Eino Keskitalo

Wow, that's an amazing track. Great percussion, and great sound from SNES. So much 90s in this track! --Eino

Ainahan sitä arvostaa, kun tehtäviä tehdään. Sangen mielenkiintoista luettavaa tuo biisilistakin. Menemenemene! --Eino

Yeah! I'm absolutely pleased this many entries popped up. Going to vote now.. --Eino

Me too. I love the soundtrack, there's lots of musicians whose work I enjoy on the list, and I'm sure others I don't expect it from will blow me away. Can't wait, well I can wait, because it's going to be so good. --Eino

AWESOME! marcusg submitted a mix too.. yesss! And there's still time for more, come on! --Eino

Woohooo! Shining Force 2!! This piece brought a smile on my face. I enjoyed it! Writing and arrangement is pretty good! I have some quick crits. The keyboards and guitars sound great for the most part. Biggest problems in the piece are mixing and drums. The mixing is kind of uneven.. I'm not a good mixer myself, but it feels like the instruments are not balanced, competing with each other.. there's no sense of common space between the instruments. Maybe someone with more skills can give advice. Well, perhaps this is only a raw/rough mix, not yet refined - that's what it sounds like in any case. Drums are.. a bit strange. They have a lot of good writing, good fills.. but there are timing issues, and sometimes they're strangely badly sequenced (while at times sequenced well)! At some points, the beat doesn't sound "together", there's points where hihat should be keeping the time but only plays short runs. It doesn't have to be keeping the time if you want to do something more different, but those bits just don't sound "together", I hope you get what I mean. Also, the drums "sound like samples", by which I mean you can hear the same sample repeating and it feels unnatural. Mixing the piece better in general probably would help the drum sound too. I have to say I found them mostly good, but there were some strange passages with strange flaws. When it comes to writing, I enjoyed most of it. But I felt that the intro went on a bit long and didn't say much. Once the piece got going, it was more enjoyable. I'd say compress the intro to a shorter version and concentrate what you have to "say" in it. I hope you keep working on this piece, because this site, and the world in general, needs more Shining Force love! And good work so far! --Eino

I can't comment on the source, but came to post that I think Animal Counterpoint is crazy awesome!! --Eino

Assumptions about open mindedness are rude. I've heard better use of dissonance. Actually, I think it's extremely well used around 02:30-03:00, I was just too turned off by the beginning to notice much anything else (except the very good instrumentation). --Eino

Great ballad. Not too syrupy, which is a great achievement considering the instrumentation. There's some feeling in this one that I can't quite put my finger on. Sometimes a ballad can be saved from being too sugary by being a touch bittersweet.. same thing there, except it's not really bittersweet either. Either way, I think it works very well and does it's own thing. I don't think the spots at 02:40 and 03:04 resolve nicely (or something), they sound pretty off-key to me. I got used to them on the second listen though, which doesn't mean I think they're good, I just got used to them. Adding drums would have been awful, that would have been needless inflation. I'm glad it never GOT REALLY HUGE, it's quite the right size as it is. --Eino

All right, I finished the first listen-through (sans bonus tracks), and I liked it! I enjoyed most of the tracks, and the genre/mood frame was very successful. Thank you for the album! I will be listening to it. --Eino

Ooh, this is pretty fantastic. I like how much tension it has, and how it builds it up with fairly subtle stuff, texture changes.. It's chippy, but also intense in a dark kind of way. I like this piece immediately, and I have a feeling I will grow to love it. Also, a very fresh take on the much-covered original! --Eino

I hear the dissonance WillRock is talking about. The arranged chords and the original melody don't totally work together. To me it sounds like the vibraphonist is messing up the take, while the rest of the ensemble sounds absolutely great.. and that just ruins it for me, frankly. Happily, other people are able to enjoy it, but if the parts worked better together, I'm sure they would enjoy it more too. --Eino

Yeah! Competition please! I might update my track too (I think that's allowed?) --Eino

I'll have something.. I've discovered ReNoise loads midis just fine. =) edit: uploaded! --Eino

Grab some marble, add a helping of funk, a pretzel, and cover it with cheese. This is from 2002? djp got good pretty quick! --Eino

I liked the sound of the title part a lot, even if it sounded a bit dated. The Brinstar part suffered from low-quality samples much more, and sounded pretty bare for the most part. Still, the first half was very atmospheric! --Eino

Pleasant, happy and chill. Nice work! Too bad there's no item called "Moon Key" in the game, huh? --Eino

Nnnice, thanks for sharing! --Eino

Whee AeroZ musics! --Eino

Really nice-sounding intro. When it gets going, the beats are great, but the 600AD theme on the piano kind of weighs it down. It feels like it was forced to the track. The later half works much better, and when the 600AD theme returns on the lighter synth, it, too works. Overall, not a keeper for me because of the piano issue, but lots of previous reviewers seem to have enjoyed this a lot, so definitely give it a listen! --Eino

This track is atmospheric and creepy, heavy and pressurized.. and good! Definite keeper. Much nicer than I expected from a track from 2002. --Eino

This pretty great, it's really standing out from my "play all mp3s at random" playlist. It's energizing, happy, upbeat... very nice flutes, drums, everything at the end! I love it! Much more enjoyable than most of the chocobo-related tracks I've heard, including the originals. --Eino

This is a highly evocative piece from the game (the moment you first hear it is pretty awesome, it certainly was for me). This version updates and extends it quite well. It starts out really chill, but gets some boombast added with the timpani drums, and grows later on. I think I liked the beautiful, very ambient-sounding intro the best, and didn't fully appreciate the direction it took. It's good nonetheless. The flute and string embellishments are beautiful, and the way the theme is varied and explored is satisfying. Also, I like the way the bass drops for a long time. There's a spacey feel there. --Eino

What the hell. This needs some emoticons: --Eino

Yeah, that genre restriction reminder just made me anticipate the album even more. (1) restrictions make interesting and focused records, (2) that definition will likely fit my musical taste deliciously, considering the source material! (not that there's anything wrong with wider scopes and different genres of course) --Eino