Bucky Bantam
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What's going on guys? I'm on tenterhooks...
Technological error?
Legal challenge?
Squenix or KickStarter?
I NEED ANSWERS DAMMIT!!
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I'm genuinely flabbergasted by some of the negative reaction to this Kickstarter.
A FREE site, that on a daily basis offers FREE music, and occasionally FREE albums, by a community that do it out of love and get no money for it, for over a decade, and some punks are grumbling because they've married a VOLUNTARY donation scheme with their latest project?
Really??
The album will be FREE for all - does the fact that some people are paying for a physical copy really irk you so much? Sure, $50 might be a little steep, but I don't see this as paying the going rate for a particular item, I see it as getting a nice little "thank you" for donating.
The box-set isn't the project - the music that's on it is the project. Download it and burn it onto some CDs yourself if this is such a deal-breaker.
To be honest, the fact I'll be getting 4 CDs through the post is almost an irrelevance - I just want to give something back. If you don't, then that's fine. But don't be a whiny bitch because you're inexplicably offended that they had the gall to ask for donations...
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I've felt guilty about visiting this site, downloading so much music, and not contributing a penny for a while. The news that you're giving FFVI (probably my fave VG of all time) the "Voices of the Lifestream" treatment is more than enough to persuade me to part me with $50.
I hope you collect 10x your target. You guys do an awesome thing for bugger all cash and you deserve the investment.
I only wish I could afford the song request... The J-Bomb theme from BlastCorps is crying out for the fully orchestral treatment...
OCRA-0040 - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin
in Album Reviews & Comments
Posted · Edited by Bucky Bantam
My post count will expose my lack of activity on these boards, although I've been visiting these parts for a fair few years now. Spurred in no small measure by some artists' thirst for feedback (I'll get to you later, SnappleMan) I thought it only fair to throw a little bit of praise this album's way.
I contributed towards the Kickstarter because I'm impressed with the community's work (despite not everything being to my taste) and 'Voices of the Lifestream' was by and large a triumph for me. But, perhaps most pertinently, FFVI is simply my favourite game of all time - in hindsight, perhaps not the best, but far and away my favourite. So I was happy to part with some cash. Happier still to wait through the delays until it was ready.
To all those that contributed, I salute you - you've done yourselves proud.
A wonderful, wonderful album. A trip down memory lane accompanied by some remarkably talented and musically varied guides. Even the few tracks I don't particularly like I admire.
Highlights include:
* Leitbur's contributions to Disc One - 'Tastes like Victory' is amazing, and even a propensity towards dropping 'r's ("darkness burwoes in") can't spoil my enjoyment of 'On the Run'
* XPRTNovice's wonderful and totally unexpected take on the Mount Koltz theme
* Kaufman and Pedrini's work on 'The Impressario' - obviously...
* The hilarious and deliriously catchy bossa nova Blackjack by Calum Bowen and Xarnax42
* Sole Signal's 'Illusionary', Forrest and Laura's 'Katabasis', Derek and Jeremy's 'Trauermarsch'
I've got a sweet tooth for the acoustic and the orchestral, but even some styles and genres to which I wouldn't normally listen have got repeat plays (Beatdrop's 'Toxic', Baranowsky's 'Train Suplex' and Halc's 'Aggressive Blue Magic' to name but a few).
And SnappleMan, I found Omen in four parts a little exhausting, but it's relentlessness can't hide the quality and the craft – parts III and IV are exceptional (if a little long in duration for my tastes).
So, again. Thank you all, and well done!
Very little else has graced my iPod since release...