...people in the SiIvaGunner Discord server were absolutely enamored with this rip in particular. And after giving it a shot, its immensely easy to see why - Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) was an absolute delight of a surprise that I can't believe wasn't given more fanfare.

Honestly, before the rip's creator was revealed, I was partially convinced this was another collaboration project in disguise, similar to Patched Plains Fusion Collab - yet if it were to be any one ripper to take on this wide variety of different musical styles to rearrange, I suppose it WOULD indeed be Madinstance. The guy's not a new face around here at all, and his skills in arranging are damn near unrivalled: Fell From a High Place (Reprise), M​-​O​-​O​-​G City, Every Mob Wants to Rule My World, and so many more...you'll notice, though, that all three examples I used here are all made in reverence of the same game: Minecraft. Having talked with Madinstance myself before, he strikes me as someone who's most willing to go all-in if it means being able to pay respects to something he truly adores and cherishes - like Minecraft, like Plok and other Follin-composed games. What Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) signals to me, is that this feeling of respect also extends to the Mario Kart series.

Released earlier in November, the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass has brought Mario Kart back into discussion for a lot of Nintendo fans - both in the valid criticism against its graphical quality, but also in reverence and celebration of just how well done several of the track remasters were done. Since Mario Kart DS, part of Mario Kart's identity has become to celebrate the race tracks that built the series' legacy to what it is today - which the Booster Course Pass amplifies a hundredfold. Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) thus feels like a celebration of a celebration - a lovely, heartfelt medley of musical styles from all the different Mario Kart games represented within Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. All the sections are primarily based on one notable track featured in each game - Neo Bowser City from Mario Kart 7, Cheese Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit, and so on, and all the picks feel like they were chosen with utmost care to truly represent the vibe each game's soundscape holds. As a Mario Kart Wii-kid myself I certainly feel very represented with the choice made!

All of that isn't even touching on the joke being adapted onto these various Mario Kart soundscapes - the iconic Eurobeat song Deja Vu from the anime series Initial D. A song long associated with the love of driving and racing at high speeds, it now takes on a new meaning when associated with all of these games, that together raised generations of kids into becoming fans of high-octane driving - its a meeting that felt destined to happen, and each style renders the song in such refreshingly high quality. The styles feel like so much more than just setdressing, as tons of flavor is injected from each one: from the lighthearted whistles of Mario Kart Double Dash!!, to the rawness of Mario Kart Super Circuit's compressed instrumentation, to the elements the Mario Kart Wii segment takes from tracks like its Options menu music... Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before) is such a whollistic, dense and wonderful celebration of all that Mario Kart is and has become, all to the tune of one of the internet's most beloved pieces of racing music.

Todays rip: 16/08/2023

Fell From a High Place (Reprise)

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaCraft - Volume Alpha Version & Beta Mix

Ripped by Madinstance, Sarvéproductions

Requested by @pumpkineater6913! (YouTube)

The beauty of the Minecraft Volume Alpha and Volume Beta day is one that really still sits with me, even after having covered it before with M-O-O-G City. As described back then, its a brilliant combination of Minecraft being such a collectively nostalgic video game for people in the gaming community, whilst also being filled with emotionally resonant music. The event was filled with a lot of extremely interesting and impressive renditions and takes on C418's music, yet it feels as it Fell From a High Place (Reprise) was what it was all culminating to. I think its fair to claim that, if Minecraft sits at first place as the most universally loved and fondly, nostalgically remembered piece of art in video game history, then Undertale can't be far off from the Top 5.

What Madinstance and Sarvéproductions have made here, as a dynamic duo of expert arrangers, is recreate the entirety of Alpha - Minecraft's credits theme of over 8 minutes - into the style of several themes from the Undertale soundtrack. With Alpha itself already being somewhat of a medley of previous songs from the Minecraft soundtrack, it turns the rip into an absolute explosion of emotional impact, melancholic yet always moving from one sound and one melody to the next. Many of the channel's more emotionally resonant moments are in videos with added visuals, yet here it feels ever so perfect to be left purely to audio. Everyone's experience with Minecraft was different, everyone's experience with Undertale was different, everyone's experience with video game music was different - you may have only experienced these games through their soundtracks, or only experienced bits and pieces of the games. Lest you've never made contact with either game represented here, the rip is emotionally resonant to a degree where its bound to strike a chord with you eventually.

The escalation in rips is oft something I praise for its ability to elevate a joke, but its of course ridiculous to act as if that's all it can be used for. SiIvaGunner, too, is also not a channel here purely to enjoy jokes with a community of shitposters - its a celebration of the video games we love, and the culture of creative minds they've spawned. And though Season 6 was filled with much sorrow, its a season that inspired us all to keep pushing through no matter what.

Just like with Undertale and Minecraft, everyone's experience with SiIvaGunner is different. And there's so much beauty in that fact, that this rip has touched so many hearts whilst having passed so many others by. Its nowhere close to the most viewed video on the channel, which means there's many people who're yet to hear Fell From a High Place (Reprise) for the first time - and likewise, that there are several hundred rips of a similarly unbelievable quality out there that I'm still unaware of.

Todays rip: 23/07/2023

M​-​O​-​O​-​G City

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaCraft - Volume Alpha Version & Beta Mix

Ripped by Madinstance

Requested by @undertale-vs-fortnite-who-wins

In a previous post, I made the suggestion that Season 6 wound up being sort of the channel's "sad season". And though its not a label I'm fully convinced with yet, I would for now like to at least amend it a little and use it for todays rip as well, also part of Season 6: Rather than sad, Season 6 is immensely bittersweet. Though sorrowful in parts, its also a Season that looks forward into the future with optimism, love and hope. To truly encapsulate this, we have one of the channel's best ever events and album releases - SiIvaCraft - Volume Alpha Version & Beta Mix.

