ReMix: Final Fantasy X 'The Final Summoning'

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As strange as it seems, this is Jared's first ReMix to be posted this year. Wild, eh? Hard to believe, really. I suppose, because I listen to his mixes fairly often, that I hadn't really felt the absence, but this was certainly a welcome interruption to a multi-month hiatus. Mr. Hudson's been busy with side-projects, and apparently just got done attending Siggraph in San Diego (lucky bastard). He gives us this guitar-driven orchestral rock arrangement of FFX that features some operatic singing, crunchy metal guitar chords, your obligatory orchestral flair thrown in for good measure, and a whole lotta solo electric guitar noodlin'. Jared writes: "This song was started October 2002, but then was drastically delayed by guitarists bailing out on me. I finally found a guitarist, who happened to be in one of the university jazz bands. Special thanks to Abram McCalment for the guitar solo." - nice credit-where-credit-is-due mention there, well-deserved. There's also some nice ambient effects, low brass bits, piano, and a funky little synth pattern (sounds a bit like muted electric guitar itself) that jumps around and adds motion to the mix. The singing is actually the original game audio, as Jared explains: "The voices are from the game……but let me tell ya, what I did was a son of a bitch. If you listen to the voices normally from the game, they no where NEAR fit the beat in this song. I had to do extensive time warping in order to have it fit the beat. Every individual chorus was guess and check through time warping. It was the most tedious process of this mix." - given the relative minimalism and simplicity of the original, using the game audio in this fashion makes a bit more sense than if it were a very ornate, melodically complex piece. Melody-centric guy that I am, I didn't find the overall end result as memorable as some of Jared's other arrangements, but it's certainly transporting and well-crafted, and creatively embellishes a minimal melody in the same way some mixes of VERY old themes (frogger, pac-man, etc.) have done. Check it out, and also be sure to visit Jared's new-ish site at www.hudsonstudios.net for some of his excellent original shtuff.

― djpretzel