[djpretzel]

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

[JesustheDarkLord]

I'll be honest - I don't like it. The drums overpower the rest of the mix, and while techincally sound, I had to do some major adjustments to be able to hear the melody most of the time.

I'm actually a fan of this genre, but I'm not sure it was appropriate here - from what I can hear of the original (I'm not very familiar with it), this piece might have done better if it were a bit more ambient, or if the mix went somewhere. As it is, I feel like I wasted my time by listening to the entire thing - the first 30 seconds summed it up pretty well.

[Dj Orange]

To somebody who likes clean sounding, sandpaper dry, casual electronica, this song sounds like a mess. The drums are okay - if a bit unbalanced, with that hihat hanging right the whole time - but the high-reveerb distorted synths bug me A LOT. I find that distortion and reveerb just NEVER go together well. Maybe it sounds great on drugs (I wouldn't know, being the shut-in) but at my current level of awareness, it's unlistenable.

Geez, there're lotsa of trance fanatics at OCR. Always stepping on my toes...

[Chadwick]

I like it, fast paced exciting true the drums overlap the underlying melody a bit. but since ive been a fan of this gamesince he day it came out, and ive been dying for a remix of one of the tracks im not complaining..

[sgx]

Originally Posted by Geoff Harding

To somebody who likes clean sounding, sandpaper dry, casual electronica, this song sounds like a mess. The drums are okay - if a bit unbalanced, with that hihat hanging right the whole time - but the high-reveerb distorted synths bug me A LOT. I find that distortion and reveerb just NEVER go together well. Maybe it sounds great on drugs (I wouldn't know, being the shut-in) but at my current level of awareness, it's unlistenable.

If you are "a fan of the genre", you would know that this pretty much the most technically sound and professionally produced pieces of trance on the site. This isn't game remix trance (which is pretty much the only type of trance here), this is TRANCE trance, and it is good. Its not made for people with pussy ears. Its rough, tough, and in your face.

An album full of this cheese? Are you serious?

omg olololo please just say that in normal font next time so I don't have to copy paste to see your lame jabs ololo

Blind, this stuff is the shit. I love the 303 synths and the drums are greeeat.

[Blizzard Wolf]

Originally Posted by SuperGreenX

If you are "a fan of the genre", you would know that this pretty much the most technically sound and professionally produced pieces of trance on the site. This isn't game remix trance (which is pretty much the only type of trance here), this is TRANCE trance, and it is good. Its not made for people with pussy ears. Its rough, tough, and in your face.

Blind, this stuff is the shit. I love the 303 synths and the drums are greeeat.

Agreed. This is nice and rough, just the way I likes it. Keep up the good work bLiNd.

[bLiNd]

The way i see it is, there is no other way to remix this track. I spent countless hours redoing parts and working on the mixdown. The arrangement is typical yes, but i was focused on the energy of the original and upping it for an in your face dance track. This isn't made for the casual listener, but i do those mixes as well. I wanted a hard trance track on the album and the album version is MUCH better. Its longer (an extended release) the intro is more developed. the mixdown is more pleasing to the ear and what not. One of the main reasons i submitted this track to OC was because i released a little demo probably last summer, and got some good feedback on it and i thought itd be cool to have a completed version for those that liked it. I guess this just doesnt go for some people, but its alright. I make this music because its a release from every day things, and if it sounds good then i show it to others. if they like it then great! if not then maybe it isnt your genre. i dunno. anyway thanks for the good and the bad. ill take it in to account for my next release.

bLiNd

PS - Mr geoff, the album is very high quality, ive spent a good year just doing 5 tracks. If this sounds like cheese then i challenge you to make a non cheesy trance song.

[Al Capwn]

i really liked it sounded really good to me keep it up :)

[GooderThanYou]

hey I love this already;

Usually don't give the time to listen to a song all the way, I like the dance feeling it has to it, it is in your face and upbeat, I really don't know much about musical "terms" (lol has Music 111, was useless) but I know what I like. Will be on my music list.

[Bahamut]

Originally Posted by Geoff Harding

To somebody who likes clean sounding, sandpaper dry, casual electronica, this song sounds like a mess. The drums are okay - if a bit unbalanced, with that hihat hanging right the whole time - but the high-reveerb distorted synths bug me A LOT. I find that distortion and reveerb just NEVER go together well. Maybe it sounds great on drugs (I wouldn't know, being the shut-in) but at my current level of awareness, it's unlistenable.

An album full of this cheese? Are you serious?
Note to self: SGX is a loser!!!!111 kekeke

Are you kidding me? This is top notch trance right here, you probably have heard only the cheesy trance stuff (not to say some of the cheesy trance isn't good, it's just...not very great at conveying the ambient feel that true trance songs do). Many commercial trance songs don't sound this good. However, it is interesting that bLiNd decided to cover this song, I don't even remember most of the soundtrack to Extreme G .

I downloaded the version from VG Mix before, but I'm downloading this version for my laptop...k, done.

SGX hit the nail on the head with his description, this is excellent stuff (although I don't know what 303 synths are, can someone explain?). The reverb is used to excellent effect in creating the illusion of speed in this remix, especially on the synths. The mastering is also very good, although probably not the best that could've been done, as I hear panning used to great effect on some areas of the song, but lacking in some others (oh shit, seeing the judges comments they agree! :) ).

There are also minor issues I have with the song, like one of the synths chose, but nothing bothered me greatly - this is still an excellent track that is enjoyable to leave on loop - I cannot say that about many of the songs I find out there. Great hard trance remix!

This makes me a lot more enthusiastic for the PMM Trance Album - I'm sure it will be of extreme quality with tracks that are even more polished than this one!

Edit: I think some of my issues actually stems from these cheapass headphones I'm using, it appears as if they suck at producing music in the high frequency range.