SMW (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = SMW
Type = Album
Artist = Xoc

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Released = June 16, 2005
Recorded = Optical Pies Recorders, Orangevale, California, 2004–2005
Genre = Video Game Music
Length = 26:43
Label = Bend Over Beethoven Music
Producer = Xoc
Reviews =

Last album =
This album = "SMW" (2005)
Next album = ""
(2006)

"SMW", also known as "XOC Plays SMW", is a cover album comprising 21 arrangements of music from the Super Nintendo game "Super Mario World" composed by Koji Kondo.

It features an extensive and eclectic set of instrumentation according to the liner notes: drum set, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass, upright bass, cuatro, banjo, melodica, accordion, Groovebox, PSS-270 keyboard, coconut thumb piano, shakers, tambourines, triangle, maraca, casaba, slide whistle, turkey locator, bike horn, cowbells, ribbon crasher, woodblock, tacklebox, antique pickaxe, xylophone, school bell, Canon Powershot, refrigerator door, ceramic toilet mug, asscheeks, vocals.

The album was spotlighted in mid-2005 by UK-based video game magazine, "Edge". Its cover is inspired by the official logo of the popular German automaker BMW.

Track listing

#"Title Theme" – 1:20
#"Welcome Theme" – :15
#"Yoshi's Island" – :26
#"Theme Original" – 1:26
#"Underground Theme" – 1:21
#"Course Clear" – :08
#"Donut Plains" – :31
#"Ragtime Theme" – 1:16
#"Ghost House Secret Exit" – 2:01
#"Switch Palace and Bonus Game" – :59
#"Vanilla Dome" – :48
#"Underwater Theme" – 1:56
#"Star Road" – :49
#"P Block / Special World / Do the Mario" – 2:18
#"Forest of Illusion" – 1:26
#"Chocolate Island" – :31
#"Castle Medley" – 3:17
#*"Castle"
#*"Boss / Course Clear"
#*"Demolition"
#"Valley of Bowser Medley" – 1:44
#*"Entrance Appears"
#*"Valley of Bowser"
#*"Bowser Appears"
#*"Final Stage"
#"Vacation" – :17
#"End Credits" – 3:35
#*"Credits"
#*"Eggs"
#*"Cast"
#"Death Game Over" – :20

Personnel

*Jason Cox ("Xoc") – arranger, music, album design, producer

External links and references

* [http://www.archive.org/details/xoc_SMW "SMW" homepage]
*musicbrainz album|id=98dc4c02-2dc2-4f04-8774-00d25a74949d|name =SMW
* [http://www.xocmusic.com Xoc's homepage]
*musicbrainz artist|id=b3d90dd7-dd85-4fe1-b75e-c06ae829ef53|name =Xoc

Interviews

* [http://www.benzaiten.com.br/materia/xoc_plays_smw.htm "Xoc recria trilha de Super Mario em álbum não convencional"] Benzaiten: Maravalhas, Alexandre "(in Portuguese)"
* [http://www.littlemathletics.com/xoc.php "Xoc Interview"] Little Mathletics: Wallis, Alistair (Mar. 15, 2006) - Career interview covering "SMW", "Videogame: The Movie: The Game", influences and more