Can you help ID this mysterious piece of electronic music?

April 19, 2011 7:39 AM

Can you identify this (seemingly) misidentified piece of electronic music? It's supposedly by Marumari and is called "Kid Icarus Fight", but I am pretty sure that's incorrect...

I've had this as an MP3 for many years - probably since the late 90s. I cannot track it down on anything actually released by Marumari (a musician from Providence RI). I would love to know who it actually is. Google searches just lead me in circles - it seems as if many people over the years have assumed it's Marumari, but it's not listed anywhere "official" or with decent description of its source. (I know there is an old Nintendo video game called Kid Icarus, and maybe this piece is an interpretation of some music from that game.)

posted by chr1sb0y to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

I could be wrong but this sounds like an Autechre track. I don't know which but it remind me of Doctrine and some of their other works.
posted by JaredSeth at 9:33 AM on April 19, 2011

Have you tried MusicBrainz or EchoNest to see if they can fingerprint it?
posted by mkb at 10:01 AM on April 19, 2011

JaredSeth - yikes, whoever it is, it's definitely not Autechre.

Musicbrainz has it listed as Marumari, for what it's worth.
posted by The Discredited Ape at 11:48 AM on April 19, 2011

Guys, Marumari's email address is right on his website, so I wrote him and asked. His response:

Hi Jesse,
Yes I did do Kid Icarus fight.
It has samples from a bunch of different stuff including kid icarus.
Best,
Josh
marumari

So there you have it.
posted by aubilenon at 11:25 AM on April 20, 2011

Response by poster: Weird- I emailed him as well but got no response. Thanks!
posted by chr1sb0y at 2:24 PM on April 20, 2011