ReMix: Lost Odyssey 'Ubon Orih, Latrom Mieht'
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- Game: Lost Odyssey (Microsoft, 2007, XB360)
- ReMixer(s): Another Soundscape, Skrypnyk
- Composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu
- Song(s): 'Battlefield'
- Posted: 2009-08-31, evaluated by djpretzel
What's this? AnSo + Skrypnyk collab!? Our first Xbox 360 ReMix? And from Uematsu's score to Lost Odyssey, no less?? Yes, yes, and... yes. The man with two umlauts in his middle name, Mattias Häggström Gerdt, writes:
"I really enjoyed Lost Odyssey. I think Mr. Sakaguchi's still got it, the art direction was fantastic and the music some of Uematsu's best. Obviously I wanted to give it some creds by remixing it. I started doing some quirky electronica but couldn't for the life of me do a drum track that worked. Since it's a widely recognized fact that a certain Andrew Skrypnyk enjoys drums I thought I'd collaborate with him, sharing the drums like a kid after a divorce, 50% each. The concept became to do a sort of "drum battle" with us switching who's doing drums every section. For anyone that cares and likes to keep track, Skrypnyk did the first one and then every other one, I did the second one and.. well you get it. Then Skrypnyk sprinkled some of his magic on the arrangement too and here we are, a collaborative arrangement of Battlefield from Lost Odyssey."
Skryp adds:
"i liek drumz :3"
And AnSo finishes with:
"I also enjoy percussive elements and feel happy about stating that."
... and there you have it: scintillating revelations of percussive lust, right here on OCR. There's melody in this mix, to be sure, but it's clearly a drum-packed, rhythm-oriented arrangement, replete with elite feats of beat. Most of the variation from phrase to phrase involves changing up the rhythms, mutating the accompaniment for the simple, graceful lead motif with kicks, snares, hats, and plenty of less-identifiable bits. The final minute gets more elaborate, melodically and structurally, with an additional motif that adds some refreshing chromaticism; dig the held + bent-downwards ending. And the mix title? I looked up Mattias on IRC, where he was idling while drinking scotch and playing HoN... he explained that it's NOT actually Klingon for "That's what SHE said," but rather spells out "The Immortal Hironobu" - backwards. Edews Yzarc! I'll admit I find ReMixing fully-produced, modern game soundtracks much more challenging, since there's so much already THERE from a production standpoint, but I like the approach AnSo and Skryp took with keeping the melody simple and going crazy with the drums. Great, fun mix with very elaborate percussive showmanship from Mattias and Andrew!
Discussion: Latest 12 comments/reviews; view the Very interesting interpretation of Battlefield we got here. It's too electronic for my tastes (considering who we have collaborating here) but it's done well. My criticism is that there's just too much going on it's hard to get the source on your first couple of listens. Upon listening closer, the lead sound is a variation of the Lost Odyssey main motif (which is used in the original Battlefield). So that slight variation in addition to the drum work and electronica masks the source tune for me. Additionally, I don't think you used enough of "Battlefield" in the first place. The original track is extremely dynamic in structure, but the remix uses only a part of a source that's repeated for about 2 minutes. There's another part of Battlefield used towards the end as well. So in essence, the dynamic feel of the original is somewhat lost here...replaced with some repetitiveness in the first half of the remix. I do like the fact that some of the electronic samples of the remix remind me of what was used in other Lost Odyssey tracks (like the Capital of Uhra).
Everyone's praising the drums, which is the highlight of the remix...I feel the same way too. Great stuff. Again, it's hard to appreciate the drum work at first because there's too much going on. Perhaps if the percussion was highlighted a bit more (more volume than the electronica). For me though, I loved that breakdown at 2:30. Definitely another highlight here. It gets good after that part too.
In short, I feel that the other parts of the remix were underdeveloped in terms of structure in favor of some very solid percussion work. Either way, keep up the good work people. We need more Lost Odyssey music. Epsylon Range, anyone? I'd like to see a Sixto/AnSo/Skryp collab on that one!!
- SwordBreaker on September 27, 2009
halc;585566 wrote: simply fantastic. the bells are certainly one of anso's signature sounds :-P
Just like the drumwork made it obvious that skrypnyk was involved in this remix, the bells were what made me realize that this is also AnSo's work.
Loving the faster sections from 2:04 to 2:30 and 2:52 to 3:11. We need more stuff like this.
The following section, i.e. 3:11 onwards, really shows that this Uematsu-stuff; quite reminiscent of FF.
- Martin Penwald on September 26, 2009
The source melody is pretty basic, but I think if a more involved source was chosen, there wouldn't be enough room for all the percussive inventiveness. There's a lot of bass stuff I imagine happening, like some cool drops and dives, but unfortunately, it's only in my imagination.
Anyways, great percussive battle! Fight on, my brothers!
- OA on September 24, 2009
- JaDE ARaN HaRuNo on September 24, 2009
The direction taken on this piece is kinda quirky though. I sort of think of a cyberpunkish setting with this song with the drums, synth, and fake guitars (?).
- Bahamut on September 9, 2009
- DragonAvenger on September 1, 2009
You'll have to forgive my simplistic criticism, it's early in the morning and I've only had about 4-5 hours of sleep. :3
- Shhteve on September 1, 2009
- halc on August 31, 2009
- Oinkness on August 31, 2009
Stellar work guys, I'm sure I'll be able to listen to this one on repeat for ages and find something new and cool about the song with each listen :-)
- Emunator on August 31, 2009
Keep it up with the awesome electronica!
- HitoriJaNai on August 31, 2009
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