ReMix: Final Fantasy VI 'Agony of Obscuration'

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Mr. Baranowsky gives us a kickin' FF6 arrangement with... a really funky title. Obscuration? Obfuscation? Emancipation Proclamation? Whatever your feeling on -ations or the obscure, this is some good tunage with some excellent technique on hand. It's the integration of electric guitar into this electronica mix that really sets it over the top and gives it bite, in addition to already being slick. Electric guitar alone can't save a mix that's got a weak backdrop, but Dan's done a great job of combining a strong arrangement that would have been fine without guitar and added it on top like icing on a cake. Things begin with a swirling, mutated pad and some gurgling resonant filters which create a great, murky atmosphere of tension and kinetic energy. Beat drops at about 0'45" with a clean synth stating the melody and some delayed, pitch-bent, siren-like backdrop synth adding to the vortex. The delayed synth motif that comes in panned hard left is a little 80's for the context, but it quickly gets overtaken by a wailing distorted electric that is downright MEAN and very delicious. Great playing here - not fast notes, not wonderfully amazing articulations, but a fantastic, gut-wrenching sound that's quite organic and textured. More could have been done with the drums, but what's here is nice, and the juxtaposition of synth, guitar, and hip-hop beat all come together for a solid arrangement that's tightly produced and just plain fun to listen to. At 4'42", I looped it more than a few times and never felt like it outstayed its welcome. Transporting.

― djpretzel