Takeovers paying tribute to an entire game are nothing new, of course, but Minecraft's original Alpha & Beta soundtracks are different. As a game played by millions around the globe, as a gateway for tons of kids into the endless world of creation tools and multiplayer games, and as a brilliant piece of art, Minecraft lives on as one of the most cherished games of all time. There's no other way to put it - people are in LOVE with C418's Minecraft music, and will be until the end of time.

The team went absolutely above and beyond to celebrate the track's legacy during Season 6, with an event dedicated to ripping every song on the soundtrack. The event was an absolutely beautiful time to be keeping up with the channel in realtime, and filled with absolute gems everywhere. There's many I want to talk about in detail, but for now, we have M-O-O-G City as the requested one.

Like a lot of arrangements on the channel, the main appeal here is just how different the feel of the track has become. Those building notes at the start are just as nostalgic as in the original track, yet are now placed in the context of a JRPG battle theme. J-E-N-O-V-A was a pretty spot-on fit for Moog City, as both songs feature the same kind of repeating synth melody playing in the background for their entire duration. As a result, M-O-O-G City feels all so familiar throughout its entire runtime - its never taken over by Final Fantasy VII, as the original melody never stops or gets overshadowed. Its honestly kind of a transcendent experience, able to be both nostalgic and powerful whilst still instilling the feeling of battle from the original FF7 track. A perfect blend, and a perfect addition to a perfect event.

I know its the first thing that's said on the Wiki, but its there for a reason - Madinstance is an absolute legend when it comes to these kinds of professional-level arrangements in particular. Just about every rip I hear from them feels like a meal cooked to perfection - nothing sticks out, its all blended in so seamlessly, as if the source track's original composers were directly involved. Its damn impressive stuff.

Todays rip: 13/09/2023

Hen'yoku no Piraman

Season 7 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire

Ripped by Madinstance

(Thank you to Madinstance for providing the tentative album release name for this post ahead of the album release!)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is, I'm sure, not something you need to be introduced to. Its a series revered for many things, and amidst all of that reverence is the music featured in its various anime adaptations - notably, its opening themes. For most of the channel's life, SiIva has loved to celebrate JoJo much like any other franchise, with rips such as the Great Days Fusion Collab, The Pillar Men Theme, and indeed a rip I've covered on the blog before - Crazy Noisy Beautiful Girls.

Back in Season 1, though, the team had a sort of playful aversion toward the series. JoJo memes were at an all-time high in 2016, and a good number of commenters would fervently ask the team to make more JoJo rips: SiIva would respond in typical SiIva fashion, by making a bevvy of JoJo rips which were all some of the most off-key, intentionally-bad rips the channel had yet seen at that point. Part of why I'm retelling this story now when I'm discussing a Season 7 rip is due to the JoJo song said rip uses - BLOODY STREAM to me has been sort of the posterchild for these intentionally-terrible rips from Season 1. And hell, even as the series has gotten more quality rips in later Seasons, that aforementioned playful aversion never really left it - rips like GREAT DABS - Jake Paul's Bizarre Adventure: Christmas is Lit continued to be made, pairing JoJo music with intentionally-controversial joke sources to keep making fools out of JoJo fans with higher expectations.

What I love about Hen'yoku no Piraman, then, is that it sort of feels like the final push to break JoJo on SiIva away from this ironic enjoyment. Its a rip part of a more recent, insanely high-effort series of rips wherin the subject of the rip is arranged into the boss theme of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII - One Winged Angel. Avid readers may recall I covered a rip in this series way back when the blog first started with One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop, yet I feel like I did sort of a poor job conveying just how much of a damn undertaking these rips are - the fact that there are multiple of them is insane in its own right given just how extensive and iconic of a sound One Winged Angel has. Its not just a song with multiple phases, multiple layers of iconic escalation - but with full-on latin lyrics, which feel near essential to include *somewhere* in an arrangement to truly get an authentic feel. Yet Hen'yoku no Piraman (Japanese for "One Winged Pillarman") pulls it off with what I can only describe as maddening elegance - the latin singing is sentence mixed perfectly in the first segment of the song, BLOODY STREAM's original upbeat jazziness is perfectly preserved, but One Winged Angel's threatening tone still somehow manages to seep in through the cracks, its able to be both upbeat and imposing at once in what I can only describe as pure witchcraft.

The rip just keeps impressing me the more I listen to it, man. With each new One Winged Angel rip I always think, "surely this is the best it'll get!" only to be blown away by the next, each one finding so many ingenius ways to blend music iconic to SiIvaGunner with this legendary boss theme. Its begun to feel almost like a rite of passage for truly beloved memes - to see if anyone on the team loves a joke source enough to dedicate their time to such a herculean task. And it seems like people like Madinstance will continue to step up to the plate for such challenges.

Todays Raft: 12:32 - 01/04/2024

Please keep the floodgates closed

Season 7 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (AZLJ20-0.com Build) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Madinstance

Very happy to see the comments on this rip be disabled, it was for the greater good.

Strange choice for a track to rip with the knowledge of its associations in mind, but it IS a properly whimsy and silly tune to be grafted onto Raft Ride. I love how absolutely hammered-in the high note gets toward the melody's end on all loops, its perhaps the most excessive use of that dreadful noise I've ever heard in a rip yet Madinstance manages to make it work better than I could've expected.