Liontamer Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Hi, My name's Al. I'm an OCRemix noobie. This is my first ever submission to OCR. Contact Info Artist Name: Ardent Al Real Name: Al Swettenham Email: alswettenham@hotmail.co.uk User ID: 31026 Website: I don't really have a website as such but you can check out my music on Facebook Submission Info Name of game: Super Mario World Name of original song: Castle BGM Remix Title: Bowser Prevails The style of this remix was heavily influenced by the Justice but also by Wendy Carlos and 70s prog rock keyboard parts. It was made using Ableton Live and Reason. -------------------------------------------------------------- This was a pretty cool expansionist take on the original, but the overall structure was too close to the original, including many sounds from the original. But let's be clear, the sound upgrade and overall genre adaptation is hot. I'm definitely gonna be playing this one in my car, and I love listening to it. But structurally it's just not an interpretive enough treatment by a long shot. If you could add more melodic, rhythmic and/or structural interpretation here, something to not treat the theme in such a straightforward manner, this would be an easy pass for me. If you want to keep it as is, that's cool. I'm definitely not implying it's a bad piece of music. This is good music, it just, IMO, falls outside the level of interpretation we're looking for. Cool sound, Al. Keep at it, and I hope we hear more from you! NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anosou Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Nice choice of software Al, I feel close to you already! Sadly though I could basically copy+paste Larry's vote here. The structure and sounds were to similar to the original to be considered an interpretive arrangement. Even the melodies stayed relatively close to the source. You could definitely do more here and I can tell you could pull it off. Go the extra OCR-mile! NO(resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceansAndrew Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 I agree with both of my fellow judges, but i'd like to add that in addition to their critiques, there should be an improvement in some of the sequencing as well, specifically the velocities, as it seemed that every single note was pounding in at maximum velocity, and humanizing things would improve things as well. no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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