ReMix: The Guardian Legend 'Red Spiders'

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From newcomer... Shnabubula... comes a very original, crafty little Guardian Legend ReMix that's sonically different from anything else on the site, not in that it melds orchestral with electronica (which many mixes do), but in the WAY that it fuses the two. The ReMixer uses a lot of grainy synth patches and mucho DSP such that the vibe is always changing, and a solid beat never really gets established. This has the repercussion of making the mix something you can't exactly tap your feet to, sure, but it's got a very hypnotizing, schizophrenic sway to it, and both the electronic and acoustic elements are very organic and seem to coexist in the same universe, feeding off one another; at two minutes, it's quite short, yet seems to take the listener to several discrete locations and express myriad musical flavors. Shariq writes:

"The style is kind of crazy, but the piece manages to stay coherent at the same time. I really like how it switches back and forth from acoustic to electronic."

Right from the intro you get an idea of the particular timbres and effects being used, which aren't too common and actually sound like some of the old transwave patches I had for my Ensoniq ASR-10 and used (and abused) back with certain pieces; they're being used tastefully here, however, and the juxtaposition with much smoother and fairly high quality orchestral tones works well, sort of like moving from sand paper onto a polished porcelain surface and back, but in a good, calculated way :) Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but with a fair number of Guardian Legend mixes in existence, this one certainly takes extra care to be different, is spontanoues without being prohibitively erratic, and shows technique in several arenas simultaneously. Compelling, original first submission from Shnabubula; it'll be interesting to see what the follow-up will sound like.

― djpretzel