Eino Keskitalo   Members

Cool to see this game getting remixed! Love the first riff on the guitar & the flanged syncopated beat on the background. I get a really good 90s vibe from that, like Apollo 440's Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub with the Van Halen sample.. anyway! Great opening and lots of promise. It feels that the next section with the piano melody lacks energy a bit.. it's like the guitar riff is too loud and attention-demanding for just yet in this part of the song. Giving a bit more spotlight to the melody, and then brining up the guitar might work for better flow. I don't think there's anything wrong with the riff itself but with the overall flow of the piece. Take time to develop! The faster riff behind the same part later on works well. I hope I can listen and comment again when you have more of the arrangement done! --Eino

I'm thinking of Mischievous Robot from Cave Story, it's a source I've wanted to do for some time and this would be a good excuse. It's from a round before I discovered PRC though, so I might still switch if I realize there's some source I really wanted to do but couldn't participate at the time. This is really the opportunity to do just that! --Eino

Wow, that's quite a source there eatacay, I'm looking forward to hearing what you come up with! HOMM series often gets cited for good music, I also remember a friend playing some tunes from HOMM3 (if I recall correctly) to me just to show it was good stuff. Thanks also for the offer Orangedragan. Keep that offer in mind folks! I just won PRC round 249, and I'm picking a tune from a classic, classic PC game. It won't appear until round 251 though (and I'll post again revealing the pick once the round starts). PRC250 is a special round, where you can mix a tune from any of the previous competitions. Plenty of classic PC soundtracks are featured in that list! Check it out! --Eino

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I agree the snare's too loud, heh. I plan to keep working on this one for eventual OCR submission. I've sent my pick for PRC251 to Bundeslang. Looking forward to that round! --Eino

This is a pretty cool concept for a round! I hope there's plenty of participation, the result could get really varied. --Eino

On time this time! --Eino

Incidentally, the game's on 50% sale for a few days: http://ftlgame.com --Eino

I have 30 seconds done and I'm really enjoying making this one. Trying to kind of go back to basics. Lots of time left, this should be fun! --Eino

I did get it now, the recent 75% off sale was a steal. Just beat it on easy, crew teleporter for boarding the enemy vessels was a lot of fun. In the end I had the starting burst laser, a breaching teleport missile weapon, an ion teleport missile weapon and the 4-costing beam. The breach missile was pretty good for softening the enemy crew before boarding. Not sure how the boarding strategy works on normal, I'm kind of trying to resist playing more for now. Very much enjoying the soundtrack! --Eino

Man, this soundtrack is super cool. --Eino

Good critiques, I agree with pretty much everyone! I had too little time for my ambitions, but there's things I could've done better in the time I had and the comments really help point those out. I do need to learn to work faster anyway! Bundeslang, I really appreciate that graph! Thanks for all the amazing effort you put into organizing the competition round after round. --Eino

Gets a bit too loud, even farty at the end But this style certainly works for the source! Very cool to hear this take too - glad you posted it! --Eino

Phew! thankyouthankyouthankyou. For the record, I spent 15 minutes of the extension adding bass to the second half.. and 30 minutes of biting nails and watching progress bars and what not. I really must start taking that stuff into account when approaching deadlines. --Eino

edit: Ah, scratch that - thank you for the whole hour extension! Curse my metallic body, I was too slow! --Eino

5 min extension plz?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/age-of-empires/credits gives David and Stephen Rippy the music credits. vgmdb seems to have a tracklisting from a compilation OST: http://vgmdb.net/album/1697 (and more musician credits) Maybe it's on that, maybe that info can help looking it up? cheers! --Eino

Well I have a midi rip thing done, perhaps I'll have a chance to go from there before the deadline! --Eino

Yeah, the libraries are piss cheap and all the demos I've heard sound great (take Ragol Weather). I'll be picking up some percussions later for sure. I also used the free cinematic synth drum sample pack on my latest PRC. So, good stuff, definitely entering. --Eino

There's definitely nothing stylistically wrong with the vocals for me. Somehow they just come off as not well enough performed, as if the melody was too low for the singer. Or maybe they stick out from the mix in some awkward way. Perhaps they come in a little unexpected. The more I listen to the piece less it bothers me. I like how brief this piece is - it makes me want to listen to it several times! (: --Eino

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