No More Heroes Sound Tracks: Dark Side is a remix soundtrack

Remix album

A remix album is an album consisting mostly of remixes or re-recorded versions of a music artists' earlier released material.One of the earliest remix albums was 1971's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet by Harry Nilsson, which was released by Nilsson after the successes of Everybody's Talkin and The Point!...

 album for the video game No More Heroes

No More Heroes (video game)

, is an action video game for the Wii video game system. It was directed by Goichi Suda , developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Entertainment Inc., Ubisoft and Rising Star Games...

, and was released on March 14, 2008. It features nine remixes of compositions by music director Masafumi Takada

Masafumi Takada

is a Japanese video game music composer. His most notable work is the soundtrack composition for the three video games killer7, God Hand and No More Heroes...

, interpreted by several Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese artists, including Masafumi himself, and Jun Fukuda. The Outer Rim Remix of "N.M.H." featured on the album was produced by Metal Gear Solid composer Norihiko Hibino

Norihiko Hibino

is a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist.-Biography:After graduating from Berklee College of Music, he moved to Kansas City to start a career as a solo jazz musician...

. No More Heroes character designer Yūsuke Kozaki's electro band HONDALADY also contributed the golden brown mix of "We Are Finally Cowboys".

Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 6 are remixes of the game's main theme, "N.M.H.", while track 4 is a remix of "CHIPSTER DASH" and "LET'S FIGHT A BOSS", themes used in the in-game video game Pure White Giant Glastonbury. Track 5 is a remix of "Hustlin' 'n' Tusslin'", track 7 is a remix of "We Are Finally Cowboys", track 8 is a remix of "K-ENT.", "Rocket Surgeon" and "N.M.H.". Track 9 is a remix of "The virgin child makes her wish without feeling anything", which was originally written by No More Heroes director Goichi Suda

Goichi Suda

, is the CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture. The "51" in his nickname, Suda51, is a pun on his given name. In Japanese, "Go" means 5 and "ichi" means 1. His works include Moonlight Syndrome, The Silver Case, Flower, Sun and Rain, Michigan, killer7, the No More Heroes series, and most recently, Shadows...

, also known as Suda51. The remixes from this album were later used in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

Track listing

1. "It's kill or be killed mix" – 5:19
2. "N.M.H." 6955 mix – 4:30
3. "NO MORE RIOT" – 6:14
4. "PURE-WHITE GIANT TINY GLASTONBURY" – 5:39
5. "Hustlin' 'n' Tusslin'" [batucafro mix] – 4:42
6. "N.M.H." The Outer Rim Remix – 5:38
7. "We Are Finally Cowboys" [golden brown mix] – 4:58
8. "ANY MORE" (RX-Ver.S.P.L.) – 5:46
9. "The virgin child makes her wish without feeling anything"(Song from rank 9 boss Dr. Peace) [ver.ν] – 2:28

Personnel

• Masafumi Takada
  Masafumi Takada
  is a Japanese video game music composer. His most notable work is the soundtrack composition for the three video games killer7, God Hand and No More Heroes...
  
   – compositions, remixing (Track 8)
• Norihiko Hibino
  Norihiko Hibino
  is a Japanese video game composer and saxophonist.-Biography:After graduating from Berklee College of Music, he moved to Kansas City to start a career as a solo jazz musician...
  
   – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  (Track 6)
• Yoshioka Taku Squad – remixing (Track 1)
• 6955 – remixing (Track 2)
• The Riot: Ikari no 10dai – remixing (Track 3)
• Jun Fukuda – remixing (Track 4)
• bloco 23 – remixing (Track 5)
• The Outer Rim – remixing (Track 6)
• HONDALADY – remixing (Track 7)
• NEUTRINO – remixing (Track 9)