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Prince of Siberia

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Me in Michael Jackson T-Shirt and Carl Johnson in Michael Jackson T-Shirt.

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About the year of recording. "Hard Times" was recorded in 1983. And, for some reason, Brad Buxer revisited the song 10 years later, while recording music for Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

When I was saying that "Hard Times" is the earliest known Sonic-related track, I was talking about video games only. You see, early Sonic composers Masato Nakamura and Brad Buxer recorded music which later would be used in the games. And it happened in the 1980s, before Sonic's first appearance. Both musicians had nothing to do with video games back then.

So my guess is that while they were figuring out how to make video game music, they decided to take then-unreleased songs and see if they could fit in certain places in Sonic 2 & 3 respectively.

And each tune fits like a glove.

The ending cutscene in Sonic 2 is synchronized to the music, and Ice Cap theme in Sonic 3 has that "winter / icy" vibe. It's an achievement for both "Hard Times" (1983) and "Sweet" (1988), considering the fact that they were originally recorded for completely different projects.

Thanks to Masato Nakamura and Brad Buxer for the soundtracks. I hope that Buxer and his team's music will be released. It would be great to hear the original versions of Competition Menu, Knuckles Theme, Act 1 Boss music, Carnival Night, Ice Cap, Launch Base, Staff Roll... and many other tracks which didn't appear in Sonic 3.

I also wonder if the song that Michael Jackson had worked on (according to Buxer) is the same one that Naoto Ohshima mentioned in an interview?

By now we know that, even though it was Michael who had originally expressed interest in composing music for Sonic 3, it eventually became Brad's project. So, after compiling some interviews related to Sonic 3, I also made a video about Brad.

There is some footage from 1980s and 1990s which I collected over the years. I don't have a lot of clips related to Brad, so the rest of the video is "icy" stuff which I photographed and filmed in 2010s. It reminds me of the backround of Ice Cap, Act 2. Fervor Records even used it on the cover of "Hard Times" (single).

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Me and Spider-Man.

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Brad Buxer and The Jetzons.

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Michael Jackson and Brad Buxer.

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Michael Jackson in a SEGA / Sonic The Hedgehog jacket.

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Early sketches for R2 robot (antlion) and boss.

From "Sonic The Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Artbook."

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Brad Buxer says "Jam's in there [in Sonic 3]" here at 20:15.

Looks like he is referring to that sample in Carnival Night.