![]() ![]() Bouncing synths, speedy percussion, and layers upon layers of complexity. Kaufman’s original tracks for the OST and it has his masterful fingertips all over it’s composition. Imagine Scrooge McDuck swimming through his bank of money that’s this song in a nutshell. Spoiler alert: This song contains my only real criticism for the soundtrack. “Money Bin”, perhaps a bit too fast to be considered easy to memorize, is still one of the most energetic songs on such a hyperactive soundtrack. This is the most minor of minor nitpicks, but I believe that when you’ve found something that really, really works in a video game soundtrack, it deserves a little more of an extension. ![]() What his remix turns this iconic television theme into is an 8-bit chorus powering through a playful orchestra. Kaufman has brilliantly chosen to begin this cover with an 8-bit intro, before adding in orchestral sounds with bombast and an incredible amount of self-control. Far from it, in fact! If you’ve ever heard the theme song to “DuckTales”, it’s stuck in your head. “Title Theme” suffers from a chronic case of “way-too-short-for-its-own-good” syndrome, but that isn’t really a bad thing. I’ll be honest you can feel the passion Ducktales Remastered. It’s really hard to point at a soundtrack and say “Oh, you can feel the passion in this soundtrack”. Multilayered chiptunes have been switched with heavily dense electronic sounds, mixing in playful trumpets and a delightfully retro sounding percussion. So good on Jake Kaufman for taking these iconic (And surprisingly short!) chiptunes and splattering the entire soundtrack with his own personal style. Hiroshige Tonomura be damned this is a Kaufman soundtrack through and through. Pretty bold statement, isn’t it? Again: If you love classic video game music you know exactly what I’m talking about. Why wouldn’t you be able to? With how many times that tune has been remixed in our popular culture it’s amazing that it hasn’t become as familiar as the classic “World 1-1”. If you love video game music, you can hum “The Moon”. ![]() The Ducktales -Remastered- Official Game Soundtrack packages together with the previously-unreleased soundtrack for the NES’ Ducktales (from Hiroshige Tonomura) with the all-new soundtrack for Ducktales Remastered (from Jake Kaufman). The soundtrack to the original NES classic Ducktales is one of those “things” that video game music aficionados have to know about. DuckTales -Remastered- Official Game Soundtrack ![]()
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