While listening to the music, something kept nagging at me: where have I heard those instruments? what does it remind me of? I figured it out!

Super Castlevania 4, which has some of the best music evAr.

SC4 has nothing but synth music, jazz based and with heavy bass being the occasional lead instrument. No wonder Braid keeps replaying in my mind; SC4 was the first game whose soundtrack (in the options screen no less) made me hook the SNES to my moms huge Yamaha speakers. I learned a lot about line input/output and cables because of that BTW.

I maybe wrong, get a rom, download the VC game from the Wii, or listen to the spirit of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSBkbCCrGL4 vs long past gone from Braid

more later…

Purum