ReMix: Extreme-G 'G-Storm'
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bLiNd sends us a preview trance track from an upcoming Project Majestic Mix trance-specific album. Though not the final version that will be on the album, this is quite good in its own right, and features the typically adept, measured, and polished approach Jordan takes with his trance ReMixes. Our first arrangement from Extreme-G, this is certainly a sonic improvement over the original, and a good elaboration arrangement-wise. General observation: with some exceptions, most N64 soundtracks sounded worse in terms of sample quality than the average SNES soundtrack, to my ears. Don't really know what happened there... At any rate, bLiNd intros with a Front 242 style mechanical synth pattern (the rhythm is specifically similar to a good portion of their stuff) and builds it from there, with reverb-drenched layered synth, a steady downbeat and running hats, and a solid bass. I especially liked the modulation of note length in the break around 1'20" - notice how they start off long and get shorter. Not every effect needs to be DSP, some can be simply MIDI-based - length quantization, double-hits, and note-based gating are but several examples. This might not be Jordan's most innovative piece, but it's not auto-pilot or cookie-cutter trance either, and has a good mixup of filtering and percussive variation. Those judges that did take some issue with the piece seemed to focus on some balance issues, particularly with the drums. I can hear what they're saying, but at the same time it's pretty trivial for me and doesn't hurt the overall piece to a significant extent. This is extended, explorative trance that's infectious and long without becoming mundane or self-indulgent. If you already know you like trance game arrangements, both this track and the eventual PMM trance album are probably no-brainers; if not, it's not necessarily the track to make a convert of you, but it's still slick and very accessible. Good stuff.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - Vertigo88 on April 24, 2006
I could very easily see this in a club in Atlanta somewhere.Very professional sounding.In fact, it is better than a lot of stuff on pro CDs now.
- [\(-_-)/] on July 21, 2005
- Slimtoad on February 27, 2005
Anyway, musically, I have been a HUGE-loyal fan of Extreme-G. The tracks on all three games just keeps your heart pumping through-out all the different tracks. When I found this particular remix, My jaw dropped and I had to unglue my ears from the speakers because the remix had been so masterfully crafted to the original music number from the game. Reading the posts regarding the complaints of too much volume of the drum tracks, to be honest - thats the way it was in the game also. I know when playing the game, the drum tracks were what mainly caught my ear, and on occasion I would pick up the melody in the track. I think bLiNd did a great job keeping to the originality of the Extreme-G OST. I sincerely hope more people will pick up remixing some more music from all three Extreme-G games because there are some great techno beats contained. 8)
- The H[8] of '06 on February 3, 2005
Its been so long since I listened to any trance, and this one got me tappin my feet and bouncing my head like the good old days. If I didn't have people buzzing around the house right now, I'd have on my moon boots and glow sticks and dancing up a storm.
- PostNoBills on December 25, 2004
- NinjaJonny on September 24, 2004
- Hy Bound on July 24, 2004
- bLiNd on June 3, 2004
Beatdrop wrote: Still, quite good, and it really sounds as though a big name producer took an old Extreme-G tune and resurrected it for the newer games (check out stuff in XGIII for examples).
Word.
Now if only Konami would release the soundtrack to Extreme-G, I could die a happy man... (or have they already and I'm just in the dark?)
- duck king on May 31, 2004
There are a few flaws, like those hats that get too high on the freq range, but this is indeed a very carefully written and programmed track. I have heard most of blind's original works and not much of it compares to this. However, I felt like it lacked a bit more of that good old blind's groundbreaking style (meteorave, i.e.). The sounds are pretty generic here (though they're phat indeed), and we have blind's classic 303 synth modulation.
I must say that I like blind's music a bit more when he goes into some unexplored terrains, but I can't say that I didn't enjoyed(and still enjoy) this track. Keep up the good work dude, as a Trance music fan(and mixer) we have the task to show the people that trance is a great genre when its done with profesionalism.
- Sir_NutS on April 16, 2004
- The Xyco on April 15, 2004
I think this whole site has lost touch with its whole "quality control" madness. I doubt stuff like DJ Siamey's remix of Xexyz or Awesome A's Katakis 2k4 will ever make it on this site, but I listen to it a lot more than TurksInPursuit or even Mazedude's TurtleWave, and I normally LOVE Mazedude's style. The last few months have been full of underwhelming songs with excellent quality sound. I still listen to Vicks Cornatto's What Hath Thou Done With This more than a bunch of other remixes on this site.
Sorry for getting off topic. Anyway, keep up the great work Blind. You manage to get a high production value WHILE STILL KEEPING THINGS INTERESTING. I listen to Fear Factory a whole lot, even though Wintermute nearly ruined my opinion of it (as well as Bramble Blast, UGH!).
- Snyderman on April 12, 2004
Yeah that mix does make me miss XG too.
- FIRESEAL on April 11, 2004
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