ReMix: Halo 'Ruined Desert'
Edgen Animations aka Justin R. Durban actually has some experience with composition for television - currently his music is being used for the TV trailer for the upcoming film Taking Lives - pretty cool. Also a slick website design with some good originals and arrangements worth checking out. This is our first ReMix from Halo, and as such requires a bit of a preamble - though the game's soundtrack was very minimalist, there was in fact music and Justin has in fact managed to produce an arrangement that takes the original score and works with it in a substantive way. It's late and I've spent large portions of this weekend working on OCR's fabled redesign (more on that as we edge closer), so I'll quote some emphatically punctuated DarkeSword:
"Pretty cinematic. Nice opening. Brass is kinda bleh, but good atmosphere. Samples at some points are kinda "meh," but the arrangement is good. Nice highs and lows. Kinda slow goings though; I wish it would pick up more. Choir swelling at the end is nice. The gong would have been nice to hear again at the end. This works. I LIEK IT!!~1~1!!@12"
I'd say Halo is a difficult game to ReMix - there's not all that much there, and what's there is fairly high quality - so kudos for taking on a difficult task and running with it. The cinematic style would seem to be the ReMixer's forte, and I imagined this helped quite a bit. Very dramatic choral work, atmospheric percussion, and a rich, dark sound from Edgen Animations.
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