#cryptrik

[does-the-mashup-slap]

I've fallen and I can't get up by Cryptic https://youtu.be/5HGcKpYroQY?si=l3cih2EwZ93One_f

Does the mashup slap?

this mashup slaps

it only slaps like a cold fish

it's complicated (why? tag it)

Voting ended onOct 22, 2024

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 07/02/2024

Battle Emergency

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: Paper Jams - A High​-​Quality Album ~ The First Fold

Ripped by Cryptrik

Requested by circunflexo! (@circunflexonoa)

Over its life, there's been a lot of projects on SiIvaGunner where it's easy to tell they were driven by individual rippers' passions, moreso than satiating the hunger of a wider audience. There's of course Jass' excellent Genesis renditions of the soundtrack to Sonic CD, as shown in Collision Chaos Good Future JP [CD Beta Mix], there's ShonicTH's push for Kingdom Hearts content to be on the channel with rips like Trial of the Heart, and of course Chaze the Chat's legendary infatuation with pop music sensation Sean Kingston in Take You To The Desert - with no particularly strong feelings toward any other music artists of the 2000s. Yet of these projects listed, I don't think any of them felt quite as prominently featured on the channel as the three-part Paper Jams project.

Prominent channel member PinkieOats, of Live and Ooooooooooooooh, was once on an episode of the now-ended SiIvaGunner interview podcast series "The High Quality Podcast" (which, ftr was a huge inspiration for me to start this blog!). From just that one hour of time spent listening to PinkieOats alone, I could tell that the guy REALLY loved the first two Paper Mario games - hell, his profile picture since time immemorial has been of a pink Boo enemy rendered in the Paper Mario artstyle. Just a few months after said podcast episode, SiIvaGunner revealed "Paper Jams - and it thus came as no surprise to me to learn that it was a successor to a 2015 project by PinkieOats and Nape Mango, five whole years earlier. The goal of Paper Jams? To, across a collection of album, rip *every single track* from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

The tracks wouldn't all be ripped by PinkieOats and Nape Mango this time, of course - they now had the entire SiIvaGunner team collaborating with them for this rather ambitious event, and the results of that collaboration are evident as clear as day with Cryptrik's Battle Emergency. I've covered Cryptrik's work in the past with rips like Maroonbound and Give Me the Fantasy, and it was actually my coverage on the latter rip that prompted today's requestee to suggest yet more of the guy's rips for the blog. But it really cannot be stressed enough just how effortlessly Cryptrik is consistently able to make his rips just sound flat-out FUN, in large thanks to his mastery of utilizing large amounts of pure *noise* in rips. It would not surprise me one bit if I learned he was an actual DJ, but his influences are immensely clear regardless - dude rocks, basically.

Battle Emergency straddles a fantastic line in my eyes between succumbing entirely to Cryptrik's noise-driven style and still maintaining the original charm of The Thousand-Year Door's music - a balance that I believe is important to have in mind whilst working for a tribute project like Paper Jams in particular. The whimsical, energetic vibe of the Battle Theme lying underneath it all doesn't get lost, but is coated in an absolute barrage of mostly funk-related songs - primarily led by FUNK EMERGENCY, but joined by parts from Walk the Dinosaur, Uptown Funk, and the ever-memorable melody of Black Betty (bam-ba-lam), really just letting Cryptrik go wild with his signature style.

And yeah - it all works to excellent effect! The rip often reminds me of rips like Everybody's Special Course or Memey Hell in how the amount of noise and scattershot sources only aid in giving the track a fun, exciting feel - like you're at the center of two concerts playing at once and having the best time of your life. Its the kind of rip that almost leaves you exhausted after you're done listening - yet also the kind of rip that's endlessly relistenable as a result for how many phases it goes through in such a standard runtime. Althewhile the positive energy it instills also serves to spills over into my impression of Paper Jams as a whole - it truly sells the idea that, though the project was started by PinkieOats and his own passion, it is one that so many others of the SiIva team love just as much and want to celebrate just as loudly. Because really - moreso than colleagues, isn't the SiIvaGunner team really just a bunch of musicians who love jamming out to one another's music?

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Todays rip: 29/05/2023

Follow μ's / Halation Generation

Featured on: Rips of Christmas Past Ripped by Cryptrik

Doing somewhat of a double feature here - the original track was uploaded at the beginning of Season 2, with Cryptrik later creating a remastered version for their own channel in late 2018 (Season 3).

Cryptrik is much like Nikki+ in that their style is very identifiable on the channel - in some ways, you can view the two as polar opposites. Wheras Nikki+ consistently provides the most soothing, dream-like tunes of meditation possible, Cryptrik is a full-on DJ, producing beats and bangers on a regular basis ever since the earliest days of Season 1. Not to say that this is all Cryptrik does - he's seen great success in branching out to more traditional mashups, remixes, soundfont swaps, and so on - but the music he specializes in is very much his own unique brand on the channel. As consistent as the morning sun, even within the week I'm posting this, Cryptrik is there to combine the channel's favorite jokes with insanely catchy and bop-worthy beats and EDM melodies.

There's tons of Cryptrik tracks I could've chosen to exemplify this, and this one was mainly just chosen because its been sitting in my personal playlist ever since its release six years ago. But it speaks to just how timelessly quality their work is that it still slots right in with the rest of their iconic contributions to the channel.

