Diddy Kong's Advance Wars (PRC136)

Votes (7)

Dec 28, 2008 bundeslang
  1. Wild West Winter
    Txai
  2. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  3. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
Blackstar - Nice MIDI rip, probably one of the best.
Setokaibarocket - Nice vocal. I like the part around 0:37, very nice use of both sources. The last part is a bit boring and the ending is a little abrupt.
Just64helpin - Good sampling in the beginning. There's not much variation in the part after it. The bass is a bit too loud.
OneUp - Very coal beginning, great vocals. I like the trancey drums and bass and the main lead is good as well. The song stays interesting the whole time. Good end.
Chickenwarlord - Short song, but it never comes too life. Still, I liked the combination from the samples. The drums are doing well in this song.
Txai - I like the chiptunes. I like the part around 0:53, good switch. The switching between the parts is very good during the whole song. The part around 2:50 is a bit irritating, and the part after that is a bit boring. The last part is good.
Dec 28, 2008 JH Sounds
  1. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
  2. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  3. Wild West Winter
    Txai
setokaibarocket's entry blended three sources rather nicely, so that gets tops.

OneUp's entry is what I imagine a Scooter holiday album would sound like, heh.

Txai's also segues back and forth between the sources well, but... I dunno... It kinda sounds like two distinct arrangements separated by silence.
Dec 28, 2008 kylenin
  1. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  2. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
  3. Bear and Grit It
    JH Sounds
OneUp gets first (in this case, cheesy is good), setokaibarocket gets second (funny!), and just64helpin gets third (it's the best of the rest).
Dec 28, 2008 Txai
  1. Bear and Grit It
    JH Sounds
  2. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  3. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
'Bear and Grit It'
Drunken style. This should be played during the entertainment at an old western saloon. Good ending.

'Bring The Whine For Xmas'
Crowd effect + sportscaster voicing are both fitting well with the whole song. Surely brings the mood of festivity and race at winter. Really fun and happy.

'Santa Claus is Gunning You Down'
Hah, this one cracks me up. I think I like it because it makes absolutely no sense. There is an overuse of samples from that first-person-shooter-game-that-I-will-not-name-here and all that stuff, but the artist managed to make good use of both sources.
Dec 29, 2008 tdburley
  1. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  2. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
  3. Wild West Winter
    Txai
Bring The Whine For Xmas - I like the energy of it :)

Santa Claus is Gunning You Down - I was a little skeptical of the samples at first, but they worked well and made a made piece.

Wild West Winter - I didn't mind the MIDI feel because it felt confident and purposeful, but it was a little too long and scattered.
Dec 30, 2008 OneUp
  1. Santa Claus is Gunning You Down
    Hardbeat_Acolyte
  2. Wild West Winter
    Txai
  3. Bear and Grit It
    JH Sounds
Don't have time to comment that much.

setokaiba - Very well use of both sources! Lol at the Weird Al bit. The blending is so nice and the producing is just fine.

Txai - This one was funny :D Almost too minimalistic sometimes, and the strings were a bit off, but it never got boring and I love those chippy synths.

bundeslang - As usual some kind of hard house/hardstyle. The kick bass were a bit too deep and the saw lead were a lot too high in volume, everything became blurry. I think you should listen more at etablished artists when it comes to arrengement and mastering.

just64 - Didn't feel any flow in this one, and the synths could have used some tweaking.

BlackStar - Hope you consider my advises and try to come up with something more of your own interpretation next time!

Chickenwarlord - Strange as usual... I'm the kind of guy that almost prefer well produced stuff then well arranged, so yeah, get some better equipment, or at least use something that has some power in it :P
Dec 30, 2008 Hardbeat_Acolyte
  1. Wild West Winter
    Txai
  2. Bring The Whine For Xmas
    OneUp
  3. Bear and Grit It
    JH Sounds
A number of good mixes, so it was a bit hard to choose, but here's what i've got....

1st - Txai - Really interesting interpretation =P Like the 8-bit-esque samplature; though I would've had zero release on the leads, I just personally think that sounds better, but may be a personal thing. The Grit parts sound kinda awkward but not too bad. I like the bit around 2:51; fair bit of original stuff going on, comes together quite well =)

2nd - OneUp - Well, I can't go past some well-made happy trance =p Would've gotten 1st, if more of Grit's theme was incorporated into it.. Vocals are cool, hehe, drums and bass are phatt. Synths are pretty good too. Overall, good mix =p

3rd - just64helpin - It's different; interprets Grit's theme particularly well, like the honky-tonk piano, hehe. Overall rather cool, but a fair bit of the melody sounds like it was kinda plucked from the air; just sorta made up to go along with it at random. Rather nice though still =)