Simon Viklund's Final Fight remaster

http://finalfightgame.com/remix

-direct link, zipped mp3s, go get it.

I've always though that remastered arcade music was pointless and shameful - until I heard this.

It seems like what he's doing is to update the "instruments" in the original music, and then play back the splice about in the same way as the original soundtrack. Brilliant.