Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But the closest I ever got was watching Terry Zwigoff’s 2006 satire Art School Confidential.
It’s a about a wide-eyed college freshman whose idealism is beaten out of him by the pettiness, cynicism, and insecurity of the institution and its people. I decided to try to become an engineer instead.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out in 1998. For a certain generation, it represents the peak of electronic entertainment. Link could climb, swim, and swing his sword like never before. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that decades later people are remixing and augmenting the game that defined their childhood in music.
This jenky ode to a dead music genre lets you collect bananas while trampling through a glitched-out Jungle Hijinxs as a slowed-down, reverb-infested remix of the DKC soundtrack plays in the background. Any questions?
