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Supernerd Lightforce Remix - arranged by Jurek RabenReview by M.A.F, 28/01/2005 Lightforce. What a soundtrack that was. One of my favourite Hubbard soundtracks of all time. I loved it and still have dirty thoughts about it now and again.A soundtrack it most definately was. Jurek Raben's version of Lightforce is most definately a remix. For me its a remix in the true sense of what i believe a remix IS. Take the music, break it down to what you want to work with and do your stuff on it, or take parts of the music you think will work in the mix you have planned and add your own structure, composition, style… just what comes out of your own ideas in the process. Lets face it its easy to cover a tune, its much harder to create something new from the bones of your chosen tune that works, even for the remixer himself always doubting his own work(not you Jurek). Lightforce is a soundtrack, there are many elements to the music of this track that cant be singled out in my opinion and mixed elsewhere to create a new different track thats still as powerfull and recognisable. That aside, Jurek has gone his own way with this, technically its very good, artisticly its very good, nostalgicly its good because i love Lightforce, all in all though its still not as wonderfull as the original, but its GOOD as a TRUE REMIX. I like those. Its good. |
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Cobra (9mm remix) - arranged by InfamousReview by M.A.F, 24/01/2005 Well Infamous?I really love this bass you have created, sounds like something from Reason. The sound for the main Cobra lead you have used i like very much. You have changed the original Martin Galway melody though. If you want to change a melody then fine, but remmember its the melody that makes a tune.! Try to keep the original main melody then build your own version around it. Make it your own. All in all i still like this mix just for the mad bass! Its a good, |
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Lightforce 2002 - arranged by Allister BrimbleReview by M.A.F, 13/04/2004 Well here i am, almost exactly 2 years since i discovered Remix64, writing a review of the FIRST '64 remix I ever downloaded. Alister Brimble's mix of 'Hubbards Lightforce.I listened once and was i was enthralled. I listened again and I was almost driven to tears. Maybe this was nostalgia? Maybe those, almost tears, were the culmination of finding the site and hearing possibly what i'd hoped to hear. A modern beutifull rendition, without too many BANGS and WHISTLE'S, of one of my favourite Rob Hubbard soundtracks. When playing Lightforce, Hubbards soundtrack smacked of the pinacle of his '64 writing career, it was modern to me, it was progressive, i loved the filter sounds, i loved the slow attacks of the "lead" sounds and the general organic feel to the flow of this soundtrack! And yet Mr Hubbard hates it! Maybe it wasnt commercial enough for him to realy apprieciate what a grand and elegant track he had created(possibly unintentionaly?) But who am I? Alister 's version seemed to capture all i had hoped for in a '64 game music remix at that time, and, to be honest ive still to hear any other '64 remix that makes me feel the same way. Am i a bad listener? Do i have terrible taste in '64 game music? Listen to this remix and make up your own mind. Who am i to say what you will enjoy… |
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Unreal ingame Turbo Galeazzi Cut - arranged by N-Joy of TsWReview by M.A.F, 07/04/2004 I was forced to listen to the original Amiga version of this track to truly apprieciate what NJoy had achieved by vastly altering just one musical component.The BASSLINE! And what a transformation it is! The new bassline grabs this track by the horns and takes it to a new musical level. Above the bass is the spaceyvibrato lead which i think fits just right, the crisp percussion, that punctuating snare which further drives the tune, the added effects and wobblybits as i like to call them, and of course the production which, to my ears i cant fault. While there is not much variation melodywise throught the tune, it doesnt detract from listening atall, the tune is so well produced you hardly even notice. And THAT bassline makes sure you want it to keep playing and playing! All in all my only question is. Whats next NJoy? |
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