Original Decision
Artist Name: Worlder
I really wish the Audio File upload would work for me Dx
I am again submitting this Electronic/Rock remix of Team Rocket Hideout Theme from Pokemon Red. It has of course, been changed a lot, although it is not a total rehaul of the instrumentation or anything like that.
As mentioned in the original upload, this was heavily breakbeat influenced and also some techno/electronic music composition techni9ues have been used as well. Building intensity on the stacatto-played guitar part that references the main melody of the original theme (0:00-0:20) was the key idea here. Way back when originally writing this there were ideas for more parts, but the resulting structure at 4 minutes length seems solid to me and so I did not want to add more parts to what I already had as I felt it would just waste time or be messy. The timbre of the synth that comes in at 3:23 is also meant to vaguely reference walking around with a poisoned Pokemon, which you could expect to happen in the game area that this tune plays.
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This is a resubmission, and so I must thank the OCRemix staff for the feedback on my earlier upload of this track. It can't be overstated how helpful and yet succinct the feedback was. There was some clean advice, and some of it was so obvious that I can't say what I was thinking.
I think there are some good use of pans in this song, but retroactively I am unable to explain why the "solo guitar" section was completely panned.
It should be easy to avoid such mistakes in future submissions. There were other pans that I brought in to be less wide as well.
Apart from changes that directly address Pan/Dryness/Kick Drum, some changes to guitar tone and reverb have come with decisions to welcome a bit of difference in feel.
Most notably, the section from 0:38-0:58 previously was where the energy kicked in more but still did not have a full sound. I feel now that the sound is full, and now feels like it is a "restrained" - for lack of a better word - until the next section.
The guitar is more clear yet it is also more distant from the listener, so it's a pretty different texture here.
If anyone who saw the original was wondering why this resubmission took so long - I lost all my MIDIs and had to rebuild the library. It was only a tiny bit painful.
Anyway, the arrangement breakdown here should cover what needs to be said.
Arrangement Breakdown: (Referring to timestamps in the video uploaded above)
0:00-0:20 - Stacatto type version of the opening melody in th source tune with a kind of "Spy Movie" type thing going on in the bass.
0:20-0:38 - To me what is kind of old school techno technique, repeating a small portion of the melody as a build up.
0:38-0:58 - End of the "intro" - this is referencing the same part of the original theme, but the music has become more filled in.
0:58-1:14 - This is a direct reference to the section of the original theme that plays 0:23-0:28 in.
Instead of playing the turnaround that normally ends the progression each repeat, it's been combined with notes referencing the opening melody.
1:14-1:17 - This is 0:31 to 0:35 of the original theme.
1:17-1:43 - Turns 0:35 to 0:42 from the original theme into a repeating groove. Dynamics are carried by the drums here, in fact alternations in the drum patterns would be the primary tool to keep dynamics fresh throughout the song.
1:43-1:56 - This is 0:31 to 0:35 of the original theme.
1:56-2:32 - Fulfills the same dynamic as the section from 0:42 to 0:57 of the original theme without directly referencing it. It is sparse in the same way and precedes the song building up its intensity again.
My remix is supposed feature the same elements of the original themes structure while also utilizing building grooves so that you get a chance to dance, and this is fulfilled primarily in these ending sections
2:32-2:38 - This melody is the bass line that the original theme instates from 0:42 to 0:50. Continuing until 3:03, where a synth lead line is introduced, which is referencing the bass line of the source tunes opening melody (or at the end theme, before it repeats, it can be heard on its own)
These instruments work together and continue to build until 3:35
3:35-4:17 Reprise of the stacatto-ified opening melody of the original theme. Tasty 7th chord, end.
Thanks for listening
Games & Sources
Team Rocket Hideout theme from Pokemon Red Version
A biting aggressive track from the original Pokemon games with some dynamic softer sections.
Arrangement Breakdown: (Link to Original theme for timestamps)
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