ReMix: Secret of Mana 'Aphrodite Oceanus'
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- Game: Secret of Mana (Square, 1993, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): The Wingless
- Composer(s): Hiroki Kikuta
- Song(s): 'A Prayer and a Whisper'
- Posted: 2002-05-18, evaluated by the judges
Giving us a decent Life Force ReMix and a very momorable Guardian Legend piece in the past, this is The Wingless' third submission, and the most atmospheric yet. Layered, cinematically reverbed piano patterns syncopate in a whirl of sound while an unintrusive rhythm undulates below and strings form a sonic bed. The adjectives lush, ethereal, and transporting come to mind. There're no solos nor is there a clear climax - the piece sort of fades in and out like a distant dream. Yet for its ephemeral nature, j.a. burnett still makes it musical, with balanced mixing and effects and overlapping parts galore. Some of the ambient effects towards the end give a very cool, liquid feeling to the soundscape. Not foreground music, but very atmopsheric and deep.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the Really nice textures. The levels stay pretty similar throughout,
but the song breathes based on the number of textures going on. I
really like all the different poly rhythms in the piano and bells,
and though the ending is a bit too abrupt, this is a great track to
loop.
Strong showing by The Wingless!
- OA on December 18, 2009
Strong showing by The Wingless!
- OA on December 18, 2009
ooOOoo, shiny.
And sparkley too.
This is the anthem for stargazing. None of that fancy shmancy looking through a telescope junk, but lying on one's back on a hill on a cool, clear summer night and imagining the infinite.
Great mix and great job. :nicework:
- 42 on January 19, 2009
And sparkley too.
This is the anthem for stargazing. None of that fancy shmancy looking through a telescope junk, but lying on one's back on a hill on a cool, clear summer night and imagining the infinite.
Great mix and great job. :nicework:
- 42 on January 19, 2009
PCJanus wrote:sonicbhoc wrote: It's addicting... like videogames, but worse. :lol:
It's a seriously awesome remix! good work Wingless, I look foreward to your next remix!
Now I wanna play this game... but I don't have it. :cry:
This is one of my favorite remixes, and your attention to detail is freakin' awesome. How long did it take you to make this!?
Download the ROM and SNES9x or ZSNES and start emulating?
I don't do illegal gaming, thank you.
- sonicbhoc on April 17, 2006
This makes for some *excellent* studying music, IMO and that's
saying alot. I'm personally very picky about what music to play
while studying. But to be more specific, the song has a cool feel
to it at the start, like an ocean as the name implies. The piano is
beautifully done and the orchestra sounds that are brought in
shortly after really back the piano up in a B-E-A-utiful way. But
then the steady beat comes in, strong but not forceful. It walks
the line of extra and essential nicely, forging room for the rest
of the song to expand an conform around itself into new ways. If
you listen closely to the way the piano and other instruments are
brought in, reverberated and tweeked, you can almost visualize
yourself being brought to different depths of the ocean. Songs like
this are a rarity, and this especially should be listened to in the
dark with your good headphones on and your eyes shut. The feeling
is just so much more heightened and you really come to appreciate
the song more and more.
My only complaint is the length. While I realize that lengthening a song like this would probably bring too much repetition, I still wish it were longer.
Overall, 9/10 and a gold star!
- MasamuneX on April 12, 2006
My only complaint is the length. While I realize that lengthening a song like this would probably bring too much repetition, I still wish it were longer.
Overall, 9/10 and a gold star!
- MasamuneX on April 12, 2006
Or wait for Revolution (possibly), or buy an SNES. Much better
experience, being one of the better SNES games anyway....mainly
cause of the musiccccc. May start out poop game but it gets better
as you travel to many places and get to travel the world.
