Radical Dreamers album “Thieves of Fate” the newest OC ReMix album
As mentioned in part 3 of my thoughts on MAGFest, Brad “the prophet of mephisto” Burr coordinated the latest album release over at OC ReMix, released the day of our panel presentation. Arranging music from some of the more forgotten lore in the Chrono series, the Radical Dreamers arrangement project Thieves of Fate is released and ready to download (featuring some beautiful art by OA).
I helped coordinate some minor aspects of the release, so I actually promoted the album a little via VGMdb prior to it going public. Besides the prophet, the album features a lot of emerging talent in the OCR community with DrumUltimA, Geoffrey Taucer, Level 99, OA, ellywu2, Ross Kmet, Darangen, Avaris, DragonAvenger, Abadoss, Fishy, and Tweek all on board, all having achieved success in the VGM arrangement community after 2005.
Personally, I think the overall results are on the rough side, so as some of these tracks make their way to the judges panel, I’m only gonna continue to drop the hammer like nobody’s business. A lot of these bros (and girl) are only going to improve further, while some have really hit their stride. Originally conceived as an all-collaboration album, you’re getting a good cross-section of talent treading on some under-remixed ground, many of the tracks featuring multiple artists. For over 70 minutes of action, be sure to pick up Thieves of Fate.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Thanks for the feature; I tend to agree that it’s a pretty rough album overall, but it’s heart is in the right place.
Of the 17 tracks, I like tracks 1, 7 and 8. There’s some other well-crafted tracks, but for the most part, the source leaves me pretty cold. I think it’s still worth checking out, there might be a song or two that listeners would like.
On a personal note, i’m glad to have moved on from garageband to logic, and I’ll be picking up some actual studio monitors in a month, so hopefully my songs will be listen able by the next project.
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:42 am
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