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Artist Name: Argle From the files of "shit I started 12 years ago, made significant progress on and never finished", this! I had it like 85% done back then and for some reason fumbled the ball. And then I got burnt out on music and never revisited it. But I'm actually glad that past me failed because I like this complete renovation even more than the original attempt. It's a sleepy lullaby of the Mabe Village theme, and I've made it even more relaxing than it used to be. Stuff like accordion and violin are fine instruments, but we can go sleepier. I wanted it to be like being wrapped in a warm blanket. An interesting challenge in this version was trying to create layers of percussion that added a subtle rhythmic drive without actually sticking out and drawing attention to itself, or ruining the vibe. I got to dig deep in sample libraries I've bought on a whim and never used. Ahem, not that I'm usually guilty of such reckless impulse buys! ..... Games & Sources Mabe Village -

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Artist Name: Seriance Hello there, hope you enjoy my submission. It's my first finished project in a while, so be nice lmao As far as references go, there's an adaptation of a theme song from the Pokemon anime around the 2:40 mark. You'll recognise it when you hear it:) Games & Sources Music: "Lake" Composer: Go Ichinose Game: Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Pearl

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Artist Name: RebeccaETripp This is the end of my Zelda Sky Themes Medley, with winds performed by Steven Higbee, Brooke Ferd, and Gamer of the Winds. I wanted this finale to feel weightless. While all the themes in the medley involved flight, heights, wind, or heavenly contemplation, by this end, I hope the listener has mastered the art of flight! Games & Sources 0:00 Sky Islands Low Gravity (TotK) 1:40 Skydiving (TotK) 2:54 The Skies (SS) 4:20 Island in the Sky (SS) 5:18 Cuckoo Shack (LA) 6:10 Flute Boy (LttP)

Artist Name: Pipko Fanfare This was my attempt to turn "Castle of the Dhaos" into the high intensity progressive metal track it always felt to me like it wanted to be, despite the trumpets and accordion in the original. Alternate title: "Dastle of the Dhaos" because if just changing the first letter is enough for Dhaos (and Eragon, etc) then it's good enough for me! Games & Sources "Castle of the Dhaos" by Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura, from "Tales of Phantasia" (SNES)

Original Decision Artist Name: Audiomancer, Aka Eric This is a resubmission of this tune. One of the judges said something about why I don't play the flute live, and that's because I have zero quiet time to myself. The only reason I was able to sample myself is because I got out of work 15 minutes early one day, and rushed home to use that 15 minutes to record myself real fast to make my Directwave instrument. I wish I could, my live playing is (I think;) at least a bit better than this stopgap solution, but it is what it is. I lowered most of the levels across the board, especially on the flute and low brass...and part of the melody I changed to a trumpet to add some variation. I also tamed the saturation automation on the flute as well. I increased the volume on the strings, however. I also did a bit of sidechaining of the flute to the high mids of the backing elements to make room without increasing volume. I shared a revision on Discord earlier, but a huge spot of distortion showed up.... even though it wasn't audible in any other context besides played through Discord. In either case, I still altered this version slightly, I think I improved the balance even more:) As always, I appreciate the feedback and time taken in reviewing submissions!:-D Games & Sources Final Fantasy 6, Forever Rachel.

Artist Name: Kyaku I try to remix from games that I have spent some significant time playing as my own little somewhat silly homage, a nod to the enjoyment they provided me. Stardew Valley was definitely one of those games and this winter track was one of my favorites. More quiet and subdued compared to a lot of the other seasonal sounds, it felt like it captured fairly accurately that meditative, muted feeling that you get after being blanketed in heavy snowfall. But of course, I’m addicted to synth wave still so let’s just turn it all upside down and here we are! Games & Sources Stardew Valley - The Wind Can Be Still

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2. Ownership 1. Your submission must be your own, original arrangement. 4. Arrangement 2. Your arrangement must be substantial and original. Submissions must be different enough from the source material to clearly illustrate the contributions, modifications, and enhancements you have made. Acceptable arrangement often involves more than one of the following techniques: Modifying the genre, chord progression, instrumentation, rhythms, dynamics, tempo, or overall composition of the source material Adding original solos, transitions, harmonies, counter-melodies, lyrics, or vocals to the source material Taking the original game audio and simply adding drum loops or using an existing MIDI file and assigning new instruments does not qualify as substantial or original arrangement. --------------------------------- Quoting the relevant parts of the Submission Standards above: I'll quote myself from one ReMix we posted that was heavy on sampling the original audio: In that case, I'd argue the treatment of the sampled music was also different enough via the effects to at least create the impression that it wasn't directly sampled, in other words more substantially transformative from a sound design level. This submission only partially went in that direction. There is some arrangement of "Church" as well with some rhythmic similarities, but it's much more of a straightforward and traditional remix rather than an arrangement, combined with some original writing sections (e.g. 1:03-1:34) that fit very well with the Zelda sampling. There's nothing inherently wrong with all that, but it's not transformative enough for our Submission Standards, IMO. Great piece regardless, Goodman; you have great taste in instrumentation and sound design, and the track was nicely mixed! I hope you'd be willing to submit either a full-on arrangement (or much more substantially modified/transformed remix) of some VGM in the future. :-) NO

