GoldenEye 007 (N64) - Nice Dam, Be a Shame if Somebody Bungee Jumped Off It (The Dam Theme)

Here's a cover of the Dam Theme, from the first stage of 1997's N64 classic, GoldenEye 007! If you were in high school or college when this game came out, in spite of its now rather dated appearance, you likely played this game into the ground, and doubly likely in multiplayer mode! Most of the soundtrack of the game consists of themes that heavily lean into James Bond theme music, with the Dam Theme in the Pause Menu theme being particularly memorable (with the pause theme arguably being the most memorable!).
For this arrangement, the original arrangement is pretty near perfect, so for my arrangement, in addition to digging out some of the built in keyboard samples from the Yamaha PSR-282 which has some great stand in patches for N64 and SNES sounds, I used the Surge XT synth for the main lead melody, added an acoustic guitar to give the middle of the piece some texture, and added two guitar solos on my brand new FM Esphera 7 string guitar. The low James Bond motif played in the middle of the song before the 2nd guitar solo, although not filmed, was played through the Spitfire Audio Labs Vox Humana sound.
This song was alot of fun to revisit and put together, and it was a blast to track it using my new FM guitar. The extra seventh string was required for the intro riff to boot!
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[@Syck589]

Freaking awesome

[@thesosomusician]

Ha, thanks! The old keyboard I'm using has stock patches that are SNES and N64 quality, it's sometimes eerie how well they match!

[@The_Kiosk]

Who knew Goldeneye was Djent the entire time? This is great. Really.

[@thesosomusician]

Djenti-est tune featuring a vibraphone! James Bond slaps!

[@The_Kiosk]

@@thesosomusician did you ever hear of Gold N Fly? It's an album of rap songs remixed over the game music. The whole thing is fire but if you only hear one track, "Ride wit me (archives)" is a highlight.

[@thesosomusician]

I hadn't heard of that project, the Ride wit me pretty perfectly expanded the arrangement for a verse chorus structure, that worked almost too well!

[@The_Kiosk]

@@thesosomusician when the uncompressed pause menu music was released, all the comments were about rap music should have sampled goldeneye music.

[@fmguitars]

so sick!!!

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers! The new guitar is awesome, it looks, plays, and sounds great!

[@dexinvictus6103]

🔥🚒🔥🚒🔥

[@thesosomusician]

Cheers!

[@BassicBits]

Sweet arrangement! 🙌🏻

[@thesosomusician]

Monster tune, so many James Bond riffs and motifs in it!

[@Syck589]

Really fuckin cool man

[@thesosomusician]

Thanks, this one came together nicely, great source tune!

[@DennisLarsTorrent]

Killer. ❤

[@thesosomusician]

Thanks! FM guitars ftw!

[@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers]

sounds awesome as always man. goldeneye always did have pretty lit music imho

[@thesosomusician]

Thanks, I'm glad it's getting a few views too! So many James Bond motifs, they really did a good job on this soundtrack!

[@dahunlee_acousticguitar_covers]

@@thesosomusician I still remember how good the menu/pause music was. Anyways great job again man!

[@thesosomusician]

Ha, the pause screen is a banger, the vibraphone is dripping with gravitas on that one!

[@stephenkain6603]

What’s that guitar brand? So sick looking!

[@thesosomusician]

FM Guitars, check them out! www.fmguitars.com/