Glyn R Brown - The Recovery

I found myself in a fortunate position of not knowing this SID, so my first impression was based on Glyn's effort alone. The quality of the sounds and mix are without doubt first class, nice reverb (not over done as in so many cases), nice use of piano and guitar for lead. The flow makes you feel that you're never sure whats next but gels perfectly. I have since listened to the SID and Glyn has once again taken the right bits out not to loose all of the spirit. It was rather strange though to listen to one of Glyns pieces and not hear a single orchestral hit!! A very nice piece.

Lars Huff has been one of my favourite commodore 64 musicians for a long time now, and I feel that not many people know how to really capture what I think Lars does in his original pieces. Then along comes Glyn with a remake of probably one of my most favourite pieces of Lars.

Now Glyn takes his own take on the main theme of the original piece, and makes it certainly his own with this remake. Something that really shows in here is that Glyn probably has a big Mike Oldfield collection (or he better have if he hasn't!: P) because there is that MASSIVE feel to this piece you get when listening to the likes of Mike Oldfiend.

Overall there are few remakes that I really feel honored to have listened to, and that the author took the time to create. This would be now in that top ten of music that I will listen to almost every day!

Thank you for sharing your vision of this already lovely piece - you did it justice!

I love this track. It reminds of Hans Zimmer when he was good. It really does have that early days of Media Ventures feel to it. Like Rain Man. Honestly, lets have more remixes like these!

Errm, I don't know how to put this, but I'm not too keen on this. It's pretty good in places, but I don't think there's a great deal to the original tune - and hence an strange choice of SID to attempt to remix.
I always like to give tunes a 'spin cycle' in the car (i. e. hear them quite a few times) before writing a review, and all of Glyns previous work has blown me away. However, despite the excellent qulaity of samples I still found this remix quite standard up until about 4:40 when there seems to be an injection that brings it to life.
The guitar at 1:37 for example is just so plain and boring. I could predict the notes before they were played. There's none of the 'instrument excitement' from previous mixes. It's nice to hear the mandarin sure, but it's not inspiring in the way Glyn normally introduces an instrument. I really do think the original has a lot to answer for, and I'm suprised Glyn saw anything in the SID
This was a hard review for me to write, and normally when I'm not fussed with a tune I don't bother, but I know Glyn pretty well and if he does read this I know he won't have a problem with this. Nice to see a new direction, but this particular tune is not for me.

As always Glyn R Brown blows me away with his great music talents!