Syzygy Thank you for sharing the Mario Artist soundtrack, I had not heard this before! I love how it shifts from chill to quirky to atonal to totally nuts.
Also, now that I am listening to these Mario Paint selections on stereo speakers and not my grandmother’s mono CRT I can appreciate that they were doing some interesting work with stereo panning (see around 0:50). Seems like such an unnecessary flourish that so few people would ever hear, but it shows some real care went into this!
The Mario Paint soundscape really elevated and distinguished what could have been a simple drawing program…I remember knowing I was in store for something weird when it opened with this bizarre tribal chant followed by an off kilter sample of MaRiO PAINT!