ReMix:Final Fantasy V "Dark Butz" 4:14

I'm surprised I haven't written a review for this one! These early chip-style tunes from AeroZ were a big influence for me when starting to write my own OC ReMix candidates. I love their mysterious mood and their playfulness.

Some quality intricate chiptune and glitchy electronica work in this one. I can follow it for the most part, and it stays interesting to say the least. I'm cool with the ending because of how the rest of the mix was presented. Not bad.

Nice use of chiptune, everything cuts through and sounds in its place. I like when things get a bit chaotic at 1:13, adds a nice touch of darkness. 2:25, the percussion adds a lot of color to the more simplistic melodic stuff, sounds neat. Nice twisted work!

Right out of the gate, this has very similar instrumentation to your first. Cool sound with the chip tune synths. Progression follows a similar feel to your first mix: a track that is driven by a chiptune synth and pumping drums. The breakdown is a nice dynamic shift. The dissonance is a good touch as well. While I do like the chiptune sound, I would love to hear another, non chiptune synth in there, but that's personal preference. Ending was a little abrupt but not a deal breaker at all!

Very intriguing mixing going on in there. Pretty creepy with a side of 8-bit-ness. I like!

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This is a pretty sweet mix that combines a nice chiptune sound with some powerful percussion. A great benefit of chiptunes is that it's very easy to get a nice separated sound between the elements, so you can really pack in the counterpoint without things sounding too busy, and Sebastian has a ton going on at once. Thankfully, the track keeps it's focus throughout, and there are always new sounds and textures coming around.

The ending is a bit abrupt, but it works in the context, and while this isn't my favorite AeroZ track, it is very strong and well worth the download. Check it out!

I like Dark Butz and I cannot lie...

You otha brothas can't deny

Hi and tnx for the feedback.

Im really stuck into the FF5 soundtrack. It's really a goldmine.

So many good tracks to play with.

Im even thinking of starting a FF5 Remix Album.

If anybody is intrested joining, plz leave a pm.

Thanks again.

Hi all,

Nice mix. Not exactly my style but really well put together. The beats were really bugging me because I was sure I'd heard them somewhere before and then I figured it out - Linkin Park's "Cure for the Itch".

Perhaps I'm going mad as the songs sound nothing alike but hey - it's a good track!

cheers,

p.

I like chiptune-ish stuff, and this song is no exception.

Really diggin' the drums in this one, especially in the breakdown starting at appr. 1:52. Almost sounds like a heartbeat.

Also, the melodies are woven into each other very nicely.

All in all, this is a very good mash-up. Nice work.

Very clever song AeroZ - I love the synth work at 1:12. Very catchy transition. I hope you make more songs like this.

I like Dark Butz and I cannot lie...

You otha brothas can't deny

I actually saved this directly to my hard drive before even listening to it, by pure virtue of it being a Final Fantasy V mix (I rarely save mixes btw, period). And I was not disappointed. I also happen to be a big fan of mashup-style mixes (as evidenced by "Koopa vs. Kefka" ), so this was a bit of a treat for me. I am slightly disappointed AeroZ didn't use the second half of the theme, but what's there is awesome as is. The ending didn't bother me at all, seemed like a fitting full-circle reference to the intro of the mix.

Excellent work, hope to hear more.

This mix is pretty awesome; I dig AeroZ first posted mix a lot more but this is still fun. Never realized how similar the two songs were until now.

Also, AeroZ stuff reminds me more of an old mixer, DUN DUN DUN... AE, more than Mazedude or Shnabubula ("With the Quickness" in particular). But, then again, maybe I'm crazy.

Hmmm this was an interesting mix. At first the Chiptune-ish aspect of it was a turn off, which was surprising since I am a huge fan of Mazedude and Shnab... But eventually this grew on me.

Honestly though I consider this to be more of a Zelda remix, just because I really didn't hear too many references to the FF5 piece. It was a good mesh of the two, but for me I was definately feeling the Zelda-ness of it more.