Shovel Knight/Megaman 10 - Strike The Earth/Farewell to Ballade remix - "For Hope and Shovelry"
27Arrangement, production by Jorito.
Guitars by HeavyViper.
This track was made for the Robots vs. Knights competition on OverClocked ReMix (http://ocremix.org/community/topic/44082-robots-vs-knights/) and combines the track "Plains of Passage" from Shovel Knight with "Farewell to Ballade" from Megaman 10.
I had this vague idea to do some 80s synth rock style track, but it wasn’t until I played around with the sources that it found its shape. It took a bit of experimenting to find a good arrangement and a good flow for the song, but fortunately the sources have a lot of cool melodic content to play with. I had so much fun with these sources that I got carried away (yeah, that tends to happen). There’s a ton of reference (subtle and not subtle) to the source tunes in the track. Small arps and riffs sprinkled throughout, leads from both tracks, sometimes alternating, sometimes playing together, the little progression from Ballade’s intro all over the place, the list goes on. I hope I got the balance between a recognizable, familiar source and original material right, but at least I feel it makes for an interesting and engaging listening experience.