Shael Riley
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This is the best thing since Music of My Groin.
Seriously though, I love this mix. It's totally creative and original. Keep that Nokia rockin'.
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Best remix ever.
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It's really overwhelming to think that I inspired this mix. It's a great compliment really.
And while it's hard to compare our two mixes due to their drastically different styles, I must admit that you have me beat on finesse and production value hands down.
I absolutly love this mix and have listened to it very nearly as many times as I have my own. It's straightfoward, no-fucking-around, kick-your-ass rock. And while a little variation within a piece is usually preferable, I don't fault the occasional piece that establishes a mood imediatly and sticks with it throughout -like I said: straightforward rock.
The tweaking you did on the OCR release really brings out the natural brightness of the dist guitars; particulary, the rhythm sounds a good deal crisper on my system.
Rock on, man. ;-P
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Music with lyrics normally makes me happy. I have been fantasizing on doing some myself. But when you hear this, you get the feeling it was greatly improvised. The backup singer obviously thought that 'sounds' was going to come first. It would make a nice campfire or road trip song, though. And I feel sorry that that guy's groin looks a lot like Link ... Good for Grabs.
The backup singer is me. So is the lead singer. It was all poorly multitracked on Goldwave, which has no multitracking capabilities so I had to do some guesswork as to when the different sounds I was pasting in would occur. I'm honestly surprised it turned out as well as it did.
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I fucking love this!
Yes. I'm so emphatic I had to curse.
I've been waiting forever for a Monkey Island 2 remix. It's just solid all around. It more than overcomes my general dislike of medleys with it's totally sweet craziness. w3rd to your three-headed monkey.
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You know...
It's actually chromatic the whole way through. Just the real harsh stuff doesn't come in until later. Didn't notice that first time around. Goood schtuff.
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An exceptional job by The Wingless on this one; in my opinion, hands down the most intricate Bubbleman remix here.
Whoa
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I love this piece. It makes me wish Bubbleman got his own game- a heartwrenching RPG where he broods and meets Bubblegirl but she dies, so he broods more and kills some demons.
But I digress.
The chromaticism, that DJP mentions in his quip, is well placed towards the end, allowing for a nice buildup. Once you've become acclaimated to the new chord structure of this old, familiar tune, the chromatacism surprises you yet again.
Instrumentation is excellent. A beautiful blend of NSF sounding synths and chilling, bright piano along with warm, slow strings give the mix a full sound without being overpowering.
The deep, haunting drums maintain their power because of the restraint which this piece excersises.
Viscerally/ intelectually it's great all around. I love this unique and engaging ReMix.
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The soft, swisshy drum loop beautifully compliments this subdued but powerful arrangement of acoustic/dist guitars and piano. And when you have dist guitars you can't go wrong with bells.
Beautiful, moving piece. I've never played the game or heard the original but this is well worth the download.
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I just love this song. It's an OCR classic and everyone should hear it as far as I'm concerned.
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W00t. Way to go Shael!
I heard this song in bits and peaces when you were makeing it, and i'm glad the finished version came out so well.
Anyway, maybe i'll remix something...even though the programs confuse me and i lack creative insight, oh well.
Best of luck in collage. Dont forget your friends.
I'm so glad i know you in real life
~~Ken
Aaah! Ken! You have the best Alis on Overclocked. LOL! How's it going, man? Thanks for leaving comments. I never see you on Trillian anymore!
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Well, I wasn't talking about the last major chord (at 3:12) ...I was basically talking about the last note which sounds like a square-wave that was off-key and didn't belong. (at 3:21) But if that was your intention, then so be it.
That's a minor problem anyways. The rest of it was good.
Ah. Yes. There is a very subtle squire wave which is chromatic and brings it back to minor just at the very end, since it is a castlevania song after all.
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Just because it's one of the first, does not automatically make it good. This song lacks substance above all else, it sounds like something my old Commodore 64 pulled out of its ass. I have no idea what you were trying to achieve with this song. I hated it on vgmix.com, and I hate it here to. I sincerely hope that you, nor anybody else ever uses this style of music again.
Ouch! And from someone who uses my favorite Pink-Gi'd champion as their alias too. Well, everyone's entitled.
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I haven't played CotM, but I really want to. I know, I'm a heathen.
Anyways, I like this mix and some of the retro style within it. It jumps around, but I like that. What about that ending note though, was it supposed to be like that?
No! Good ear, to hear that it sounds a bit "off" during the last chord. I believe it's called a Pickedilly 3rd- resolving the last chord as major when the rest of the song isn't in a major key signature.
I wanted to capture the pure, innocent joy of the FM music that came out of the old NES, especially as heard by us when we were kids and to contrast it against the hollow electronica feel of the non-chip sections of the song. So, I raised the last interval a half-step to end on a major- rather than a minor- 3rd for a sort of beat-the-game feel.
... You were talking about that, right?
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hmm not bad.. but I was hoping there'd exist more orchestral mixes of that particular song and many others from circle of the moon like the outer wall and the machine tower.. I really like all the themes but sadly it doesn't have an OST cause it's a GB advance game :/
This mix isn't bad but lacks the orchestral awe of the original.. could have been even better if over tthose synthetic instruments there was a chorus rise.. some church organ.. some piano here and there.. a Samba beat, and maybe some guitar too
(maybe I'm goign too far lol) .. but it would be even cooler if so 
Not bad though.. wish to hear more COTM Mixes
I originally had a chorus pad swell up at the crescendo of each motiff- not that my stripped-down, electronica version has anything resembling that sort of dynamics
- but I thought it conflicted with the retro, hollow, cold and mechanical sound I wanted so I ran it through some heavy duty aliasing and it became that "watery" effect you hear in the background. As for the piano, church organ, guitar and samba beat, it sounds like a fucking awesome mix. Why don't you do it?
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I like it. It's like COtMM pealed back the pink plastic shell surrounding Barbie and revealed her horrible, twisted inards, in sonic form.
A poignent new use of the ReMix medium. Plus it's fucking cool.
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This is ace! I love it a lot.
I'm a big fan of crunchy SID style synthness. This really floats my boat - there are some lovely harmonies in there, and the percussion work's top notch. It's really inventive - a lot of changing segments.
Nice work, feller!
Binst
w007! Thank you very much! All the percussion- with the exception of the "ghostly" metal hit, which really functions melodically anyway- is sampled from a Casio Sk1. I got the idea to do the chip/not chip thing from the DDR MAX2 Remix of Burning Heat. (Very, very awesome.)
I suggest that anyone who enjoys this song, in any of it's incarnations, head over to VGmix and check out Nukkus's Kiss the Abyss, which is a really great counterpart to my piece as it's more in the original style of Awake and really rocks fairly hard.
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THANK YOU EVERYONE!
I really enjoyed all the replies, it made my day to hear such wonderful critisism, for better or worse. As far as the translation, I'll give DJ Pretzel the "go" to use Evil's posted translation, it's about as close as it gets. I really was trying to go for something fresh and new, but don't get me wrong, I don't always do hip-hop.
So is that you rapping? Or did you just scratch and mix. Kickin' scratching.
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I personally think the scratching is friggin' awesome! Reminds of DJ Killmore (Incubus.) The rapping's not bad either, but it's not great. inda Linkin Parkish. Good mix overall. Well worth the DL.
OCR00209 - Legend of Zelda "The Music of My Groin"
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I had no idea I was doing a Canadian accent at the time but it seems that I was, inadvertently. I'm not Cannadian, though. I'm from New York!
Downstate New York, even!