OverClocked ReMix...

djpretzel · #1 04-19-2005, 05:54 AM

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

krispy · #2 04-19-2005, 06:04 AM

What can I say, you sent this to me a month ago and it was just as good then as it is now. Congrats on your big 20, now hurry up and make it 21 you lazy bastard. I still can't stand your voxs, but that hardly matters in the scope of things. I guess next time you will just need to get a real vocalist :p.

Rexy · #3 04-19-2005, 06:43 AM

What's with Gray and his phoenix titles? :P

Anyhow... wow, I appreciate much of the nature in this one - sounds at a much more professional quality than much of his past works, and that can be easily saying something. There's been a good set of complexities in the sound channels to match, and that's easily impressive.

Also, it's then at 0:54 that I have to say something - thank you, GrayLighthing, for covering Awakening! ah man, I love that song so much, and it sounds so great that you managed to give the track some justice.

Personally I find the overall scopes of the arrangement here to be easier to get into than much of his previous works, much in a similar fashion to Return of the Phoenix. Even with that in mind I could barely find much wrong here; if anything it may be towards what I thought was some lightly dense flute progressions in their processing (increasing their reverb slightly may help with that), but outside from that... yeah, I have to agree with Pretzel that this is, in fact, the best work that I have seen from GL.

Sorry to see Binnie left the judges panel though :(

sgx · #4 04-19-2005, 06:46 AM

Shizz damn diggity snap once again. Sounds so awesome. Great dynamics and all that. Gray is da man. Happy two-oh, thugslice!

DCT · #5 04-19-2005, 07:10 AM

It's a GrayLightning remix, you should know what to expect by now: top notch arrangements and bells bells bells :P. Gray's one of the best remixers around, and this is his 20th reason why you can't mess with him. I'm loving the Asian influence this piece has, coupled with Gray's trademark new age/orchestral shizz.

With tracks like this, OneUp Studios' Xenogears Light | an arranged album, and Oceanfire's 'Xenosphere' mix, 2005 has been a great year for Xenogears fans.

-DCT

BlueEnvy · #6 04-19-2005, 03:27 PM

Dang Gray, this is great. It seems as of lately you have been working in lots of tempo changes to your music. I like it :) The transitions and tempo changes work well. The energy has great highs and lows. That sitar work (or whatever the specific instrument is) is really good, its great to hear it in a mix. Great job producing an epic mix, and paying more tribute to Mitsuda, which is always good :P

blue

kaiserramsus · #7 04-19-2005, 03:53 PM

Wow.

Hat's off.

I am long time Xenogears and OC REMIX fan, but new to the forums. I want to play Xenogears all over again while listening to this mix.

BlueEnvy could say it better than me this is great job on an epic mix. Congrats for your 20th mix.

Ram

Garde · #8 04-19-2005, 05:13 PM

Excellent mix, Gray. I believe Gray's Phoenix pieces are all just part of a continuation of his Phoenix Symphonic, his first orchestral piece with his new samples (well, they were new when he made Phoenix Symphonic). I remember you sent me a WIP of this a little more than a month ago, and you wouldn't send me the final because you wanted it to be a "surprise." Well, it was definitely worth the wait! :D

Just the way the mix starts off is full of energy. The percussion is incredible and accents every moment perfectly. The transitions are incredible in frequency and quality, I think this has the most transitions out of any of your mixes. The tempo changes are equally impressive, controlling the energy and mood of the mix very effectively. I especially love the transition at 1:18, very nicely done. Again, the transition at 1:52 is really good, and then it transitions again at 2:02. Very quick transitions, but they work incredibly well.

Gray puts a lot of emotion, energy, and tension in his song, giving a grand and epic feel to it. The tempo shifts, transitions, and incredible percussion work together so well to achieve this. Those bombastic kettle drums are really nice, I mean really nice. The explosive power present at 4:05-4:32 was not present earlier in the mix, and it really adds to depth of the mix. In fact, everything in the second half has more emphasis and more instrumentation than its previous section.

I love the ending starting at 5:10. It's so different from the rest of the mix, yet it works. It has a very ethereal feel to it, and at 5:18, damn... I don't even know how to describe it. Gray's definitely gotten a lot better at this orchestrating stuff.

Great job! :D

binster · #9 04-19-2005, 06:07 PM

I'm constantly in awe of Gray's command of the production wand. This sounds like full on, film quality orchestration.

There're some great pace changes and dynamic range shifts going on too.

Top marks!

Txai · #10 04-19-2005, 07:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rexy

What's with Gray and his phoenix titles? :P

Probably, he love Phoenix.

Wow, this is great! GrayLightning and your orchestra are very powerful indeed. I love all the instruments here. This ReMix deserves the Nice Work Guy!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rexy

Sorry to see Binnie left the judges panel though :(

Eh...that´s not funny.