*NO* Final Fantasy 'Crystal Breaks'

[Liontamer]

CONTACT INFO
Remixer name: Mark Kilborn
Real name: Mark Kilborn
Email address: mark@markkilborn.com
Web site: www.markkilborn.com (http://www.markkilborn.com/)
UserID: 19333

REMIX INFO
Game: Final Fantasy
Song: Prelude
Link to original: Don't have one, sorry. I built this up from scratch =/
Comments: I had a free afternoon sometime in 2005 and I decided to take a crack at the Prelude from the original Final Fantasy. I've always been a bit of an Uematsu fan and this tune is a classic, so it was an obvious choice. In some of my early DVD demo reels (when I was still trying to break into the industry), this track was an easter egg. Hope you like it!



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Mark Kilborn
Sound Designer

[big giant circles]

Hate to sound acrimonious, but the primary synth is just annoying. Yeah. Unfortunately, this leaves a lot to be desired. It's got some cool funky beats in it, but they by no means carry the song. And there's a lot of note-conflicting going on in this one. All over the place. Places like 1:35... just... ouch. Sorry man.

I advise picking a different source to remix, because source tunes like this take an avid avid remixer to tackle the challenge. I say that because it takes an extremely creative mind and lots of know-how to tastefully implement site standards like quality REarrangement (emphasise on "RE") and then produce it into something other than little more than a cover.

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[Liontamer]

http://www.zophar.net/nsf/ff1.zip - Track 1

Yeah, some excellent phat b33tz playing a bit off, but there's definitely some conflicting notes in here with that bassline like BGC mentioned.

The beatwork and stuttering synth does play around with the source tune a little bit on an interpretive level. But as far as the melodic lead goes, the arrangement is pretty uninterpretive and repetitive.

And that's all she wrote, unfortunately.

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[Vig]

Right from the start that synth is really annoying. what is with the harmonic flub at 1:05...that's ugly.

This track is very little besides original + drums + wrong notes.


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