ReMix: Chrono Trigger 'Ruined World (Eternal Derelict)'
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- Game: Chrono Trigger (Square, 1995, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): Children of the Monkey Machine
- Composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu, Noriko Matsueda, Yasunori Mitsuda
- Song(s): 'A Desolate World'
- Posted: 2002-04-23, evaluated by djpretzel
In a word: epic. You certainly can't dance to it (unless you're on something I'm not), but Cotmm's latest opus is almost seven minutes of gradually evolving soundscape, with superbly transporting effects that make you feel like you're watching a movie and the lead character is discovering something immense and ominous. Beginning and ending with rain, thunder, and chimes jangling in the wind, the bulk of the mix features beautiful string swells that cover the melody with patience and great deliberation and restraint. This mix is very zen, which is a cheesy adjective to throw around lightly, but truly you can zone out and go somewhere else listening to this. If you're looking for a beat, you won't find it here, nor will you find intricately composed, ornate instrumental arrangement. This is more like Asian calligraphy - minimalist, but what's there has been paid great attention to and reveals subtleties within itself. Nice, interpretive work. Recommended.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the bladiator;417045 wrote: So far in my race to 1000, this is easily the worst remix so far.
Yes it evolves, yes it creates a scene of imagery. But it evolves just about as fast as prehistoric man from a protozoa, and it conjures up imagery of me sitting long and hard on the crapper in a meditative state.
If this is such an obscure song that THIS was well thought out upgrade to it, then I never want to hear the original song. If this is a piece that sounds like it comes straight from an epic moment in a movie, then I need the movie to accompany this because I can't get enjoyment out of this alone. Sometimes music that is part of a movie soundtrack only belongs with a movie and cannot standalone. I feel that this is one of those pieces.
CotMM for the most part is higher on the food chain than this regarding his remixes.
To be fair, there really isn't much to the original... they sound quite similar, with CotMM's having more depth, of course but the fact remains. It's not really a song at all... it's more a mishmash of sounds that create the feel of a dystopian future. It is a strange mix to listen to if you're not familiar with the source tune and the scenes it accompanies, but if you do know it, you see how it fits.
- Darth Magus on July 25, 2009
I suppose it helps to know the context of this song in the game
(e.g. the review preceding this one), but this song perfectly
accomodates the scene in Chrono Trigger. this piece is so sad and
it incorporates No Hope into it fairly well. I definitely like this
better than Children of the Monkey Machine's similar mix for Silent
Hill (maybe that's because i've never played it, though). Although
hardly a song, this piece is epic
- a_d on December 8, 2008
- a_d on December 8, 2008
So far in my race to 1000, this is easily the worst remix so
far.
Yes it evolves, yes it creates a scene of imagery. But it evolves just about as fast as prehistoric man from a protozoa, and it conjures up imagery of me sitting long and hard on the crapper in a meditative state.
If this is such an obscure song that THIS was well thought out upgrade to it, then I never want to hear the original song. If this is a piece that sounds like it comes straight from an epic moment in a movie, then I need the movie to accompany this because I can't get enjoyment out of this alone. Sometimes music that is part of a movie soundtrack only belongs with a movie and cannot standalone. I feel that this is one of those pieces.
CotMM for the most part is higher on the food chain than this regarding his remixes.
- bladiator on June 12, 2008
Yes it evolves, yes it creates a scene of imagery. But it evolves just about as fast as prehistoric man from a protozoa, and it conjures up imagery of me sitting long and hard on the crapper in a meditative state.
If this is such an obscure song that THIS was well thought out upgrade to it, then I never want to hear the original song. If this is a piece that sounds like it comes straight from an epic moment in a movie, then I need the movie to accompany this because I can't get enjoyment out of this alone. Sometimes music that is part of a movie soundtrack only belongs with a movie and cannot standalone. I feel that this is one of those pieces.
CotMM for the most part is higher on the food chain than this regarding his remixes.
- bladiator on June 12, 2008
Very evocative. I like the storm sounds in the back. Epic could be
used to describe it.
- DragonFireKai on March 13, 2007
- DragonFireKai on March 13, 2007
This is my favorite piece of work on this site. It's also one of
the first OCRs I ever downloaded. Whether that colors my perception
or not doesn't really matter- this remix is the the video game
remixing scene's answer to legendary and powerful works like Adagio
for Strings. Like Adagio for Strings, it is (if not the most) one
of the most emotionally evocative pieces in its class. Absolutely
stunning.
But I bet I'd be shutting my speakers off pretty fast if someone came in my dorm and it happened to be playing.
- DaltontheSultan on November 15, 2006
But I bet I'd be shutting my speakers off pretty fast if someone came in my dorm and it happened to be playing.
