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This is how a techno mix should sound. I love the fact that the mix doesn't start out as techno. The piano playing over the record scratch, the instrumentation, the REFUSAL to stick with run of the mill drum loops for this mix. The effects, the delivery... I love it. I haven't used this rating in over a year, but offhand I'd give this song 8 slices. Post it NOW! Yes.

So ummm.. yeah.

I agree with Stephen. Plus I'm sick of looking at this topic. Yes. </Daniel>

Whoa. The part around 0:25 kinda reminded me of "Right Now" by Van Halen. The bass that comes in 0:52 is only a centimeter away from some really disturbing distortion. At first I was gonna say no, but the drums DID help to save this. It's not that it's a bad arrangement. It's just that it just seemed kinda...average. The main beef I have is the "I'm gonna give up on the rest" fadeout. The length was on par, but it's how you brought it about. Yet and still, I find this mix right on the borderline. But I'll let the reviewers bitch about all the negative stuff. Breakin' the tie. Post it. Yes.

No. I'm not familiar with the SA2 soundtrack, but I DO know that the opening electric piano is a MUST FIX before this track gets considered. It hurts the ears. Seriously. Not being sarcastic. It really does hurt. Please fix it.

I see why this came to the panel. It's a tough call. Good instrumentation, overall nice effort, but a liiiiiiiiiittle drab. I think the main problem is the length of this piece. It's 5:58! And the Lost Woods theme is awfully short to stretch out for 6 minutes. Damn. Okay, one more listen... It's okay, but it's so damn long. I'm gonna say no. I woulda said yes, but you need to PLEEEEESE trim a good two minutes from this. My advice: cut a couple minutes and resubmit. More than likely you'd get posted. You've got many of the same parts repeated over and over. It gets redundant. Perhaps you could bring in the beatdrop earlier. That'd shave about 20 seconds or so. The elec. piano that comes in around 2:12 could come in with it. That'd save you some time. The main thing here is consistancy. Does the listener get bored with this mix? In this case yes. That's what's killing you. Everything else is fine. 2:30-2:48 could be cut. 3:10-3:42 could be cut or could replace an earlier instance elsewhere. 4:48-5:30 could go completely. I hope this helps. Luck!

This is a lovely arrangement (though a bit long), but upon reading Binnie's comments, I think I should take a listen at the original. ... Ahhhh, I love Zophar's Domain. Okay, back to the song. No. I agree with Binnie that although it's a lovely remake, it's just that. A remake. At least change the drumline, and cut it down by about a minute, minute and a half. Sprinkle with a little bit of improv and maybe couple with some layer transitions and stuff. You've got a recipe for an OCREMIX. Your basic template is on par, though. Just spice it up for us. And cut the length a bit.

Yes. I really don't have too much to say on this piece. It's a bit repetitive, but not enough to kill it. I've been looping it for about 12 minutes or so and I'm not sick of it, so that's a good sign! Overall, the mix is well put together. The ending was kinda drab, but *shrugs*. Like I said, on the whole this is good. I think this is OC material, like it or lump it. Posties!

I was SOOOOO close to saying that myself.

I'm 50 seconds in and the song hasn't started yet... OH there it is! at 0:58, we get something more than the buzz, the beatdrop and drums... wait. WHAT THE FUCK?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! Oh my... you hear nothing but a boring drumline coupled with an oversimple beatrop and lame buzz effect for the first 58 seconds. The next 30 seconds adds an ambient-type instrument that only goes back and forth between two notes. As for what happens at 1:30, I'll leave that as totally a surprise. Does it get any better? No. You still have another 3 minutes of ONLY this to go. Nothing else is added. Only layer changes and rearrangements. No new ideas. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, djp. You are still on the mark. This goes straight to the form rejection letter. You are STILL on the ball and focused. My goodness, this the second worse submittion I've ever heard. I'm not even sure this is worse than Bad Tuna. This'd be an excellent BEER mix, though!

No. Where's the rest?

No. This is basically a good test to see if you can properly load a MIDI into Fruity Loops. It's a four minute loop of Corneria with no changes. Your instrumentation is a good start, but you need more originality. You need to "mix" it up. Improv, toy with the notes, something. Please?

No. This is the spc with a (very lovely mind you) instrument swap. Not enough variation. Lo siento.

