PMD2: Temporal Tower Jazz Arrangement || insaneintherainmusic
8,844The epic conclusion to a story about friendship and finding out who you really are. Stupid Porygons. Insaneintherainmusic's jazz cover / remix of Temporal Tower from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2: Explorers of Time / Darkness / Sky.
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This game is awesome, and its soundtrack is severely underrated. I played this game quite a bit when it first came out (Explorers of Time), and fell in love with the story. I loved the mechanics of the first mystery dungeon games, so I was quite happy to see them return pretty much exactly as they were! I think I was a Charmander when I played through this game for the first time, and had a Mudkip as my partner. Temporal Tower was a fantastic conclusion to an amazing storyline (won't say much about it for sake of spoilers), and the music was definitely an integral part of what made this game so awesome for me as a kid!
This arrangement was actually pretty hard to put together. I ended up writing some parts that were too hard for me to pull of on instruments that I'm not super proficient with. For example, there were some super fast lines in the bell part that I couldn't pull off cleanly in the time I had to record this, and I scrapped the entire guitar part I had written. Apart from that, I think everything really came together pretty well in the mixing stage; I focused on getting the kick drum and bass to play nicely together, while making sure that the lead saxophone was audible at all times! Reference mixes included Tarova from Snarky Puppy's "Culcha Vulcha" and El from Vulfpeck's "The Beautiful Game". Hope you enjoy!
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♫ "Temporal Tower" from "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2: Explorers of Time / Darkness / Sky" composed by Arata Iiyoshi*
* Assumed composer, I couldn't find any solid information on the actual composer of this song - if someone knows who the real composer is and has solid evidence, please let me know!
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--EQUIPMENT--
Saxophone: Selmer Super Action 80 Series II
Mouthpiece: Eugene Rousseau Studio Jazz 5
Reeds: VanDoren Blue Box (2.5 Strength)
Ligature: Francois Louis Ultimate Ligature
Neck Strap: Neotech Soft Sax Strap
Keyboard (Large): Casio CDP-220R
Keyboard (Small): Alesis V25
Bass: Ibanez SR505
Bass Strings: D'Addario ECB81-5 Chromes XL Flatwound Bass Strings
Shaker: Meinl Medium Shaker
Tambourine: RhythmTech Tambourine (Brass Jingles)
Bells: Pearl Bell Set (thanks Sab Irene!)
Piano VST: Ivory II American Concert D
Drum VST: Superior Drum 2.0 (with Roots Sticks SDX)
Microphone: Blue Bluebird
Audio Interface: Scarlett 18i8
DAW: Reaper
Monitors: Mackie MR5 Mk3
Fabfilter Audio Plugins
Computer: 2015 Macbook Pro
Camera: Canon Rebel T3i (with 10-18mm lens)
Video Editor: Adobe Premiere
Video Editing Plugins from Universe by Red Giant