Kareshi
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The Man
Also known as Daniel Brown, Kareshi is a pianist and NES lover. He tries his best to do things epic, with varying degrees of success.
Enjoys fossil hunting and is an origami master.
Is engaged and has a cat.
Not engaged to the cat.
The Music
Trained as a classical pianist from middle school through college, it wasn't until 2004 that Kareshi began video game covers. Originally he only covered NES tunes, but has since also covered music from Final Fantasy games on Super Nintendo. His classical training is applied when arranging the music so that more of the original lines are included than are usually in piano arrangements of the same tunes.
After six years, Kareshi has put out two CDs - that of Final Fantasy VI music entitled "Mystic Awakening", and that of Castlevania music entitled "Daniel Brown's Castlevania".
Insists on arranging with staff paper and pencil, which makes it difficult to share his arrangements with others.
Plays Final Fantasy VI music against the silent film version of The Phantom of the Opera in a project entitled "Final Phantom." Get it? Like both the titles together. Might be made into a DVD one day if Kareshi ever quits bitching about the song selection not being perfect.
Performed the Castlevania soundtrack with Pingo and Mills at Magfest VI for great epicness.
The Games
Kareshi has a reputation of being a great gamer, but he has not actually beaten many games. Once beaten, he must play it over many times to ensure pwnage - thus, though Kareshi spends an hour or two playing Nintendo every day, it's always the same games.
Specializes in Jaws (world record holder for fastest completion,) Ghosts 'N Goblins (world record/only attempt at a world record holder for fastest completion,) Castlevania II, Mario Kart DS, Final Fantasy IV, and Metroid, though has moderate pwning skills in other games on various Nintendo consoles.
Mastery of his game specialization has enabled him to blaze through the games in record time. These "speedruns" have been documented for public viewing and scientific study.
Complete List of Arrangements and Recordings
Recorded, Sheet Music'd
- Metroid - Title screen
- Metroid - Game Start
- Metroid - Brinstar
- Metroid - Kraid
- Metroid - Upper Norfair
- Metroid - Lower Norfair
- Metroid - Item Collect
- Metroid - Item Room
- Metroid - Tourian
- Metroid - Mother Brain
- Metroid - Escape
- Metroid - Ending
- Castlevania - Vampire Killer (Level 1)
- Castlevania - Actual Name (Level 2)
- Castlevania - Actual Name (Level 3)
- Castlevania - Actual Name (Level 4)
- Castlevania - Actual Name (Level 5)
- Castlevania - Actual Name (Level 6)
- Castlevania - Dracula Fight #1
- Castlevania - Dracula Fight #2
- Castlevania - Ending Theme
- Castlevania II - Actual Name (Town theme)
- Castlevania II - Bloody Tears
- Castlevania II - Actual Name (Woods music)
- Castlevania II - Actual Name (Mansion music)
- Castlevania II - Dracula's Castle
- Castlevania II - Dracula Fight
- Castlevania II - Ending Theme
- Super Mario Bros - Main Theme
- Super Mario Bros - Underground
- Super Mario Bros - Underwater
- Super Mario Bros - Castle
- Super Mario Bros - Ending Theme
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Main Theme
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Inside
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Boss Fight
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Wart Fight
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Ending Fanfare
- Super Mario Bros 2 - Mario Dreams
- Dragon Warrior - Title Screen
- Dragon Warrior - Castle
- Dragon Warrior - Town
- Dragon Warrior - Cave
- Dragon Warrior - Overworld
- Uninvited - Headache
- Uninvited - Haunted House
- Uninvited - Southern Belle
- Uninvited - Chorale
- Mega Man 2 - Bubble Man
- Friday the 13th - Cabin Theme
- Tetris - Music 1
- Double Dragon - Stronghold
- Double Dragon II - Undersea Base
- Legend of Zelda - Dungeon
Recorded, No Sheet Music
Works In Progress, Future Uncertain
Dead in the Water
Project 667 - an attempt to cover one song from every officially licensed U.S. NES game, but come on. Dead because it takes me too long to arrange - basically it takes Kareshi an hour to arrange 1 minute of song because he arranges using NSF to MIDI and... you know what, it's too complicated for it's own good, but Kareshi can't bring himself to arrange completely by ear because he's afraid of missing something.
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