ReMix: Ultima Online 'Create Your Fantasy'

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Judges were definitely unanimous in one thing about this mix - mucho reverb. It's kinda like that commercial for 'Total' cereal, where it takes ten bowls of 'Special K' to equal the amount of fiber in 'Total', or something such. Well, it takes ten ReMixes to equal the amount of reverb in 'Create Your Fantasy' - maybe GLL could use the same sort of advertising campaign :) In all fairness, as a couple judges noted, this is stylistic and inherent to the trance genre, so it's not too much of a problem. Perhaps it could have been scaled back a bit, tho. Regardless, I think most will enjoy Ghetto Lee Lewis's newest submission, some lengthy and overall well-crafted trance from Ultima Online. The coolest thing here is that this mix definitely grows & develops - though as judges noted certain portions do repeat, the second half features strong choral pads and different synth timbres from the first, and is thus distinct & distinguishable. In particular, the harder-edged synth around 3'30" are good stuff, a cut above just relying on yet more detuned meat-and-potato trance synth. Outside of overuse of reverb and maybe a bit too much detuning on the initial synth melody, in fact, this is really a good trance benchmark track, definitely above-average and featuring a second-half that doesn't just repeat the first with minor additions & subtractions but changes the game a bit more. I don't think anyone looking for Ultima Online trance would be disappointed, that's for dern sure, and as an arrangement it has its ups and downs but stands pretty strong on its own two feet in the end. If you already know you dig trance, this is likely to be one that you'll listen to quite often, as it's effective within its context. Strong.

― djpretzel