Liontamer

Conservative, but at least offering some different instrumentation from the original. Some of the sounds were thin and dated, but many of them held up alright. Russell Cox is definitely an old-school legend, so this one didn't even scratch the surface of what he'd eventually bring to the table.

I could have done without the cymbal crashes, which felt corny, but I otherwise enjoyed Tim's take here. Really captivating intro, and nice subtle usage of the wave SFX. The complete dropoff and pickup into the electric guitar synth was abrupt, so that should have been handled more smoothly. Good expansive ideas here, so while it shows its age, it's still ambitious for its day.

Great for speedy nighttime highway driving, BTW!

Always dug this one; possibly my favorite of Kris's for this bouncy, catchy groove. Love the bass kicks and love the mix!

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Yep, pretty thin stuff for the intro, though once the main verse comes in, the soundscape was more fleshed out. Agreed with others' criticisms on the drumwork feeling too static, then around 2:30 the soundscape was thin again. Nothing wrong with having dynamic contrast of course, but the less busy sections were more exposed. That said, pretty strong and ambitious for the earliest days of OCR in terms of putting more meat on the bones with the source tune and having it sound pretty solid; the guitar tone in particular was nice for its time.

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Yeah, just let me know in a DM what you have a question about, and we'll investigate it.

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AFAIK, message wasn’t sent to me or I would have gotten it. Gotted.

It says May.

The percussion during the verse sections sounded very basic and also had no presense, not cutting through the soundscape at all; for example, the drums just get buried around :16 after more elements came in. The mixing was very murky for the first 22 seconds. When the melody came in at :23, it cut through, but the soundscape was still very cluttered until the dropoff at 1:06. The timing of the synth at :49 was extremely stiff-sounding, as well as the lead. At 1:27, there were some added grace notes into the chorus section, but not much variation aside from that. Around 1:51, it sounded like the track looped aside from some understated accenting lines which were a good additional but didn't add much to the picture to stop this from feeling underdeveloped and repetitive as an interpretive arrangement. At 2:37, we finally reached another distinct section, and I was digging it. The drums cut through much better and added some movement to the music, and the little blips were a nice touch. The keyboard/computer sound combo at 2:58-3:14 sounded basic, but I can live with it. 3:14-'s brief section would have been a good moment to have some quick but meaningful variation with the writing before heading to your finish at 3:29. Nice sound to the final few seconds at 3:29. This does move in the right direction in terms of fleshing out the source tune, but overall it's too conservative, underdeveloped, repetitive, and lacking dynamic contrast for the first 2 1/2 minutes. The production/mixing also needed to be addressed so that the drumwork stood out more during the verses instead of fading into the background and not lending movement/energy to the piece. Feel free to try to rework this one some, Markus, but even if you don't, you show potential and I hope we hear more submissions from you. NO

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Since this is long dormant, as far as I can tell, I'm moving it back to Recruit & Collaborate. If @RECKENEFIN and/or @Hylian Lemon want to update the status, go for it. I'm looking at the thread and it's just not clear anywhere what was actually completed, so an update to the first post with that would be helpful. If someone else is willing to take it over, let folks know in the thread soon, but for all intents and purposes, it looks to be discontinued.

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