ReMix: Sonic Adventure 'Lightspeed'

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The ReMixer writes:

"It's a Sonic Adventure Remix of the Twinkle Park theme. I've heard this theme appeared first on Sonic 3d Blast game or something. Anyways, this is just what you would expect I would submit. TRANCE. As always, made and mastered in Fruity Loops, no sfs, only vsti's blah blah etc."

A general note to the world: we get a LOT of trance submissions. Many of them are made with FruityLoops presets, change the original melody very little, have templated drum tracks that loop for the entirety of the piece, and rarely deviate from the staple-foods tenets of the genre. Needless to say, nine times out of ten, that's not going to be a substantive enough arrangement to qualify as an OC ReMix. It's not that the panel or myself particularly dislike trance or are biased against it. It's just that for one reason or another it lends itself to being used in ReMixes in ways that aren't usually as creative as other genres. Therefore, when a trance ReMix DOES get posted, you can assume we've looked at it very carefully and that in some fashion it goes outside of or above and beyond what a "template trance" mix of the song(s) in question would sound like. Hopefully that helps explain something to someone; otherwise please disregard and continue reading. S|r NutS has crafted an enjoyable, well-balanced trance piece that's chock full o' synth, four-on-the-floor kick, beds of reverb, filter sweeps, some nice builds, a much-appreciated deviation from the main melody towards the end, and some brief Mae "vocals" in the form of an airport-style, spoken "Sonic.... Lightspeed" that's a cool lil add-in. Analoq weighs in:

"*sonic* ... *lightspeed* ! heh, mae's vocals are kinda cheesy, but forgivable in the context. what i like about this is that there has been an acceptable amount of variation on the original theme, making it a passable trance mix. not as tight as it could be but it's got just enough of the good stuff to make it over the bar in my mind."

There probably could have been more risks taken, but I concur that there's enough substance here to balance with the style and make for a good trance package that does what you'd expect and more. Solid work from S|r NutS, worth getting into.

― djpretzel