djpretzel Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 ReMixer name: AeroZ Your real name: Sebastian Freij sebastian_freij@hotmail.com www.soundclick.com/aeroz Click on link "music". CT - Zeal Kingdom REMIX This is a remix made from the game Chrono Trigger. Zeal Kingdom. Tnx for your wonderful homepage. Many hours of happy listening. / Best Wishes Sebastian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 This one isn't too interpretive. I do like the groove element - smooth drums and bass, except for the fact that the drumloop is just an unaltered one from Reason. That's kind of lame. You usually want to at least chop up the loop a bit, use layering, variations, that kind of thing to make it more your own. You did do that a little later but you repeated the same variations over and over. For the most part, the texture here is pretty minimal even compared to the original. There's not a whole lot going on at all. Just bass, drums, pizz. strings, maybe a synth or two. You need more than that for a really full remix, or at the very least the individual parts have to be doing a lot more. Right now they're just sort of playing the melody/harmony unaltered. You can vary up the progression, changes rhythms, keys, the time signature.. a whole BUNCH of stuff to really make the ReMix your own. On the production end, the strings are a little too loud compared to the lead instrument(s) usually, and the synths are very simplistic. However, this isn't as big of a deal as the arrangement and the overall execution. Needs a lot more work all around, but if this is an early effort, it's not too bad. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Orichalcon Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Believe it or not, this is the first Zeal theme remix I've had to judge since joining the panel. Anyway, this is pretty much just a direct cover of the source. There are no variations from the normal melodies. Just a replacement of instruments and some loopy beats pasted over the top. There's some clever stuff in the background around 1:40. But it's still pretty much rip-town right the way through. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ct - "Corridor of Time" (ct-3-04.spc) Starts out pretty cover-ish with some beats and lil' strings in there. Would have have had more of a chance in the old days back when there wasn't too much emphasis on rearrangement so much as personalization (see: "Island of Zeal"), but even so the track is still fairly lacking. The beats are repetitive and need to vary more, plus the texture is really thin/sparse and the pizz strings are used very poorly. You used a Reason default for the beats? Too bad yo, write your own beats and offer something more creative. Decent additional warbly sounds and pads in at 1:34 for some new ideas, along with some piano as well, but the same tired beat pattern came right back in at 1:46, lasting practically until the end. Decent beginner effort, but not much of a rearrangement. It's only working with the extreme basics right now. Needs more development and more of your own original ideas introduced into the track, along with a more solid texture via more elements in play, less repetition/looping writing for both the lead and supporting instrumentation. NO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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