Right from the rip, it sounds like it'll be good. Guitars at :37 are nice and menacing and the texture, though cramped, sounds totally purposeful (and more importantly, clear enough despite the volume). So subtle, but the static fizz at 2:18 as a pause/transition was a nice touch. Good cameo of the healing theme at 2:53, a VERY brief moment of respite. ¡Olé! at 3:23! :-D More healing at 4:10 was a cool touch, and I liked the kicks feeling like a heartbeat until 4:29; beautiful transition into TheManPF's guitar underneath the lead, by the way. Energy picked back up at 5:02 and was sounded crowded again until the finish at 6:25, but I'll live. Great source tune choices; that theme's STRESSFUL. Diggin' it! :-) YES

I never heard the first version, so I'm coming in clean. Dunno what it was previously lacking, but it's cohesive enough to me right now. At :13, the supporting guitar feels so quiet relative to the lead and drums, and the bassline's not cutting through as well as it should. That said, the overall presentation's cool for sure and I'm digging the arrangement. Didn't need the SFX at 1:24, but it's something there to add lil' herbs and spices, so I'll live. From 1:25-1:49, the drums feel like a plodding drag on this and the mallet perc's so quiet that it's effectively not contributing much, really from 1:37-1:49. Anyway, it's a brief thing and not enough to pull this below the line. To me, this is getting more right than wrong, and it's really just some mixing issues that are undermining this to some extent. Is it anything making me say hold this back though? Naw. The mixing could stand to be tweaked so that the guitars don't sound so distant, and the drums should have been more interesting in places (2:38-3:01 was another plodding area as well, both the drums and also the mallet timing), but the overall instrumentation, energy, and performances are excellent. :-) If this somehow doesn't make it as is, it's still got a spot here waiting for it, so stay in a positive mindset. Nice job, folks! YES

Oooooh wow, the main verse of this Triple Deluxe source definitely sounds like Nintendo invited Knower to write something for them, this is cool! :-D Kick at :11's too much, then at :19, there's low-end part-writing that's adding clutter and I had to throw on a control track to ensure my setup wasn't messed up. The mixing's nothing dragging this below the bar, but it's needlessly messy and preventing this from sounding its best. The soloing over the bass riff arrangement was cool, though the bass riffing was getting buried from 1:39-2:05, so it might as well not have been there. Brilliant textural change at 2:24, that was beautiful and ended up being quite a shift until 2:51. The little ornamentation notes at 3:12 to close it didn't sound quite right to resolve this, but no big deal. Smart stuff throughout, I just wish it had another mixing pass though, because it deserves it. Great energy per Wake's impressive standard. :-) YES

What a weird source. Vocal mixing didn't seem quite right at 2:33-2:58; it felt like the highs of the track were cut and TheManPF's voice cut through too much relative to EK's, BUT they do combine well (maybe just "Dance" by PF needs to be softened?); that said, no big deal in the big picture. I just don't hear any major issues, and the arrangement's on point. Some sort of pop around 4:04 that I wish wasn't there, but it's just a minor speedbump. Even the sequenced strings are mixed relatively well and occupy a solid space in the texture. Great job by TheManPF involving Earth Kid with the vocals to provide a new dimension to the presentation of the lyrics. The instrumentation overall was awesome as well, with the only thing giving me any sort of pause was the lack of sharpness to the track, but again, nothing at all even threatening a NO. I've been on the opposite side of hundreds of approvals, so I'm used to being the bad guy; that said, I'm genuinely shocked at this split. Turning this down would be making the perfect the enemy of the good in a major way. My bar always involves asking the question "If the source files were gone and this couldn't be revised, would I take this?" On the seesaw of what's right vs. what's wrong, it's hugely tilted to this being oh so right. Awesome source choices, strong performances, solid instrumentation choices, this is cool as hell. YES

TIL I'm responsible for sharing all good music in the scene. :-D