What's The Story?
virt is an online moniker for Jake Kaufman, a sound engineer and music enthusiast based in Los Angeles and best known for his takes on video game music. Get On The Bus is from Bound Together, a collection of rearranged tunes from Nintendo's classic RPG, Earthbound.
Who's To Blame?
A friend who worked on and/or with that black hole device they have in Switzerland.
Why ♥ It?
In Earthbound's storyline, there's a group called the Runaway Five, a jazzy group with a funky big band sound and a Blues Brothers personality. This track runs though many of the game's main themes reimagined as if they'd been played by a real life Runaway Five, and as such, comes out sounding like an overture.
The piano is jazzy, the organ and horns are swingin', and the bass is funky. These are all amicable traits in any jazz band-style sound, and hearing familiar midis explode into this soundscape is great. My choice favorite of this is when the tune blows into the title theme at about 2:05 in a grand, seamless fashion. Then, at around 2:50, they play the Runaway Five's theme, and it really does feel like a Blues Brothers sorta thing. This runs to a neat organ solo around 4:15, and transitions to an almost-random guitar solo that still fits the mood. The meat is definitely at the center of the tune, but the intro and outro, like any good overture, still hold interest.
I usually have a hard time telling if a remix of music from an old video game is great because it's great, or if it's great because I loved the old music when I was 10. This is one case where I have no doubt that the first of those is true, and this song is worth checking it out whether you know what's coming or not.
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