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Denji Koshiro, Shinji Namiki - Nice Kicks, California Girl ("Maxwelle House" Arrange Version, First Take)

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"Maxwelle House" started life as a cheesy, house-y little video game jam I wrote specifically for Dio's author avatar, Dio Maxwelle, as a potential stage track for her if she were to appear in a fighting game project I've had in the back of my brain for... damn near a decade, if not longer. God damn. It was also originally named "Moderately Attractive Gamer Girl Dio Maxwelle", a jokey play off of "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon" (a series of which we're both fans), but I changed the title to something that came across a lot less mean-spirited.

Dio was the one that put the track forward as a potential XMAS 2017 remake-ee, but pretty much right out the gate the idea to do a sort of The Shamen (www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b2T8K2D-ps) / Jesus Jones (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZepGeknkfw) style- dance rock take on it came to mind. I put it on the back burner a couple of times because I wanted to put extra care and effort into it- it's my partner's theme song, after all!- but before too long it was Xmas Eve and I was seriously running out of time to actually make it.

My feelings on the end result are, ultimately, mixed. Everything from the start to about 2:40 was written on the first day of work, and by and large I think that's all solid, but everything past that point... eh, I reckon I could've probably tightened that up a bit with a bit more time and care. In particular, the final solo section is a bit wall-of-noise-y thanks to all the reverb, and ultimately neither I or Dio are 100% sure about the use of triplets in the solos themselves. I would actually like to take another stab at this sometime in the very near future- hopefully for Dio's birthday in a couple of months time- so be on the lookout for that.

On the flipside, I am extremely happy with how most of the guitar and bass work came out across the track- because it's all sample based it's never gonna sound completely realistic, but I think I got both as close to sounding like they were "played" instead of sequenced as the technology will allow. I'm also far more proud of that voice clip 58 seconds in then I really ought to be; per the rules of the album, I couldn't use a text-to-speech synth to generate a "Maxwelle House" voice clip... so I just recorded one myself and messed with it in wavepad until it sounded suitably synthetic enough. It actually sounds fairly close to the Whisper preset from Mac OS's Dictation & Speech synthesizer (youtu.be/Z4hqUxb9MmY?t=3m10s), which was famously used for the Ranked Assassin introductions in the original No More Heroes (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHcMVNY6ltI).

Original Sketch: 103records.bandcamp.com/track/maxwelle-house-theme-of-dio-maxwelle-sketch-dawn-of-chaos-ver-2

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from XMAS 2017: 103 5th ANNIV. / 100% M2K, released January 5, 2018
composed by Decon Theed

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