![]() Hans (aka "Hunz") did the video, and as an interesting side note, was also in the Hellven netlabel with virt, mv, Andrew Sega, and other insanely-talented demoscene & MOD artists, way back when. 7bit Hero are Hans van Vliet, Phil Evans, and Richie Young. ![]() IGN released an article on the track yesterday big thanks to MusicHunter for bringing this to our attention on our forums, and Larry for following up with the group. The track reminds me of Zero Division's " Cover Your Light" Deflektor mix in its pitch-perfect re-envisioning of a classic VGM theme as a vocal/band track, and the pop aesthetic recalls some of AkumajoBelmont's work, but this is definitely an original.īefore I go any further, watch the music video. It's in that weird space of art/music where it's just better than it almost has a RIGHT to be, where you're kinda scratching your head wondering how the hell it even HAPPENED. well, it's just really, really, really good. take me home" refrain that opens things up and later reprises/layers to the spot-on chip textures to the E-X-T-E-N-D chant that itself gets layered with cheerleader-style shouts. It's just damn smart work from the "carry on. No bullshit, I'm floored I didn't even think this melody could lend itself to such a treatment, but thanks to brilliant lyrics, great vocals, and the PERFECT tweaks to the chord progression of the chorus, this bitpop mix takes a familiar theme and KEEPS it familiar while totally re-purposing it at the same time. This isn't just a ReMix of Bubble Bobble. " 7bit Hero" are a band made up of indie game devs out of Brisbane, Australia, and let me be 110% clear: My point being, it's been over THIRTEEN YEARS since we've posted an arrangement of that uplifting, saccharin main theme, and it's about damn time the drought was ended. Some of those have since been removed for being little more than the original with drum loops on top four remain, two are sibling mixes, one's a hip-hop jam, and we don't talk about the other one. The first full year of OCR's existence was rife with Bubble Bobble mixes.
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