[Jivemaster]

Super Mario 64 'Liquid Mario'

Jade Gemini aka McVaffe aka Michael Vaffeas gives as a taste of Mario 64 with a side ambience. "A very cute little mix" is what I thought the first time a heard the song. The song starts of with some pretty cool tribal beats spread across the stereo spectrum (though I would have perhaps placed a few more instruments in the left side as it's a little unbalanced). It is then followed by a piano playing the main melody and a tb synth or two. I do detect some semi-nasty distortion in some places, especially during the parts with more bass. Maybe Mike could have panned the hats to the left to dodge the kick drum - this may have also solved the stereo unbalance issue as well. This mix is ok, but I must confess that it isn't one of McVaffe's greatest efforts. It gets a little boring a times.

[skawttieboy]

I love the way you can listen to this song at the beginning and just feel the beat moving across your speakers. It's awesome...also, he keeps the traditonal theme simple and doesn't expand it too much, I seem to enjoy that most in remixes. I thought this was really well done, McVaffe has done it yet again! ;)

[MB]

who is this guy hogging all the talent? hey mcvaffe, save some for the rest of us! lol.

ambient. i love it.

[Psycrow]

Hmm it says first female remix... is McVaffe female?

[Adhesive_Boy]

Originally Posted by _JC_

Hmm it says first female remix... is McVaffe female?

No...this has been answered several times, so I think someone might need to log OCR history or something so everybody knows about this. This remix was submitted at the time when McVaffe had three different "Aliases" - one being his original name, one being the fabricated female "Jade Gemini" (who's name this remix was sent under), and the other being "Quasikaotic". He did this supposedly to get different moods so people wouldn't comment on how something doesn't sound like a "McVaffe" remix, but it eventually got too hard to upkeep and he eventually told DJP about it. Needless to say, the remix comments by DJP were never changed, although the artist was corrected. I think the actually first female remixer was (and maybe still is) Starla Peacecraft, aka "injury".

Anway, this is a good remix, but not a great one. I'm not a fan of the percussion, mainly because I like loud stuff, and it just seems weak to me. The techno bleepy-bloops in the bassline can get annoying, too, but the lead piano is good when it comes in, and I don't see any other major problems with it. So it's good overall, but definitely not one of McVaffe's best, imo...

EDIT: Fixed spelling of something...

[Psycrow]

Hmm... it's wierd that he would submit this as a female and point out himself that it was the first remix by a female.

[LaVa]

Mmm... no complaints at all. Very professional and pleasant to listen to.
This is one of the songs you can play on repeat forever :)

[McVaffe]

Originally Posted by _JC_

Hmm... it's wierd that he would submit this as a female and point out himself that it was the first remix by a female... seems kinda like blatent dishonesty (going beyond just diff aliases) if ya ask me
But if this issue was covered before, like ya say, no need for me to bring it up again... just my two cents

It was covered before and waaaaaaaaaaaay in the past. I think we should just change all of those damn descriptions just to avoid confusion like this, it isn't necessary anymore. But hey I'm not the one making them, I just make the music.

-McV

[jazzman]

makes me want to buy the game just to listen to the music...[/img][/code]

[nostalgic gen]

nice little tune. I think this could have benefitted from a bit of mastering however. It struck me as being very quiet alongside other songs on my playlist.

Edit (several months later): There again, maybe not :P