ReMix: Chrono Trigger 'Another Fair'

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As a sidenote, I'm leaving for Philadelphia today and will have intermittent Internet access until Friday. Assuming at least some degree of connectivity, we'll still post some mixes. Meanwhile the illustrious judges panel will be working quite dilligently, as they've been the last couple weeks, on catching up the submission queue. Additionally, I'd like to thank everyone who's been helping to seed the Official OC ReMix BitTorrent Distributions, as well as those who've downloaded it instead of relying on multiple HTTP downloads, which cost mucho moola to keep in place. Note that when we hit OCR01250, we'll be releasing a third torrent that covers everything from OCR01001 to that point. Again, our thanks to everyone for helping this initiative, and a special thanks to Aubrey Lewman who made it possible and helps OCR out in so many ways. Now on to the mix...

Good times recently for piano ReMix fans, no doubt, with MC and Blak_Omen's mix yesterday, and today this Chrono millennial fair arrangement from Dhsu. The strength of this arrangement lies in the very creative things the ReMixer has done with the melody - at times becoming almost unrecognizable, Dhsu has taken the outline of the piece and done a very impressionistic rendition, capturing the overall feel but totally morphing/replacing/summarizing the individual details. The Monet of piano arrangements, perhaps? There's a lot of feeling and dynamics, which help address the relative simplicity that would have become dry without that human touch, and this only further enhances the interesting, unortohodox things being done with the tune. Vigilante writes:

"This may not be the busiest piano mix ever, but it has it where it counts. The arrangment is creative and effective. It sounds good, although the volume level is a little low. I would have liked this to be about two minutes longer, but as it is, it's a solid lullabye-esque piano mix, and it is an original take on this chrono song."

We've got a plethora of Chrono mixes, and several of this particular track, so it's great to see someone really re-tooling Mitsuda's original to the extent that it's definitely going in different directions from the other ReMixes of the same song. Kudos to Dhsu for another quality piano arrangement, involving both emotive performance and clever arrangement skills yet again.

― djpretzel