Protricity

Heheh, bossa nova. Nice. Impressive. Variation. Fits well with the genre. Everything is groooooooveh. Fade out sucks. YES Tip: Make longer next time. Fade outs suck. Did some research. Looks like it turned out too good to be true. We don't accept mixes done in this fashion. NO

Really low quality samples, repetitive and simple. Go for a more elaborate mix. This is simply too simple. NO

Very simple mix. Lets see if it goes anywhere beyond layering different instruments over each other. NO, I guess not. No variation on percussion or lead or anything. Very minimal song that goes nowhere and drags on and on. Oh, drumloops now. K.

Decent arrangement, decent orchestra. Good enough. I'm pretty borderline though. YES Next time go for something more interesting. I mean, strings mostly playing lead and chord.. and then a harp playing lead. bleh

Never throught I'd give a yes to a mariokart 64 mix. But well, there it is: YES Dhsu managed to turn a shitty song into a decently good piano arrangement. I like the changes and rearrangement. Has a mood to it. Not too simple, not repeating, not boring. Well played. Bleh, now I feel dirty for giving an mk64 song a yes. I.. gotta take a shower or something AFK

Vig is right. NO

Alright, apparently the song is from track 6 of the nsf. This is gonna be another toughy. One of those guideline-refreshing submissions. The melody used was severly simplified and seldom used. Majority of the song involves so-so rap regarding everything from vgmix to magfest to the singer's girlfriends to something called xstrike. There are a few ambiguous lyrics involving some issues in the game. Edit: whoops. guess I was wrong about cindy. Apparently shes a character in the game. Overall, the problem I'm seeing is that this is more or less just a rap song. The minimal addition of the simplified original game tune, not changed at all, is pretty much just an excuse for the song to be called a game remix. Had the squarewave riff not been in there, no one would have noticed that anything was missing. If you took a remix like niggaz 4 life, or Knuckles Unknown from MC and removed the music it would be a different song. The change would be evident. Those two mixes were built around their songs, and had everything a good remix encompasses (and this song has nothing on niggaz' rap quality either). My main problem here is that by accepting this song, we would be opening up a new field of play for what is and isn't allowed. Basically any song with the slightest shred of resemblence to the original song would have to be allowed as long as its good. This would include the recent rejection of 'Sweet Games' which was quite a few par above this one. Simply wouldn't be fair. NO For next time, go for more of a remix or at least a rearrangement. Cant accept a mix based on popularity, novelty, association, or how much someone thinks it should be on this site etc.

Exact cover of original with very poor recording quality, no variation, and 64kbps encoding. Work on all of these factors and try at it again. NO OVERRIDE

I don't mean to start a fuss and upset everyone but I'm not very good at sugarcoating things, and I believe in frankness and truth over ambiguous half truths in the name of peace and kindness. This is the worst song I've heard in a while now, and I'll give my reasons. 1. Percussion is completely off sync throughout the entire mix. 2. Guitar is horribly amateur, and I mean that in the best way. This is the kinda guitar that is played by someone who never took lessons and is kinda just messing around. 3. This isn't an arrangement. This is the original played poorly. Very poorly. This song makes me wonder why on earth it didn't go to the judge panel. I am aware that dave isn't entirely familiar with the original and might have displayed some bias due to this, but aside from the lack of arrangement ability, I am chiefly addressing the completely amateur sound quality and skill involved in making this song. I doubt the possibility that I could have not pissed anyone off by saying all this, for that I'm sorry, but everything I said is what I truly believe after 4 listens of this song. I'm not driving blind here.

Too short, too simple. The style is just fine. Execution is fine. The problem is that this song is only 2 and a half minutes long. It also repeats 2 times within that length. If this song was twice as long and promoted more variation, it would have gotten a yes, but alas NO

Really not much going on in this song. Way too minimal. Repeating 'meh' drums, and a lot of martellos or however thats spelled. I'd like to see more accompany, more activity, more change ups, more dynamics. This is really simplistic and frankly below your skill level. Meh, fade out ending. NO

I suggested to the others that you should submit your website's intro flash file to ocremix, cause it rocks. Yes, the whole flash file, not just the song.

Kills in arrangement, lacks in melody. Maybe the original song is to blame here, but I don't care for the melody at all. Around 3:00, as dave said, the song starts to get on my nerves. Fade out ending is kinda weak. Well put together, but I kinda expect more from one of my favorite mixers.

So lets get this straight. Whenever a song gets a 4-3, we hold off posting it because we want to allow for debate and tie breaking? If we're going to change the rules like this, how about we vote on the change in Judge Discussion, as this is not really a thread for that. Vote here

Frankly, I dont agree with the logic in any of the no votes. This is a style, and these are how these songs sound. Anyway, not sure why this vote hasn't ended. We reached 4 yesses, and theres no tie. Rules are rules, so GG HF NO RUSH. If anyone would like to bring up a veto-able point about this song other than "I dont really like it", or "I think its kinda boring", we can then debate it until we reach a resolution. To my knowledge, this song has no submission violations, plenty of arrangement, and at least 4 judges like it, so end of thread.

http://rks.no-ip.com/~protricity/FF6_Enchanted_Esper_V2.ogg Never really publically released it, but here is a much better version in ogg. Its a lot clearer and higher quality. Some problems fixed. If you like the first one, get this instead. Its better. Also, there is no chronotrigger in this song.

I actually see that problem now and again. I have eaten.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM This is pretty tricky. I'm kinda torn. I like the arrangement, but yea its so much the same as the original. The part after 4:40 is apparently from an album that has nothing to do with this game. I think thats a problem that pushes this over the edge to NO Try to go for your own originality rather than someone else's. Either way, I really like this song. Only issue is that its too similar to original.

It just sounds way too amateur. Try to get good at percussion, notation, mastering. NO

Bitchin style. How can I not say YES? well, lets see. Nothing wrong. Wow, this fucking rules! GOOD JORB

Very nice! I like this one. Good motion. Not too boring. Quite repetitive though I recognize one of the drumloops though Real problem is that this song never changes from the original. Theres also some really annoying notation problems later on with the violin. NO

Meh. Listen at 3:38 to 3:49. You can hear the individual samples. Eh, their website has pictures of kids holding violins. So I"ll just take their word for it. Strings are real.

How about doing some production on that square lead? Wow, it just keeps looping. Go for more change ups. Key changes, percusive breaks, you know, all the usual aspects of music. NO

Ok, I'm having a problem with the synth riffs that show up many times. Example: at 2:30. They are in a major progression, if I'm not mistaken, but the chords are minor. Its flawed. Perhaps this doesnt matter. Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps I'm being a dumbshit fucktard asshole faggot. Either way, the flaw sticks out like a sore thumb to me and considering that the rest of the song is pretty much just a beefed up techno rendition of the original, [b ]NO Well, he fixed the problem, not exactly as I would have had him fix it. Its fixed nevertheless. so YES as I promised. Still I was borderline on this mix anyway. Soundquality is great. Theres some innovation, but in the end its really a BOOMTISH of the original song. Go for more next time.

Um.. whatever this ... is... uh... hehe interesting... anyway, its way short and not very involved. Even if its not a submission violation, its not much of a song. Go for a bit more than 4 chords and some improv. NO