ReMix: Final Fantasy VI 'MorningAfter(Hangover)'
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- Game: Final Fantasy VI (Square, 1994, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): djpretzel
- Composer(s): Nobuo Uematsu
- Song(s): The Day After
- Posted: 2002-03-29, evaluated by djpretzel
Well, here it is people - my 50th ReMix. Number five-o. Honestly, I can't believe
I've done this many tracks, over the 2+ years OC ReMix has been around, but it
adds up. So much to say, so little time - as many of you already know, I'm leaving
for a one-week vacation today, to Geneva and Barcelona. No computers, no email,
no work, and yes, no ReMixes - just a healthy break from everything. This
ReMix is not only the last to be posted before I leave for a week, but is also
the last to be posted under the current site design. When I return, as soon
as I return, I will begin making the final touches on OverClocked ReMix 3,
the next version of this site, and will then proceed to upload it and make the
switch. I truly believe all of you will appreciate the changes behind the new
design and the additional features. Moving everything to a database will also
pave the way in the future for many more interactive stuff I hope to add. However,
while this mix marks the end of a certain era in the site's history, it is also
the very first time I have ReMixed anything from the immensely popular Final Fantasy
series for this site. It's always been so well-represented by other ReMixers that
I never felt the need, and wanted to cover some of the more 'ignored' games like
Phantasy Star, etc.
Anyway, for my 50th mix, I wanted to do something
a little different, so I decided to break my long abstinence from the land of
FF and do some techno coverage of 'The Day After' from FF6. Originally a slow
piece, the tempo's been bumped all the way up to 151bpm, with no loops but two
sets of drums, both delayed, one distorted, working double-overtime. The resonant
303-ish bassline is also doubled at points by a nastier distorted bass, and the
melody is covered in the verses by a flutey square wave and in the chorus by widely
panned and delayed pan flutes. There's also some audio effects at points - a distorted
break / lead-in and an uber-delayed (delay on top of delay) break after the first
iteration of the melody, but other than that post-production the whole thing was
done on my Yamaha Motif. It's short but sort of neat in that it stays pretty close
to the original in terms of song structure but deviates wildly in tempo and timbre
- hope you enjoy.
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A.
To honor and appreciate the often-overlooked men and women who write quality music
for a medium that is too frequently considered to be "disposable"
B.
To revive older game music that is every bit as 'musical' (if not moreso) than
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met in 2002 and eclipsed in the years afterwards. With any luck, I'll be writing
a description of my 100th ReMix at some point in the future, and will look
back on this specific time period in the site's history as a significant turning
point. During the next week, I encourage all of you to check out the messageboards
if you haven't already . . . to read the FAQ . . . and most importantly, to check
out some of the ReMixes that perhaps in the past you skipped over because you
weren't familiar with the game or the ReMixer, or didn't like the genre. Part
of this site is definitely about expanding horizons and changing preconceptions,
and this week's a great time to go back and see what you may have missed.
Thanks.
Discussion: Latest 11 comments/reviews; view the I love this mix. In a healthy, strictly platonic way, of course. Anything that allows me to conjure up a uber-futuristic Incan metropolis in my mind needs to be cherished! And listened to many, many times.
There's a great blend of crazy, yet totally compatible elements here, which I personally find present in most of my favourite remixes. By this stage djpretzel pretty much knew how good he was and you can hear he was having a blast creating aural magic with this suped up, synthed up, pan-fluted up Final Fantasy mix.
More people need to stop passing this by. 'tis a gem! and it's djpretzel. I mean... how much more assurance do you need?
- Marmiduke on February 27, 2009
This is one of those remixes that I can't listen to the source tune without immediately having to listen to the remix afterward. It isn't in the same spirit as the original, since it replaces the depression and foreboding with ardor and enthusiasm, but djp makes it works for good and for awesome. Unless you have a hangover... then this might hurt.
- K.B. on December 6, 2008
- DragonAvenger on September 30, 2008
This remix doesn't have more reviews?
This is one of my favorite OCRemixes ever. Not kidding.
since I'm an FF fanboy I listened to the FF-remixes first and this one just jumped at me. Great resonant bass, sweet lead and nice synths all around. I like how the flute lead fits in such an electronic track.
The breakdown with the really high lead adds some dynamic to the track structure too.
Awesome.
- Another Soundscape on December 6, 2007
I am really loving the synths here,and the bass is pretty good as well. A little more high end in the percussion would make it snap a bit more, but overall a good mix.
- OA on May 18, 2007
have nice music to party to, thanks to pretzeldude.
- Bummerdude on September 19, 2005
- DarkCecil13 on March 9, 2003
- SyxxVolt on March 9, 2003
- mDuo13 on July 28, 2002
Hah! I knew you couldn't abstain from FF forever, Pretzel! It's somehow appropriate that he chose his landmark 50th remix to do it, though. And, DJP may have broke his abstinence from FF, but at least he chose an original song to do it with, namely the world of ruin town theme from FF6 - no preludes here! :D But I digress - what we have here is a great technofunk rendition of a lesser known FF theme, that I literally looped for about 50 times when I first heard it. Honestly, the only thing that needs work is the ending - the rest is spot on. Thanks to DJP for this remix and for the 49 other great ones.
- orkybash on May 22, 2002
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