Eino Keskitalo   Members

I was lucky to be able to submit too. Four entires already! --Eino

You also get the games for Windows, Linux and Mac as before. I grabbed the bundle for World of Goo, I already have Osmos from a previous bundle (it was a bonus game), the other games looked good too. As usual, I'll probably check out the soundtracks soon and play the games in 21 years or so. That said I did manage to find the 3.5 hours for VVVVVV these few past weeks, and am now playing Cave Story+ on hard at the rate of about 1-3 save points per session.. yay for frequent save points. --Eino

Dj Mokram, you make me cry again. With joy. Damn it, I have to find time to do this round too, no excuses. edit: Well, it's not my favourite theme from the game, but this and Castle of Illusion are my favourite Master System games. edit's edit: There are a lot of parts in the piece that you can do just about anything with. I'll try to twist this into a darker piece, but we'll see how that goes (usually the idea I start with goes out of the window pretty soon. My previous round's entry started with an idea to do a (chip) prog piece). --Eino

Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to your custom avatars. --Eino

Just a quick note or few. In this revision, I have absolutely zero complaints about the structure, it develops well. Lots of fun things happening. I love the feel of the piece. About the bridge of the source (assuming it's the part that starts at 00:43), it's not well written as a whole, pretty muddy. But the bassline of it is nice. You could use that and write your own harmony and melody over it. The shift upwards in the source you mention isn't bad either. I'll say it again, more apparent source usage would be nice (in the OCR context), the source only really becomes apparent at 01:05. I still think you could throw that bass fill from 0:18-0:19 in somewhere, such as around 0:47 in the arrangement. I think that'd tie down the (beautiful!) first portion of the mix into the source a little bit more. I think I was the only one of the commentators who enjoyed the source, and I still think it's cool, can be rearranged in a cool way like you are doing. Good going! --Eino

I have voted today as well. Not only in the second round of Finnish presidential elections, but also 210th round of People's ReMixing Competition. Vote! --Eino

Cool to see this support and activity! Silpheed has a great soundtrack, at least the couple of first songs. But it's really not a PC soundtrack, but a PC-8801 soundtrack. The MS-DOS version is a port. Another similar case and a thoroughly great soundtrack is . Alas (for the purposes of this initiative), it's not an original PC soundtrack.--Eino

Good turnout! --Eino

Very lush and clear sound. I think you did a great job personalizing this often treaded theme. Nice clock! And nice touch how it turns into fingerclicks! I think you could use more rests in the sax notation. Or to say it another way, the notes could at many points be shorter, for a more "punctuating" sound, like staccato, that would work well with the melody I think. It could probably make the sax more natural too (though it's not bad as it is). The bit where you do have some rests sounds pretty nice, around 1:20. The piano break around the 2:00 minute mark functions well as a breath-gatherer. The bass end of the piano coming in at at 02:13, with the clock coming back at the same time, sounds really, really good. However, the chord writing sounded somewhat random to me. The one at 02:07 seemed to sit a bit badly with the rest of it to me. I think the chords could stand to be rewritten, to contain a musical passage of its own. It's not that bad as it is, but kind of a lost opportunity. The point at 02:13 is a good anchor point! Nice work overall, I thought you got something new out of the old warhorse. I agree with other posters that the crystals and choirs sound very good. --Eino

Yeah guys, I urge you to listen and give feedback to Archangel's track here, it is a treat! Also do check out Draconiator's Jill of the Jungle arrangement, it's a cool piece as well! If Diablo 2 from 2000 is ok, how about Deus Ex (also from 2000)? I have a fairly complete PRC mix from the UNATCO theme, which I've been tinkering with lately. --Eino

