ReMix: Crystalis 'Calming the Angry Sea'

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Cool - this site needed a Crystalis ReMix, and now it's got one, courtesy of Ryan8bit, who gave us a crunchy Monkey Island ReMix a couple months ago. This is more reserved, but very well done. It's still heavily guitar based, but this time around there's no distortion and things are rather mellow. A bass and from what I can tell three to four discrete electric guitar parts are essentially it, save for the ambient ocean effects used in the intro & outro. Ryan got some comments on his SoMI mix regarding the guitars being a bit out of control - though there's certainly a human touch to the playing and rhythms, I'd say everything's more refined here, and it reminded me a bit of Steve Pordon's great FF6 Mystic Forest piece from a while back. The strumming at 1'22" is a nice touch, adding some variety of playing techniques. Despite being entirely guitar, like Steve's mix this feels like a very complete - both sonically and compositionally - piece. The ending is very abrupt, and does catch one off guard, and will certainly raise a few eyebrows. Given the overall quality of the piece I have to think it was entirely intentional, and I don't get stuck up on endings like some, but it's worth mentioning. Other than that, a lyrical, well-mixed, guitar-laden arrangement that I enjoyed and which should please Crystalis + genre fans alike. Recommended.

― djpretzel