DarkeSword

HAHA. That's the kind of thing I'm looking for. A play on words. How about, 'Darwin's Theory of Kirbylution.' XD

Nothing really meshes well in this piece. Just a lot of stuff going on at the same time. Also, everything sounds lo-fi. Those strings lack high frequencies, and the percussion is weak as hell. Detach strings at the end are gratuitous and harsh. Not a lot of development; this song doesn't really go anywhere. No intensity, no highs and lows, nothing. The texture isn't even intersting. NO

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ARGH Don't play your synths on a KEYBOARD when you're writing any kind of techno-trance-newage-whatever. It's SUPPOSED to sound quantized. The timing on that lead is terrible. Either way that synth sucks a lot. Way too loud and it fills up the soundscape in a really bad way. Everything else underneath is too loud and too sloppy. NO

The switch between minor key (face shrine and ballad of the wind fish) and major key (richard's villa) doesn't work very well. There's no real logical reason to switch between the two except for medely's sake. I think there's too much reveb, and the percussion is very very boring. Same stuff over and over again without any real interaction with the rest of the song. Reverb is a tool, not a gimmick; it feels like a gimmick here; take it away and you've got nothing but a sparse arrangement. Needs more arrangement, more ideas, more focus. NO

I'm getting that too, but I think it's just personal preference. Some people like this sound. Anyway this mix is too short. Good ideas, nice groove, but not enough development at all. Lets get the extended mix, ok? MORE PLEASE! NO

You need to roll that big ass ball over some HIGH FREQUENCIES PLEASE. Needs EQ like peanut butter needs jelly. Vig said it best; lets see some more sophisticated arrangement ideas. What we have here is a conflict of inter...uh, I mean, what we have here is a good start to what could be totally awesome. WORK IT ON OUT (work it on out) NO

I don't really feel any kind of pull coming out of the melody. It's just there. Everything in this mix, while mixed well, still feels like a separate entity. Timpani, strings, what are those guys doing? Nothing but playing rhythms that have nothing to do with the melody. With such a weak melodic line, you should be trying to accent with with your other voices. This remix feels like it's just going through the motions. There's no intensity here. I'm sorry, I'm not feeling it. NO

Personally I like the synthwork and drum sound. There are some cool, harsh textures, that really work well. However, I'm not a fan of the ridiculous amount of arpeggiation going on here. This mix can be summed up in 16 syllables: "doo de DAH de doo DAH doo de DAH de doo DAH doo de DAH doo." Add drums. Repeat. Granted, its a staple of the genre, but I think a stronger focus on more melodic aspects of the source material would help with the arrangement aspect. I like the texture a lot, but arrangement is lacking. It's not an execution thing, it's a concept thing. NO (revise+resub)

I love how Larry writes an essay, and Vig just writes a few sentences. Personally I fall into Vigilante's camp on this one. Short review is the way to go. Personally I think this mix has direction enough; it just keeps going in that direction for way too long. Cut this down man; the repetitiveness of the title screen music is killing this piece. There are some great breakdowns with distorted beats and stuff, but a lot of this song is just 'doom, doobadee doom...doom, doobadee doom...' with a gating synth over it. The string/rhodes stuff ROCKS THE HOUSE. More of that please. Less doobadeedoom, more stringatystring. Resubitio~ NO

Wow. Really nice texture and atmosphere. Percussion near the end is particularly cool, under the solo female vox. Awesome. YES

A straightforward arrangement, but I wouldn't call it a cover. Guitar playing is spot on, and production is great. Nice crazy ass solo in the middle there. Good stuff. Not much else to say here; a bit short, but pretty damn solid with good varition. The organ bit was a nice touch. YES

Okay, MAYBE it's just a genre thing here, but that distorted voice is annoying as HELL. Plus this mix is sparse and I can't for the life of me figured out which song from FFV this remixes. So NO for now, but I'll come back to this. Maybe.

Excellent. This has a really subdued, soft sound to it, and the percussion has a nice clean sound. Well produced, great choice of sounds, nice arrangement. I would have liked a stronger lead than the bell-sound, but it's not a major detraction. YES

I'd love to hear some more variation in synth/percussive elements. As it stands, it's a slowly evolving beast; however, the evolution of the beast is not very exciting. Try to be more daring with the effects on your percussion. Filter that sh!t to hell and back. As it stands now it's a bit long without too much development. I appreciate the slow evolution of the piece, but I don't think it's enough... ...yet. Go for the resubmit. NO

That buzzy synth gets annoying for after while. I didn't like it at all. However, the chiller elements like vibes and rhodes are really nice. I the percussion is great; snappy yet unobtrusive. Good stuff there. Vocals; I wish they were better. This is no Ken song, I'll say that much; but then again, what is? I'd rather not think about realizing my Sagat. Nice interpretation, but that synth is poop. I'm gonna go with NO (borderline) on this.

Horrible recording and terrible drum track. Everything is muddy and muffled. Not much in the way of interpretation either. NO

Oh for goodness sake that ending is ridiculous. Come on man, the guitar playing is great and the recording is nice and clean. Bring some more stuff to it; you know, like interpretation and your own ideas. Make it something more than just a reinstrumentation of the original. So disappointing. NO

Percussion and the synth pattern are just pervasive aren't they. They never ever let up. Needs variation man. Come on. This song is just too repetitive with not enough interesting ideas going on to warrant a YES from me. Interpret, break down, build back up. Substantiate it. Make it worth the three and a half minutes of time it takes up. NO

Not much besides and drum and bass (in the non-genre sense) groove with sampling over it. Strings are muddy, and that orch stab gets old after the 8th time. This mix could go on and on forever. It's like the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on, my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was, but they'll continue singing it forever just because it's the song that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my fr- Sorry. Anyway, I'd recommend actually substantially interpreting the music instead of groove + movie samples. It'd be cool if you played all that guitar yourself, but I doubt it, considering you're using FL3. Lacks substance. NO

Ack piano is too loud and mechanical. Delay doesn't help either. Piano is too bright and there's no attention paid to velocities. Plonk plonk plonk. That's what it sounds like. Flute is WAY too loud and resonant, and its attack sucks. Repetitive and not very interpretive. NO

I would add a little reverb to that oboe and flute, if I was doing this piece, but I don't think it totally detracts from the overall mood. This arrangement is gorgeous. Piano rocks the house, strings are subdued and really enhance the atmosphere. I give this a YES!

Doesn't anyone else hear the clipping? It's early on in the piece. I like the arrangement, but you gotta fix the clipping man. Turn the mix down and tone down the reverb slightly. Um, what else? Get a pianist to play this; hearing it live would be nice. NO for now!

Nice percussion stuff, nicely processed synths. However there's not enough arrangement here. You said yourself that it's an upgrade; that's not what we're looking for HERE at OCR (this is not to say that OCR is the end-all-be-all of remix sites; we just have a very specific purpose in mind). This is long and the first 2/3 is just the same thing over and over again ad infintum. The last third where you trick the song out is frickin' brilliant. It's like dirty mix on crack. Nice. Unforunately the majority is too much of the same old same old. Move ideas around more and do something shorter. NO (resubmit)

This is a nice take on the title theme. You took a really craptastic song and made it into something very listenable, so kudos for that. Nice piano; the human touch is there, and it's recorded well. Nice, dark, sound; just how I like it (omg bias). The arragment here is a conservative approach; I would have liked something more expansive (the piano has more octaves than that!), however, given the repetitive nature of the source material, I'd have to say that this is more than enough for OC, albeit it's short. Still, brevity is the essence of wit, or some shit like that. YES