First song I've ever used multiple apostrophes in the title of! When I first heard this delightful song, my mind wandered to a sea shanty of sorts… so I busted out the hurdy-gurdy samples, laid out some droning bass, and this happened. It's a bit slower than the source, but I tried to keep the melody and such faithful so I could focus on better mixing. Maybe it worked. At any rate, hopefully some of it sounds good.

You know, this is the first i've heard of this track, because i don't really listen to these kinds of soundtracks. Unpopular opinion….but…it's just not my thing.

That said though i did want to take a crack at it. I didn't really want to do orchestral, because, well…i just don't have the tools to make it sound good (Even though i could in theory). Also this source is calling for some drums, and not so much light toms and stuff, hence my need for electronic elements. I like this, it's good enough.

I never played Chrono Cross and know next to nothing about it… But my instrumentation choices made the song have a slightly beach-side vibe. And I hear that Chrono from Chrono Trigger can appear in the game… So this happened. And against my better judgement, I tried using electric guitar samples.

Welp, here's the fun story behind this little tid-bit, about how I re-did this song about 3-4 times before finally giving up and doing this in the end:

1. Scrapped the ‘dubstep / rave dance’ version I had an idea of because it was colouring too much outside the lines of MnP, and the song proved too complex / difficult for my pea-brain mind with BandLab Online's shitty limited selection of pre-made loops and samples and MIDI instruments to handle;
2. Scrapped the ‘fast Latin dance w/ blazing Spanish acoustic riffs’ (a la FF IX's Vama Alla Flamenco (de Chocobo)) because not enough time, and see above;
3. Settled for option 3 / 4. I tried, but some Chrono Cross songs are too complex to bend to my will without breaking the spirit of MnP.

TL;DR: 

Couldn't add much to the song besides a bit of drum & percussion creativity and a sprinkle of vox and ingenuity because of limited things to work with. The song took me, chewed me up and spat me back out worse off for it. My brain power is out of juice, haha.

Feels bad, man.

It's a bit (way more) laid back and minimalist than my usual flavour--and the sounds might be a lil' too sharp--but my brain's melted to a puddle due to current events at present IRL. However, I hope it's fun to listen to nonetheless, at the very least. ♥