Hump Day Music: Super Fighting Robot X

This post would have been up yesterday if I did not start playing the last two missions of Mass Effect 3.  Spent the majority of yesterday night plowing through the ending and experiencing all that was going on.  Enough about that, let us get on with this week's Hump Day Music.

For the past week, I have been listening to whole lot of OC ReMix's newest album, Mega Man X: Maverick Rising.  Just go to maverick.ocremix.org and you can download this free 62 track honouring the excellent music from the Mega Man X series.  Earlier this week, I finished listening to all 62 tracks and I have to say it was amazing.  While there are some tracks I prefer over others, they all had a unique take on a track from the Mega Man X series, which can be surprising for some.  Out of all 62 tracks, my favourite has to be the second track, a remix of Mega Man X3's opening stage called Super Fighting Robot X.  WillRock's remix is a much smoother more electronic take on the original music, but it still gets your blood pumping and mind psyched to kick some Maverick butt.  Listening to this track and all the others, just makes me want to pull out my copy of the Mega Man X Collection for PS2 and just play these classic platformers.  If you have not picked downloaded this amazing free album yet, you are definitely missing out.  Take a listen to the track I am sharing with you today and if you you like, I highly recommend downloading Maverick Rising.

Hump Day Music: Maverick Rising

Some of the best and most iconic video game music came in a day and age where video game composers were limited by the sounds they could create with the sound chip of many older consoles.  Changing mere beeps and boops into incredible pieces of 8-bit, 16-bit and even 32-bit music just showed how great these composers were.  Many video game franchises still around today such as The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Sonic and Final Fantasy became known for their music.  Among those gaming series, a certain blue bomber made by Capcom became known for it's great 8 and 16-bit rock music that got players pumped to play through each level and beat it's Robot Masters.  That series is Mega Man rocking gamers since 1987.

Today, I am going to do something a little different.  Rather than highlighting one particular piece of music from Mega Man, I am going to highlight a whole album.  In honour of getting their 27,000th like on Facebook, OC ReMix released their newest free album, Mega Man X: Maverick Rising.  Maverick Rising is a collection of 62 ReMixed tracks from the Mega Man X series by 49 incredibly talented artists.  Maverick Rising is broken up into five disc.  Each disc is music from a different character in the Mega Man X series from X all the way to Dr. Light.  I have only listened to the first eight tracks and I am enjoying it.  For those interested, go to maverick.ocremix.org and download the album for yourself.  It comes at the excellent price of free, so there is no excuse not to download this collection of great video game music.  If you are not convinced yet, maybe the trailer will convince you to download it.