Relics of the Chozo

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Relics of the Chozo
Studio album by OverClocked ReMix Site Projects
Released	September 12, 2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	Video Game Music
Length	71:48
Label	OverClocked ReMix
Producer(s)	Ari "Protricity" Asulin
OverClocked ReMix Site Projects chronology
	Relics of the Chozo (2003)	Kong in Concert (2004)
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Relics of the Chozo or RotC is an album of 19 songs, contemporary "rearrangements" of the music from the classic video game Super Metroid for the SNES. Relics of the Chozo was a non-profit collaboration of musicians and lovers of Super Metroid, the soundtrack of which having been composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. The album was titled by contributor Waleed "Zyko" Hawatky.

The project began by having the participating artists pick tracks to recreate, although many artists eventually dropped out leaving project manager Ari Asulin in the position of completing the majority of the album. While the album was only marginally successful in undertaking its collaboration format (due the to number of artists that dropped out of the project), its successful reception from fans of the amateur video game music arrangement community legitimized the format's use in future projects, most notably the Donkey Kong Country arrangement album Kong in Concert (2004) released exactly one year later. The finished product was released and spotlighted on OverClocked ReMix on September 12, 2003 as OCR's first-ever Site Project. As of September 27, 2006, the WAV CD album torrent was downloaded over 11,000 times.

The collaboration's website notes that contributor Christopher "Avien" Powell died on September 10, 2004.

[edit] Track listing

(Note: Corrected for formatting inconsistencies from the information located at project's homepage.)

1. "Premonition of Fell Purpose" [Title] (Protricity) – 3:30
2. "So It Begins…" [Intro] (Vigilante) – 2:41
3. "Hostile Abduction" [Battle 1] (Suzumebachi, Protricity) – 3:50
4. "Putting Down on Zebes" [Crateria Raining] (Protricity) – 3:07
5. "Evil Aroused" [Crateria Underground] (Protricity) – 4:17
6. "Full of Life" [Brinstar 1] (Protricity) – 3:37
7. "Unsettling Nature" [Miniboss] (Prophecy) – 3:22
8. "Traversing the Beyond" [Crateria Surface] (Daniel Baranowsky, Protricity) – 3:33
9. "Vast Inner Depths of Brinstar" [Brinstar 2] (Protricity) – 6:30
10. "Sudden Death" [Battle 2] (Protricity) – 1:54
11. "A Change and a Passing" [Chozo/Tourian] (Protricity) – 2:34
12. "Metal Fatigue" [Wrecked Ship] (Children of the Monkey Machine) – 4:16
13. "Noumenon" [Maridia 2] (Avien) – 2:49
14. "Ebb Tide Manifest" [Maridia 1] (Protricity) – 3:56
15. "Pyroclastica" [Norfair 1] (Children of the Monkey Machine) – 2:27
16. "Braving the Flames" [Norfair 2] (Adhesive_Boy) – 4:57
17. "Perceived by Cold Intelligence" [Mother Brain] (Protricity, Zyko) – 6:26
18. "Escaping Retribution" [Escape] (Protricity) – 4:01
19. "The Galaxy is at Peace…" [Ending] (Daniel Baranowsky) – 4:01

These files are free and available for download at the project website.

[edit] Credits

• Adhesive_Boy (Jack Ryerson) – arranger
• Avien (Christopher Powell) – arranger
• Children of the Monkey Machine (Matthew Newman) – arranger
• Daniel Baranowsky – arranger
• Prophecy (Jason Miller) – arranger
• Protricity (Ari Asulin) – arranger, website design, album design, project director
• Robert Saunders - album design
• Suzumebachi (Ty Guenly) – guitar, arranger
• Vigilante (Jesse Taub) – guitar, arranger
• Zyko (Waleed Hawatky) – guitar, arranger

[edit] External links and references

• Relics of the Chozo website
• Relics of the Chozo at MusicBrainz
• Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of Super Metroid's soundtrack at OverClocked ReMix
• OverClocked ReMix

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