[djpretzel]

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

[Chris McGee]

Wow, this is gorgeous. I haven't heard the original, better check that out. :D

[DarkeSword]

Originally Posted by Chris McGee

FIRST POST ON THE SECOND MIX OF OCR4! :P

Wow, this is gorgeous. I haven't heard the original, better check that out. :D

Ugh. Please stop doing that first post garbage.

Anyway, really sweet mix here Kaijin. Really sounds nice; smooth and happy, just as music should be. :P

Perhaps a bit too straightforward in arrangement though. Nice werk over all. ^_^

[myf]

God, this is why I love Kaijin. And This is why I love Xenogears. With such a vast range of excellent music to mix, Gears really brings out some great, emotion driven mixes.

Kaijin has not failed me yet. His mixes are smooth like Billy Dee Williams and ice cool like a nice can of Colt 45. A nice chill song for anyone's playlist.

[Sandman53]

Kaijin, never will you cease to make good remix's You always pick the best songs, and remix them nice. Bravo

[Kaleb.G]

This is a lot better than a your other stuff made recently. While the arrangement is lacking during most of the song, the beginning and end are well done. Of course, what makes this piece so good is the excellent production. The instrument choices are all very pleasing, but the guitar/drum rythym is rather monotonous throughouut the song. Overall, this is a nice-sounding rendition of a classic song.

[Defend]

Not a comment on the skill itself, just my subjective opinion. This sounds very much like background music you'd hear in a modern church, and having to hear it every week, every year of my childhood, when I'm busting to go home and do something remotely fun, it doesn't sit comfortably in my ears. I really didn't like that church music.

I figure bad opinions aren't shunned away heh. Oh how I hate the drums lol, how damn annoying stupid church music let me out of here!!!! I feel like those churchy drumbeats are so fake, so slow motion and tacked in, genre-wide.

Nothing seems to be actually wrong with this mix. It just drives me insane.

[Adhesive_Boy]

The beginning caught me a little off guard. I think some kind of fade - in or more gradual intro would be nice.

Anyway, the instrument selection here is good and the piano is nicely done as always. My big problem would be the mixing: I know there's always a sound these types of mix like to achieve, but there really doesn't need to be this much reverb applied. The lower frequencies like the bass and the electronic piano tend to bleed over everything else. And it's a real shame because the flute and oboe are both done pretty nicely but need to be brought out so badly. The strings also tend to get lost in the shuffle - the sample is just generally not appropriate because it attacks too gradually, but it also should be a higher frequency and maybe making two tracks and panning them to each side at about 50% would make it a little richer and enhance the melody.

As for the arrangement, I am not familiar with the original, but my assumption (which may or may not be correct) is that this is a pretty close interpretation of it. That's not always bad, and I do think if it were mixed a little better and the dynamics were made a little clearer, it would really help the mix sonically - making it sound less like it's slogging through the original and more like a natural progression.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I'm a huge fan of Kaijin's style, and this one was definitely up among his best. Brilliant, beautiful, perfect. Not much else to say.

[Nobbynob Littlun]

The intro reminds me of the town music in Zelda 2. Did the original Xenogears song also do this? Is it just me hearing this, I swear I'm taking crazy pills! Obey my dog! Ok, Zoolander references aside... I like it.