Eftos - Sanxion (2.0) retro 2120

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Arranged by:

Eftos Adept

Member profile:

Eftos

Original SID:

Listen at DeepSID

Original composed by:

Rob Hubbard

Also check out:

55 other remixes of Sanxion

53 other remixes of subtune 1

Duration:

5:39

Released:

09/02/2010

All-Time charts position:

4849

Score:

33%

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Eftos!rx - Sanxion ER16 3.0 retro 2120 2.0 'multitonal'
from the album Eftos!rx I (2003-20xx)
full hifi 320kbit/s 44.1khz mp3 (from a 1411kbit/s 44.1khz wav)
all additions COPYRIGHT © www.eftos.de © last.fm/label/eftos

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Shouts

Makke shouts:

This is an example of how not to do it. Mindless SID+drum, with the odd reverb with random settings is not remixing.

kwed shouts:

During the sections where Hubbards SID isnt mauled by Eftos trademark bitonal overlays its actually a fairly good rendition. Lay off the unpleasant frequencies, PLEASE!

Satanarchist shouts:

Turn off the reverb, ditch the drum samples and get rid of the out of key backing, in other words listen to the vastly superior SiD.

SarahKreuz shouts:

It`s just a bloody rape for my ears. X-(

Amiga500plus shouts:

Sorry, but nope!

NecroPolo shouts:

It would fit a Sanxion horror version pretty well I think. Too much disharmony is here to cause positive feelings in the listener I think. It would be best to leave Sarah's ear alone before the police shows up.

Review by Windshield_CB

02/11/2010

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I really need to go back and re-read these shouts the next time I'm about to feel guilty for panning a lounge remix for being dull.

This track does what few remixers actually manage to do, and that is create more than a sound, but rather an actual feeling. Hubbard's already-creepy original is up under a microscope, where its wobbly, disoriented and disorienting ethos is in high focus.

Much, much more interesting than the umpteenth Chris Hülsbeck song with floaty Yanni synths set to Europop beat remix, in much the same way that Suspiria is more redeeming than a dreadful Lifetime Original.

It's not perfect (the soundscape is a bit mid-rangey), it's not pleasant (as the average reaction can attest to), but it's Better For You.