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Remixer Name: Poolside

Real Names: Josh Whelchel + Melinda Hershey

Email: josh@poolsideband.com OR josh@jwmusic.org

Website: www.poolsideband.com

UserID: (Josh - 5487)

Submission Information

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Game: Final Fantasy VIII

Song: Fragments of Memories

Comments:

This song is about a real girl.

I (Josh) grew up playing Final Fantasy and I absolutely loved the

music, and Nobuo Uematsu has proven to be one of main reasons I am now

a successful composer for games (I've written for the MTV VMA's,

Ubisoft's TMNT series, among others, including the indie games Bonesaw

and The Spirit Engine 2). Poolside is a project I started a few years

ago as a way to express a more mainstream sound that I enjoyed, but it

quickly became an electropop-mirror of what I was doing

compositionally. When Melinda joined on the Poolside project we wrote

a few songs together, but nothing has quite "shined" like this one,

and I think that is mostly due to its genuine and heartfelt spirit -

instead of singing about dancing and having a fun time, I poured my

pen into a feeling that was very real and very, very strong.

Naturally, this song fell into place from there.

Taking the song "Fragments of Song" which was originally in 3/4 to the

more mainstream 4/4 opened it up to some interesting and catchy

melodies and I think we were really able to take advantage of it, as

well as using the time modulation as a reason to add our favorite

"glitch" sound. Production-wise we are sort of looking at a

combination of 3OH!3 and one of those more modern rock bands, like

Boys Like Girls or Owl City. I also think about all of those songs

that become hits on the radio that have samples of other previously

popular songs and wonder, how cool would it be if VGM did that, too?

This is an attempt to realize that.

SIDENOTE:

Aquaria Composer ALEC HOLOWKA and I are both on a cancer fundraiser

this year called the "Indie Music Cancer Drive," which last year

featured Mustin, Big Giant Circles, and 2D Boy's Kyle Gabler (world of

goo, anyone?) as well (who may come on again in 2010). Please check it

out at www.cancerdrive.org or mention in posting notes (assuming it

gets posted).

Josh Whelchel

www.jwmusic.org / (513) 549-2336

Indie Music Cancer Drive:

http://www.cancerdrive.org

source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv9llZE5INA

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Pretty cool stuff, i like the vocal duet, and though there are few parts where the effects in the background don't seem to mesh, specifically at the beginning of the first chorus.

Though the source takes a very prominent backseat to the new stuff (which is pretty much the only reason I paneled this one), the execution and presence of it throughout keeps it within what I think a remix should include.

Very nice work, I enjoyed it a lot. :-)

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Pop cheese factor is through the roof, wonderful. The source is in the background, and it's pretty soft, so I think it would be better if it were more prominent. It's still generally pretty audible, and it's interpreted in different ways, so I'm fine with this on arrangement. Production is definitely over the bar. I thought the male vocals were a bit overpowered in the section from 2:42 to 3:05 and could've been brought up a little bit, but that's a minor complaint.

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