{"id":8031,"date":"2015-11-04T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:30:24","slug":"protostar-remixed-sonic-and-its-mind-blowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/protostar-remixed-sonic-and-its-mind-blowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Protostar Remixed Sonic and it&#8217;s Mind-Blowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to writing for\u00a0VideoGameDJ, I&#8217;ve embarked on\u00a0a personal mission to seek out as many video game remixes and chiptunes as I can, and share them with you. I&#8217;m usually interested in examples that aren&#8217;t\u00a0very well-known, but\u00a0with tens of thousands of followers and a presence on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monstercat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monstercat<\/a>, England-based EDM musician\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/psdub\" target=\"_blank\">Protostar<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0isn&#8217;t exactly &#8220;underground&#8221;. However, \u00a0when I noticed he&#8217;s laid his skilled hands on Sonic the Hedgehog, I decided that I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t share it with you. Seriously, just <em>listen<\/em> to this Chemical Plant Zone remix! Hot damn!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/128839446&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert: When the drop <em>really<\/em> kicks in at the 1:00 minute mark, things get seriously filthy, in the best way possible. Protostar masterfully achieves\u00a0&#8220;that sound&#8221; without it coming across muddy or cluttered, toeing the line between dubstep and glitch-hop with style and grace. Additional composition and arrangement choices are fully on-point, and the crispy clean production really complements the overall design of the track. Lots of really creative stuff happening as the track continues towards the end, and I particularly enjoy the chopping and slicing of the original melodies coupled with fresh new chord progressions.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, or video game remixes like the ones on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/music.gamechops.com\" target=\"_blank\">GameChops<\/a><\/strong>, do yourself a favor and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toneden.io\/psdub\/post\/sonic-chemical-plant-zone\" target=\"_blank\">pick up this remix<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It&#8217;s a free download through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toneden.io\/psdub\/post\/sonic-chemical-plant-zone\" target=\"_blank\">Toneden<\/a>, and all you need to do to get it is <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/psdub\" target=\"_blank\">follow Protostar on Soundcloud<\/a> (which you should do anyway). A very small price to pay for such an awesome tune. \u00a0Oh! He&#8217;s also made a fantastic version of Mystic Cave Zone. Bonus!<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can follow Protostar on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/psdub\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Protostar_UK\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProtostarMusic\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. Don&#8217;t forget to check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/protostarmusic.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp <\/a>if you want to support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/70073522&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to writing for\u00a0VideoGameDJ, I&#8217;ve embarked on\u00a0a personal mission to seek out as many video game remixes and chiptunes as I can, and share them with you. I&#8217;m usually interested in examples that aren&#8217;t\u00a0very well-known, but\u00a0with tens of thousands of followers and a presence on Monstercat, England-based EDM musician\u00a0Protostar\u00a0isn&#8217;t exactly &#8220;underground&#8221;. However, \u00a0when I noticed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/protostar-remixed-sonic-and-its-mind-blowing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protostar Remixed Sonic and it&#8217;s Mind-Blowing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3177,33,77,55,4225],"tags":[814,101,1272,8,9,1857,1243,35,11,588,53,1409,14,161,408,1567,50,106,175,4234,2061,4637,4636,51,4292,4635,682,24,25,65,26,74,4156,655,188,29,30,191,60],"class_list":["post-8031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chiptune-music","category-dance-music","category-game-music-vgm","category-gaming","category-music","category-retro-games","tag-16bit","tag-awesome","tag-bandcamp","tag-chip","tag-chip-music","tag-chip-tune","tag-chip-tunes","tag-chipmusic","tag-chiptune","tag-chiptunes","tag-dance","tag-dance-music","tag-dj","tag-download","tag-dubstep","tag-edm","tag-electro","tag-electronic","tag-game","tag-game-music-vgm","tag-glitch","tag-glitch-hop","tag-gltich-hop","tag-house","tag-music","tag-protostar","tag-release","tag-remix","tag-remixes","tag-sega","tag-sonic","tag-sonic-the-hedgehog","tag-sonic-the-hedgehog-music","tag-soundcloud","tag-vgm","tag-video-game","tag-video-game-music","tag-video-game-remix","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Protostar.jpg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8031"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8031\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}