' Way to knock it out of the park, Jack! :-) The intro got a bit loud/crowded, but nothing that was problematic, and I get the conscious choice there. The glitchy, ominous backdrop and alternating messages builds this weird tension so that when the beat drops and it becomes more of an EDM affair, it's a more dramatic shift, but one that works quite well. I think the intro adds context and makes this much more of a Hotline Miami mix, fully embracing the game's aesthetic wouldn't have it any other way. Plus I hate the sound of my own voice, even if it is masked by some dodgy American accents and pitch shifters.

I'm not sure which I prefer, honestly! I liked the idea of reading out the phone messages from the game, although I feel it serves to slightly distract from the atmosphere. I have a version without the phone messages. And yes, that's actually me on the phone! It is a bit loud, especially in the first build up, although to some extent that is an artistic choice, intended to convey some discomfort to the listener and further put them on edge before the drop, or in the story I'm trying to tell, the 'snapping' of our protagonist.

In my remix, I've tried to tell a story of how the voices on the phone haunt the protagonist to the point where he snaps and goes insane, then seeks revenge. Aren't all games made better just by setting them in 1980s Miami? The game sees you receive mysterious answerphone messages essentially telling you to travel to a location and go on an ultra-violent killing spree with any weapon you can find to hand, including bottles, knives, shotguns and power drills. This time, it's the fast-paced 80s top-down romp Hotline Miami.

' In a return to my normal MO, I'm remixing a previously unremixed game. DarkSim hits us up with our FIRST ReMix of Hotline Miami, featuring some heavy-hitting electro/EDM prefaced by an extended narrative intro that sets the stage & draws from the game's mysterious & surrealist answering machine mechanic:

OCR02999 - last of the OCR02XXX legacy!! The 2XXX series has been absolutely freakin' incredible, with too much music to really characterize with a single adjective.

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