ReMix: Secret of Mana 'Beyond Comprehension'

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If McDonald's marketed "noods", they'd probably be called McNoods, which happens to be the name of our newest ReMixer, who's brought us a very respectable, creative if at times repetitve SoM mix of "Leave Time for Love". I'm posting this mix from a hotel room in Horsham, Pennsylvania, where I've been learning about the wild, wonderful world of Documentum in my training this week. Pretty cool, but alas I also have resumed college classes and am currently reading for one English course quite possibly the worst "classic" author I've ever experienced, Marcel Proust. He is pain. Avoid his books. "No."

"Yes," however, to McNoods' mix; introing with the familiar delayed piano, synths and particularly good hi-hats come in shortly thereafter, followed by a synth bass that repeatedly does a nice little up-down slide. The drums are actually similar to those one might find in a boy-band style track, but later on get fashionably distorted in an edgier section. GrayLightning writes:

"I remember hearing this while in its wip stages. I always found the end product pretty good, and even after these many months I still feel the same way. Interesting combination of reason synths, piano and drum work. Bell synths do a nice job in accentuating the melody, coupled with a very groovy bass line. Nice bass bends as well. The first half drags on a little bit, but the second half is easily the best sections of the mix. I particularly dig the section where the drums become subtle, and allowing the other sections to come more into focus. I feel the drums are at times a bit too heavy for this kind of mix."

Sounds about right - not a perfect mix, and could have used a couple elements (in particular, a single synth solo somewhere to add some melodic mojo) to set it over the top, but what's here is a fun, rhythmic, brief arrangement that does it's thing well enough, which SoM/Kikuta fans should enjoy in particular.

― djpretzel