Animal Crossing: Wild World / City Folk - 12PM (Re-Arranged)

All this time, I thought Wild World and City Folk just had the same hourly themes. I thought they were 1:1 the same, aside from City Folk having higher-quality instruments.
I was wrong. 12PM is different in City Folk.
I thought the part without the lead melody was present in Wild World. But while recording Wild World footage, that part never came. It just looped the same...what, 20 second loop over and over again? The little section without the lead melody is, as far as I can tell, exclusive to City Folk. So 12PM actually got updated. In other words, 12PM got buffed.
As such, I'm giving City Folk some more honor here. I don't know of any other hourly themes in the series that got updated like this. You better believe I'm curious about the other themes now. Not that any of them needed an update as desperately as 12PM did.
Wild World has a few hourly themes that are super short. Maybe because of cartridge space, I dunno. 12PM has got to be one of the shortest, most repetitive hourly themes in the soundtrack. In the series. And it's a lovely, tranquil little theme. City Folk's update to the theme to diversify its structure a little bit worked wonderfully. But at its core, it is simple and repetitive. It's the same basic four-chord progression over, and over, and over, and over again.
I've tried to circumvent the repetition by improvising throughout and really embracing that lead-melody-less part. I could've changed up the chord progression a bit, I guess. But it's good, I think, to stay true to its simplicity in some way.
The bouncier rhythm was something I just decided on right as I started working on this. I was originally planning to give it similar pacing to the original. But why not shake things up a bit from time to time? Not everything has to be an enhanced port.
Instruments Used:
Super Audio Cart: GB Triangle 1, NES Drumkit 03, GB Noise Menu 1 (percussion splash)
Roland ZENOLOGY: Wurly EP, R&B Kit (shaker sound)
Akkordika: Anglo Concertina
Roland Sound Canvas: Marimba (SC-88), VS Organ, 70s E. Organ, Music Bell, Whistle 2 (specifically from the CM-64 Map...they sound different between maps!)

[@jamblesoup]

once again an absolute banger

[@DaBraxMan]

@@jamblesoup you have our deepest, most profound gratitude -Blathers (and me)

[@billjohns5943]

When City Folk does more than animal tracks and the city.

[@DaBraxMan]

@@billjohns5943 animal tracks more like improved sound tracks got em

[@cgk1276]

WW/CF music… nothing else like it. Great job, this might be hitting me a little too hard

[@DaBraxMan]

@@cgk1276 hits like a truck! I have to refrain myself from just tackling WW/CF’s soundtrack straight away instead of going for a variety lol, I just love this soundtrack so much. Thrilled to hear you enjoyed, hope you enjoy the other arrangements as well!