Green Hill Zone [Indie Rock Remix]

[generaloffensive]

Hello everyone! I've made a remix of Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1 originally composed by Masato Nakamura in an indie rock style with electronica influences.

Here's the link:

Please tell me your opinions. Cheers!

[Eino Keskitalo]

Lovely sound, I like your style & got your EP.

I like the structure of the arrangement, very nice acoustic sound at the first part & speeding up with the electric for the later half.

My main gripe was that the main melody felt a little clashing harmonically in the first half. I felt it could've been adjusted better to the new chords.

From memory, I recognize 0:05-0:10 used half of the figure in the source's intro, 0:19-0:41 was the main melody in the A part. To me the source usage felt a little on the thin side, though it might add up & it's definitely ok to use only a part of the source (talking about OCR context here). I can't help but feel that the B part of the source would've sounded great with your instrumentation!

Also, what you did use felt a bit marginalized, maybe mainly because the synth lead in the first part of the sound was a bit quiet. The intro figure on the acoustic definitely is quite buried in the mix in the last part! But it does definitely sound like a GHZ arrangement to me in the end.

Apart from the harmonic clashing with the melody, I enjoyed this a lot!

[generaloffensive]

I used to have the lead louder but I thought it was too much but now that I listen to it you're right, it should've been louder. Thanks a lot for the in-depth analysis, I'll try to pay more attention to harmony clashing next time

[Garrett Williamson]

I feel like the chord progression is really cool for lots of parts but I'm not quite sure it works perfectly for the main melody over it, if ya know what I'm sayin'.

[HFTGameBand]

I like the almost post rock feel you've gone for, makes it really dreamy. Unfortunately the chord progression doesn't sit quite right with me, and I miss the B section But I've heard the tune so many times that most changes to it would seem really jarring! Haha, great work otherwise dude!

[generaloffensive]

I like the almost post rock feel you've gone for, makes it really dreamy. Unfortunately the chord progression doesn't sit quite right with me, and I miss the B section But I've heard the tune so many times that most changes to it would seem really jarring! Haha, great work otherwise dude!

I've sort of incorporated the B section but I've modified it so heavily that it's not really recognizable, I'll take that into account on my future remixes. Thanks for the feedback