[djpretzel]

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

[Trenthian]

Kudos says I.

[DCT]

Good God, Malcos is awesome.

[myf]

Bass Bass Bass Bass Bass!

[Strife.]

Very nice piece. Like the title suggests, it has bass, oh so much nicely used bass. At 1:55, when the piano accompaniment starts up, I was especially impressed. Good all-around feel.

[Protricity]

I helped reject this song once here http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=45466.
This was a resubmission and I see very little in the way of improvement. Hell the only thing significantly different this time around was the people who voted on it (click). As I said before, this song's improv is very weak. Just not very good. Malcos admitted his improve was rather 'don't care' and its pretty obvious. The piano is down right crappy. The lead is... terrible. So many things could have been fixed in this resubmit that simply were not.
It was a very obvious NO before, and it still is. I only hope the jp tightens up on quality control from here on out.

Beyond that, I know no standards were set for judges posting their own songs directly onto the panel. Not only was that done here, but a resubmission got right back on the panel only weeks later. This site is big enough that such double standards simply shouldn't be allowed anymore.

Please tighten up on this stuff.

[Liontamer]

For the record, Malcos's comment that the improv section was pretty "don't care" was a comment he made regarding the first/rejected version, not this version. The improv section was specifically revisted in order to fit more within the arrangement. Say what you will about the execution of the improv in this resubmitted version; some judges liked it and some didn't. It certainly wasn't perfect, but the fact is that a lot more thought was actually put into it, and the "don't care" comment doesn't apply here.

I didn't have a problem with the synth guitar lead; that comes across as a subjective taste. The piano sequencing was certainly something that objectively needed to be improved, but wasn't enough of an issue to NO on for me personally. On those two issues, particularly the mechanicalness of the piano sequencing, I respect that other judges could go either way depending on how drastically they felt those affected the overall presentation.

With regards to judges submitting material directly to the panel, this is a throwback to the older days of the panel. The other judges prefer to submit to DJP instead. We actually asked DJP about it about a week ago, and he said that there's no problem with a judge going the direct-to-panel route. As long as no one's abusing the system by posting a mix every few weeks, it's ok for a judge to post directly to the panel. We pressed for clarification and that's the standard in place for those situations.

[PancakeHero]

the drum loop at one point sounds like it was ripped from the Matrix. When Morpheus takes Neo into the Agent Training program. I'm not too impressed with this mix, but it is better than what i can do.

[RimFrost the Tourianist]

I have difficulty believing this remix whould have been rejected in the first place if the quality was similar to this. There are far worse submissions on OCR that landed and stayed over the years..too many for me list here.
Anyway, it's a nice Zangief jazzy effort in my book :o

[Txai]

On this controversial music I can affirm:


If this is the version that was submitted again, believes that the arrangements had been well-meaning.

It does not have imperfections in the piano.
The rhythm is pleasant. I believe that music is reasonable to the ears.

But the elaborated melody interested me. In 02:06 Malcos reverts the famous Zangief´s melody.

if I was a judge, I would say...

YES.