[djpretzel]

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

[Absolute_Chaos]

nice song, i like this slow kind of music... but i think the song has reminded me of a theme from the Chrono Cross OST...

[UltimaAvatar]

what theme is this one? is it seto's theme? it really sounds nice the only thing i got against it is the long silence at the beginning. this part in the game was really sad when i played through it the second time because i understood what was going on and what they were talking about. defenetly a cool little piece.

[Blak_Omen]

Underneath the rotting pizza? I dont remember the name of the theme but I'm not going to waste any more time: DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD

[Eca-King of Nothing]

I just checked and the theme is actually "It's Difficult to Stand on Both Feet, Isn't it?" I never thought that song could be potrayed this way, but it's great. Definite download.

[Adhesive_Boy]

This mix is from the ironmix challenge 10 (which is almost a year old, mind you), and I believe it got first place. The challenge of the contest was to remix the tune "It's Difficult To Stand On Both Feet, Isn't It?" from FF7, which is definitely not an easy thing to remix. check out the other entries here:

http://ironmix.rks.no-ip.com/Contest_10_-_The_Big_One/

As for the mix, I'm just going to post part of my review from the IMC10 results:

"First of all, it starts out with some ambient wind effects and soon adds a soft wailing synth, which takes it to the piano. And the deal is pretty much sealed right there. If you listen the first time, you probably won't recognize the source too much. But ever listen it gets more and more noticeable, until you notice pretty much all of the source at the heart of the mix with just changed chord progressions. It was definitely a stroke of genius on Dev VJ's part to be able to execute it as well as he did, too.

There's also a nice amount of emotion put into everything - places like 3:30 just make you so happy and yet sad to see it quickly fade away after some simple but effective string progressions. And just when you think it's all said and done - it kicks back in to finish the jobs with one of those old-fashioned major-thirds-put-at-the-end-of-a-piece-in-minor (I know there's a name, and I can go as far as to say that I have a vague idea that it starts with a "p" and ends with a "y" but I don't want to butcher it and have some theory experts make fun of me.) I wish I had more to say in the time-arena, but I don't think any more commentary is necessary. Just move over to your favorite couch (mine's a 20-year old blue-ish thing that's turned brown from so many stains), lie down, and listen in on the music. It truly is beautiful."

that's all!

[The Orichalcon]

It's nice, it sounds like some quality issues with the piano though unfortunately. But it's a really nice composition.

I love this piece.

I think the filtering job on the piano could have been better and brought out the higher frequencies of the piano. I'm not a fan of soft piano.

The guitar is great, although I'm a fan of delay on acoustic guitars, which I think would have fit, this is fine as it is, maybe could have been a tad louder.

Strings are ace. Perfect. Dark and brooding, then mysterious, then almost sad. They're perfect, and with that guitar over it, that's just beautiful. Well done. I still feel there could have been a delay on the guitar.

The only majoy thing missing from this piece to me is some background ambience of some sort, it sounds a little shallow.

But still this will be listened a lot. Nicely done Dev.

[Temporal]

Yay! It finally got posted! I'm a good friend of Dev, and he's been occasionally muttering about this for several months now. :)

Shameless plug: Dev and I run a little open source (non-profit) video game project called Fate of Io. If anyone is interested in hearing more Dev music, you can find a number of pieces in Fate of Io's music section (scroll down to the submission list). In particular, I recommend "The Provinces".

[*morningstar]

Really great work here, eveything fits and flows together. Actually, it's kinda of ironic, I was listening to La Saia's Resting Placewhen this was posted and I was thinking "Wow, this remix is really good, I wish Dev had more songs posted...."

There's something about this song that sounds very human, very natural. It feels lonely and alone. I think it really captures something special, both as a remix and a standalone piece. The samples are very good, I don't have really any nitpicks. But, one thing that would have helped a lot would be having the fret noise on the guitar, I just kept expecting it because it felt so natural.

Temporal, thanks for the link. I'll definetly be checking it out, good luck :)

[cwoxviii]

Ending is the best part, hands down. Maybe I'm just a sucker for the aforementioned ending-a-minor-piece-with-a-major-third-named-after-that-Italian-guy-with-the-P-Y-name that I can't remember. It has become sort of a musical cliche at this point, but Dev executes it here so subtly, almost as an afterthought, that it really conveys a sublime sadness. Really beautiful work.