Eino Keskitalo

I'm very happy to see this revision get posted! A great track, as it was on the album. The arrangement is excellent, as before. The mixing is clearer than before, and I feel this makes the synth/organ/metal fusion work together much much better. In the old version the guitars sound a bit like they were recorded in a barrel. Here they have a slightly lo-fi "texture" I enjoy. And like I said, the guitars and organ/synth mesh together better. Overall the good stuff is more available to the ear, so to speak. On the negative side, there is a somewhat uncomfortable "pumping" effect between bass drum and bass, which bothered me greatly on the first listen - it was physically uncomfortable to listen to on headphones. I guess it's there to let the bass drum punch through? On further listens, I'm getting used to it, but I still don't enjoy it. To go on with the negative, around 1:45-2:05 the timing of the rhythm guitars is noticeably off to me, but that's more of a nitpick, and overall the level of playing sounds good to me. Great track - and also quite unique. I'm happy to hear this revised edition! --Eino

Happy birthday to Dj Mokram! Everyone should go download Secret Bonus Point and post a comment in the release thread! --Eino

Good going! I think that same saying is in Finnish too. I'll be keeping mine in mine this round unfortunately. --Eino

Very, very good atmosphere in this one. Jumped out of my usual random OC ReMix play queue. Has a nice lo-fi feel, though I felt the snare was a little lacking.. dry, perhaps. Subtly powerful track overall. --Eino

I did the same (read through some of the first pages), and I have to agree. It was fun to read the bits where it started to come together at a rapid pace, and that was just September 2009! I just submitted our arrangement to the panel. Pretty excited to see how that turns out. --Eino

Really nice source picks. --Eino

I think the two of you are allowed to remix each other's sources. Is that correct Bundeslang? --Eino

In before the cut off! New version sent in PM. --Eino

We should be finished today as well. --Eino

Looking forward to listening to this! --Eino

Awesome! I'm planning a couple of silly listening projects once the track numbers roll out. --Eino

Excellent news. Will probably, finances permitting, get the preorder later. --Eino

I guess you could get around this problem by downloading flac versions of the albums, decompressing them into wavs and making 128 kbps mp3s out of those yourself.. --Eino

Yup, that's what I meant. Sorry for being so vague, I was as tired as I was curious. Thanks for clarifying this on my behalf and also thanks to Liontamer for the answer! And yeah.. it's a pretty weird piece. Quite nice distorted ambient sounds in the opening. --Eino

What's up with this mix? --Eino

If you paid for the games before the bundle #2 games became available, you should be entitled to them. They should be downloadable indefinitely (I haven't even downloaded my Frozenbyte bundle games yet). Same goes for the two bonus games. Sounds like you have some sort of an error, you should message their support. --Eino

I'm playing Raptor (from GOG.com) right now, so it was cool to hear a ReMix from the game. While I can't recall the source, the mix is pretty cool, with smooth groove and a well-woven soundscape. I especially like the way the vocals were used. I wasn't able to hear the bad notes Vig discussed in the judging thread, I guess that's a good thing for me, since they're usually a big turn-off for me. I guess they weren't that bad for me. --Eino

This is an extremely nice chill-out piece. The happy, carefree, yet slightly bittersweet mood I get from it is very enjoyable. --Eino

Yup, that's the one. --Eino

Thanks for all the feedback in the votes, I plan to continue working on this track, and I definitely got some pointers and ideas from there. --Eino

I think everything I could say has been said in previous reviews.. this is a damn fine track, and will see a lot of listening to from me. I just downloaded the EP too, and I'm looking forward to hearing it. --Eino

Thanks to all participants for the album! I'm enjoying the album as a whole, and most of the tracks by themselves. Good hit rate! Also the album has a fairly consistent atmosphere from track to track - some of the transitions are very nice. Tracks flow into another, and other times the contrast one another. It's good when you're listening the whole thing through. --Eino

Pleasant and tasty, I'm enjoying this a lot right now on repeat. --Eino

nIce touch! --Eino

Nice! Steel Storm was a nice add earlier, I'm probably looking forward to play it more than the original five games (although all are interesting). But getting the bundle #2 games too, that's pretty cool. Already bought it earlier for a bit more than the Linux average. I think I directed a bit over dollar to Child's Play and a bit over dollar as a tip to Wolfire, who put the bundles together, but don't have a game from themselves in this time around, so that's the only way they're getting any money (back) from this. Re: charity, I read the Wikipedia page earlier, and the bundles are about selling indie games, the charity thing is more of a nice opportunity to raise some money to them as well. It's definitely cool that you can give most or all the money to them though. I think the bundles together have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars already for the charities. --Eino