Time to Rock Out with this OverClocked ReMix of “Mabe Village”
Posted on October 17 2019 by Kristen G. Rosario
Link’s Awakening‘s opening sees Link wake up in Marin and Tarin’s home and enter the prosperous town of Mabe Village. This village provides players a first taste of what Koholint Island has to offer in terms of unique citizens. Likewise, the music that fills your ears in Mabe Village provides a sampling of the game’s entire amazing score. With the remix we’re listening to today, the tune now sounds more like Link is visiting a block party.
This reworked version of “Mabe Village” comes to us from Blake Troise (AKA PROTO·DOME) of OverClocked ReMix, and is part of the recently released community collaboration album Songs of the Sirens: Link’s Awakening ReMixed. Called “Mah Boi“, this remix is described as a “plucky, funky, jazzy chip-prog take on ‘Mabe Village'”. From just listening to the reworked tune myself, PROTO·DOME basically gives the Mabe Village theme a heavy dose of chiptune vibes on top of what the score already provides.
Songs of the Sirens’ album director WillRock agrees with this as well, since he always expects something great from PROTO·DOME:
WillRock: “Blake is one of those people who constantly delivers, and as expected, he brought his signature jazzy chiptune stylings to the iconic “Mabe Village” track. However, this one goes a step further than the typical PROTO·DOME offering, throwing in progressive arrangement ideas, including an awesome 7/4 section, and some really creative change-ups, and even has an extended slowed down outro right when you think the track has finished. This has everything that makes a PROTO·DOME track great, but pushes things up by a level by taking things in unique and cool directions. Great stuff.”
If you’re interested in checking out all of what the Songs of the Sirens: Link’s Awakening ReMixed album has to provide, make sure to download the full and absolutely free community collaboration album here.
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Kristen G. Rosario is an Editor who joined Zelda Dungeon back in September of 2015. His current goal is to become a full-time video game journalist, hoping to eventually gain a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. While he pursues that dream, he not only takes care of his adorable dachshund Angel, but also helps run a YouTube channel with his brother. The Zelda series is a quest he hasn’t fully completed yet, but hopes to get there one day.
