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🥷🥷🥷I've never tackled "Long Distance" before, even when I started my initial Revenge of Shinobi E+E project in the past. Being the completionist I am, I felt it was a good chance to tackle yet another track that doesn't exactly get a lot of attention, given that it's an attract mode song. 

This is a brief, yet logical expansion that builds on the original track with an entirely new section that is perfect to enjoy the full groove. It's what I would have envisioned for a full-length version of the song.

Revenge of Shinobi (Expanded & Enhanced)

Long Distance (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

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After almost 3 months of being out of commission due to a move halfway around the world to Singapore, and dealing with a few technical hiccups in the form of a blown CPU and some late audio hardware deliveries, I'm finally back on track and better than ever with a brand new studio! The first song to get the momentum going again is, of course, "Sunrise Blvd." from the continuation of the Revenge of Shinobi expanded & enhanced album.

Enjoy, and super-duper thanks to ALL my fans who have been so supportive and patient during this major change in my life. 👍👍👍 Don't forget to support me on Patreon if you feel so inclined. I'd absolutely appreciate it!

Sunrise Blvd. (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

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"Make Me Dance" is a favorite tune of mine from the original Revenge of Shinobi soundtrack, so it was good to give this another go after so many years. I based this version on the expansion template I did a few years ago before I wiped my catalogue and restarted. It has the same level of variation with a lot more energy, and I'm happy with how it came out. Hopefully, so will you.

Make Me Dance (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

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"Run Or Die" was the song that broke me about 5 years ago. I lacked the skill I deemed necessary in order to make a proper go of music making, and I realized that I would have to start over from scratch if I wanted to make a decent return. After my first version of this song, I purged my back catalogue and started over from scratch with Streets of Rage, before eventually coming back full circle to Revenge of Shinobi.

This is my "revenge track," a return to form with full confidence in my composing skills, plus a much better idea of music formulation, mixing and mastering brought on by multiple years of grueling trial and error, education and research.

And I couldn't be prouder of it. This is how "Run Or Die" was supposed to sound in my mind from day one. I hope you enjoy it. It's time to leave the past squarely in the past, and start gunning forward.

Run Or Die (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

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The best way to sum up "Ninja Step" would be to use the phrase "industrial funk." There's equal parts factory mechanics and equal parts old fashioned funk and street hop in this track, and I used that as the basis for my expansion.

The idea was to trigger memories of old-style street dancing from the 1980s when partying and having fun were the order of the day. This meant I had to "funkify" the song even more by building on the original in a very precise way. All the old song triggers are still there...just placed in different parts of the song in order to swing the listener all the way back to the beginning.

Enjoy. I had FUN with this one!

Ninja Step (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

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"The Dark City" is a simple tune, but sometimes those are the worst ones. Got severe writer's block with this one, and had to spend a few weeks figuring it out in my head before I could come up with something that made me happy. This is a jazzy tune, so I played that up with some smooth saxophone in the expansion just to liven things up, without straying too far from the base tune.

The Dark City (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The expansion for "China Town" has been in my head for years, which made the compositional part quite easy. It was the balancing and perfecting processes that took up a large bulk of the time. I wanted it to feel both electronically dreamy, and traditionally Asian-inspired, with several instruments committed to that goal. You, listener, will decide if I succeeded or not. This is, to date, my most ambitious expansion, and a deeply personal one for me. It's also the one many of you were waiting for with such anticipation, which is why I went an extra few miles to make sure it sounded its best.

China Town (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

After the very lengthy and complicated "China Town" expansion, I wanted to get back to basics for "Over The Bay," and focus on sticking close to the elements that make it such a fun little dance number. The expansion is a series of variations on the main theme with a few breaks thrown in between to pump up the intensity. It's straightforward and meant to get the blood pumping. Nothing more, nothing less.

Over The Bay (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

"Labyrinth" is a track with very little content, and the constant repeat was always something of a huge annoyance in the original game. This is particularly true due to the nature of the level, which forces players to memorize a series of pathways and doors in order to reach the end. That can take a long time. I always imagined a fleshed out version of the song that wouldn't be so monotonous and repetitive, which would make the process of locating the exit more enjoyable. Here it is.

Labyrinth (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

Behold, the evil Zeed head-banging that heavy metal hair around to the tune of an expanded version of "The Ninja Master." For many Revenge of Shinobi fans, this was a stressful race to figure out how to slay this evil foe before Joe Musashi's beloved Naoko lost her Z-axis under the weight of a massive concrete ceiling. I wanted to play up the frantic panic and chaos of this song while still retaining those "breaks" in the mayhem that encouraged players to stop and wonder what those holes in the sides of the wall were all about. With 2 more songs to go, this soundtrack is almost complete.

The Ninja Master (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

Härteres, chaotisches EBM-PostPunk-Irgendwas. Sehr schnell improvisiert und einfach so gelassen wie es war. Vieleicht Nichts oder Weniger.

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My name is MaestroDraven, and I recreate the classic video game songs of old, NOTE-FOR-NOTE, and then build entirely new sections designed to flesh them out and expand on the originals. This is a labor of love, and my way of paying tribute to the great composers of old. 

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