And The April Fools' Day Winner Is . . .

Overclocked Remix, a site specializing in arrangements and remixes of video game music, absolutely blew away the rest of this years’ April Fools’ Day joke field.

The site today released a soundtrack featuring 18 remixes —mixes of perhaps the single most clichéd song in the vgremix world: Ice Cap Zone from Sonic 3.

But most of the comedy comes from the music itself. The headline song, Ice Cap Hurts by djpretzel, is simply an old mix of djpretzel’s (subtly enough, entitled “Love Hurts”) with Ice Cap awkwardly overlaid on it. Another gem features a ridiculous a capella rendition of the artist singing her name and the song’s name repeatedly—to the tune of Ice Cap.

The rest of the humor stems from the hundreds of site members who have not yet realized this is a joke, including remixers who have threatened to quit the site over the poor quality of the collection. Clearly, they did not hear the toilet-flushing (literally) beats in this song.

Is it a bad thing that I really like some of them?

posted by Mike Pellegrino on 1 April 2007
| permalink | +del.icio.us | +digg | +reddit

comment

Commenting is closed for this article.