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[Jintor]

Hey ya'll. There was already a thread for the actual Livestream itself, but you may have missed the musical performances live. Nintendo uploaded them to its official YouTube yesterday. They are fucking sick. I think each track is a completely different mix - a lot of the Splatoon battle songs have never been performed live for Nintendo to date and are completely original extended versions, as are the two Xenoblade tracks to the best of my knowledge.

I thought more people ought to see them, so I've broken them up into individual tracks.

Nintendo Special Rock Band
Notably the Rock Band performed 3 times and did different flourishes each time, so I've noted them as seperate performances below even when it was the same song. Also, all the squid lyrics are live via filter, so you can actually see the performers saying all kinds of garbage mid-performance. The keyboardist in particular is fucking workin' it.

Splatattack! (Main Theme) - Squid Squad (Splatoon)
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning (by far the craziest performance of the 3, with a shittonne of flourishes)

Seascape (Vs Theme 3) - Squid Squad (Splatoon)
Day 1 Morning (Heavily extended, but fairly workmanlike)

Friend List - ABXY / Shellfie - The Chirpy Chips (Vs Theme 6) (Splatoon)
Day 1 Afternoon (Extremely high levels of squid vocals, great mix)

Hooked (vs Theme 7) - Hightide Era (Splatoon)
Day 2 Morning (Absolutely insane levels of jazz improv. The keyboardist in particular goes completely fucking crazy halfway through and starts playing with her elbows)

Now or Never (Last Minute) - Squid Squad (Splatoon)
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning

Mechanical Rhythm - Xenoblade
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning

Those Who Bear Their Name - Xenoblade (The strings at the beginning are weak but other than that this rules - it's a super extended cut)
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning

Mario Kart Medley (Big Blue, Excitebike Arena, DS Wario Stadium, Bowser's Castle, Electrodrome) (Mario Kart 8)
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning

Inkoming (Main Theme) - Wet Floor (Splatoon 2) (First live performance, the dual vocals are amazing)
Day 1 Morning
Day 1 Afternoon
Day 2 Morning

Nintendo Special Big Band
Mostly repeats but I think the Fire Emblem medley is new. No additions to medleys yet (music from Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey not yet included)

Donkey Kong Medley
Kirby Medley
Animal Crossing Medley
Zelda Medley
Pokemon Medley
Fire Emblem Medley
Super Mario Medley

 

[Shinigami]

This Zelda medley though...😍

 

[Zalman]

Loved all the medleys. Pokémon one is great.

 

[Firemind]

I liked Excite Bike the most. So much fun!

 

[fabricated backlash]

Currently listening to it myself... very fun performances. Love the Zelda and Mario Big Band stuff.

 

[Volotaire]

Thanks for compiling!

 

[fabricated backlash]

Just got to the MK8 Medley... yeah if there ever is a new F-Zero, I want my E-Guitars back. Trash that bollocks that they tried to sell us as F-Zero Music in GX.

 

[Soph]

This is awesome, I'm still perplexed they just went and founded a new genre of music just for the game Splatoon.

 

[Jintor]

This is awesome, I'm still perplexed they just went and founded a new genre of music just for the game Splatoon.

dat sick squidcore

 

[Volotaire]

Love the new Fire Emblem medley.

 

[donkey show]

Splatattack! (Main Theme) - Squid Squad (Splatoon)
Day 1 Morning (by far the craziest performance of the 3, with a shittonne of flourishes)

Absolutely loved this one! Thanks for sharing ^^

 

[El Pescado]

I was hoping someone would compile all this. Thank you so much for sharing it.

 

[Muchi Muchi Pink]

Why isn't Nintendo selling this already?

 

[BGBW]

Thanks for this.

 

[Geg]

Those Splatoon performances are all so good, it's interesting seeing them perform the squid vocals with the voice modulation live

 

[xzeldax3]

So much talent in these performances. Thanks for making a topic with the highlights!

 

[rpmurphy]

Thanks, subscribed!

 

[atbigelow]

That keyboardist is fucking awesome.

 

[rokero]

They should release a CD of this

 

[PSqueak]

That title made me think Harmoxinx had announced a special Rockband game with nintendo songs in it or something like that.

 

[Bebop]

Thank you for this work !

 

[impirius]

Hooked (vs Theme 7) - Hightide Era (Splatoon)
Day 2 Morning (Absolutely insane levels of jazz improv. The keyboardist in particular goes completely fucking crazy halfway through and starts playing with her elbows)

Yeah, if you're only gonna watch one, watch this one.



Then watch all the others anyway

 

[digita1alchemy]

I fucking love this. Reminds me of some of those old Sega SST Band performances.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

That keyboardist, I love her.

 

[andrerobot]

The big band version of the SMB Underground theme is so delicious...!

 

[Masked Man]

Can we talk about how the Kirby medley included a jazzified version of City Trial!?

 

[Giga_Steve]

Just saying, if someone ripped all the tracks from all the performances from the Switch event and edited them nicely into an album, I'd think that would be pretty gosh darn swell.

*cough*

 

[Falk]

They need to do an actual arrange album.

 

[Masked Man]

They need to do an actual arrange album.

I would pay good money for this.

 

[Neoxon]

I kinda wished that they actually got some violin players, but great performances otherwise.

 

[Jintor]

I kinda wished that they actually got some violin players, but great performances otherwise.

Yeah the midi strings on Those Who Bear Their Names was... Not great in the midst of an otherwise astounding performance

 

[random25]

Good Lord that keyboard lady was ridiculous.

 

[dani_dc]

Nintendo Special Rock Band
Also, all the squid lyrics are live via filter, so you can actually see the performers saying all kinds of garbage mid-performance. The keyboardist in particular is fucking workin' it.

I'll never get sick of the squid lyrics via filter.
I'd love to go to a longer concert by Nintendo Special Rock Band, 30 minutes was not enough.

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Thanks a lot for compiling them like this!
I was getting confused going through the various videos with what I had and hadn't seen (which didn't help when songs were repeating :lol)

 

[Nerazar]

I love the Xenoblade performances! And now I remember how awesome this game's OST was ;_;

 

[Ricky 7]

Where's the Metroid medley? =|

 

[mcmmaster]

Marvellous this was, the big band performance especially.

Really enjoyed the DKC, Kirby and Zelda medleys.

 

[twothunder]

Some great music. Currently listening and enjoying the music