ReMix: Final Fantasy VII 'Of Transformants and Brevity'

Download MP3
5,953,536 bytes, 6:12, 128kbps

• Trade-in your Games or Anime DVDs!
• OC ReMix Shirts & Merch
• Games:
  • DS | GBA | GC | PS2 | WII | XBOX | 360
  • Imports & Pre-owned
• Anime:
  • DVDs & Merchandise

Looking for something different? No, really different... different enough to simultaneously impress our judges while at the same time causing them varying degrees of difficulty in actually describing the music in question? Newcomer Zyko offers up what could perhaps best be described as a "guitar-driven soundscape", laden with whispers, humming, fret noise, delayed notes that sound at times like humpback whales underwater, a massive variety of Fripp, Eno, and Floyd-esque timbres that are pretty distinct and unlike most electronic textures you'd hear in something similarly ambient, and just an overall bizarre aural aesthetic. There's some noticeable hiss in the recording, but it's still a very transporting and trippy experience, especially on headphones. VERY cinematic, in an avant-garde way, with portions being almost transcendental and others being frightening. Some of the whispering includes phrases like "save me" and "I don't want to be saved" as well as "shut up" - it's hard to describe, but they are injected + executed well enough so that the net effect is spooky. Judge Digital Coma, writing in his usual flamboyant "quote me" fashion, comments: "Transformants - yeah, if you're thinking hallucinogens; brevity - not likely! With all atmospheric pieces must come a sense of planned cohesion, an evolving narration of sounds. This has definitely got that, including an array of heavily processed frets, breaths, vocals, well-strummed guitar, and other oddities. Love the heart-beat ending, though a longer fade-out may have been appropriate. A very spooky twist on the original; an ambient track that attracts curiosity of the enigmatic." - bottom line, if you like weird guitar noises in general, don't mind soundscapes (where melody and rhythm take a distant backseat to texture), and enjoyed the non"song" portions of PF's Dark Side of the Moon, chances are you'll find this ReMix equally transporting and affecting. Radically different, but in a good way, which doesn't happen all that often - compelling, textural stuff from newcomer Zyko, who's brought something very distinct to the table.

― djpretzel