ReMix: Final Fantasy VII 'Sector7 Hath Wrought the Angel'

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Trenthian gives us a One-Winged Angel ReMix from FF7, featuring the original vocals over his own new arrangement with some mastering assistance from compyfox. The ReMixer writes:

"OWA - Everyone's favorite it seems, yet wholly underrepresented in the bajillion and one ff7 remixes on the site. I got bored with just OWA, the main theme needed love too! Like the monkeys! ... (actually maybe the monkey's needed a lot more than love.... like a hammer... and their heads...and bashing.) Playing around with some serious song crossing, I found inspiration to further mess around with other more musical parts of OWA. Having never done a peice with a heavy focus on the 70's Club sound, i thought I'd relive some of the good old days of the hand clap. I also wanted to mix electronica with my own brand of orchestral interpretation. (the oboe owns you.) I dont even want to think of how many OWA mixes you guys have had to listen to, and I dont really feel great about throwing another one at you, but I had fun with it. Hopefully you can enjoy it as well. "

Honest enough - don't really know what that bit about the monkeys is, but fortunately we don't reject submissions based on ReMixers' tendencies to randomly incorporate simians into their accompanying mix descriptions. There was some debate amongst the judges as to whether this ReMix relies too heavily on the original vocal samples, or for that matter whether the piece can be effectively arranged without said vocals, as they are quite core to the piece and would be difficult to recreate or replace with alternative instrumentation. If you haven't heard "Ave Satani" or any of the soundtrack from the original Omen (which won an Oscar if memory recalls), you should check that out, as I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of Nobuo's inspiration on the original. Trenthian's done a good job of updating the original with a good beat, varied augmentation, and a comfortable piece that wraps itself around the vocal samples and sounds very natural with them on top. Good stuff.

― djpretzel