GZILLA - Sacred Armour of Antiriad

A nice remix on the tune, that alas suffers from a bit of a dodgey piano sample in the beginning. But around 1:25 it gets interesting as Gzilla weaves extra on top of the old tune. He uses some groovy low pitch rumble samples and string kind of samples in a long transition till about 2:15, then he changes style to a more complete, and brooding song with a really wicked background synth sample to make the beat.

He mixes in a bit of sound effects from teh game to some succes. Overall I like the remix, especially how it is very light on the drum track, other instruments are the major players. I cannot easily put a genre on this one, but it's worth a download indeed.

I have played this game through a few times, and listened to the title song about a 100 times I guess.

Listening to the original sid gives me a creepy feeling. I can feel the danger ahead, hear the mysterious machines waiting to kill me, getting uneasy because of all that radiation around me. But then the song really starts getting powerful with some tempo increase which tells me I can make it to the top if I give my best, and take out that alien-machine.

This remix of the side doesn’t bring up much of those emotions in me though.
It starts with a piano played a bit too calm/soft/emotionless and some
strings (of the type I have heard in too many songs).
The mood is more that of a sad lovesong than a journey into the unknown.
I guess I’m also deeply missing the second piano voice.
At 0:58 where the song should really get going, it just switches instruments instead and repeats the starting part again (including some echoes, which sounds amateurish to me).

The part starting at 2:10 brings back some of the sid's creepy atmosphere, and is artistically much better.
The sample of the powering up of the Antiriad-Suit fits very well in the end.

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This is my 1st review. I’m neither good musician nor native English speaker, but I loved to play that game so I had to review this remix 😊 -guru

A decent attempt here by GZILLA, but you do have question his choice of instruments at times and their cheap sounding quality. The track changes direction constantly bringing new styles and feels, something i'd normally welcome, but this time i have to say it hasn't quite worked on this attempt as it tends to lose focus and direction.

The remix starts with an piano and string symphonic section, before coming more synthetic in nature, leaving you thinking that Gzilla kinda got side tracked whilst developing the piece. At 2:10 he then brings in a beat and changes the direction of the piece completely. Whilst some of the ideas are to be comended the overall composition kinda leaves you feeling a bit disjointed.

Antiriad - it took me hours to rip the SID.
This is Gzilla's best attempt so far. Maybe next time he manages to do a very good remix 😊
While normaly an intro of a tune migrate to a more powerful part he choose to soften it, that was totally unexpected and confusing - maybe it's not when you never heard the original. At 2:20 the most interesting part of this tune starts, were he got close to the spirit of the original, but I miss the scary, cold feeling of Richard Joseph original especially at the beginning. The instruments itself sound cheap and the original fx at the end of the song are out of context - sometimes less is more.