Tigers, I wuv them as much as Chad loves his dolphins.
Well hello there! My name is Styos and I'm a Chilean who studies and work in Norway, I'm 21 years old and have been a gamer since..well..since I was a kid. I'm studying to become a English Teacher and I can tell ya, I love English.
Franchises that I love:
Castlevania, Metal Gear, Contra, most Hack 'n Slash games (Dynasty Warriors, Devil May Cry, Onimusha, God of War, you name it.), Mega Man, Metroid, The Ace Attorney Series, Sam & Max, The Legend of Zelda, Soul Calibur, Ninja Gaiden and many, many more.
Favorite game of all time: Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
Consoles that I own or had own before: NES, SNES, Game Boy, Virtual Boy, GB Color, GB Advance, NDS, Sega Genesis, PS2, PSP and in the works to get a Dreamcast and X-Box 360.
Retro Quiz Medals:
Silver: Quiz #25 - Ninja Gaiden
The GHost, the card is just fucking amazing, thank you so much!:
Video games and music has always formed a great union, classic melodies and incredible compositions has been one of my favorite things on gaming. On Musical Attack Monday I will present people who do covers and remixes from video game music and I hope you enjoy it. If you have any suggestion or any idea to improve this series, just let me know.
First of all, I'm really sorry to use Youtube videos and not Mp3 widgets as the last time, because eSnips is being really lame lately and can't upload without getting a denial, so if anyone knows a good mp3 widget for dummies, let me know please.
Now, for my second entry of MAM it will be about the Zelda Reorchestrated team, or Z.R.E.O. As the name implies, this team arranges many songs from most of the Zelda games and make them fully orchestrated, giving this songs a more realistic sound than the games counterparts. It's a big project, but they don't seek any profit for it.
The project started on 2004 by FireGS, and as time passed, more people joined the Staff such as Enzuru and FruityFire. Even though the orchestra sounds real, it isn't. All the songs are first created on MIDIS and then the sounds are re-created on various sequencer synthesizers to make the sounds realistic. Some of the songs have been redone and called "Redux". This was done because of the re-open of the website after a dark time that it had in 2005.
I've started to listen to ZREO since last week, and I have been really impressed. Even though it's not a real orchestra, they still have done a incredible job to recreate this songs and started to be one of my favorite music remixers. They have won some awards (not real awards per se). Many of their songs have been noticed to have too much reverb (reverberation), but it has been really well explained on their web page, and it's also one of the reasons why many songs have been "redux".
The web page of this project is here, and their MySpace here. Even though you can download their songs, they have a special page to listen them immediately thanks to their flash player, which is over here.
Hope you enjoyed this one, it's not that much, bur I hope for the next time I have a proper mp3 widget.
I've started experimenting with some of this stuff myself. I redid the Zelda II theme a while back and submitted it for a competition but got the reaction that "They liked my remix but didn't like the tune I picked" so I didn't win. It's really cool to see people that do this stuff and that there is a demand.
I suppose as long as Nintendo refuses to take their music budget seriously there will always be a demand :D
Not really a Zelda fan, but I've always liked the music. This is pretty cool, though it might be cooler for me if I had more memories of the original music. :P
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I suppose as long as Nintendo refuses to take their music budget seriously there will always be a demand :D
@Naia
Any chance you could post that track you did? :)