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Another beautiful song cover. - Dark Jaguar - 12th May 2023
Alright, I should provide some context. The original.... let's call it "song"... is from the third release of the very first Resident Evil. There was Resident Evil, Resident Evil Director's Cut, and lastly Resident Evil Director's Cut Duel Shock Edition. Avoid that last one. They replaced the whole soundtrack in the third version with a new one as a sort of promotional stunt. At the time, there was a famous Japanese composer who had a reputation "like Beethoven" because he was deaf. This wasn't promoted at all in the U.S. release of this version, only in the Japanese version.
Now here's the kicker. This composer who so impressed due to overcoming his handicap? He was faking it. Not only did he fake being deaf, he was also faking writing the music in the first place. It was "ghost written" by another composer. The whole thing became a national scandal for a few months. Suffice it to say Capcom steered away from similar "celebrity tie in" stunts going forward, preferring to use only fictional characters in their cross promotional dealings.
Here's another delightful digital detail. This OST wasn't as good or fitting to the game as the original, but it wasn't really terrible by and large. I could easily see it working well for a Hitchcock based game about say a corrupt priest covering up a murder in a church and growing more and more paranoid about discovery. Then we get the basement song, or the "symphony of clown farts" as so many call it. Why does it sound like that? The song was converted into digital form improperly and accidentally coded every note to use the same default trumpet instrument. Someone has done a little creative license and reinterpreted the song using one of the creepier instruments in RE's sound font to produce this:
It... actually sounds decent now!
Now, for full context, here's what the original version of the song is, from both RE and RE: Director's Cut.