Relics of the Chozo
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Relics of the Chozo or RotC is an album of 19 songs, contemporary "rearrangements" of the music from the classic video game Super Metroid for the SNES. Relics of the Chozo was a non-profit collaboration of musicians and lovers of Super Metroid, the soundtrack of which having been composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. The album was titled by contributor Waleed "Zyko" Hawatky.
The project began by having the participating artists pick tracks to recreate, although many artists eventually dropped out leaving project manager Ari Asulin in the position of completing the majority of the album. While the album was only marginally successful in undertaking its collaboration format (due the to number of artists that dropped out of the project), its successful reception from fans of the amateur video game music arrangement community legitimized the format's use in future projects, most notably the Donkey Kong Country arrangement album Kong in Concert (2004) released exactly one year later. The finished product was released and spotlighted on OverClocked ReMix on September 12, 2003 as OCR's first-ever Site Project. As of June 7, 2006, the WAV [CD album torrent] was downloaded over 10,000 times.
The collaboration's website notes that contributer Christopher "Avien" Powell died on September 10, 2004.
Track listing
(Note: Corrected for formatting inconsistencies from the information located at project's homepage.)- "Premonition of Fell Purpose" [Title] (Protricity) – 3:30
- "So It Begins…" [Intro] (Vigilante) – 2:41
- "Hostile Abduction" [Battle 1] (Suzumebachi, Protricity) – 3:50
- "Putting Down on Zebes"
[ Crateria Raining] (Protricity) – 3:07 - "Evil Aroused" [Crateria Underground] (Protricity) – 4:17
- "Full of Life"
[ Brinstar 1] (Protricity) – 3:37 - "Unsettling Nature"
[ Miniboss] (Prophecy) – 3:22 - "Traversing the Beyond" [Crateria Surface] (Daniel Baranowsky, Protricity) – 3:33
- "Vast Inner Depths of Brinstar" [Brinstar 2] (Protricity) – 6:30
- "Sudden Death" [Battle 2] (Protricity) – 1:54
- "A Change and a Passing"
[ Chozo/Tourian] (Protricity) – 2:34 - "Metal Fatigue"
[ Wrecked Ship] (Children of the Monkey Machine) – 4:16 - "Noumenon"
[ Maridia 2] (Avien) – 2:49 - "Ebb Tide Manifest" [Maridia 1] (Protricity) – 3:56
- "Pyroclastica"
[ Norfair 1] (Children of the Monkey Machine) – 2:27 - "Braving the Flames" [Norfair 2] (Adhesive_Boy) – 4:57
- "Perceived by Cold Intelligence"
[ Mother Brain] (Protricity, Zyko) – 6:26 - "Escaping Retribution" [Escape] (Protricity) – 4:01
- "The Galaxy is at Peace…" [Ending] (Daniel Baranowsky) – 4:01
Credits
- Adhesive_Boy (Jack Ryerson) – arranger
- Avien (Christopher Powell) – arranger
- Children of the Monkey Machine (Matthew Newman) – arranger
- Daniel Baranowsky – arranger
- Prophecy (Jason Miller) – arranger
- Protricity (Ari Asulin) – arranger, website design, album design, project director
- Robert Saunders - album design
- Suzumebachi (Ty Guenly) – guitar, arranger
- Vigilante (Jesse Taub) – guitar, arranger
- Zyko (Waleed Hawatky) – guitar, arranger
External links and references
- [Relics of the Chozo website]
- [Relics of the Chozo] at MusicBrainz
- [Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of Super Metroid's soundtrack] at OverClocked ReMix
- [OverClocked ReMix]
| 2D games | Metroid | ' | Super | Fusion | ' | Dread |
| Prime subseries | Prime | Prime Pinball | ' | ' | |
| Characters | Samus Aran | Chozo | Dark Samus | Ing | Kraid | Luminoth | Metroid species | Metroid Prime | Mother Brain | Ridley | X Parasite | Space Pirates |
| Creatures | Metroid - Super Metroid | Prime - Zero Mission | Prime 2 - Prime 3 |
| Other | Gunship | Items | Areas | Phazon | Shinespark | Metroid Metal | Relics of the Chozo | Gunpei Yokoi | Satoru Okada | Metroidvania |
| OverClocked ReMix Site Projects |
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| Released: Relics of the Chozo | Kong in Concert | Hedgehog Heaven | Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation | Rise of the Star | The Dark Side of Phobos | Chrono Symphonic | Blood on the Asphalt Planned: Project Chaos | Summoning of Spirits | Milkyway Wishes | Around the World | Children of Erdrick |
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