Characters Representing: The Jazz Cats & Nico Nico

Hopefully no one hurts me for this... but I had no idea who Nico Nico was before this tournament. Had I did and the project was occuring in early Spring of this year, I would've done so many Hatsune Miku submissions for this project, it's not even funny. So when I claimed "Nyan Cat" for Jazz Cats, I had no idea that NicoNico had part ownership of that source.

I wanted to do a jazz version of Nyan Cat, not just any version, and I need tremendous amounts of help. Luckilly, the legendary wolfman1405 asked for someone who was doing Nyan Cat. He provided the bass and percussion, the latter of which did not come from regular drums or instruments, but from everyday items, such as rice in a cup, a pen tapping a glass, and finger-tapping a freaking Nintendo Switch case. Amazing if I do say so myself.

Little-known fact, I intentionally wanted to beatbox to this, and I didn't want to beatbox just in any simple way, so I tried to put in a character to beatbox as, and I wanted to do it as a known feline character. Being the Incine-stan I am, I was obviously pointing toward impersonating Incineroar, because... you know... he's my Smash main, happens to be a cat. You get the idea. I couldn't find myself to impersonate his English voice, so I thought of impersonating his Japanese voice, which could've worked, and call the piece "Nyan Cat (ft. Gaogaen)", but eventually, I scrapped the idea completely due to time.

Now, get ready for something that I've only told 2-3 people in existence about in this piece. The synth portions contain cameos and excerpts from all of the other contestants' songs from games/movies/etc. with the exception of DJ Professor K (the sax squeal from "Let Mom Sleep" was enough).

The first synth easter egg pattern is as follows: "Gourmet Race" for Dedede (as all of you figured out off the bat), "Yo Home to Bel Air!" for Men In Black, "Fun" for Pitbull and the Aliens, "Pearl & Marina's Theme" for Off the Hook, "Nuclear" for Solid Snake, "Plastic Love" for Mariya Takeuchi, "Greenhorse Forest" for Wario Partners, LLP, "Bad"/"Fat" for Weird Al, and the beginning of "Ginza" (Shin Megami Tensai) for the Jack Bros.

The second one is as follows: "Forest Maze" for Geno, "Dating Start!" for Papyrus, "Butterfly" (Dance Dance Revolution) for Rhythm Masters, "Fireflies" for Thanos, "Pursuit" for Law & Disorder, "Lose Yourself to Dance" for Daft Punk ft. Pharrell, "Wake Up Call" for Adam Levine, "Donkey Kong Country Theme" for Donkey Kong, "K.K. Slider" for Nintendo Power, something for ZUN (not sure but I know for sure it's there), "Without Me" for Eminem, and the end of the "Dragon Ball Z Kai Intro" for Dr. Piccolo. The little NES synth in the background during the lead synth is the melody of "Harlem Shake" for Metal Ajit Pai.

The third and final one where the bits pan from ear to ear is as follows: "Lavender Town" for MissingNo., "Access" (Cave Story) for Quote, "Elmo's World" for Jack & Elmo, "Johnny Bravo's Intro" for Johnny Bravo, "The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog Into" for Dr. Robotnik, and "Cooking By the Book" for HoBART (which happened to be one of my recycled pieces). Can't forget the Flintstones part before the third pattern. Hu-hey.

Also, The Jazz Cats happened to be my favorite characters after DJ Professor K. So that's something to reveal. Recycled rips include "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat", which was thought of and planned during the tournament but then rejected, and "Pet Cheetah", which was thought of some time after the tournament.

Original Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFnIgCoYmo

Nyan Cat (ft. wolfman1405)

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I haven't been posting stuff here lately because I am... VERY low on minutes. I upload music stuff to other places sometimes, though: https://ccc972.carrd.co/ • Disclaimer: a lot of my older stuff was just midislaps

Nyan Cat (ft. wolfman1405)

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