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OCR03194 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze "Windmill Advisory"


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  • 3 months later...

Original track is a new car, this Remix is that new car smell. One after another, but both equal pleasurable to the senses. I came to this track with no reference point other than a love on the new DKC games. So I listened to the original and the Remix and then the original and the Remix and am now currently listing to the remix....this game is not but a year old, and already someone has created a track that I would expect to hear in the game itself, It's a strange feeling, but a welcome one! 

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Really interesting remix, especially when I primarily know the artist for his piano-only remixes. Great atmosphere, both tropical and chilly -- fits the game's title I guess! I love the percussion work -- it's not overwhelming, but still quite present as well. Some samples are not too realistic (the flute), but it's far from being a problem. Very nice one.

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Great use of the xylophone in this track. The flute at the beginning of the latter half seemed a little soft, but once the strings started to compliment the flute, it wasn’t as bad. And that was quite a build up to the percussion/flute ending there. Overall, it was a nice track. Reminds me of a summer beach party.

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I didn't find this all that great to be honest. The first half was way too similar to the original source, while the second half sounded nothing like the source. I've heard a lot of remixes on this site that found that perfect balance between creative vision and having inspiration from the source of the remix. This wasn't one of them imo. Normally I wouldn't expect so much, it's just that the original music was already very high quality and up to date, so it's a lot harder to enjoy this as much as other remixes that I feel like are more necessary. 

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Ok, cool, yeah I totally dig this. Taking a theme that sounded like nice easy backwoodsy stroll and giving it a bit of a tropical kick with some orchestration and a bit more energy was a great choice. I've never really had a problem with mixes that are more conservative so long as they get some form of interpretation somewhere, and I feel like the style and some of the samples do enough of that for me here. I really liked how the percussion and flute played off each other in the end, and all around this was a pretty upbeat mix that complements the original track while having it's own moment. Nice!

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Hey, thanks guys! Didn't realize people here commented... Much appreciated! Since the tune is already well written and produced, I felt an orchestral version would suit it best. (I've actually done more DKC arrangements, so feel free to look them up!)
 

On 7/17/2016 at 1:54 AM, tabuhli said:

I didn't find this all that great to be honest. The first half was way too similar to the original source, while the second half sounded nothing like the source. I've heard a lot of remixes on this site that found that perfect balance between creative vision and having inspiration from the source of the remix. This wasn't one of them imo. Normally I wouldn't expect so much, it's just that the original music was already very high quality and up to date, so it's a lot harder to enjoy this as much as other remixes that I feel like are more necessary. 

You're entitled to your opinion. No hard feelings!

Just thought I'd point out, that I did use lots of inspiration coming from the original track in the second half of my remix. First half of the mix was mostly true to the source. But I took inspiration from the lead melody at 1:38 in the original, to create the string patterns at 2:10 in the remix. Even at the end of the remix (3:32), I used the same notation as used in the source (1:52). Just played it differently. 

Only reason I'm pointing these out, is because it's not easy to hear the similarities. I was pretty happy with how it turned out and always wanted to share how I came up with these ideas.

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