The original song "You're The Best" from the original Karate Kid (1984) has been one of my favorite songs since childhood.  The desire to make an EDM remix is literally what prompted me to start looking into music production at all.  

The Karate Kid series is near and dear to me.  With the final season of Cobra Kai on the horizon, I felt like it was time to bring this song back with a modern twist.  I hope to have done it justice in the eyes of fellow Karate Kid fans.

Updated 2/6/25 with new tricks

8/4/25: Updated with a ton of new changes.  I've been working with Ashley Wallbridge through his academy and have been upping my skillset immensely.  

You're The Best - Joe Esposito (Sweep The Bootleg Remix) - Wymzy

Listen to full album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5Jj72gITdSMzhcHB8AJOmB?si=Pf3qTKVfTmyzJ3MusTRu3A

a l i t t l e s p a c e [Thorium Audio 6: Transformation]

Fading Echoes

Hurry Up

Artist Name
Anoro
Record Label
Anoro
Release Date
Jul. 28, 2025
Primary Genre
Spoken Word
Secondary Genre
Spoken Word
Primary Subgenre
Audiobook
Secondary Subgenre
Audiobook
Mood/Style
Type: Vocal
Album Language
French
Artist Location
Canada

Source:
OVIDE, MÉTAMORPHOSES, LIVRE XI
[Trad. et notes de A.-M. Boxus et J. Poucet, Bruxelles, 2008]
Fin de l'histoire d'Orphée - Légende de Midas (11, 1-193)
bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/METAM/Met11/Met11-001-193.htm

Texte:
justpaste.it/ik7w7

Légende de Midas

I Won't Forget You

1996

I once overheard a conversation. A friend was saying "we're just women with too much rope".  I wasn't' entirely sure what she meant, but the phrase stuck with me.

Lyrics
Everything’s been easy at every turn
Too much freedom we never had to earn
Too much money, too much sex
Too many things going the way you’d expect

The light is bright, The day is long
We always had plenty of adequate dope
I never complained about what you did
When you gave us too much rope 

Too much coffee
Too much time
Too many options
To keep in line
Too much youth
In early days
Too much time and money
For the current craze

There were questions we didn’t need to answer
That was something that we never had to do
When things went wrong like they always tend to
There was always rope and it would pull us through

You must have made some choices in those empty days
Running up expenses that nobody pays
Did you think about it, was it something you planned
I'm not complaining I just don't understand

You gave us so much, thought we could do without hope
You kept us supplied with plenty of rope
Now it seems we're finding it harder to compe
With the bumpy ground and the slippery slope 

Too much nonsense
Too many rhymes
It's hard to hear
At the best of time
I never want to question
Who I'm talking to
Cuz the answers don't even sound
Half way true

There were questions we didn’t need to answer
That was something that we never had to do
When things went wrong like they always tend to
There was always rope and it would pull us through

All that rope seemed like a gift
I figured it would help me feel free
But I didn’t understand that rope weighs a lot
It’s weighing me down, it’s not letting me be

There came a time when it seemed to me
That this rope became a liability
Things that used to come so easily
Became tangled in their  complexity

For what you gave I felt gratitude
Now things have changed and now I have to conclude
Mabye we’d be better living day to day
If we didn't have this rope getting in our way

There were questions we didn’t need to answer
That was something that we never had to do
When things went wrong like they always tend to
There was always rope and it would pull us through

Too Much Rope

A song about the power of addiction and infatuation over the human condition and how obvious the right thing to do might seem, but how much we still hold on to people, habits, and things that take us down.

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LYRICS:

Intro:


Take me down...


Verse 1:


Remember when we used to stare up at the stars

Nothing in this world quite like them

Shining in the dark

Remember when we used to gaze upon the sea

Nothing in this world quite like it

Made for you and me


Pre-chorus:


So won't you hold me

Love me


Chorus 1:


Take me down (so won't you)

Take me down (so won't you)

hold me 

love me

Take me down


Verse 2:


Remember when I used to fall into you arms

Nothing in this world so lovely

Lighting every spark 

Remember when we used to gaze into the pain

Nothing in this world so closely

Find me in the dark


Chorus 2:


Take me down (so won't you)

Take me down (so won't you)

hold me 

love me

Take me down


Outro:


So won't you

So won't you

So won't you

So won't you

why don't you

Take me down

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Production: All lyrics and music by Joshua Bryan (AKA DJ Joshy B); Vocals: Synthesizer V - Minus and Weina 2 voicebanks; Software and Plugins: Cubase, Synthesizer V, Serum 2, Komplete Kontrol, Heavyocity Vocalise 2, U-he Diva, Output Arcade, Mok Miniraze, Halion Sonic, Sitala Drum Sampler, UJAM plugin series, Fabfilter Twin 3, Raum and Valhalla Supermassive reverbs.



Take Me Down

itunes

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FutureDub

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".