[djpretzel]

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

[GrayLightning]

The mix has finally seen the light of day at ocr, after 3 years in the making! Told you, you should have submitted it years ago. Regardless, quality and extremely unique work.

[Liontamer]

/shakes da butt

[Txai]

I almost never listened a song done by Israfel. But this is indeed a good mix. I like the use of percussion proposed here. Very creative and wild composition. The strings and the brass really did justice in a whole. And I love the end. It sounds sweet and epic for me. I think this mix have a quality of new stuff.

I´ll check more stuff of Israfel. But I can´t stop listening that.

[Bummerdude]

Very orchestric, I like that. You can hardly recognize the original melody in the beginning, there are alot of things happening. Trombones, trumpets, very cool beats, drums as the same, and with some strings that really gives this the feel of the wild in the original. Reminds me somehow of some sort of James Bond movie, no wait! Indiana Jones, yeah, that´s it. As DJP already mentioned, this is a remix that delivers pure music enjoyment in full velocity, with much of skills in philharmonic matters. But maybe that´s what you can expect from Israfel, this is an another feather in his already stuffed hat. Very significant stuff here from the dude among the lads.

Favorite part: 3:38, the only part when the mainmelody is heard. Maybe a little odd to put it in the end, but Israfel managed to put the attention to the parts in the middle and beginning. And that worked for me.

[meccaneer]

This is from the Veldt, right? Man, that was a sweet game. The original was inherently danceable. That's why I'm dancin.' I dig the James Bond feel of the piece. Very tension-filled. I dunno if that's how the original was meant...

I don't know how I feel about the drums. They just aren't etchy like the rest. Balance, man, balance! Ya can't make some crisp and some crunch. Why is there so much etchiness anywho; are ya tryin' to hide something? And there's reverb? Why? Is there reverb on the Veldt?

Anyways, enough crittyin.' I enjoy it. No, really.

[JustChris]

(Jams along to it and places it with his all-vinyl break/DnB music folder)

Yeah, it's pretty good. There should be some (non-OCR) ochestral Drum & Bass music that I'm missing.

[Poga]

I've had this remix since it was first released on that 'other' site. It's not a beautiful piece, not epic, the production isn't top-notch, but it has great charm in its eccentrically groovin' feel throughout. Great work.

Nice and intensive pace the whole way through, and the sudden xylophone ending at 3:37 was a nice touch to close it out.

Agreed. But it's not a xylophone. Everyone uses 'xylophone' as if it were some generic term. Marimba, ballophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel/orchestra bells, crotales, gamelan, chimes/tubular bells, whatever—they're not xylophones.

[Claado Shou]

Sorry to be the only dissenting opinion, but this mix doesn't seem like it's finished. I know the samples are from 2002, but the strings still sound straight out of ALttP, and there are also plenty of parts that seem to lack a low end. I guess I just don't get the same danceable feeling you all get when I hear it, despite it being drum-driven and how much I love teh drumxx0rz.

Overall, I think the mix is a bit lopsided, and hard to take seriously/enjoy with those bad samples so prevalent. Would've preferred this with better strings, fo sho.

~.C.S.~

[MedHead]

The timing took a long time for me to finally understand, and while that meant I finally stopped cringing, the samples and arrangement just end up too chaotic for my tastes. I thought there was a lot of repetition in the music, and very few good transitions between the themes. Everything had a looping program feel about it.

Looking back at the melody played in this remix, I don't think it's all that impressive. While simplicity doesn't make for a bad theme (it often is the exact opposite), I don't think this melody was interesting. It really simply sounds like something that would be played as the background chord progression to a much larger production, rather than a foreground melody as it is presented here. To make matters worse, the mixing of the arrangement is grating, highlighting the aged samples used.

If it wasn't for my determination to listen all the way through in order to review these remixes, I wouldn't have made it a third of the way. It was a daring move to try the strange timing, and the piece has a definite speed and high-paced frenetic quality about it, but it was unsettling rather than charismatic to me.