OCR01520 - Chrono Cross "People Seized with Trance"

[djpretzel]

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

[Liontamer]

I don't even know what happened to the original thread, but I'm just gonna claim responsibility for it accidentally being deleted with my evil mod powers somehow. Might not be my fault, but Alex, PLEASE FORGIVE ME! :sad:

[ambient]

No problem Larry. For a second I thought my remix was taken off the site there, lol. Now its gonna be a while before someone posts another review...

[Sole Signal]

Now its gonna be a while before someone posts another review...

Just a month.

Too bad about losing all those reviews; I'll try to jump start the process here. I've never played the game, and so am completely unfamiliar with the source. I like this though; it's a clean sounding mix overall and an enjoyable listen. Nice work.

[OceansAndrew]

It took me forever to hear the original theme besides the opening part, but the journey to finding it was certainly entertaining. Vanilla trance? This is a trance blizzard with the whole damn dairy queen thrown in. Multiple counterpoint lines, well programmed synths, and though the bass drum and snare stay pretty constant, there are a lot of other percussive elements going on.

Very engaging for trance, but doesn't sacrifice any dancability.

Well played, sir.

[about:blank]

Wow, I can not believe that this has so few reviews. Prisoners of Fate is definitely one of my top 5 compositions by Yasunori Mitsuda. It's minimalistic, but it carries so much power and emotion. This mix provides us with an excellent interpretation of said source. It completely changes it around without losing the feel of the original, and it's anything but minimalistic. Deciding to do a mix of this song in 4/4 electronic could have gone wrong in so many ways, but thankfully, this one didn't.

[BardicKnowledge]

First of all, the short review of this is awesome. It's going on my UT99 music list, the highest of honors for techno pieces.

In any case, despite DJP's commentary, I feel that it has quite a lot of things going on for a trance mix. I would have liked the end to be a complete amalgation of everything that had come before it (like 303 Infinity's "Trancending Reality") but I guess I can't have everything. Specifically, I like all of the transitions and segways in the top voices.

This mix is new enough to be mostly evaluated by the current panel as well, so I don't have any fun history comments about production etc. to make. From the writeup I can say that this is obviously a successful use of both the WIP forums and the resubmission process though -- two compeltely underused resources IMO.

Good mix -- hopefully we get some more excellent techno in soon.

[DragonAvenger]

Definately one of my favorite Cross songs (I have a lot of favorites on this soundtrack ). Nice adaption of the source, it works well in trance. Nice unique style, I enjoyed listening to it.

Short review, I'm tired :/ Mix is good, though!

[Rozovian]

This is one of those remixes I found fairly early, and kept. There's always stuff happening, the track is constantly moving forward. Gets a bit repetitive, but that's the genre. Good stuff.

[NeoS]

I see you've lost your reviews?

Let me fix it a bit.

I remember we started doing the same track to see who would get in with hi remix. You won.

Very good interpretation of the theme, awesome breaks, good percussion work, good synthesis. My only quirk with your remix is the ending. But that's just personal taste i guess.

Congrats Alex, on a job well done. Maybe one of my mixes will get through someday.

[WillRock]

I like this one, despite not being a big fan of trance.

Your synths were def high quality and there was plenty of variation, and yet, I still got bored, I'm sad to say, because I really respect this as a piece of music and don't think you could have done much to make it better.

[AmazinJason]

Can't say this song brings back happy memories, I remember you're forced to kill your father's best friend while this song is playing.

This mix is decent, Trance is only entertaining on ex, or when I'm really drowsy.

The melody of this mix is a little hard to identify, I'm guilty of opening up the original to see how they matched, actually upon second listening the theme of the song is well mixed into a trance-like tune.

Overall, pretty cool mix. It didn't zone me out like most trance music, but it was a sweet song choice.

[Lucentas]

I would never really label myself a trance fan, but this one's just got too much spunk for me to leave it alone. Great job.

[Bahamut]

This is a pretty daring take IMO since the original source is so emotive due to the strings, and that element is lost with this interpretation.

I feel like some of the production could use some improvement here, as the sound doesn't really come across to me as full - having more going on at once would do this wonders I think in terms of overall feel. The base arrangement is solid though, and provides a good foundation for the song.

[Im_Just_Shawn]

old and funky

Still a nice twist to what you normally hear outta CC and CT remixes