Reaching for the Star (Zone) – Music Monday – September 7, 2026
With playing all of these shuffled Mario and Sonic games, I had to talk about another Mario game this week for Music Monday! This is a classic Game Boy piece and a great place to groove! Check out the new Music Monday!
know that last week I did a Music Monday post on Super Mario Land, but in further playing the Crowd Control shufflers on stream, I am further exposed to Mario/Sonic songs that light certain synapses in my brain and bring back memories with certain songs.
In my shuffler, I was able to get to Space Zone in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. The world is only two levels (three if you count the secret level) but this week I wanted to talk about the boss level, or the Star Maze (or Star Course if you look on Nintendo Music)
The final level in the Space Zone features….well….stars. It’s a maze and apparently it’s a point in space where Mario has no gravity and can jump up and down at his leisure. This also has Mario jumping through hordes and hordes of stars. They’re all angry, so you know it’s not going to be good if you run into them.
The music for the stage is disco-y, with a hot beat and groovy bass line. Listening to some remixes, it reminds me a little of the song “The Hustle” due to the ostinato pattern before the melody hops in. It’s a great dance song and it’s probably my favorite track in this game. The level itself is also an auto-scroller which means you’re stuck in that level for a set amount of time. If you die, you’re starting over (unless you hit the checkpoint) and have to listen to the song over and over again.
The reason I wanted to write about it, aside from the obvious joy and reminders of blasting this song out of the small Game Boy speakers, was because I wanted to highlight some specific remixes of this song. It’s a testament to the talent of people in the fan communities and keeping it alive. You’re probably not going to see this one in Mario Kart World, though!
First off, I want to highlight The Noble Demon. They make really great remixes of video game music. They show up on my Supermix on YouTube Music a lot and most if not all of their content is top-tier. Here is their remix of the Star Maze:
Another great remix came out recently actually, and I found out about it because I’m signed up for his newsletter, but the other remix comes from the artist TheologyVGM who is an amazing artist and friend of the community! (Plus he makes this music HIMSELF?! IT’S SO GOOD)
Even SiIvagunner has a great high-quality Club Mix of this song:
I would really love to see a club dancing to this song! (a VGM themed club night sounds amazing in general!)
Are you already up and dancing? Do you have a favorite Mario Land 2 song? How about remix? Let me know in the comments or in Discord!
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