Like Nikki+, Cryptrik is sure to come up more in this series of posts as time goes on, so look forward to that lol.

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Pick After Burn - Cryptrik [Leave it to Lammy: Reloaded]

[werewolf-cuddles]

y’all wanna hear something cursed?

[venusfm]

(Cryptrik)

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 14/05/2024

Feeder Castle 1

Season 2 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips Volume A

Ripped by Cryptrik

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Hey look - Cryptrik's back!! It wasn't all that long ago that they were featured on here with the delightfully danceable A Mambo Moment after all, but it's been a while since I've featured a rip that truly showcases the thing that really sets the guy apart. Indeed, it was mostly a topic brought up in his very first post on here, Halation Generation: moreso than just a fantastic ripper, Cryptrik also has plenty of experience as a DJ, and has leveraged that experience to great effect throughout their time on the channel. While most everyone else was doing melodyswaps and mashups in the channel's first Seasons, Cryptrik was out here feeding us with Feeder Castle 1 - a full-on techno rearrangement of an iconic, yet arguably restrained, Mario Kart theme.

I'm sure many of you can relate if you've grown up nostalgically attached to any Mario Kart (I've certainly not been shy of it in posts like Neon Wi-Fi and Initial Deluxe (I've Just Raced on this Course Before)) - the series' music just has a way of getting absolutely stuck in your ears. Yet a lot of the music from Super Circuit to me has long felt...unrealized - something about that game's particular instrumentation, held back by the restrictions of the GBA, made its tracks unable to flourish as much as their melodies suggest - thus, its Bowser Castle theme has been ingrained into my head from years of playing Mario Kart Wii, yet never been able to truly register as a great song. That was, of course, until I heard Feeder Castle 1 - leveraging a song that I'm convinced almost nobody in the target audience had properly heard of before in order to finally make this theme click into place.

It is of course a completely different vibe from the original GBA Bowser Castle theme, heavy techno likely wasn't what any of the original composers had in mind for giving Bowser Castle its finalized sound. Yet the different sections of Feeder, a techno song made through the combined efforts of Technikore, JTS, Al Storm and Weaver, lend themselves amazingly to the track - because where they differ in instrumentation, they make up for in having a pretty similar tone in sound. Bowser's Castle is meant to sound heavy and imposing to reflect the character itself, and though conveyed in an unorthodox way, that is ABSOLUTELY what Feeder Castle 1 manages to do, althewhile making the track's earworm melody sing all the louder through the bolder instrumentation.

The rip feels like the kind of thing that ONLY Cryptrik could make, leveraging a song that's seemingly on the more obscure end in the scene he's most familiar in the music world to use for such a specific purpose as an old GBA Mario Kart track. The passion behind the rip feels similar to You Give Me Color Power in that sense - yet the degree to which Feeder is modified to borderline just feel like an original rearrangement of the source track, PARTICULARLY in the opening few seconds, gives the rip such a specific character unique to Cryptrik.

Put bluntly - it bumps!! Its a hidden gem the likes of which I'm always fond of stumbling onto in running this blog. If you follow SiIvaGunner, you've likely listened to a Cryptrik rip or three unknowingly in your time on the channel - but I hope posts like this highlight just how distinct of a style his rips tend to have, and puts you on the lookout for them in the future.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 12/10/2023

Give Me the Fantasy

Season 3 Featured on: STRINGS OF FATE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for a Day Tournament Original Soundtrack

Ripped by Cryptrik

Cryptrik is a ripper I've wanted to talk about on the blog ever since it started, yet thus far I've only done so once on Halation Generation. They're amidst the pantheon of rippers who have stayed with the channel ever since its first season, and Cryptrik remains one of the most distinctive on the team in terms of their typical style. That style, as you may already be familiar with, is very DJ-esque - several rips they've made are pretty much entirely original arrangements with heavy rave/electronic/dance feel to it, and I'm dying to cover some more of those in particular.

Granted, Give Me the Fantasy is a bit more of a traditional rip than the other Cryptrik works I'm alluding to - its a mashup between Pitbull's Give Me Everything and Endless Fantasy by Anamanaguchi. It plays off of a big part of the appeal of both KFaD Tournaments, that rips no longer had an obligation to come from video games so long as they were tied to a tournament contestant. Rips have of course never *required* explicit ties to video games, but tournament entrants like Pitbull gave rippers a clear theme to center around that wasn't related to video games, to great success.

And, look, I'm waffling a bit here, talking the rip up maybe more than it really needs to - its just a mashup that I'm really attached to! I love Anamanaguchi and the whole Endless Fantasy album in general means a lot to me, so discovering this mashup just recently - a KFaD-quality mashup of one of my favorite non-VGM pieces of music - really stuck with me. Despite never hearing the mashup during its original upload time, it feels...nostalgic, oddly enough. Commenters seem to share that view, and some speculate that its due to the Give Me Everything vocals bringing back memories of listening to the radio in days gone by...not that I can confirm or deny, but its a really enjoyable listen althesame. Like I said, I want to get into more of Cryptrik's more defining rips in the future, but for now I'm making a pitstop with one of their simplest bangers. Give Me the Fantasy just makes me happy.