Rise of the Star

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Rise of the Star
Studio album by OverClocked ReMix Site Projects
Released	June 25, 2005
Recorded	2004–2005
Genre	Video Game Music
Length	43:56
Label	OverClocked ReMix
Producer(s)	Shariq "DarkeSword" Ansari
OverClocked ReMix Site Projects chronology
Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation (2005)	Rise of the Star (2005)	The Dark Side of Phobos (2005)

Rise of the Star or RotS is an album of 11 songs, contemporary rearrangements of the music from the video game Kirby's Adventure for the NES. Rise of the Star was a non-profit collaboration of musicians and lovers of Kirby's Adventure, the soundtrack of which having originally been composed by Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa. Each track in the album denotes one of the eleven rankings that a Kirby's Adventure player could receive after completing a certain percentage of the game.

The project began with prospective artists auditioning past work for project manager Shariq Ansari, followed by having the participating artists pick tracks to recreate. The album title was chosen by Ansari, adapted from a suggestion made by contributor Ben "chthonic" Briggs, Rise of a Star. The finished product was released and spotlighted as OverClocked ReMix's fourth Site Project on June 25, 2005. As of September 20, 2006, the MP3 & FLAC CD Album torrent was downloaded over 7,000 times.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Drops of Dreamriver" [Theme of Water Drop] (KirbyMixer) – 6:31
2. "Free Breezin'" [Theme of Son of Wind] (Darangen) – 4:18
3. "Cosmic Transformations" [Theme of L'il Traveller] (Adhesive_Boy) – 5:36
4. "Creampuff Starship" [Theme of Star Herald] (analoq) – 4:23
5. "Kirby...tacular" [Theme of Swift Hunter] (Rellik) – 2:35
6. "The Ballad of Sir Kibbles" [Theme of Dream Hunter] (Suzumebachi) – 3:15
7. "Starbound" [Theme of Dream Warrior] (chthonic) – 3:13
8. "Generalized Vegetal" [Theme of Star General] (Trenthian) – 3:22
9. "Aviator Soul" [Theme of Great Ace] (DarkeSword) – 3:36
10. "Final Flight" [Theme of Final Star] (DarkeSword) – 3:49
11. "Dreams of Valor" [Theme of Hero of Lore] (Bladiator, GrayLightning, Hemophiliac) – 3:18

These files are free and available for download at the project's homepage.

[edit] Credits

• Adhesive_Boy (Jack Ryerson) – arranger
• analoq (Aaron Matthews) – arranger
• Bladiator (Karl Harmdierks) – piano, arranger
• chthonic (Ben Briggs) – arranger
• Darangen (Michael Boyd) – guitar, arranger
• DarkeSword (Shariq Ansari) – arranger, website design, project director
• GrayLightning (Gray Alexander) – arranger
• Hemophiliac (Chris Roman) – arranger
• KirbyMixer (Bas Oppenheim) – arranger
• Linearity (Alex Stuart) – album design
• Rellik (Adam Lederer) – arranger
• Suzumebachi (Ty Guenley) – guitar, arranger
• Trenthian (John St.John) – arranger

[edit] External links and references

• Rise of the Star homepage
• Rise of the Star at MusicBrainz
• Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of Kirby's Adventure's soundtrack at OverClocked ReMix
• OverClocked ReMix