ReMix: Ninja Gaiden 'SuddenLoss'

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This ReMix from goat represents one of the few, but extremely cool from my perspective, instances where a track was submitted, turned down, revised, improved for the better, and accepted. This doesn't happen all that often, nor should it necessarily - often it's best to just move on if a particular mix isn't working out, rather than try to fix it come hell or high water. I've abandoned more mixes than I've finished, though admittedly in the earlier stages, however the point is the same - resubmitting a mix isn't always the best path. However, our judges usually indicate when a mix is right there on the edge, and whether or not a couple concrete modifications could make the difference, and in this case, they did. Opening with well-imaged acoustic guitar and shakuhachi, goat takes this melodramatic theme from the classic 2D ninja scroller Ninja Gaiden (about to see new life on the XBOX - fingers crossed) and imbues it with his own guitar sensibilities. Some rock drums, guitar chords, strings, way left-panned harp, and - very great entrance on this fella - a nice synth. The monoglide synth here really balances out the track - glad it wasn't a reintroduction of the shaku, which I was expecting. We then get some very cool oscillator-sync synth effects on top of that, and a counter-melody to boot. Definitely, this is a mix that gradually gets better and better. Well, until the ending, which is dramatically abrupt and reveals a lack of reverb, which one of the judges noted this mix could actually have used more of (often the opposite is the case). Overall, I dig the arrangement and particularly the second half, with the dueling synths, that sit well in the mix. Groovy.

― djpretzel