For the remix
I used to love Wingless stuff but somehow most of their appeal has gone away (most of them became too quiet and monotonous to my ears, even his Silent Hill one, which I still think is good compositionally, but I guess my ear have started to move i mean suck, to put the blame on myself). THIS mix however is still way good because of the chord progressions teamed up with the more complex-sounding piano (as I say this from memory). Has the feeling of Secret of Mana without sounding directly like the source tune, yet still derived perfectly.
- Audity on April 10, 2006
For the remix
I used to love Wingless stuff but somehow most of their appeal has gone away (most of them became too quiet and monotonous to my ears, even his Silent Hill one, which I still think is good compositionally, but I guess my ear have started to move i mean suck, to put the blame on myself). THIS mix however is still way good because of the chord progressions teamed up with the more complex-sounding piano (as I say this from memory). Has the feeling of Secret of Mana without sounding directly like the source tune, yet still derived perfectly.
- Audity on April 10, 2006
sonicbhoc wrote: It's addicting... like videogames, but worse. :lol:
It's a seriously awesome remix! good work Wingless, I look foreward to your next remix!
Now I wanna play this game... but I don't have it. :cry:
This is one of my favorite remixes, and your attention to detail is freakin' awesome. How long did it take you to make this!?
Download the ROM and SNES9x or ZSNES and start emulating?
- PCJanus on April 3, 2006
It's addicting... like videogames, but worse. :lol:
It's a seriously awesome remix! good work Wingless, I look foreward to your next remix!
Now I wanna play this game... but I don't have it. :cry:
This is one of my favorite remixes, and your attention to detail is freakin' awesome. How long did it take you to make this!?
- sonicbhoc on March 31, 2006
It's a seriously awesome remix! good work Wingless, I look foreward to your next remix!
Now I wanna play this game... but I don't have it. :cry:
This is one of my favorite remixes, and your attention to detail is freakin' awesome. How long did it take you to make this!?
- sonicbhoc on March 31, 2006
This is what I love with Wingless's remixes, a very dreamy piano
that plays as many keys as possible in an echoing hall. It makes me
think of the water Shrine in the game since it almost sounds how
waterdrops falls through the air and hits the water's surface.
There are some beats that makes this sound more tough, but that's
mostly during a small period if time.
This remix suits perfectly to lie in bed and just try to relax. Fabulous work, Wing.
- Bummerdude on February 25, 2006
This remix suits perfectly to lie in bed and just try to relax. Fabulous work, Wing.
- Bummerdude on February 25, 2006
Occasionally I'll hear a composition that stirs my soul, causing it
to reach up to the heavens to take in the enchanting light of
creation...this is one of those pieces.
- Paladin on November 23, 2005
- Paladin on November 23, 2005
I felt this piece was very well done, perhaps the best MP3 on the
site yet! Only regret, that it's not longer :lol:. But really,
awesome stuff, congrats!
- PCJanus on September 19, 2005
- PCJanus on September 19, 2005
This was the first mix I downloaded when I came to OCRemix which
would have been back in late 2002. I heard this and was instantly
hooked. The Wingless has done an amazing job. The mood, the
dynamics, the enthrallment... Such masterful execution deserves the
highest of praises. Beautiful!
- kaip on April 1, 2005
- kaip on April 1, 2005
Always has, and always will be my favourite remix. Perhaps its the
journey this piece takes us on, the transcendance down the rabbit
hole to a wonderland, the sensitivity of the bells complemented by
the melodic but consistent beat or the switch to another direction
at 1:53, but either way, this song deserves every piece of
appreciation it gets. I could watch the Windows media visualisation
for this theme over and over.
Congratulations, Wingless, you have touched a nerve.
- mecca on March 31, 2005
Congratulations, Wingless, you have touched a nerve.
- mecca on March 31, 2005
Excellent work, The Wingless. I do like how this tune simply floats
in and out of consciousness. It seems like a goog song to fit a
mood of trancelike reflection.
Keep it up!
- Angelus Laminarum on March 30, 2005
Keep it up!
- Angelus Laminarum on March 30, 2005
