Liontamer Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Hello OCR, Here is Flake's and my submission to the upcoming Iwata Album. ReMix: Think on Your Feet Source: Title Screen, Menu, Ranking Your ReMixer name: TSori Your real name: Your email address: Your website: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trumpetsori Your userid: 2960 Credits: Arrangement, Flake, TSori Mixing: PocketCrow Mastering: Zack Parrish Piano: zmand97 Drumset: Andrew Gossett Aux. Percussion: Sean Hanson Violins: KestrelGirl, ViolinGamer, optimizasean Violas: AnimeVivi, KestrelGirl Cellos: Chromatic Apparatus Guitar: Kalen Scott Thomas Bass: Myuik Saxophones: iCrescendo Trombone: Flake Trumpets: TSori Of the above, all have artist profiles expect for: ReMixer name: Kalen Scott Thomas real name: Kalen Scott Thomas Email: n/a Website: youtube.com/@kalen_st ReMixer name: iCrescendo real name: Marijn Bov Email: n/a Website: ReMixer name: AnimeVivi real name: Joe Chen Email: n/a Website: www.youtube.com/user/animevivi/ userid: n/a ReMixer name: optimizasean real name: Sean Harding Email: n/a Website: https://linktr.ee/optimizasean userid: 39020 ReMixer name: Andrew Gossett real name: Andrew Gossett Email: n/a Website: www.youtube.com/@thebasoonist7513 userid: n/a ReMixer name: zmand97 real name: Zack Dornfield Email: zmand97@gmail.com Website: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXo75RFCqXOURaVUNIGH2g userid: n/a ReMixer name: PocketCrow real name: Benjamin Email: n/a Website: songwhip.com/pocketcrow userid: n/a Submission Information Name of game(s) arranged : Brain Age Name of arrangement: "Think on Your feet " Name of individual song(s) arranged : "Title", "Menu", "Ranking" Link to the original soundtrack (if it is not one of the sound archives already available on the site): see above Source Breakdown Remix. |. (Source) 0:00 - 0:15. (Original) 0:15-1:25 ( Menu 0:00- 0:22) 1:25-1:41. (Ranking 0:02-0:24, Menu 0:00-0:22) 1:41-2:02. (Original) 2:02-2:19. (Title 0:06-0:27) 2:19-2:51 ( Menu 0:00- 0:22) 2:51-3:09. (Ranking 0:02-0:24) Original: 0:36 Source: 2:33 81% source Commments Flake just sent me some comments he would like to include in our submission: > I had never co-arranged a ReMix project before, so when TSori reached out to me to work on arranging a track together I was eager to accept this opportunity to try out this approach. He had chosen a music style I was not familiar with, and I had never played the Brain Age games, so gathering inspiration from the various reference tracks he had at his disposal and working with him to combine it with the quirky source material was both a fun and challenging new experience. We each brought our own ideas to the table, and kept feeding off each other to create new ones together. Out of our back and forth collaboration we created what I believe is a truly unique arrangement that would not have been possible for either of us to do alone, and the performers took it one step further and really gave the track its own life.> TSori: Initially I had guessed there wouldn't be any requests for a trumpet collab on this album, so I thought I had better claim a track if I wanted to do more than direct it. Brain Age was a game I remember spending a lot time, with so, I thought I'd give that a try. Because the Brain Age sources don't have much in the way of melody it seemed like a good idea good to arrange it in a more rhythmically-driven style. I was an avid locker (funkstyle street dance) when I was at university, so I patterned the arrangement after the kind of music I danced to then. It turned out I couldn't have been more wrong about how many collab requests I'd get. Combine that with work, and pretty soon, I was swamped with neither the time nor creative bandwidth to finish the arrangement I started. I reached out to Flake who I had collaborated with several times before and know to be basically boundlessly creative. Thankfully, he was available and interested. So I sent him what I had started writing out, and talked him through what I was going for. He framed out the other 70% or so of the track right away and we started trading a draft arrangement back and forth, building on each other's ideas tii we had a full score. This was a truly collaborative arrangement. In fact our "complete" score had only placeholders for all of the percussion, guitar and bass. Sean Hanson, Andrew, Kalen, and Myuik essentially wrote their own parts in the track in addition to providing superb performances. I always try to do as much of a track as possible with live performers, and for this genre I think it was essential. That meant it was going to be a very big collab. There are a lot of familiar names from my previous OCR outings, and several new ones. They all turned in stellar performances on what is, at points, a deceptively tricky arrangement to perform. Some of those string licks are quite tough, but KestrelGirl, Anime Vivi, ViolinGamer, optimizasean, and ChromaticApparatus delivered great performances. PocketCrow answered the call for mixing, and though I had never worked with him before, he impressed the heck out of me with the quality of his work and his understanding of how to balance the ensemble. Zmand97 and iCrescendo, on piano and saxes, respectively, carried almost all of the source melody throughout the track. Their performances are the core of the ReMix and they both gave the track exactly what it needed to both be a familiar BrainAge tune as well as something new. Flake and I rounded out the ensemble as the brass section, with Flake putting his Trombone skills on display, and me getting an excuse to dust off my old lead jazz mouthpiece and put it to use again. This is the album version of the track so we owe our thanks for mastering this track and the album as a whole to Zack Parrish Hope you all enjoy "Think on Your Feet"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 what a stack of performers credits! excited to hear this one. percs come in at about 0:07, and we get a bass and piano groove at 0:15. more horns are in at 0:30, and we get a variety of stabs and rhythmic elements through this section the Menu theme. guitar in particular is really set into the mix well here, it's hard imo to balance an electric in a jazz stack and it's done well here. 1:25 is the next section the sax parts are more active here. drum work in here is particularly impressive. after a percussion break, there's the title material again and then the menu. i agree that the string licks could have been messy but they're well-done. the track as a whole is a lot brighter and louder in this section and it's fun to hear everyone doing their thing here after how light some of the earlier arrangement was handled. there's a final flourish and it's done. this is an interesting idea for what's essentially a melody-less remix. i think this definitely hits the mark. it's more backing track for a las vegas montage than it is standalone track, but i think that's fine given the goal here. nice job realizing the underlying potential in such an odd place. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emunator Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 This is an easy call. The production quality and performances are masterful across the board, and I truly don't hear a weak link. When the brass and strings come in, it's an instant classic - those sound truly stupendous. I have to especially shout out PocketCrow's mixing abilities here - you make this sort of production quality sound effortless. I really have nothing but praise to sing for this - it's a triumph from everyone involved and the artists who put it together. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Yep, this is firing on all cylinders. Fantastic job taking music hardly anyone would ever notice and making a full track out of it. It'll easily sit in the album alongside more well-known tracks from Iwata's games. Great performances, great production, great arrangement. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemophiliac Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Been hearing this one for months since TSori has been working on it during development of the project. It's been a pleasure to hear it come together. Especially when the sources are very forgettable. The 70s semi-disco vibe is so great, and the performances from top to bottom are excellent. The mix is super clean and manages to balance out all of those parts amongst each other so well. Absolute slam dunk from TSori, Flake, and crew! I hope people enjoy this one as much as I do. Get up and "Think on Your Feet"! YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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