[djpretzel]

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

[Dev]

Oh man, this is some friggin' awesome stuff. The intro just blew me away. All the instruments are perfect, and the mixage is tight. I've never heard the original, so I've got nothing to compare it to. Even if you're not into world music, give this a download. Wonderful stuff, and Kudos to Protricity for doing something fresh.

[sgx]

This is one of the most professional mixes I've heard on this site. All the samples used are top notch as is the implementation. This is one of the most interesting and different things I've heard in a while and that earns points in my book. I'm always up for something different if it sounds good, and this does sound good. Neato.

[AnotherOneBitesTheDust]

You really have to listen to the whole thing to appreciate it. It's one of those songs that takes you on a journey. Opens up with nice atmosphere to show what's going to go down. No distinct melody or pattern is present until 1:15. It continues in it's growth from there to 1:48 where something loud is noticable and you can get "into it".

About half way through things stop.

Another melody seems to be growing. I am reminded of various places from the game Terranigma. Things keep growing in this second half until it hits 3:35 where my favorite part comes in. A slow string guides you through the rhythm with the melody at the same time. Something very dramatic and eerie about this part. I like it a lot, same goes for any other song that successfully pulls that feeling off.

The drums vary, mostly being either absent or blended perfectly in the background, nothing techno about this at all. 5 minutes? Seems like 2.

[Abadoss]

I've personally always been a fan of ethnic sounds. I found it very nice and almost touching. The rythym is solid and consistant with a World-Mix type atmoshpere.

My personal preference would have been to hear some Uillean pipes thrown in somewhere, but that's just because I'm a Celtic freak. The wood flute was satisfying enough, though.

The only part that I was having trouble was around 4:00. The break and re-entry made me wonder if I had set my mp3 player on single loop. While I wouldn't mind listening to it again, it did confuse me.

All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this piece.

[Prophecy]

Nice song Proticity. I have a few things to point out. The intro was rather slow. It didn't pick up pace till the flute came in. That flute was beautiful. It was obviously a New age song with heavy ethnic empahasis... But it lacked in momentum. New age songs are generally very slow and have very long transitions. This song had no momentum. It was more a jumble of really nice riffs. They never really lead into eachother. It just jumped from one to another. There's nothing wrong with this either. But in cases where you have these types of transitions u generally need a song to be short and of a fast chandre. It just didn't work in this case. This songs also has nice carpet songs but they are all short lived and infrequent. I somehow get the feeling that this artist is used to mxing a different type of chandre. This is the first song by Protricity I have heard and somehow I get the feeling I listened to the wrong one. The panning/ reverb/ delay effects etc are really well done. The samples are excellent. It sounds to me like he is a sound supporter of the reason series. Maybe I'm wrong that's just how it sounds. He might be using Cubase as his platform hard to tell.

Oh yes Protricity just so you know I speak from experience. I have been mixing for ten years and have created 200+ songs. I hope you take my criticism as constructive. It was intended to be. Overall excellent concept good mxing just need work on arrangement and structure.

[Protricity]

Thanks for the indepth review, prophecy. I very much appreciate them. I just wanted to point out that the intro guitars are real, not samples.

[Israfel]

Originally Posted by Protricity

I just wanted to point out that the intro guitars are real

So is that you playing then? I'm just curious since your profile says you don't play an instrument.

[NoahFrenzy]

I really enjoyed this. I can't think of any criticism for the music itself, I've always liked your stuff plenty, Protricity (especially the DKC mixes.) The one problem I did have, is that this mp3, and others you have made are encoded with the old Xing mp3 encoder. As far as mp3 encoders go, Xing is one of the definite lower quality ones. It has a tendency to mangle any sound above 16khz, and the rest of the music doesn't fare too well either, usually ending up with a harshness for the higher sounds. Because of that, and some other things it manages to do to mp3's, I was just hoping to ask if you'd consider reencoding the orignal with a FHG or LAME mp3 encoder. Both are far superior, in terms of quality, at the same bitrates as Xing.

[GrayLightning]

It's nice to see a mix of this genre and style go up. The whole vibe of this mix is just lovely. I'm a sucker for nice, slow, chill songs. Great work.