Well, I don't know what was wrong with my ears when I listened to the third wip, but the third part certainly doesn't feel rough. (I also compared wip 3 and 4 and you didn't change it that much between them..) I still do feel a bit like the part is lacking a lead to come in. Around 2:50 mark, a simple string lead does enter, but it's in the background. Perhaps it could be emphasized? There's plenty of melody in the 3:15-3:55 part, but I still was wishing that something was the definite center melody, perhaps with more articulation/variation. Another thought that I had was it'd be cool if you could tie this part to the previous parts (they're pretty separate in the source) melodically by reintroducing some of the piano melodies from before, but that might not be feasible. I really like how that part "fades" out at the end. It evokes a sense of yearning. There's a note from a wind instrument from 03:07-03:10 which sounds out of key and iffy to me. The big swell around 4:07-4:10 sounds like it suffers from compression. The final swell and coda are in themselves an excellent ending to the arrangement. I have to say I enjoy the various percussion effects scattered throughout, and some of the similar noises which I assume are strings too. They add so much detail and atmosphere! Very enjoyable track, and yes it was very cool to hear it in full - and so quickly! Hope this feedback helps, I personally think there's still room for a bit of improvement in the later half, but it's very close to greatness! --Eino

I've submitted my piece! --Eino

I listened to the third wip already, but haven't had time to write my thoughts. I thought the final part was a great basis, but didn't quite yet have enough meat - I felt it lacked a lead or some other really ear-catching "center", and was rougher than the previous sections, but I supposed it was meant to be a 'wip' I liked the way it was different from the source, very fitting to the rest of the remix so far! Also, I'm *very* happy that my previous feedback was useful! I'll try to listen to the fourth wip tomorrow and reply. Great to see such quick progress! --Eino

Sounds good! Laid-back, chill, yet.. juicy. Will listen again. --Eino

I have a start, I'll try to work on it a bit each day. So I'm pretty sure I'll have a tune to submit. What I have is not what I had in mind at all, but that's pretty common for me. I usually load up a random-ish selection of sounds to start with, and fooling around with them often takes the piece to a different direction that I had in mind. --Eino

I for one would love to hear some CN vocals (I liked that PRC entry you did a while back) on a track, so this is getting better and better! (: --Eino

Well, it's not going to be done. It's not an album project, we're just making ReMixes for PC here, cheering and helping out each other. What's great about it is that you don't have to wait for a full album to be done; mixes from this initiative are going to hit the front page sooner or later. Well, considering the time it takes to go through the panel and then to-be-posted queue, it's going to be later. But they'll be there! --Eino

That'd likely be awesome. I'll PM you later. --Eino

You've obviously put a lot of thought into how to run this thing and what you want out of it; this alone makes me look forward to the album a lot! (Plus Theophany/pixietricks collab? That alone sounds worth the wait!) Good luck! edit: I've actually been singing Zelda's Lullaby as an actual lullaby for my daughter.. it works. --Eino

These are absolutely great points and I've noticed something similar too. But also, I get inspiration and motivation when I notice that in the old terrible songs, there are good ideas (that I should totally recycle now), and I can tell that I had fun making them. --Eino

Who else would? Listening to the old ones is funny, they're usually incredibly terrible. --Eino

I notice the piano is mostly original additional writing, and also your pacing of the music is quite different from the original. The second part, the new part in your WIP 2, sounds good.. but I also felt it got a bit "backgroundy" - good for the film score feel you were going for, but listening, I was feeling I would have liked the added melody be emphasized, brought forwards a little more. I tended to lose focus a bit when listening. I'm very much looking forward to your version of the final part, the source for it is good, and it'll be exciting to hear how you treat it. --Eino

SMS Castle of Illusion! I actually have a Clockwork Tower mix in the works with Pleiade currently. And Faxanadu! I'm just floored by the source choices. I'll just have to take part this round, and I'll try to get Pleiade to participate as well. Oh wow. I couldn't agree more with DjMokram's sentiment about the Castle of Illusion soundtrack deserving more appreciation. I was really looking forward what the source choices would be and this just hit home, couldn't have been better. --Eino

Another cheer to Jason, and Rexy as well, for their outlook in this. I for one see no problem with getting two projectfuls of FF6 ReMixes. (: (I also see the point Level99 made about the differences in running public and private projects. It's really up to the directors how they want to roll. From the listeners point of view.. 25YEARLEGEND was a total surprise for me, and it was great fun to be surprised. But following projects publicly from beginning to end is just as fun.) --Eino

DarkeSword, apologies. It was a poke intended in good humour, but I hear you, enough about that. --Eino