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Ah, this is transcendent. I remember being enamored with the port theme, a surprisingly well developed theme for a brief step of the Terranigma journey. Thank you both for making this tribute.

I rather like the concept, and would love to hear a full-blown trap adaptation of Maridia. 

Do love me some choir work. This is pretty cool, gotta say. I'm getting a kinda odd sensation from the altos during the first half of the song, an EQ issue I think. I wish I knew more about equalizing to help you here, but it disappears for the last quarter of the piece. Still, this is neat, good work.

I dig the quality behind this beat - it's a fair mixdown, the palette is very fun, and the effect work is very engaging.  With a very minimal source tune, you also did well in adding more layers and some minor interpretation before going into the theme properly.  I did, however, spot two things wrong with the bass - as said, there's the hard compression which makes the attacks sound too soft, and on top of that, I feel it's a touch too loud.  Weakening the compression is a necessity, though consider playing around with its levels and seeing what you can get out of it. However, the arrangement needs a lot more.  As of right now, the 0:11-1:14 first groove got repeated twice with no variation at all.  That's just over two minutes of redundant cut-and-paste content, leaving a lot of room to change things up further.  The suggestions of changing textures, bringing in rapping, or melody switch-ups are already great ideas.  I also favor playing with the melody itself and the potential to present it in another way, with the use of grace notes, pitch-shifting, adding countermelodies, and the like.  I can also suggest cutting the loops down from 2 to 3 if you're struggling to do much with it, but consider it a last resort move. As of right now, it's fun to listen to in a vacuum.  The over-powered bass should be a quick one to experiment with, but the arrangement needs more work.  See what you can do with that 2-minute gap to change things up from the first variation, as well as slack the bass's volume/compression.  You got potential, for sure. NO (resubmit)

voted.  That was one of the tougher votes.  Nevertheless, it's worth the effort when I score a 5 entry round Thanks guys!