Finally, Mega Man VII gets a little lovin. OoOOOOOOo! Shademan! Let's see what we got here. Piano intro reverbed. Angelic choir "ahh's" nice, nice. Violin coming in there. Bassline just arrived. I like, I like! Here are the drums and beatdrop now. Violin just left. Nice smooth piece you have here. Wait a minute. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A TECHNO MIX!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, enough silliness. **time passes*** For some reason I had to download this 3 or 4 times to get the full version. It kept cutting off. Weird. Inanycase, I'm giving this one a no, and here's why: This mix is too long for so short a theme. It's basically the same few bars for almost 6½ minutes. I needs to be shorter by a full minute or two. Second of all, the execution of the genre. It's difficult to pull off a decent enough techno song to get posted due to the very nature of techno. Your drums and claps sound pretty weak. The instrumentation used is kinda , but I can live with it. It's a double shame because I'd have liked your "final mix for a while" to have been one to get posted. That and Shademan deserves so much more. Your intro lead me to believe this was gonna be a spectacular piece, but I you didn't pull off the genre switch sufficiently. Better luck upon your return, Ryu.

New location, kiddies: EDIT: NO NEW LOCATION!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!!!

Yes I didn't think it was THAT damn repetitive. It loops a couple of times, but it wasn't enough to disapprove of. It's not that long of a mix anyways. The last 30 seconds threw me off...kinda a weird outro thingy happenin', but I've never played Earthbound. I tried listenin' to the original and promptly wanted to throw up. I like what he did to this mix. Good instrumentation, nice execution. I think that is a drum loop, but this isn't one of those mixes where the drumloop makes or breaks it. If you were to remove it and create your own, it'd still be fine.

I hate to say it, as I'm a big fan of Malcos...but no. Yeah, the piano, was good (as always). The background strings were good (as always). And the bassline was above par (assssss always). So what the *^$('s the problem? That was it. There wasn't anything else. I expected more out of Malcos and I KNOW the man can deliver more. This sounds more like a beta of a song that would EVENTUALLY kick mad ass, but in the meantime it's just too empty.

No. Kwix and I already talked about this.

While I agree with Daniel and Malcos that better samples might have been worth checking out, I think the samples in question were a deliberate choice. Of course they sound kiddie; this is a chocobo theme! It sounds like something I'd expect to hear if David the Gnome traded Swift for a chocobo. This song wasn't meant to be hardcore techno and for that, the samples in question fit the melody which has been beautifully expanded upon. It always surprises me when someone can do a new version of the 3rd most remixed song on the planet. I think this'd be a nice addition to OC. Even if it ain't I'm keepin' it for myself. Hell, I've always loved the chocobo theme anyways. Yes. My only gripe is the ending. I felt like it came too quickly. The part that starts in around 2:30 leads you to believe that you've only reached half of the song. 2/3 at the MOST. Instead, you get a quickie paste of a happy-go-lucky chocobo theme, it's over in ten seconds, and I'M stuck lying in the wet spot... It's okay, I still love you and it's not enough to turn the song down. The question is will you respect me in the morning? #1: Super Mario Bros. main theme #2: The Prelude #3: Chocobo theme. Uematsu himself packs in about two version of this song himself between FFIV and FFIX. When the guy who originally wrote it remixes it to death, you KNOW you'd better come correct.

I just got this yesterday: Trailing silence go bye-bye. Everyone indicated that they'd say yes once it was fixed. Well, it's fixed. Post it.

Artist: ResdntEvilFreak Game: Sonic the Hedgehog Title: "Starlight Symphony" Linkage:

Artist - Justin of the Jungle Game - Panzer Dragoon Title - "Panzers Rolling" Linkage(s):

Why the hell not? Yes.

No. The square waves had me worried at first, but then the piano offered a bit of promise. I thought that maybe it could get better. The addition of the drums at 0:27 increased my hope. But for the remainder of the song (close to 2 minutes), nothing else really happens. A 2nd "aaahhh choir" hops in around 0:45, but that's it. It's very repetitive, the drumloop is unexciting, and the square waves are constant throughout. Personally, I'd have expected them to fade out or evolve into another instrument. This is an example that nice samples don't mean squat if you don't arrange the song well enough.