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Chronotorious -- New Chrono Trigger fan remix project is out
Zephyr_Fate
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I've listened to all of it and I quite like it. There are tracks here and there that are iffy (such as the Tyrano's Theme remix and the Frog's Theme remix), but overall it's a good album. Definitely better than the recent OCRemix FFIV album.
Anyways, you can buy it here. They also offer samples of most of the tracks too, just in case you're hesitant. For $12, you could do worse.
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That one track alone is probably worth twelve bucks.
Edit: I see what you mean. It's out of place in an album that otherwise consists mostly of ambient downtempo electronica. But I still think it's rad.
The whole thing is pretty neat.
1000 CDs and then the digital version is missing 5 tracks? Good job convincing me not to buy it at all.
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And now we have this.
I can't decide which side of the cool fence to be on.
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Squeenix is actually somewhat open to fan projects. I have seen people actually get permission for FF fangames before, just told that they can't promote it (ie no buying ads to advertise it, etc)
Which is retarded if they actually want Amazon/iTunes sales.
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I think the difference between this and the free ocremix albums is that the majority of the artists on this album are actually musicians by trade. Since they're professionals, you can expect the quality bar to be set higher on this.
Can you say CUSTOM SOUNDTRACK? Because that's what I'm saying right now.
Uhhh... you do realize that Square Enix have issued 2 cease and desist orders to 2 of the most complete Chrono Trigger fan games ever made, right? Chrono Resurrection and the Crimson Echoes ROM hack.
Crimson Echoes alone had over 35 hours of gameplay and was made over a period of 5 years.
You must be thinking of a different Square Enix.
I think he might mean fan music projects. This is by no means the first fan arrangement album to come out, not by a long shot. Video game companies have been very chill about this stuff for the past 10 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If_nAMXaXmY&feature=PlayList&p=B4C1A64798777AC2&index=0
Awwwwww yeaaaaah
(skip to 1:05 for the awesome in the face)
They are under OneUp productions, which has licensed their music ever since their first album, "Time & Space - A Tribute to Yasunori Mitsuda", and their online sales for CHRONOTORIOUS will provide a kickback to Square Enix.
Also, yes, The Brink of Time is the high-bar for Chrono Trigger remixes, I agree.
Not sure about Mitsuda, but in the case of FF I think it has a lot to do with the fact Uematsu welcomes it, and is rather laid back about his music. And Squeenix isn't going to piss of Uematsu if they can help it.
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I'd hate to repeat this but:
Chrono Resurrection was not a complete game by the creator's own admission - it was just a rendering of select scenes inside their engine. There was also the fact that they were using it to sell their engine to developers. After they tried to do this to one dev, they called up Square who put a stop to that shit. They then tried to use the internet for a sob story. They got what was coming to them.
The hack was shut down due to the new DS port and the fact that it was just a blatant work based directly off Square's. All the fan projects that I've seen get the legal okay from Square do have some of the characters but all the graphics are original drawings. No spriterips.
The Zeal remix might be the highlight for me. I love that track so much, I'd idle there on my DS.
And this is my point. If the full thing were on Amazon for $10, I'd buy it.
I don't buy physical CDs for the most part, and I sure as hell don't buy them online, because shipping to HI is stupid expensive.
Yeah the Zeal remix is pretty nice.
Oh, Dream of Black is the best track.
I love Joshua Morse. Did you ever hear the Ragnarok Online - Hybridism remix album? AMAZING stuff from that guy.
Incidentally, the first track you posted - when I ripped it for my iPod, I edited out that first 1:05. It's all just experimental crap with footsteps and other sound effects.
The best (in my opinion) remixes for Chrono Trigger tend to be either the orchestral ones or the rock ones. There were some great ones on the second version of the OST where they had those extra tracks for the PSX release. And, if you were lucky enough, there was that great two-track CD pre-order bonus (I didn't actually pre-order) that came out with the DS release. That one in particular was really awesome.
This is one of my favorite remixes by a Japanese group called Low Tech Son
OCRemix is approximately 45% utter shit, 45% not for you, and 10% good-to-awesome.
Also the quality of your average track there is nowhere near as high as on this project. Part of it's the file size limit on OCR heavily restricting what you can do in terms of production quality. Part of it's the difference between hobbyists and professionals (some of whom got their start at OCR, mazedude and Ailsean in particular).
I dunno, listening to the samples, this entire CD was pretty unimpressive. About the same ratio as OCR, almost half of it was shit, half of it was not my kind of thing, and 1, maybe 2 tracks were genuinely enjoyable. I don't know why they think this CD is suddenly worth money when their other (mostly better) stuff is free.
There's a remix album of Radiohead's OK Computer out there somewhere (for free, no less), and the remixes are, well, actually remixed. It almost sounds like legitimately new music altogether.
Low Tech Son has done some pretty impressive arrangements of videogame music, I agree.
Also, stop listening to just the samples; a lot of this album is awesome. Great remixes.
Because I love me some Chrono Symphonic.
This is great.
And I am not a music snob. I enjoy a wide range of music from classical to swing to classic rock to 80s pop to whateverthefuck. Certain stuff just sounds better to me than others. Not everyone's tastes are musically the same. (Geez, music nerds are touchy...)
I didn't sample it. I, in fact, own a copy of the CD. I still say only half of it is good. Again, my opinion, just to clarify for some people.