1. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey
2. The Heat is Off
   bundeslang
3. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel

***Gangsta Knight: Excepting the 4-note progression, which felt a little jarring with the rest of the mix, this is a really nice, laid-back listening track...something that I prefer out of remixes(what can I say, Aphrodite Oceanus[Secret of Mana] is still one of my favourite remixes cause of the chill factor ;) ). Not much else to say here as there's just not much *to* comment on, but I thought it was a fun little mix with plenty of character. You get my 1st pick, man; 'grats =)


***Solemn Oath: Yeah, you just shut up and get back in the corner; I'm still mad at you 'cause you didn't go for the speed up like you wanted to. Bad Tev! *tsk tsk tsk*


***Steel on the Skyline: On a compositional basis, this mix was awesome; an excellent introduction(awesome guitar), solid movements in the center(with some quite nice piano work on top of that), and is deliciously long(I'm a self-admitted whore for long songs). The last minute was a bit weak, but overall it was very well-done.

My only issue: It's infinitely more an ORC entry than a PRC, and I guess I'm enough of a traditionalist for what PRC should be(the gods know I've been keeping an eye on this contest since its inception >_>) that I gotta knock this big time for that. Believe me, I agree fully with the argument that there's really not much there to work with in the original...but the other guys pulled it off, and I feel from this mix that you were more than able to do the same.



***The Heat is Off: The one thing that really got me on this one was the intro of the 4-note progression at :48 until 1:00, where it gets that rather jarring notes in there before going towards something much more aurally pleasing, then coming back at 1:45 in the background(where it sounds much more acceptable). 2:15 to the end of the song was most pleasing; that 4-note progression was *so* much better.

I am amused, though, that I had a major Anime PRC flashback listening to this song...can't remember who did the one I was thinking of, but it may have been Overcoat...*shrugs*

1. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel
2. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey
3. Solemn Oath
   Tevin-Illithane

Xenon Odyssey - The bass is a bit too loud, the samples are nice. For the rest, there's not much variation (but more as in my song) but the source was really asking for that. Nice ending.
Tevin-Illithane - Good start, the song is continuing slow. The end isn't very nice, but still the song has nice parts.
Binweasel - The intro sounds like it's going to be a song with a long source. I like that first part and the parts which follows fits well. I like the way you bring in the source (around 2:30), great work. The song is nice, but very long. I didn't like the last section.
DJ Siamey - Funny start, you should have worked this out and made it longer.

1. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey
2. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel
3. The Heat is Off
   bundeslang

Xenon's is the only one that had me really grooving this time around.
Bin, your arrangement is fun and very interpretive, but it feels like it's run out of fuel halfway through. A bit of shortening and this would be a delicious entry.
Bunde: For some reason I found those claps to be very catchy, even if they were low on the quality side.

Tevin: Your piece as you mentioned was more background ambience than anything else. But even ambience occasionally has some sort of hook to lure you in. Ambience also relies heavily on how well the individual parts are blending with each other. I feel that the over blend of the instruments needed to be much greater in order to get a vote.

1. The Heat is Off
   bundeslang
2. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel
3. Solemn Oath
   Tevin-Illithane

Since the source tune wasn't that awsome, I personally don't think any of the entries (except for Siamey's) did the tune justice. bundy gets first because it was the only entry I could listen to and still find some interest left in it at the end. Binweasel's was too liberal for my tastes, as well as having way too many melodys/solos/instrumental lines. Tevin's gets last only because this was already BGM, and making it slower only increases the pain.

And because i couldn't vote for myself :(

1. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel
2. Solemn Oath
   Tevin-Illithane
3. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey

Steel on the Skyline had this prog thing going I appreciated. T-I and XO both did good job with getting a different atmosphere out of the short ditty. The Heat is Off felt underdeveloped in comparison, especially regarding the beat.

Cheers!

--Eino

1. Steel on the Skyline
   Binweasel
2. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey
3. Solemn Oath
   Tevin-Illithane

Steel on the Skyline is great; lots of nice variation on the source, and that's what we need with a short song.

Gangsta Knight is fairly cool; though it's repetitive it's something different to the original. That brass-ensemble sound or whatever it is has a late attack time though; I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it put me off at first. Still, pretty good.

Solemn Oath sounds nice, but it's repetitive and not interpreted a great deal. I personally think that energetic types of music such as techno can get away with repetitiveness, and even hiphop to a degree, but I personally feel that ambient, chill takes on themes without drums should vary and stay interesting to keep the listener's attention. Nice sounds though overall =p

1. Gangsta Knight
   XenonOdyssey
2. Solemn Oath
   Tevin-Illithane
3. The Heat is Off
   bundeslang

I wish I had more time to go into more depth... but I don't.

1. Thank you for not rapping over it. XD

2. I like the slower pace here. Even though there's not much change at all to the melody or anything, the mood alteration is good enough for me.

3. Kept too close to the original, I felt. The stutter was cool, but the only real change seemed to be in the instruments and the arpeggios not playing constantly. Would've been nice if it were faster - get the blood pumping a bit.