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Or, alternatively, "The Brickster Mixter". Because puns.

It's often been noted by LEGO Island fans that "Brickster Boss", the final boss theme of Island Xtreme Stunts, sounds somewhat like a dark reprise or boss remix of "The Jail" from the original LEGO Island. Rather fitting, considering that both songs are meant to represent the series's main villain, the Brickster. What happens if you mix the two songs together?

This is something I first started experimenting on with Dino Attack: Legacy, but I never got it to work right. By the time the mix was eight measures in, the two songs had already fallen out-of-sync with each other, which is the technical reason why I fade the mix out by that point. It didn't help that the recording of "The Jail" was rather compressed and low-quality in comparison to "Brickster Boss".

However, if you think "The Jail" sounds crisper than usual here, that's because file divers have located an unused higher-quality recording of the song in the game's data (if you're curious, jamessterV2 uploaded it on his channel last week). With the better audio quality, I found it easier to determine and adjust its tempo in order to match that of "Brickster Boss".

"The Jail" is only barely over a minute long, while "Brickster Boss" is over four minutes. As such, I had to loop several sections of "The Jail" in order to cover the length of "Brickster Boss". Since the unused version of "The Jail" has no ending, I did borrow the final notes of the in-game version to end the mix.

The syncing still isn't quite perfect and there are some parts where one song overpowers the other, but overall I'm very satisfied with how this turned out.

"The Jail" is composed by Lorin Nelson.
"Brickster Boss" is composed by John Hancock, Steven Gow, Stafford Bawler, and Mark Hyett.
LEGO Island is owned by The LEGO Group. No copyright infringement intended.