Cool . . . McVaffe has sent me several of his excellent ReMixes, but because I've been a bit behind you're only seeing the first of them now. This funky ReMix of the immortal Super Mario theme is really unique as well as great - I do believe it's out first 'Ragga' ReMix submission. It's got some really nice sound effect work towards the end, and is interestingly ambient throughout. Picture Ganja Mario hangin' with Bob Marley somewhere in the great unknown, celebrating the afterlife with some rastafarian rituals and a big-ass bong, and you begin to get da idea :) Nice stuff . . .
― djpretzel
This strikes me as a great example of how to structure a remix. In
today's standards, it wouldn't get far, but there's a lot of
interesting stuff going on in the background, all the elements are
fairly clear so even the complete n00bs can hear how the different
elements, lead, backing, bass, rhythm, percussion, how they mesh
together. Yeah, it's not the best of McVaffe, it's not the best of
OCR.
The minimalism makes it feel better than a lot of the tracks from
2000. It's got a timeless simplicity to it, imo. And that's
strangely impressive.
- Rozovian on December 10, 2008
Not the best of McVaffe's works, as pretty much everyone's
mentioned, but it has it's enjoyable moments. A little too close to
the source for me, (melodically and stylistically)I would have
liked something else going on.
Decent, but McVaffe has better.
- DragonAvenger on October 10, 2008
like the part at 0'08" and the way it echoes. it stops echoing at
0'13":sad: but it starts again soon. who cares what u people think
this remix is great!!:-D (the accordian at the beginning's a little
retarded:-?) but the rest rocks
demanus flint is right, feedback should be helpful (unless it's for
the ds!)
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- ds is trash on June 29, 2007
Good point, I wasn't trying to offend, just compare it to some of
his other work. McVaffe kicks ass, so he has set his own standards
pretty high, and as such, I didn't feel like this had the same
attention paid to it as some of his other early mixes.
Perhaps "super early WIP" is a bit terse on my part, but it does
sound like something is distinctly missing.
- OA on May 5, 2007
Just curious-- what's with people harshly reviewing ReMixes from
nearly seven years ago? The community was new, as was the "art of
remixing videogames," whatever that may be. Can any feedback really
be considered helpful or necessary?
I can see some of the point of Liontamer's message, where he points
out that McV has better songs on the site. But OA's reference to
the "super early WIP" is just sort of unfounded. In some sense, it
was a work-in-progress-- as was OCReMix in general at that
point.
There's plenty of stuff out there where constuctive (or not)
criticism is welcome. Check it out!
Oh, and the cool thing about these reviews is that it shows that
OCR truly is longevous. Hooray!
- DemanusFlint on May 5, 2007
sounds like a super early WIP to me; not really what i'd expect for
McV. :-(
- OA on May 4, 2007
Doesn't do anything interesting with the theme at all, but it's got
a nice minimalism to it. Can't help feeling though that after about
30 seconds, you've basically heard the whole thing. Mike's got some
much hotter works here.
- Liontamer on May 10, 2006
I like this mix, I tell you.
What I prefer in it:
-the "8 bit" intro
-the stereo lead (nice sound!)
-FX @ 01:40
What I find less good: the ending is a bit "sudden".
- Coucou on October 30, 2003
This remix (should I say 'ReMix'?) is good, and I really liked
it... but it was kind of boring. Jivemaster is right, the tune was
a bit over repetitive (I know techno music in general is repetitive
because I am a big fan of it, but this had the same tune all over
the song) and it didn't have the correct 'background', in my
opinion. One song I [i][b]really[/b][/i] liked was McVaffe's Final
Fantasy - Kaoss ReMix (there you go :?), because it was consistent,
it [i]did[/i] have repeating tunes but not in too long periods, and
it had background instrumentation that left me enjoying a lot (and
I still enjoy it!), and (IMHO), it had these funky drums
(Drum'n'Bass is my favorite techno genre, what are you gonna do)
that gave the original tune a good rhythm overall. But enough of
that, this is not the Kaoss ReMix, is it?
- TheJunner on April 11, 2003
This mix is a bit disappointing compared to other Mario Bros mixes
because it's so similar to the original, even in terms of
instruments (the main melody sounds almost as if it was ripped from
the NES). It's not bad, though. There's some nice percussion and
background that sounds pretty good, but should've been given a bit
more attention.
- mDuo13 on September 22, 2002
Super Mario Bros. 'Dancehall Ragga'
McVaffe with another Mario Bros. tune. This time, the classic Mario
song is done here. Very minimal, quite wide with not too many
instruments and a variety of classic little SFX thrown in near the
end. Now I did like this, but it's nowhere near as good as some
other McV mixes, and he doesn't do much with the tune here. I was
hoping for a little more.
- Jivemaster on May 17, 2002
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