Before listening to the music from Zed Blade, I had never played the game, let alone never heard of it. By all accounts (meaning the video I watched on YouTube), Zed Blade is a side-scrolling sci-fi shoot 'em up akin to Gradius, Life Force, and R-Type. I was a little torn on which track to feature from this game, which probably means we will be using another track down the road.
There were a few things I liked about "Asteroid Circus [Repulse Mix] (Stage 4)" that made it stand out a bit from some of the other tracks. First, the song starts with pretty heavy guitar-like drones (I do kinda wish that the bass was kicked up though), and then at about 0:12, keyboards come in. Honestly, this could have been the entire song but had that been the case I likely would not have used it as the MIDI Week Single because it would not have been as interesting. Just repeat this for the rest of the song and repeat, and it kind of seems like that is what is happening because the next 40 seconds are just that. Then at 0:52 a new melody comes in and replaces the keyboards, and that melody is catchy enough to carry the song through until it repeats around 1:45.
Granted it is a little hard to hear the quieter, less in-your-face melody once it starts, over the din of blaster and missile fire as you destroy incoming asteroids and enemy ships, but that is music in arcade games for you.
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