Battle Garegga/Underground Resistance

[PooshhMao]

Hi,

While browsing Underground Resistance's catalogue, I came across this;



Sounds very similar to Battle Garegga's stage 2 music;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kcTXUwViWM

Apparently I'm not the first to discover this.

[vetus]

Wow! Such a huge similarity looks suspicious. Just like similarity of Zombie Nation's Kernkraft 400 with the tune Stardust from the C64 game Lazy Jones (which I wasn't aware of until a friend of mine told me about it few months ago):

[PooshhMao]

That's the other way around though, since Kernkraft plagiarized the music of the game.

www.discogs.com/Underground-Resistance-World-2-World/master/171954

The album was released in 1992, so Battle Garegga definitely plagiarizes here. That's interesting. I wonder if other tracks for the game are equally 'inspired'.

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May 18, 2012 6:08:45 GMT -5 PooshhMao said:

Let's add "The Ruined City Kishgal" from Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim to the mix. (:

[PooshhMao]

was the original a huge hit in Japan or something?

That's most definitely another 'copy'. Interesting.

[BdR]

Wow, nice find and well spotted. Maybe all of its music is "borrowed" from similar sources, at least the ending credits of Battle Garegga don't mention a composer, it only mentions "sound effect: santaruru"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvGKPy5a-n8

Makes you wonder how many cases like this go unaccounted for, just because they ripped off some obscure original work. I mean look at Nelly Furtado's hit "Do It" which turned out to be based on a SID from C64 demo scene..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFp3rovfY0

[beach1]

Heh, or what about Rock's stage music in Garou and Robert Miles - Children?

[PooshhMao]

Yeah, but everyone knew about that one I guess

It also helps that this track was fairly popular late 90's, while Underground Resistance's is more... well, underground.

It also appears the anime Cowboy Bebop used this in the soundtrack, so it definitely made an impression with a lot of people in Japan. I understand - I drop it every now and then at parties and people dance to it, so yeah.

[bakudd]

Haha I love reading about plagiarized music!

This is not a game but music in the Dragon Ball animes were ripped off. www.kanzenshuu.com/features/kenji-yamamoto-retrospective/

I'll bet that guy wants to commit seppuku now!

[jongoo]

Got another one. The title of this song should give you a big hint.