Eino Keskitalo

This is just so incredibly well done in terms of both the artistic scope and production quality, not to mention the excellent performances. I just hope this piece alone doesn't nudge the OCR bar upwards so that we mere mortals still have a chance.. --Eino

Really impressive use of the source material, it's clearly recognizable but I don't remember it been used this way, slowed down and forming a solid basis for an electro-pop song. I especially love the airy vocals! On the downside, I don't find the male vocals quite up to par, and the bass drum is pumping the rest of the mix uncomfortably. I don't think the piece is dragged down by these points though, and the unexpected but natural arrangement is something to raise your hat to. edit: I'll add that on the second Leitbur track of the album, the male vocals are spot-on, although the bass drum is again quite uncomfortable. I'm pretty happy to hear another track immediately! --Eino

What did I think? I thought wow. Genre-defying stuff, very fragmented, constantly shifting.. combination of sounds is quite unusual, many points of comparison come to mind (American minimalism for one*).. reminds me also of some classic Shnabubula tracks, which can never be a bad thing. I do think the mixing seemed pretty bright/loud, I had to turn the volume down while listening to the album in sequence for this track. I can live with that, this was a surprising and exciting track, I'm looking forward to listening to this again and again. edit: * lavosslayer thought in the album review thread that Inner Universe by Origa came to mind and I have to agree! --Eino

I liked the PRC version quite a bit so I'm looking forward to the update! --Eino

Congrats Esperado! I dug your track. Pick a good one! (: Thanks for the great feedback everyone. Lots of good points! I've already worked on my track a bit more, and plan to work it to OCR submission eventually.. which will take me 2+ years, but it's on the way! (: I'll also say here, since I didn't write a track description, that I used Impact Soundworks' free Cinematic Synthetic Drums and Timaeus' free Just Plain Glitched sample pack. --Eino

The vote has been saved Nice round everyone! --Eino

Awesome! Gogogo! I for one am very much looking forward to hearing this thing. Ouch. That really sounds painful. :/ Hope it gets better. Congrats Riversound! --Eino

just made it! ^____^ --Eino

Very nice drums. Going to add to the choir and agree that the piano could've been a little louder in relation to them. The atmospheric pads & the static noise intro are really great. The harmonic explorations in the end felt a bit undercooked - they were by no means unwelcome, but the shift to major feel was a bit surprising.. which can be a good thing, but then the piece didn't develop further. I was definitely expecting the piece to explore this variation more thoroughly. I do note that Emunator seemed to appreciate the ending in his judging call. For me it would've worked better as a whole without the coda. Regardless, it did work as a whole for me. Very enjoyable mood, dark mood! --Eino

I've started something, feels good to be back to PRC. --Eino

Hey, cool to see you have a C64 setup with MSSIAH going, I recently got a C64 and am planning to get MSSIAH eventually. The sound packs seem cool, but I don't have compatible software so I can't check them out. --Eino

Heh, Megatokyo has been running for quite some time, hasn't it? I used to read it something like a decade ago.. sounds like a fun gig! Congrats on making the goal (and 50% more) already! --Eino

I think you've gotten lots of great production comments so I'll skip those. This sounds familiar, I probably listened to the PRC version but I'm not sure if I gave any comments. I seem to recall this has come a long way. You have an interesting sound, combining metal/hard rock, synthy synth sequencing and folksy flute. I don't think I hear a piece in this vein too often (though I'm not a metal afficionado). I thought the sound 0:20-0:35 was quite well done. I would mostly critique the flow of the piece. Despite what I said above about the 0:20-0:35 section, the piece might get going better if that was skipped and it went straight into the next section with the faster beat. It kind of feels like the piece has two intros after another. The fill at 0:37 seems out of place, I notice that in this part you have fills at the end of the second bar instead of the fourth (per four bars) which is interesting but the first one feels out of place, too soon. I'm not sure if the rest of the fills would feel awkward if the first one was removed, but it's worth a try. The same with the fill at 2:36, it just seems to break the energy the piece just gained by accelerating the beat. On the other hand, some of the pacing of the piece is quite excellent, I really like the easing into synthy stuff, and picking it up again around 1:10-1:40. I thought Brandon's point about leaving breathing room for the flute was excellent. The flute is a bit static also velocity-wise, and it feels a bit like you hear the same flute riff again and again throughout the song. It draws attention from the amount of detail/variation present in the backing track. This is probably the third thing that affects my overall perception of the flow of the piece. You could do more there! More dynamic velocities, little trills, mixing it lower sometimes and bringing some background lead up more prominently - I know nothing about sequencing such an instrument but those are some of the ideas I'd try. I'll say though, excellent counterpoint/alternate melody/whatchamacallit at 1:57 & 2:05! That adds a lot. Pretty critical there but there's a lot of potential here, it's already an interesting track and could get very impressive! Good going! --Eino

That's a pretty neat track right there. (It's also from a DS game, not 3DS!) I'll think of something. --Eino

This sounds frankly great, that's a very generous offer! I have some tracks in the pipeline, but none finished enough right now, unfortunately. --Eino

This is an incredible thing to do. The audio quality is indeed pretty bad, but not worse than some other live recordings I've enjoyed. Energetic playing, nice to hear some jazz rock flute action. Now the only thing that's lacking is me being a fan of Pokemon, and really knowing the sources/arrangements, but looking forward to the video anyway! --Eino

Gogogo! Cover looks great as well! --Eino

Loved this one. Nice and moody. Quite inspiring actually. Excellent, deliberate pacing. --Eino

This got noed with source and some production crits, but I certainly would love to see it on the front page, and I wouldn't mind to hear another version myself (with, indeed, more ties to the original - which I'm obviously fond of, else I wouldn't have selected it as a source for the PRC round - thanks again for covering it!), so I hope you give it another iteration OneUp! --Eino

I'm uploading! edit: Great to see all those tracks coming together.. I gather there's not just one, but two mixes done on the final open track? That's so cool. --Eino

Almost done editing the guitars, then into mixing! --Eino

Ah, I didn't realise this went by already.. oh well! Future rounds then! --Eino

Good going! I keep looking forward to hearing this! --Eino