ReMix: Ultima Online 'Create Your Fantasy'
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- Game: Ultima Online (Electronic Arts, 1997, WIN)
- ReMixer(s): Ghetto Lee Lewis
- Composer(s): Hal Milton, Joe Basquez, Kirk Winterrowd
- Song(s):
- Posted: 2003-03-01, evaluated by the judges
Judges were definitely unanimous in one thing about this mix - mucho reverb. It's kinda like that commercial for 'Total' cereal, where it takes ten bowls of 'Special K' to equal the amount of fiber in 'Total', or something such. Well, it takes ten ReMixes to equal the amount of reverb in 'Create Your Fantasy' - maybe GLL could use the same sort of advertising campaign :) In all fairness, as a couple judges noted, this is stylistic and inherent to the trance genre, so it's not too much of a problem. Perhaps it could have been scaled back a bit, tho. Regardless, I think most will enjoy Ghetto Lee Lewis's newest submission, some lengthy and overall well-crafted trance from Ultima Online. The coolest thing here is that this mix definitely grows & develops - though as judges noted certain portions do repeat, the second half features strong choral pads and different synth timbres from the first, and is thus distinct & distinguishable. In particular, the harder-edged synth around 3'30" are good stuff, a cut above just relying on yet more detuned meat-and-potato trance synth. Outside of overuse of reverb and maybe a bit too much detuning on the initial synth melody, in fact, this is really a good trance benchmark track, definitely above-average and featuring a second-half that doesn't just repeat the first with minor additions & subtractions but changes the game a bit more. I don't think anyone looking for Ultima Online trance would be disappointed, that's for dern sure, and as an arrangement it has its ups and downs but stands pretty strong on its own two feet in the end. If you already know you dig trance, this is likely to be one that you'll listen to quite often, as it's effective within its context. Strong.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the Good stuff. :-)
- OA on June 9, 2009
Interesting. It isn't as quite as energetic as my preconceptions of dance mixes want me to believe but it's still cool.
This is great stuff and a must download.
- 42 on January 20, 2009
However when my playlist randomly shuffled to this I was pleasantly surprised. One of my favorite melodies from Ultima that I haven't heard in over 10 years. I guess they re-used it in Ultima Online.
- LinearX on October 2, 2005
This is a great ReMix, hands down, just great.
- The Xyco on January 3, 2005
Kirk
- renesis on August 9, 2004
I hope you enjoy the remix.
- Ghetto Lee Lewis on August 9, 2004
I'd really like to hear it since I was one of the Ultima Online composers.
Thanks
Kirk
- renesis on August 6, 2004
I listened to this the other day while lifted and indeed i was taken "elsewhere".
I look forward to more mixes of this creative quality, no more 'techno' mixes that are basically a 4 to the floor kick and cheeseball synth playing a disgustingly happy melody (most good trance honestly is minor keys i think). Interestingly enough the other song on this site that i admire the beefy lead synth is also an Ultima remix, its the "gates of Creation" mix by potshot. The lead on this remix also is so thick and beautiful. Although probably unintended..the heavy reverb adds alot when layered behind it. On my system at home it makes for some great listening. It is probably a bit much to alot of people, I dont use that much personally, but i think on this song it doesnt hurt it at all. No...I wouldnt change much.
The other thing I like is that the song progresses alot more than your previous works, and also much more than other 'genre' music. In fact i would liken this more to psy or goa in that sense...anyway...to wrap up..um...
Great Mix! 9 out of 10.
- esden9 on March 19, 2003
- kidman2505 on March 8, 2003
- djcubez on March 6, 2003
The only criticsm I can think of is that some of elements in the begining sound like they're a little distant and possibly drowned out by the kinda ambient background part...I don't know jack about music so sorry if that's reverb-related. I think it might just be a volume issue.
Anyway, other than that very minor issue I think this is a great mix that really keeps things changing and interesting beyond the standard elements of trance. You have a really distinctive style that I happen to love. I still listen to Link Goes Clubbing almost daily...that kinda meandering lead is incredible, I'm not quite sure how to describe it. So anyway, great job on the UO mix, and keep up the great work, I haven't been disappointed by anything you've come out with.
- Prodigal Moon on March 5, 2003
Neb wrote: It sounds a lot like the Ultima 6: Gates of Creation remix by Potshot. There's more stuff on top of the sound, so it's harder hidden, but I swear, it's almost the same thing through a lot of it. It also goes a good deal faster.
This is not to say that it's a bad remix, not at all. Both remixes are great, really, really excellent.
Welllllll, it actually IS, but it isn't. More directly it's the same song as the one Suzumebachi remixed. WHICH, as you MOST LIKELY don't know, isn't a coincedence. But ya'see, when all of us were remixing "Create1" in #ocremix, no one knew it was from anywhere other then UO, because I had been the only one that ever had any Ultima appearence, and 6 wasn't one of them. But yes, they are the same song, and there's about umpteen million others. OCRE, injury, me, GLL, Carby, Suzu, PxFury, there was alot of'em
- Ramaniscence on March 4, 2003
