Tales of Phantasia - Freeze (MnP67)

Votes (5)

Jan 30, 2017 hoboka
  1. Tales of Phantasia - Freeze (Popoi Re-Work)
    Popoi
  2. Tales of Vorpality
    Xenonetix
  3. 31st Century Neon Freeze
    Starphoenix
Popoi - This is how to MNP. The sound quality wasn't top of the line, but it did the job in my books. "Popi Re-Work" is also very faithful to the original and has a great wintery feel...man I wish THIS was the track for the Christmas special LOL. Not that that is really relevant to this review. Cool use of pitch bending, panning and the mood is retained. Great soundscape too.

Xenonetix - Tales of Vorpality (cool name); piano solo interpretation is actually not a far stretch of MnP-ness. Good reverb - IDK if the velocity of each note is considered robotic to more picky people, but it really didn't bother me - the sequencing has a charming flow to it and there are some dynamics used, so that is pretty cool. Nice tempo-change at the ending.

Starpheonix - the drums were off-beat by a tad...I'm no good with time sigs so I couldn't explain to you why that is - or if I'm just crazy, but I think the tempo isn't quite on par with the drums. It happens to me too lol. The mood is fairly retained, but something about the adaptation didn't click with me like your previous works did. Still, this isn't terrible. Thanks for participating Starpheonix :)

Necrox - There is clearly some thought and effort put into this remix and it paid off nicely. The transition at 1:58ish area to me, was quite hypnotic. Beautiful work there Necrox - I also like that you didn't put drums into it, I feel that drums would've lessened the mood - unless they were pushed way back and served more as ambience than a beat. I REALLY love this ambient late 80's feel!
Jan 31, 2017 Starphoenix
  1. Tales of Vorpality
    Xenonetix
  2. Tales of Phantasia - Freeze (Popoi Re-Work)
    Popoi

Tales of Vorpality - Love the simple yet elegant piano work here. Background chords probably could have been pulled out a bit more, but overall you did a great job!

Freeze (Popoi Re-Work) - Love the original part that kicks in around 1:44. Kind of hits a shrill note around 1:48, but not enough to take away from the awesome synthy goodness.
Feb 01, 2017 Chalis
  1. Tales of Phantasia - Freeze (Popoi Re-Work)
    Popoi
  2. Tales of Vorpality
    Xenonetix
  3. 31st Century Neon Freeze
    Starphoenix
Man, this was such a hard one to decide... They're all really nice.

Popoi - Just love the way the instruments all blend nicely here!

Xenonetix - Simple, fits the MnP theme.

Starphoenix - I really like this, personally I'm not sure it fits the theme though. Those drums are really cool.
Feb 01, 2017 Popoi
  1. 31st Century Neon Freeze
    Starphoenix
  2. Tales of Vorpality
    Xenonetix

1st. Starphoenix did a nice job with this source. I liked the original approach to the mix. I didnt like that it strayed from the 3/4 time but it ended up growing on me how he used a 4/4 drum beat and it gave some fun swing to the melodies.

2.Nice pianos but something felt like it was missing.
Feb 01, 2017 Necrox
  1. 31st Century Neon Freeze
    Starphoenix
  2. Tales of Vorpality
    Xenonetix
  3. Tales of Phantasia - Freeze (Popoi Re-Work)
    Popoi
Tough vote for 1st but I realized I kept coming back to 31st century.