- DaltontheSultan on November 15, 2006
Wow. :) Good job with this. I don't know how but this song
completely holds my attention for every freakin second. If you've
listened to the Flaming Lips this is like one of their
non-vocal/atmospheric tracks that are thrown in each album, which I
tend to like. So kudos for that, and kudos big time for taking such
a simple song and making such a simple ReMix that can grab
attention and heartstrings like beggin' strips to dogs. This is
pretty mindblowing stuff.
- Blake on June 11, 2006
- Blake on June 11, 2006
This is great study, bath, driving at night after intense shit, or
feeling a bit emo music.
I do enjoy how Cotmm's pieces attempt to carry the essence of the situations they are describing in the music.
- Bobwillis on March 27, 2006
I do enjoy how Cotmm's pieces attempt to carry the essence of the situations they are describing in the music.
- Bobwillis on March 27, 2006
Beautiful track, top 10 favourite song ever. This is Aphex Twin
quality!
- Dionyseus on October 16, 2005
- Dionyseus on October 16, 2005
The song is 6:40 long for a good reason ,it's a wonderful emotive
stretched-out version of Ruined World (the original could almost
bring tears to your eyes). I miss the bells in this one ..although
they do show up faintly in the beginning.
Otherwise ,no complaints. CotMM's far best remix :)
- RimFrost the Tourianist on September 26, 2005
Otherwise ,no complaints. CotMM's far best remix :)
- RimFrost the Tourianist on September 26, 2005
This is totally different for being CotMM, no beats at all and
there are lovely strings that pierces through the depressive mood
this hole song engulfs.
I get very poetic when I hear beautiful stuff, so I guess this one really is one of them. It doesn´t get very melodic, but come to think of it, "Ruined World" didn´t really have one, it was just a bell beating randomly with the wind blowing at the side. But at the end, you CAN hear a melody, "The Day The World Revived".
Very different of you, CotMM, and very good.
- Bummerdude on September 26, 2005
I get very poetic when I hear beautiful stuff, so I guess this one really is one of them. It doesn´t get very melodic, but come to think of it, "Ruined World" didn´t really have one, it was just a bell beating randomly with the wind blowing at the side. But at the end, you CAN hear a melody, "The Day The World Revived".
Very different of you, CotMM, and very good.
- Bummerdude on September 26, 2005
Damn. If this isn't the quality of music I'd expect in, say, a VvVv
CHRONO TRIGGER MOVIE vVvV then it isn't anything at all. First five
minutes rock my soxx0rz.
~.C.S.~
- Claado Shou on August 13, 2005
~.C.S.~
- Claado Shou on August 13, 2005
The first time I heard this, I thought it was crap. The second
time, I thought it was OK. The third, it was good. The fourth time
however, I realized that this remix is truly great. Very
atmospheric and, like djp said, "epic." The reason for the
premature sour misjudgement could have been because it was one of
the first remixes I heard on this site over 3 years ago. I mean,
the first remix I heard was Blind's "Dream of Zeal", a bit hard to
measure up to even to this day. Still, this remains one of my
favorite CT remixes.
- Petara on April 27, 2005
- Petara on April 27, 2005
All I can think of right now to describe this track will never do
it justice. It stands on its own, and my upcoming comparison won't
show that, but this mix is unique. No one else on OCR sounds
anything like CotMM, and hats off to him for accomplishing this.
That said...
This song reminds me deeply of the music of A Silver Mt. Zion (not so much the newer stuff with the choir and the swelling, exploding, incredibly loud musical joy they've developed, but more along the lines of the quiet, reflective, and far more hopeless sounding He Has Left Us But... era); slow, somber, sorrowful, simply beautiful.
This will be in my playlist quite a bit in the future, and is easily my favorite CT mix, if not one of my favorite OCR mixes at all.
- Ventrex on April 12, 2005
This song reminds me deeply of the music of A Silver Mt. Zion (not so much the newer stuff with the choir and the swelling, exploding, incredibly loud musical joy they've developed, but more along the lines of the quiet, reflective, and far more hopeless sounding He Has Left Us But... era); slow, somber, sorrowful, simply beautiful.
This will be in my playlist quite a bit in the future, and is easily my favorite CT mix, if not one of my favorite OCR mixes at all.
- Ventrex on April 12, 2005
You know how Florida had that string of hurricanes a few months
back, right? Well, right after Hurricane Charlie had gotten a
little ways away from my neighborhood, I had to go help one of my
mom's friends tape up some cardboard over a broken window.
So I was walking to her house, and as odd as it sounds, the first thing I thought of after stepping outside was this mix. It's one of the best I've ever heard. :)
- Isaac 117 on October 29, 2004
So I was walking to her house, and as odd as it sounds, the first thing I thought of after stepping outside was this mix. It's one of the best I've ever heard. :)
- Isaac 117 on October 29, 2004
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