I find it rather odd that nobody has picked up one of the most glaring points about this remix...which is that for the most part this is just the original vocals overlapped with a thin, empty sounding bongo drum loop (if you REALLY want to split hairs, youd bring up the fact that now the lyrics make no real sense)
There are some occasional countermelodies (while they are dissonant, it was pulled off semi-well, so I wont comment further on those) but they didnt really go with the main melody....especially the part at the end when the oboe comes in and plays along with the melody going into some riffs which sound like the scale of G-Minor or the traditional music from Egypt and the surrounding area
Towards the end there's some arpeggios (which would have been a chance to sneak in the prelude, by the way...just to show 'em ) and while I appreciate their being on a square wave I find myself asking why.
To me it was like putting a slammin ukelele solo in the middle of a death metal track...entirely the wrong voice to have used since it bears no relation to anything else that was used in the track.
The track is also too...flat? Lacking in progression?
Yeah, lacking in progression...thats a good term, I guess.
What I mean is, the track doesnt change at all...all five minutes of it are the same choir with bongos and the occasional scale in the background.
What we have here is OCRs longest intro to a remix. I say that, because all 5 minutes are an introduction to a greater tune...an impression I also get from the 'ending' to this one which ends on sort of a "....oh" note, rather than the "YEAH!" note that the original ended on and that anything which attempts to emulate it should also end on.
While it isnt a bad track in the way that you can't listen to it for more than a minute...
It's a bad track in the fact that its dull, unoriginal and goes nowhere.
That said, people seem to like it....so I guess its good for certain people.