[djpretzel]

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

[Chris McGee]

Typical GrayLighning = Awesome. Great orchestration, great arrangement and dynamics, great instrumentation. Excellent job, guys.

[TheRedBob]

w00t!

I love the military theming...and yeah...so many mixes...when will the madness cease? Will it cease?

Nice percussive work, good cultural stuff going...really liking this one.

[SnappleMan]

Well, let's see here.

I like the overall theme, takes in a bunch of different ethnic influences and actually makes them work together.

The mix itself was very enjoyable to me, and it got even better when I heard those blazing Tablas! Oh man! Whoever played/sequenced those is a genius!

[neminem]

Nice. I'm about halfway through listening, and I was about to complain about how similar it was to the original. The first half, certainly, makes me think that one orchestral arrangement of Halo's title is enough for forever, seeing as how it's not adding much onto the original source, which is already pretty genius. But then the rest of the instrumentation comes in, making this far different from the original. Great take on a great song!

[Iced Earth]

GrayLighning makes another amazing song.I love it can't wait to hear some more of GrayLighning's songs. This one gets a perfect 5/5. :D

[The Master Maniac]

Did I mention that these Halo remixes just never get old? Again, this one utilizes a great and driving military-like strings setup, with a unique (to me, slightly oriental-style) percussion (forgive me if I can't type right--it's like 2 am here...yikes) and flute section. I know the idea is that it should probably sound like something you'd hear in the Colonial Revolution, but to me it just comes off as downright Chinese-folk to me, and I love it all the better for it. Absolutely great--you gotta hear it to know what I'm getting at. 6 outta 5 for yet another imaginative Halo theme remix...and a stylish and original one to boot. Excellent work, and let the quality remixes roll on.

[Zekian]

Now this is Halo! An excellent spin on the original, even if it does take quite a few risks here and there. When I listen to this, I can just see Master Chief running into a room full of grunts, assault rifle blaring.

[GrayLightning]

Since I never actually emailed DJP with a write up about this, I will take this opportunity to write it here.

Freemind did this mix last year in a celtic, new age style and I loved it. It should not be lost, that a lot of the actual composition and arrangement work of this was done by Freemind. He deserves a lot of credit for the mix.

He sent me the reason/midi file for this and I decided to recreate it with a style, new orchestration and vision by giving it a more cinematic orchestral and ethnic style.

I then added some new celtic parts played by celtic pipes and flute, and also changed a guitar part to indian sections with the sitar and the humanized and inspired tabla playing of Digital Coma. I then completely redid the drums and percussion which now uses military, orchestral and ethnic sets. After my own additional orchestrations I then did the mixing and mastering on this one.

I'm glad a lot of you, especially Halo fans are enjoying this. Halo's soundtrack is great and it was great to work on this mix with Freemind and Digital Coma.

Finally, to pimp my upcoming mixes, I have 3 new orchestral solo mixes from Final Fantasy IV, Donkey Kong Country, and Shining Force coming to OCR soon. ^_^ Thanks for the comments and support.

[Sleepy Emp]

Nice composition and sound quality, interesting "military" style with ethnic elements. Great work, both of you!