Hold the fukk up....Mario's Underground Theme is from a Miles Davis song???

[THE 101]

I'm listening to Miles' Get Up With It for the first time (great underrated album btw) and i'm on the track Calypso Frelimo and i'm like "there's something familiar about this " but 10 minutes in it becomes undeniable. This is the Mario Underground theme



Whole track is fire but skip to the 10 minute mark for the clearest example. I never knew this....maybe i'm late to this but Nintendo using jazz fusion inspired 8bit music is wild to me

 

[Rekkapryde]

 

[Batsute]

I hope Nintendo sues his estate for copyright infringement.

 

[The Mad Titan]

I'll see if I can find the videos but Nintendo most iconic themes from Mario to link all are samples.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Whenever Nintendo tries to sue creators for copyright infringement for sampling their songs they need to use this as evidence of fair use

 

[rabbid]

Koji Kondo, the composer, played in a jazz band in grade school. He had a similar upbringing as Pharrell.. but he had Nintendo instead of Teddy Riley. You cant have any type of deep musical knowledge without studying what black folks did.

 

[Canon]

I'll see if I can find the videos but Nintendo most iconic themes from Mario to link all are samples.

yup

a lot of Jazz remakes/samples

 

[Apollo Kid]

Koji Kondo took inspiration from several sources. Didn't know Miles was one of them.

I thought he got the inspiration from this:


Overworld inspiration


Starman theme

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Most Japanese video game and TV composers be biting lmao

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Koji Kondo took inspiration from several sources. Didn't know Miles was one of them.



Starman theme

Man the Starman themes was totally bitten from this. Including the wing and cap m

 

[Illuminatos]

Them Japanese composers plagiarize the hell out of everything.

Go read up on Kenji Yamamoto. Dude plagiarized the entire DBZ Budokai and DBZ Kai soundtracks. I’ve seen a couple jacked songs from Nobuo Uematsu as well (no disrespect)

 

[ball15life]

I'm listening to Miles' Get Up With It for the first time (great underrated album btw) and i'm on the track Calypso Frelimo and i'm like "there's something familiar about this " but 10 minutes in it becomes undeniable. This is the Mario Underground theme



Whole track is fire but skip to the 10 minute mark for the clearest example. I never knew this....maybe i'm late to this but Nintendo using jazz fusion inspired 8bit music is wild to me

Koji Kondo took inspiration from several sources. Didn't know Miles was one of them.

I thought he got the inspiration from this:


Overworld inspiration


Starman theme

Rep to you both.,..you can definitely hear the inspiration.
IDK what's being said but Summer Breeze is

 

[Black Panther]

I'll see if I can find the videos but Nintendo most iconic themes from Mario to link all are samples.

yup

a lot of Jazz remakes/samples

The theme of The Legend of Zelda was originally supposed to be Ravel's Bolero b/c they thought it was public domain.

But to be fair, when they found out it wasn't, koji Kondo re-wrote the music in one night.


If you play them back to back you can definitely hear the inspiration.

 

[Diunx]

Japanese were blatant with this shyt back then.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I wouldn't put it past them

Koji Kondo music always seemed inspired by jazz and freeform stuff