Chiptune meets jazz meets techno, all built around a game about digging holes to trap aliens in ancient Kyoto. NEO Heiankyo Alien's remix album takes the classic Game Boy title's simple melodies and scatters them across wildly different genres.
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"Heiankyo Alien NEO de Jazz Mood" swings with smooth jazz reharmonization over 8-bit textures. "HI-TECH Heian-kyo -TECHNOuchi REMIX-" goes full techno with pounding kicks under Famicom square waves. "Garden of 100 Demons" layers traditional Japanese instrumentation with chip arps in a way that just.
Works perfectly. The "8bit Original Sound Medley" ties it all back to the NES roots at the end. If you appreciate creative remix albums that treat retro source material with imagination, this one nails it.