{"id":8105,"date":"2015-11-11T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videogamedj.com\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:08:56","slug":"james-landino-wave-racer-1080-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/james-landino-wave-racer-1080-review\/","title":{"rendered":"James Landino &#8211; Wave Racer 1080 [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grab your jet ski and follow that dolphin with James Landino&#8217;s latest single off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcoYD5HDg8P-gvJU-oDYq5Q\" target=\"_blank\">StrobeNetwork Records<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QNOKvrIvZt8\" target=\"_blank\">Wave Racer 1080<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/230617015&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=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Growing up with the Nintendo 64 as young kid in the 90\u2019s , I only had a handful of games. I would play the beginning levels over and over (unless I had my older cousins beat the harder levels for me) because I wasn&#8217;t all that good at video games. But that\u2019s just how it was back then. Your parents bought games for you and that\u2019s all that you had, so you played them as much as you could. Wave Race 64 was one of those few N64 games, along with Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, and Cruis\u2019n USA. When I played Wave Race 64 a lot, I was pretty young. I didn\u2019t really comprehend how to beat it or get better, so I just played the tutorial level again and again, doing flips off of the ramps. (I\u2019m not going to follow your dolphin, you can&#8217;t tell me what to do!)<\/p>\n<p>Now that I\u2019ve given you my life story, let\u2019s talk about the charming and nostalgic <em>Wave Racer 1080<\/em> by James Landino. Wave Race 64\u2019s soundtrack is very much influenced by Jazz, which goes hand in hand with Landino\u2019s usual compositional style. The jazzy spirit of the original soundtrack is unmarred by this remix\u2019s future bass aesthetic. Future bass, as a genre, is influenced by neo soul and gospel and incorporates extended harmonies with 4, 5, or even 6 notes. This trap based genre is relatively new for Landino, momentarily stepping away from his \u201cFour on the Floor\u201d house roots as heard in Hyrule Dungeon (Courage) or Neo Sakura Zone.<\/p>\n<p>As the &#8220;1080&#8221; component of the name suggests, the track incorporates two N64 games, Wave Race 64 and 1080\u00b0 Snowboarding. While the bulk of the material is derived from Wave Race\u2019s Title Theme, &#8220;Work Your Body&#8221; from 1080\u00b0 Snowboarding provides the material for the chorus. Wave Race&#8217;s Title Theme features the rousing guitar melody that&#8217;s heard in multiple pieces of the soundtrack. In this remix the melody is performed by chiptune artist and guitarist, Danimal Cannon. (It sounds much better than the guitar in the original soundtrack). Landino assuredly demonstrates his aptitude for this fledgling future bass sound, and this venture has me anticipating much more marvelous music in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Go take a listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/strobenetwork-promotions\/james-landino-wave-racer-1080-feat-danimal-cannon-free\" target=\"_blank\">Wave Racer 1080<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t already and check out James Landino and Danimal Cannon for more music.<\/p>\n<p>James Landino<a class=\"g-link-user\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jameslandino\" target=\"_blank\">:<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jameslandinomusic\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jameslandino\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jameslandino\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jameslandino.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bandcamp<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nDanimal Cannon:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danimalcannonmusic\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/armcannon\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a class=\"g-link-user\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/danimal201\" target=\"_blank\">Soundcloud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab your jet ski and follow that dolphin with James Landino&#8217;s latest single off of StrobeNetwork Records, Wave Racer 1080.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":8112,"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":[3177,33,55],"tags":[4683,4677,97,904,4686,4680,11,1967,4690,744,519,1815,51,4689,4679,216,4681,4678,110,1297,4684,2454,4688,98,4676,4330,4372,682,24,489,1018,296,292,203,655,801,4687,204,188,29,4682,4675,4685],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dance-music","category-game-music-vgm","category-music","tag-4683","tag-4677","tag-bass","tag-board","tag-body","tag-cannon","tag-chiptune","tag-danimal","tag-dolphin","tag-future","tag-games","tag-guitar","tag-house","tag-hyrule-dungeon","tag-james","tag-jazz","tag-jetski","tag-landino","tag-mashup","tag-melody","tag-move","tag-n64","tag-neo-sakura-zone","tag-nintendo","tag-race","tag-racer","tag-racing","tag-release","tag-remix","tag-single","tag-snow","tag-snowboard","tag-snowboarding","tag-song","tag-soundcloud","tag-soundtrack","tag-title","tag-track","tag-vgm","tag-video-game","tag-water","tag-wave","tag-your"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Wave-Racer.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&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\/8105","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamechops.com\/vgdj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}