Interstice of the Dimension: any other versions?

[Zaq]

This is a hell of a long shot and it's super geeky, but I think I'm probably among friends here, so here we go.

I'm a big, big video game music kind of guy. I'm the kind of person who'll gleefully spend weeks putting together a "perfect" (well, it feels perfect to me) playlist consisting entirely of music from boss fights. Five times. It's definitely my favorite kind of music overall.

Anyway, while I'm a big fan of good original pieces, there's also a lot of really great fun to be had with a proper live version or arrangement of a piece that's already awesome. Whether it's taking a piece that's originally beautifully orchestral (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5NhIf8crM) and making an awesome rock version (https://stemage.bandcamp.com/track/purification-of-darkness), or taking a piece that's originally an old-school chiptune and orchestrating the hell out of it (https://stringplayergamer.bandcamp.com/track/spark-man-theme-orchestrated-from-mega-man-3), or just applying something totally weird and unexpected (https://smoothmcgroove.bandcamp.com/track/jenova-acapella-ff7) to something you thought was familiar (or just making something way the hell more intense (https://theophany-rmx.bandcamp.com/track/odolwas-mask) than it started out as), there's joy in a great arrangement.

I've recently become really enamored with the music to La-Mulana, and the song that I just can't stay away from is Interstice of the Dimension (https://nigoro.bandcamp.com/track/interstice-of-the-dimension). It's catchy, insistent, and compelling, and it is just begging for someone to give it the S.S.H. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcs01upfoPE) treatment (or something close to it). That said, La-Mulana has fewer musically inclined fans than, say, Final Fantasy or Undertale or Zelda or any of the other 400 lb gorillas out there (much love to them all, of course), so I haven't yet been successful in finding a good arrangement or live version of this soundtrack or this song. (Or really any arrangement, for that matter.)

So as I said, I know that this is a real long shot, but I don't suppose anyone reading this has encountered a good arrangement of Interstice of the Dimension? Or other La-Mulana music, I suppose, but like I said, I'm kinda stuck on IotD right now. (Even if you haven't heard another version, I hope you can appreciate that song, along with the other ones I've gratuitously splattered all over this post. I kinda like this stuff a little bit.) Thanks in advance, Playground!

[Doorhandle]

I've come across 2. GaMetal has an excellent metal version here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSWUOQFDSa8)

If you're more into chiptunes, there's a Mega-man X version here, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk3Xp5AO6ts) that sounds like it could have come from that game originally.

There's also another on soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/radiantknight/la-mulana-interstice-of-the-dimension-arranged), and another one here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIeK5Q0CD_c)

I hope that helps.

edit: Also, you can straight up buy the soundtrack here, BTW, just noticed. (https://nigoro.bandcamp.com/track/interstice-of-the-dimension)

[Zaq]

Whoa, somehow didn't see your response here. I feel unobservant! Hopefully this is under the necro window. Is there a grace period if it's your own thread?

Anyway, thank you for pointing out GaMetal! I managed to find them on my own a little while after posting this, but they need more love and more eyeballs. Their version of IotD is pretty sweet. I still want more, but I have a lot of respect for Jonny's work, and I'm glad that my searches for IotD brought me in touch with that particular project!

I have to say that that "Megaman X" one is pretty impressively poor. I mean, I personally don't know how to arrange music and I understand that it's not a trivial task, but they somehow managed to take something truly amazing and, like, suck all the good parts out of it or something? It's really remarkable, honestly. It also doesn't sound anything like either La-Mulana or MMX. But I suppose it's important to occasionally experience the bad in order to appreciate how good the good really is.

Interestingly enough, on Nigoro's La-Mulana website, they make the scores (http://la-mulana.com/en/specials/download) of the whole soundtrack available for free download, which I have to say is very classy! I don't know how to play a single one of the relevant instruments, unfortunately (the only instrument I can play is the taiko, and I'm learning it orally, so I don't know how to read music for it—not that a taiko appears in the song as written), but for folks who do happen to play the relevant instruments, the music's right there for anyone who's interested.

The description of IotD from the OST's liner notes appears to have been, shall we say, mechanically translated? Makes me wish I had kept up with my Japanese skills, or else I'd try to translate the original myself. It's been like nine years since I studied the language, though, so I've forgotten 99.5% of the kanji I ever knew, let alone the grammatical structures. But still, this is interesting:


It is music, as long as it is kind as there is core popularity although it is born in the state where it simmered down considerably with the original version and a game also flows in the end considerably. It is freely called "ethnic hard", this was the revenge of the MIDI version. Even if only anything does its best in case of MIDI, the sound of a guitar solo does not come seemingly to be it. Sound was recorded for every rendition in the condition of the sound flipped with some the code flipped with mute, the sound which flipped the bowstring ordinarily, a pyx clutch, light hand rendition, and picking Harmonics, and the guitar solo was made this time. It can finish being individually in fashion and satisfactory, although it is still far from a real guitar solo, of course. Since it has been satisfied and no arrangements had changed, it tampered only with guitar riff of B melo just before the end of development.

Anyone else managed to find anything else?