DarkeSword Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Very proud to finally present this album to everyone. I hope everyone enjoys what they hear. Please let us know what you think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 that main gate remix holy fuck just... just wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
URABAHN Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 How come the Amazon MP3s are $17.99? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwordBreaker Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Congrats on your first commercial release! Sweet milestone. It's too bad that this release only on the US iTunes and Amazon though. Hopefully CDbaby is universal. I just gave a first-round listen to the previews at SoundCloud. Obviously since the album is paid, I'll have to pick and choose my favorites since some stuff are my cup of tea and some are not. Surprisingly, I find the spin-off side of the album (involving ZX, Legends, Battle Network, and Starforce) a lot stronger than the mainline MM, X and Zero series. Perhaps it's because I'm not familiar with the spin-off side as much as the mainline games so I tend to be more critical of the main ones. Nothing really caught my ear from the mainline ones except Sixto and Jeff's take on Spark Mandrill. That is my favorite track of the album. Absolutely awesome stuff there. Really, really good. Phonetic's interpretation of Boomer Kewanger rubs me off the wrong way. I love the original track so much, and I see what he was trying to do with that jungle mix, but it's still sounds very 'empty' to me in comparison to the fast-paced techno-y nature of the original. There's nothing much going on in the remix aside from the drums. I like how authentic it may seem to sounding jungle-like, but it's a disappointing direction that ultimately doesn't do the original one justice. Again, I find myself surprised as I'm drawn to tracks from ZX, Legends, Battle Network and Star Force...because to be perfectly honest aside from ZX, I really don't find that the latter three series having great music (I'm sure someone will defend those and point out examples of otherwise). Theory of N, Rexy, Nutritious, Level 99, halc, and Morse/Cannon's tracks are very interesting and catchy. By no means I'm saying that the rest of the tracks suck, but they haven't drawn me as much during my first listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperiorX Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Amazing album all around! There isn't a track I didn't incredibly enjoy. For the diversity of games and artists, the album also sounded incredibly cohesive, at least to me. A lot of the mixes have that 'official arrange' album sort of vibe to them too. I love it. A fitting tribute to the Blue Bomber!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mullion Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 OMG that song with sixto sounds is more than perfect! I bought the album just for this song! Since i'm not a fan of "techno, beat, dumbstep, trance" there's around 6-7 track that I didn't enjoy. (Still good) Overall it's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 (edited) I personally felt like a good portion of the tracks had come off as a bit blasé (), but there were still some really good ones in there. I ended up reposting those on my soundcloud. I especially liked Sixto's and halc's tracks. Edited October 31, 2013 by timaeus222 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted October 30, 2013 Author Share Posted October 30, 2013 I personally felt like a good portion of the tracks had come off as a bit blasé (), but there were still some really good ones in there. I ended up reposting those on my soundcloud. I especially liked the Sixto-Jeff collab and halc's track. Jeff wasn't on Sixto's track. That was an error on my part (Jeff worked on another track with Sixto for a different project I'm running, I mixed things up). That track was 100% Sixto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Jeff wasn't on Sixto's track. That was an error on my part (Jeff worked on another track with Sixto for a different project I'm running, I mixed things up). That track was 100% Sixto. Ah, okay. I may have also assumed since there was violin, it was Jeff. Oh well, I do remember Sixto had access to a violin back when he did that Tales album track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperiorX Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) When I downloaded the album off iTunes on Tuesday night, I realized the final track just credited Joshua Morse, but according to the Soundcloud is looks like it features Danimal Cannon as well. Just FYI, that track might not be tagged correctly in the iTunes store. Jake shows up as DJ/JD and not DjjD too, by the way. Edited November 1, 2013 by SuperiorX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 iTunes appears to have messed up a lot. It was also originally priced at $19.99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phonetic Hero Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Phonetic's interpretation of Boomer Kewanger rubs me off the wrong way. Better to be rubbed off the wrong way than to not be rubbed off at all, amirite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted November 2, 2013 Share Posted November 2, 2013 Better to be rubbed off the wrong way than to not be rubbed off at all, amirite no Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elementc Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 So in the end I see you guys couldn't resist the temptation after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 So in the end I see you guys couldn't resist the temptation after all. What temptation, praytell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 We are all tempted by the 'EH!!' ....we all know what he meant.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phonetic Hero Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 So in the end I see you guys couldn't resist the temptation after all. The temptation of doing an album for Capcom after they asked us to? Yeah, that sure was a toughie... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixto Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 just got my copy and started listening to the first disc. good GOD, i can not take theoryofN's track off repeat. it's soooooo good. even got people at work hooked on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catmancer Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 CD Baby is closed, Amazon is charging $12 instead of the $10 listed on the website, and I'm not interested in itunes. Is Amazon really my only option or is there somewhere else I can buy this album? I would love to get the physical copy too, but CD Baby is no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Routhinator Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 2 years later.. the only option here is really Amazon DRM bs? Please provide another option - preferably bandcamp or similar. I'll pay $20 - it's not the cost that's an issue, it's the source and the fact that I cannot download a flac/mp3 copy for offline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catmancer Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 13 hours ago, Routhinator said: 2 years later.. the only option here is really Amazon DRM bs? Please provide another option - preferably bandcamp or similar. I'll pay $20 - it's not the cost that's an issue, it's the source and the fact that I cannot download a flac/mp3 copy for offline. Wait, you can't download mp3s from Amazon? Well, then that means there are no options then. I hate when music artists, especially indies, make it nigh impossible to access they're music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 You can always download DRM-free MP3s from Amazon. This album is also not an indie-album, there were very specific terms we had to abide by because this album was done in collaboration with Capcom. Bandcamp doesn’t support region restrictions, which was one of their requirements, so we could not put it on Bandcamp, despite it being one of the first things we investigated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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