OverClocked ReMix...

orkybash · #1 06-08-2002, 03:10 AM

Longest Journey 'Beginnings'

This is simply beautiful. Samples are good, and there's really no dead spots in the arrangement. I noticed some dischordance, but it's used to good effect here, adds interest, and doesn't seem at all accidental (as was the case when I've criticized that aspect in other mixes). Me likes.

Tappy · #2 06-09-2002, 08:03 AM

I loved this game, and I love the sound of cellos. Although I can't quite figure out which piece of music this song is arranging. I listen to the Longest Journey soundtrack all the time, and this melody just doesn't ring a bell. The piano is kind of similar to "Main Titles", but otherwise I can't figure out where in the game this piece was taken from...

krispy · #3 06-09-2002, 08:22 AM

Its a very moody piece with a beautiful use of piano, chello, pads, and choir ahhhs. I really liked this song as it contrasted most of the music on the website and in my collection. I never played the game but i can imagine it from the music and the screenshot...i might check it out sometime. The Kreme gives it a 8/10

Legion303 · #4 06-09-2002, 08:48 AM

Good lord, this is absolutely gorgeous. Exceptional work, deim0s.

Damn you. Cellos play a part in one of my works in progress and now everyone will have something better (yours) to compare them to. :P

-steve

deim0s · #5 06-09-2002, 11:04 AM

Thanks for the kind words, folks.
And Tappy, the song is an arrangement of a piano theme that's pretty prevalent throughout the soundtrack. The songs in which it's most easily heard are "Prologue" and "The House of All Worlds".

For anyone that doesn't know, The Longest Journey's entire soundtrack is freely available online from this page:
http://www.longestjourney.com/stark/music.html

ZombieGirlAya · #6 06-10-2002, 06:20 PM

I adore the piano, and the dark imperative cello work. Mwah! I could listen to this all day.

Vagus · #7 05-03-2003, 04:50 PM

Doesn't it strike anyone else how similar the piano notes are to the moody track in Dungeon Master II? They are practicaly identical.

Great job, deim0s. A sweet, atomospheric track that will go on loop in Winamp.

Night10194 · #8 06-24-2003, 02:23 AM

As a great fan of the source game, I would also like to say that this mix is wonderful work.

Ventrex · #9 03-01-2005, 04:03 AM

A very beautiful, moody piece for a very beautiful game. Around 1'40 is where the true beauty settles in for me, as the song slows and revolves around the vocals like a wondrous carousel of ear candy, before setting sail again in the sea of strings. Only truly beautiful songs make me ramble on incoherently.

Zipp · #10 11-27-2005, 10:29 PM

I first listened to this mix a long time ago, when I was looking for things related to Longest Journey (it's one of those games that does that to you). This remix (the 5th one to be reviewed on my "Review All" list) had a place in what I still consider the best CD I ever compiled of OC Remixes.

It is a haunting melody, taken from the main theme of the game, that is exentuated by what is either talent with the strings, or good synthesizing (I'm guessing the later). A mysterious piece through and through, it even ends on a note which speaks of things incomplete, left to come.

The only complaint is that the background chords never get more complicated or creative than when they first begin, making this a fairly linear piece. For that reason, it gets 4/5.