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That koto sounds kind of fake. Oh well. This has some sweet chord choices in it, particularly at 1:33 (and when it happens earlier). I love the funky jazz feel with the rhodes (?). Piano solo is a great touch. Very nice. There are some sparse moments, but I think that on a whole, the overall execution is great; very clean, with an excellent concept. YES!

Yeah, I have got to agree. Pretty surprising, considering Mazedude's other work, but I found this one to be lacking in arrangement and interpretation. Even the sounds are reminiscient of SNES, especially that pan flute. This just feels like it's going through the motions. Needs more. NO

I'm in agreement with Jesse and Israfel; the chromatic stuff is a bit odd, but I think that it isn't a major detractor to the overall piece. Some will like it, some will not; it's definitely weird, but I think that it's adds some uniqueness to the mix. As far as the rest of the mix goes, I really like the texture created; very chill sound. It's got a good pulse too, with nice variation. I like! YES

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Pretty good stuff NeoForte; if you'd like to work with Vilecat and Linearity on the cover art, that's cool with me. Collaboration is good.

Yeah it almost sounds like someone ran this through a band-pass filter or something...granted a very WIDE one, but still. More low and hi freqs plz. Arrangement is pretty cool though. Resub please! NO

Production on this song is terrible. That drum sounds like someone shoved it in a closet. Needs more interpretation. Pretty boring take on the source material. It just runs though a couple of times with too-loud snare playing along. NO

I think some of this mix is pretty cool; personally I don't mind the vocal samplage, as it's used rhythmically. But from what I've heard of gabber, it needs to be meatier. This song comes off as sounding pretty thin, and there definitely needs to be some more processing going on; this could go places. NO, but I think that you can go somewhere with it. Keep trying!

fantastic This is fantastically pretty and super-chill. I love the combination of synth, strings, and twinkly sounds. Fantastic texture. Personally I think everything fits together very nicely. This is perfect fantastic chill/nighttime driving music. fantasticYES edit: fantastic

This is an excellent start; for some reason it really sounds like a Bollywood song from the 90s. But I have to agree with my fellow judges; it's mechanical sounding, and it's still lacking in the creative department. I'd like to see some more complexity here, particularly as Vig mentioned with the harmonic support. Keep working on this, as it has the potential to be really awesome. NO (rework and resub please!)

This arrangement is awesome! Lots of great ideas and cool sound choices. My main issue though is that it sounds INCREDIBLY lo-fi. WHY? This song SERIOUSLY needs some mastering before I can vote yes. Way too muffly and muddy. NEEDS HI FREQS! NO RESUB

The opening reminds me of one of those chinese martial arts movies where they make the pretense of having a really deep love story when it's all just an excuse to do kung fu. Go figure. Yeah this is really pretty stuff. I'm enjoying the slowly moving lines buried within the sustained chords; nice stuff. Dynamics are excellent; lots of highs and lows; those detache strings are wonderfully executed too. Needs more Yo-Yo Ma. YES

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I really liked this piece. Lots of nice composition ideas and expansion of the original material. Good work. On another note: for those of you reviewing, make sure you're commenting on the remix, not on why you're pissed there isn't a sequel to SMRPG, or proposing a SMRPG project, etcetc.

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Yes, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

Messy messy messy! That metallic lead simply isn't working here. It doesn't sit well with all of the other sounds, and doesn't really convey the melody clearly. The piano sample is horribly generic too. Gray's right; it sounds empty in the middle, and throughout the whole piece, there's no hook to really grab my attention. This mix feels like it's going through the motions. NO

Are you guys even listening to the same source material as I am? There's practically nothing there to mix. This feels more like an original song than a remix. Either way, I'm voting no, because the produciton on this piece is pretty bad. That piano is too loud and everything sounds ridiculously muffled. The disparity between dry and wet sounds Gray mentioned is very stark; a bit annoying, actually. Everything else has been said. NO

I don't mind the applause stuff so much. It certainly sounds more realistic than playing piano at an english pub </obscure reference>. Still, something's up with the mixing here in this piece; those drums sound like they're clipping when they get loud. Maybe it's just my headphones? Either way, they're too poppy and stick out too much in the mix. That's the main problem with this mix. There are instances where the balance between elements is pretty bad. Nice groove, nice arrangement, but I think it needs some better mixing and mastering. NO

For cover art, I'd like something clean, artdeco-ish, kind of like a throwback to 50s/60s space posters. No black outlines on anything, no official art either. I'm thinking Kirby (with no powers) riding on a warp star that looks like it's moving upward through a starry backdrop. See what you can come up with, Vilecat, Linearity.

The intro takes a long time to get through; it's a good intro, but it's long. Transitions are awkward and really weird. The song of healing section has absolutely no relevence to the song of storms section. It also sounds really thin, with piano and strings playing in unison. Arpeggiator on the melody is corny as hell and totally ineffective. Seems to me that you made not real effort to cohesively combine both source tunes into a single mix; there's medleyitis out the wazoo here, and the two songs don't compliment eachother at all. You've even got them in two different minor keys without any kind of transitory passage to take us from one key to the other. That's some pretty messy writing. NO

That kick drum has way to much presence in the mix; it's too loud and it fills the soundscape. That lead that come in at 1:39 is atrociously bad. It's messy, wide, and buzzy. Seems like a lot of ideas strewn together too. Not much cohesion to the arrangement. The ambience is pretentious and the substance is lacking. NO

BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH BOOMCHICKADISSH That's what this is. A bit more interesting than boomhiss, but it amounts to the same thing. Come on man; this is so generic and straightforward. Needs highs and lows. It's so repetitive. Pretty much the same thing over and over again. NO

Everything is louder than the melody. The piano is buried way in the back behind with phased sounds. Speaking of which, everything sounds like it's phased. Bring out the melody, vary up the sounds a bit, and do something interesting with the arrangement. It gets old fast. NO

Whole thing sounds muffly, like there's too much reverb. The leads aren't all that interesting; the piano and the weird flanged sound just play the melody in unison for a while. Pretty uninteresting. Pads are boring too. Like Vig said, they just take up space and don't really do anything interesting. Percussion never really breaks out with anything interesting. Bad note choices before 1:30! Yeah, this is pretty messy. Needs a clearer sound; levels are weird, and there's too much reverb. NO