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Moonlight Tango from Sailor Moon
Remixed by MythrilNazgul
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This is, as I'm starting to get accustomed to hearing from Mythril, something different, in a good way. The only remix on the site with the genre "tango" -- as it probably will be for a while -- takes a familiar SailorMoon theme, which was even covered by djpretzel on OCR for the Sailor Moon video game, a long time ago -- and tangoes it up with some latin horns, in honor of his 3-year anniversary with girlfriend rainbowflavoured -- happy aniversary!

As for the mix itself, the main work is done by a couple of horns -- a trumpet and a saxaphone, it sounds -- and a piano. The piano sounds nice, and very authentic tango, maybe even salsa. As for the horns, they're not quite so stellar, but it is really hard to come by really good brass soundfonts. Still, the attack in particular on the horns just seems all wrong and too piano-like, (for example around 1:27 or 2:01) which is too bad because some of the melodies and countermelodies he has them playing are very nice. The percussion plays a nice tango beat, though the soundfonts there aren't so great either. Near the end there's a kind of "clap" sound which sounds pretty cheesey, too. The -- well, Mythril claims it's a xylophone -- doesn't sound so bad, either, though one of the better sounds is the FRAMENCO (Z0MG ENGRISH!) guitar in the background.

The soundfonts for the mix can't ruin the amazing remixing that's been done to it. This is one of several songs on AR of which I've actually heard the original. There have been a lot of changes made to the melody, aside from tweaking the tempo and fitting it with tango percussion. The part where the two horns start improvising around 1:30-ish is really quite nice. Also, during the piano rendition of the melody, the low-end accompaniment fits surprisingly well, even though I don't recall hearing it in the original; if it is something new, as I think it is, then it's some nice composition on Mythril's part. Also, the piano riff for the transition at 1:12 fits both the original song and the genre perfectly, which is pretty dang skillful; in fact, most of the transitions sound really good, except one or two that are kinda ruined by the trumpet soundfont. The ending itself is serviceable but not particularly exciting.

Overall, it's a creative rearrangement of a simple track, and I definitely like it a lot better than the original. An additional bonus is the way it's actually so different from so much of the music on the site at present. If you're a sound-purist, and you don't like "fake"-sounding samples, you'll probably be put off by several of the fonts used herein, but the mix redeems itself in other ways. More nice work from MythrilNazgul.