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AeroZ, you are a master of taking your songs to new levels of creativity while still keeping them accessible and not too weird. It satisfies my craving for unique, unconventional blends of musical styles, but I've also passed this song around to a few friends that have more mainstream, traditional tastes and they've loved it, too. That's quite a testament to your musical vision and ability

Definitely what I've come to expect from VHD with the dry orchestral sound, but I think this takes it to another level, arrangement-wise. I don't really make it a secret that I've kind of gotten burned out when it comes to straight orchestral arrangements, so I'm not easily impressed when it comes to this genre. However, your unique style and dynamic arrangements really hit the spot for me. This is one of my favorite songs from the FF4 album, it's clear that you put a lot of effort into this song and it paid off in a big way!

The piano was definitely the highlight of this mix for me. It wasn't bad up until then, but that particular instrument gave the song a much-needed boost for me. Not my favorite from Prot, but this one's got its charms nonetheless

Bahahaha, I can't wait to hear Battle for the Badge in its entirety. That's gonna be so badass

Pretty mellow and low key, but as far as orchestral goes this isn't bad I love how this contrasts your other contribution to the album, they work so well together! I'm always amazed at what you do with free samples, that's really pretty inspirational for aspiring mixers like me that have no money whatsoever

By the way, the Aplus mirror leads to a broken link. I'm having the same problem with "Step into the Light" as well.

Oh, thanks! That's good to hear You mean this? http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01796/

That's what it says on the VGMDB entry that Liontamer posted, anyway. Maybe that's just a placeholder.

Whaaat? It's not coming out until October 20th? Seriously? I'm so impatient. blah.

Nice soundscape - the drums give a lot of much-needed momentum to an otherwise-chill song. I really do love ambient songs with a fluid, moving drumline like the one you've got going here Your choice of lead wasn't the strongest point of the song, but I didn't find it particularly offensive either. It contributed to the mood that you'd established, so in that sense I think you were pretty successful. This song helps me relax, and I'd imagine that's exactly what you intended to do with this song, so good work!

Well, there's times when I get a bit annoyed with the constantly looping melody in the beginning and end of the song (maybe because it's panned so far to one ear) but for some reason there's something strangely enjoyable about it at the same time. I'm not really sure what I think about that, honestly Overall, though, I like the sounds you've used and your buildups and breakdowns are executed very tastefully. Good work, I'm glad this got posted! You don't see this kind of music getting posted as frequently these days, so it's a nice treat when a song like this makes it up on the front page

I always assumed it was a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue

Hah, you should have kept it what it was at to make the release even more surprising for people who haven't read the whole thread

And conform to the social pressure to add vocals to their songs, too.

You can count me in on the IRC listening party, but I proooobably won't be flying out from Arizona to meet up over there. Unless there's some Mesa, AZ area OCR people that want to meet up somewhere and have a listening party, I'd be down with that

This is a trend I've noticed with a lot of diehard fans of a certain series - anything that deviates too much from the original source melody or genre is not usually well-received. I saw this happen a lot with Project Chaos, too. It's unfortunate, but in the end it's their own taste so there's not much point worrying about it :\

Wow, did another project track get leaked onto Dwelling of Duels... again? I've heard 5 full tracks released now and one almost-finished one... that's a sixth of the project. I'm really getting the feeling that, between all of the leaked tracks and the massive preview tracks that I'll have heard the whole project before it's even out

Good lord! I'll take three!

Jade:

I love all the glitchy, spastic effects you've got going on in the background. The chiptune cameo popped in literally just as I was about to write "it's weird hearing a halc song without that chiptune " Seriously, the difference in instruments feels very natural, and I can still feel your style coming through in the arrangement

Just get Monobrow on your project, and chances are Prot will follow along That's the way it's been with both SoS and FF4 I'm really impressed at the star power you've hooked up for this project! I'm always amazed at how promising these new projects look just based on their tracklists! I hope this all pans out

Lots of fun, massive, and a nice energetic romp all around. I don't get the OWA feel from this mix except for a few parts, but I'm not that familiar with the source so that's probably my fault. I like what you've done here!

I finally got around to listening to this one all the way through today It's one of the only album projects I have not checked out in full yet. I enjoy a huge number of singles off this album; chthonic, Hetcenus, Danny B, house, and of course Snappleman all contributed some very memorable tracks

Well, I absolutely LOVED the last Aquatic Ambiance remix that came out of Sweden (<3 Johann Krafft!) so this has a high bar set for it already... Wonderful introduction, the soundscape was beautiful and it really set up for what you guys did with the rest of the song. There's definite "moments of brilliance" throughout the song that, unfortunately, aren't always accented by the mixing. The lead guitar in the latter half, in particular, was drowned out and it felt like that wonderful soloing was buried as just another rhythm track I definitely think that deserves more attention in the song. Still, you captured the atmosphere of the original while still giving it your own feel, and it's one of the best sources out there, so kudos on both ends! The actual arrangement is a bit bipolar (if you'll forgive the poor analogy) - with two exceptions, every Aquatic Ambiance mix I've ever heard uses the source almost verbatim, and I think the parts of this mix that rely on the original melody experience the same shortfall. That's not to say it's not enjoyable, but it's a recurring issue that I've noticed with Aquatic Ambiance mixes in general and I wanted to bring it up anyway. The soloing and the piano, while they're mostly "inspired" by the source than actually derived from it, give the melody a lot of much-needed flair. This mix doesn't topple Vigilante's epic rendition from Kong in Concert, but it's definitely up there with the best. Great job on the first submission, I look forward to hearing more in the future!