Eino Keskitalo

Wow, I've spent hours on Skyroads and I don't think I've ever played it with music on.. there's some good stuff in there! Lots of potential in those two tracks you posted. edit: Nope.. I just read a review I wrote of the game in 2001, and I did compliment the music and the adlib sounds. I just don't remember the pieces at all. So weird. --Eino

15 USD sent. For a couple of years, OCR has been my main source of listening music, and my main environment for other musical activities as well.. thanks for making it possible! --Eino

Very nice.. really beautiful. Thank you! Will be listening to this a lot I can tell. --Eino

Hating Java is so 1999. Whatever gets the job done, and a tool you already know gives you a head start. You'll be light on graphics side. I guess performance-wise the hardest thing you want to do is simulate a big world, a lot depends on how much of it you want to simulate simultaneously, and how precisely. (Like I knew what I was talking about.) Do you plan on including procedurally generated content and permadeath? (The cornerstone roguelike features if you ask me.) --Eino

Yes, I'd play that game. Screw fancy graphics. Also, there's competition already, the concept sounds a lot like Caves of Qud (description here). --Eino

Damn it sounds gorgeous all the way through! --Eino

I just felt like saying that I'm looking forward to this album! --Eino

Getting the .it is awesome.. I wish I had the time. You could try ReViSiT tracker frontend plugin, it's not terribly complicated to "rewire" the tracker notes into a midi signal with it. --Eino

Awesome style, and quite unique to OCR from what I've heard. JJT's track on Voices of the Lifestream really caught my ear when I started to listen to OCR offerings more. When I listened to his other OCR stuff, this was the track that I came to love the most. I was very much into indie/alternative rock stuff in the 90s (I feel so old) so I'm very fond of how this piece is done. --Eino

Looks like just my kind of stuff. Thanks for promoting. --Eino

I can't, since I haven't played it either. I'd probably end up calling it Road of Hallucination.. --Eino

Awesome, Way of Illusion is my favourite track from the soundtrack, and based on Artem's Threshold track.. I can't wait to hear the end result. It's going to be good and I'm expecting it'll be original as well. --Eino

It would be "Valon ja pimeyden lauluja" instead of "Valon ja pimeyden laulut" - the latter is "The Songs of Light and Darkness" while the former equals "Songs of Light and Darkness" without the definite article. "Lauluja" also sounds prettier. Furthermore, "Valon ja pimeyden laulut", while not grammatically wrong, sounds clumsy as a title.. something like "Kaikki valon ja pimeyden laulut", which translates to "All the Songs of Light and Darkness" sounds better (while of course changing the meaning). Uhh, kyllä kiinnostaa ja mielelläni olen pystyessäni avuksi, mutta aika on tosi tiukilla. Pitää miettiä hetki! --Eino

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