
24/08/2025
Thursday, 6:19pm.
Relaxing into a bath, water just about to finish... Into my head slams a DnB style remix of "Big Arms" - the Sonic 3 Final Boss theme. It's epic as hell, I can hear it clear as day, it needs to get made pronto!
agreed to let me go full hyperfocus on it for a few hours in the evening. I clocked off around 10pm, then hit it again Friday while the kids were out of the house. Got about 3 hours on it there too, where I pushed it to V1 state.
Saturday evening, another few hours saw it reach V3 after some feedback from trusted friends (thank you ❤️) and then Sunday morning I hit publish on the Soundcloud version. has been incredible with helping me master my last couple of tracks so this one is off with them as well.
A few comments about this track:
Without my partner, it wouldn't exist. Miss that inspiration burst and it's all over for me, I forget the melodies and sounds and they're gone by morning.
Sonic 3 is my favourite Sonic game of all time. Not S3&K, just Sonic 3. Amazing OST, incredible level design, and the storytelling without a single word is second to none.
Mum would hire S3 from blockbuster in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and I would play it to death for a weekend - but in between I was furiously studying the play guide she got me (remember those?)
So I would play and play specifically to get to THIS SONG. Everything about it, the invoked fear as the sky darkened, the actual danger as rings were often at zero from the previous bosses - and it was a four phase fight to get back when you died - the triumphant duel of the musical styles within the song, it's a goddamn masterpiece of Mega Drive music.
This version I've made is not totally what I had in my head - I envisioned more church organs, more guitars.
But what this song IS, is a celebration of where my music has come to so far. It uses every technical trick I've learned, leans on my existing library of songs and tropes and samples, and is a true representation of what I've come to know as "my sound".
So, meet "Progressive DnB" - a made up genre to explain my sound simply. I hope you enjoy it. I'm going to be cooking a lot more. ❤️