ReMix: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 'Into the Golden Sunset'
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- Game: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Nintendo, 1991, SNES)
- ReMixer(s): BogusRed
- Composer(s): Koji Kondo
- Song(s): Ending, Overworld
- Posted: 2004-06-19, evaluated by the judges
Newcomer Susie Sahim, alias BogusRed (one of those multi-talented people who does both music and art - www.bogusred.net), submits this touching Zelda 3 solo piano ReMix. Initially there was some clipping in the recording but fortunately thanks to Protricity's proactive intervention we sorted that out and got a cleaner version, which is a good thing as this is an emotive arrangement that uses the full octave range very thoroughly (including some nice upper-register touches), has an attuned sense of tempo fluctuation and dynamics, and also's got a great left-hand presence on supporting chords and arpeggios. This is the credits theme, which also includes the familiar main Zelda melody, and BogusRed's taken all the motifs and melded them into a consistent presentation that transitions very naturally and from a performance perspective makes the necessary pauses and ritardando to segue gracefully. I sent this submission to the panel because the arrangement was great, but I knew the sound quality would be an issue - once that was addressed, there was a pretty clear consensus on Susie's piece. It's great that she was able to clean things up, as this is a very solid, natural Zelda piano interpretation I think many will dig.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the This is gorgeous.
- Lucentas on June 25, 2009
- Ryu2Wolf on January 6, 2009
- Davos-Moon on July 6, 2008
- Geoffrey Taucer on April 20, 2008
- Top Gun on October 11, 2007
This piece is absolutely beautiful. The piano work sounds great coming out of my speakers. The arrangement is wonderful and the piano still sounds great, even after 3 years of age.
This piece is able to evoke emotions out of me that other pieces aren't able to. When this happens, I know for a fact that it is special.
3 years later and this piece is still a winner.
Definitely worth a download to add to your collection!
Susie, I wish you we're around and produced more. You have amazing potential.
You'll probably never read this, but just know that this mix will always have a place among my favorite remixes.
Much love.
- Degree on April 2, 2007
The guy probably has a bad ear, and has limited playing skills. WRONG key, WRONG chords, and TOO much goddamn ornamentation.
I've been called before on my peeve of key. "What's in a key?" Someone has asked? KEY IS EVERYTHING!!! If you can't appreciate a song in the KEY it's been written, and just say "ooh, that sounds KOO-el," it's not really saying much. It just shows what a musical bumpkin you really are. A song played out of the original key it was intended in sounds REALLY out of place. Sometimes, it sounds like it's not even the original piece at all. A song played OUT of key, sounds dumbed down; like the person was too unskilled and inexperienced to play in the original key, so he/she had to play it in a different key to make it "easier" on his fingers, and on his/her little mind that thinks the key of F# or Gb is "too hard!," when it's probably the easiest. What can be easier than playing on ALL BLACK KEYS, goddamn it??? That and Db Major are, I think my favs... A major's also really nice...
Each key has a different flavor to the ears, and this is pronunced for a pianist, who has the extra sense of touch; he/she has to modify his hands to fit the chords, so not only does it "sound" different, but FEELS different as well.
Though a GOOD piano arrangement is in order for this, one of my favorite, if not my most, from all of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
This one tries, but doesn't even come close.
Practice, practice, practice, and better luck next time.
- KogeJoe on February 1, 2007
- Kozmo on March 7, 2006
- crimsonw0lf on January 31, 2006
- pokezel on January 30, 2006
- lady zelda on January 16, 2006
I love most of the piano remixes already, so it gets extra points for having the right instrument, but omg, this is just such a beautiful masterpiece, nobody should pass on it. I am so totally serious haha this is truly a MOVING piece. Nearly brought tears to my eyes just listening to it (shut up I'm a sensitive guy haha).
- SynthesizedStampede on December 18, 2005
- Gekisen on November 17, 2005
BogusRed wrote: Thank you so much Elana for your kind words about my mix. And thank you to everyone else too! I agree with you DJjabberbox that the synth is a bit annoying. I still haven't found the perfect sound font. I found a decent one that i used in beyond midgar but it has problems with low velocities so i have to maually go in note by note and raise the velocities in quiet areas.
anyway... if you mess around with a graphic equalizer just right it makes it sound like its from a real piano
(I dont have the specifics right now, i'll send 'em to the forum once I get the numbers down... I use Windows media because winamp is too resource intensive for my seven-year-old computer)
- Jabberbox on August 18, 2005
- BogusRed on July 5, 2005
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