Bundeslang

Flurry of Flames PRC 356 vote

1. Arcana

2. Silverpool

The reasoning behind this because of how much of a person style and their ingenuity melded into the source tune. With Arcana's remix, Having live instruments really brought the music to life in the genre that he/she was working with especially his/her improvised spots starting 1:22 which was a good effort into putting their own spin on this track. The other big factor was that there was a sense of contrast with the remix itself without help of the source tune. The example is when the transition goes from the 1st verse to the chorus at 0:55 which the live drums really drive that contrast as giving it a more rock feeling than what was being played previously. There were spotty notes here and there, but the effort into trying and making something new within the track within the confines of the genre they're playing deserves some credit.

With Silverpool's remix, I really like the change of instrumentation of the main melody and call back or also known as the voices from the original tune. It gives a mellow tone at first, but still has a slight edge giving momentum even with a mellow tone. I loved some addictions such a light electric piano rhythm when only percussion and bass were playing (0:13), and I think its called a fill at 1:21, and in my opinion I felt there could be even more variation as I felt it was still close to what we had in the general midi sample we got. It's most apparent in the percussion, but they did differentiate it the end to give them credit for that. Also I did feel like the timbres were just a touch too similar occasionally as I would mistake the original source midi we had to this remix. My ear is still training so there could be stuff I missed and went over my head, but in the end I liked the remix and I think there is much more room to grow out of it.