Well, as long as we are saying that music is art too, here is a remix I did of one of my favorite songs from Jazz Jackrabbit.

Enjoy, and comments are appreciated.

Pretty good.

Thanks, it took a long time to make.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. It's pretty good, I guess.
However, I have criticism, which you will hopefully appreciate?

Firstly, the whole piece kinda suffers from low-quality samples, but I guess that's not really your fault.

It starts out pretty flat-sounding. The sudden, thunder-like echoing sounds that interrupt it have a lot more... volume, so to speak. Unfortunately, they are too short to really influence the whole feel of the music. In the end, it gets better as you use more directions... ( sorry, I really don't know any of the specific terms of music, so I have a hard time explaining this )

Overall, you stray very little from the original. There is at least one part somewhere in the middle where you actually change the melody into something completely different. You should be creative with remixes. In the beginning I really thought you had just ripped off a Medivo remix I'd heard before, until it started sounding different.
It was really predictable at many points. You often use the means of repeating chords and playing them up and down, which works for background songs, but quickly becomes repetitive in normal songs.
One thing you should try doing is to listen to a part of your song and then keep trying to, without thinking about the original, try to come up with a way to continue the song. I'm not sure whether that's a skill you can learn or something that comes naturally for some people or only if you've listened to a lot of music in your life, but just try it. As it is, it seems that you just took the original and... well, literally remixed it. You should show some more of your own creativity.

There are some good parts in it, but the whole piece sounds rather random, like one part near the beginning when an instrument came from the left and was never heard of again afterwards. I wondered why it came from the left. Something like that could've been used to draw the listeners attention to something or give them the feeling that something's approaching or something like it, but you didn't really seem to pick it up again.

Soooooo.

I think there's some potential in you. Try showing some more of your own creativity!

Won't load for me. It tries to modifiy something in my registry and then my browser locks up! >(

Drmoo, it's a MP3. MP3s can't touch the registry, because they're not in any way executable (ignoring any security holes in players).

weird. I right clicked and saved it and i'll listen to it later...

Originally Posted by Fawriel

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. It's pretty good, I guess.
However, I have criticism, which you will hopefully appreciate?

Firstly, the whole piece kinda suffers from low-quality samples, but I guess that's not really your fault.

It starts out pretty flat-sounding. The sudden, thunder-like echoing sounds that interrupt it have a lot more... volume, so to speak. Unfortunately, they are too short to really influence the whole feel of the music. In the end, it gets better as you use more directions... ( sorry, I really don't know any of the specific terms of music, so I have a hard time explaining this )

Overall, you stray very little from the original. There is at least one part somewhere in the middle where you actually change the melody into something completely different. You should be creative with remixes. In the beginning I really thought you had just ripped off a Medivo remix I'd heard before, until it started sounding different.
It was really predictable at many points. You often use the means of repeating chords and playing them up and down, which works for background songs, but quickly becomes repetitive in normal songs.
One thing you should try doing is to listen to a part of your song and then keep trying to, without thinking about the original, try to come up with a way to continue the song. I'm not sure whether that's a skill you can learn or something that comes naturally for some people or only if you've listened to a lot of music in your life, but just try it. As it is, it seems that you just took the original and... well, literally remixed it. You should show some more of your own creativity.

There are some good parts in it, but the whole piece sounds rather random, like one part near the beginning when an instrument came from the left and was never heard of again afterwards. I wondered why it came from the left. Something like that could've been used to draw the listeners attention to something or give them the feeling that something's approaching or something like it, but you didn't really seem to pick it up again.

Soooooo.

I think there's some potential in you. Try showing some more of your own creativity!

Thanks for the criticism, it is hard to find honest feedback these days. :P I get that alot about creativity, I was never too great at that. Most of this song, (about half of it) I made almost a year ago, then I came back to it and added the other half. The low quality samples are actually mostly my fault. I am still pretty bad with FL Studio, and I am not sure how to make all of them sound like higher quality samples. Anyway, I don't think I will be working on this song anymore, but I will keep your advice in mind for future remixes. Thanks for the feedback.

Overall your composition lacks bottom. It feels hollow particularly at the start, and whenever you seemingly randomly decided to drop the bass. You need to keep bass going throughout the whole piece to tie it all together.

Your sample selection is kinda odd. Some of your stuff is high quality, others are synthesized, others are ripped from the original song. If you're remixing, don't use any samples from the original song, cause immediatly you'll be falling back onto the song. You're remixing it, so you have bear in mind that it's your interpretation of how you think the song should sound to you. Your remix as Faw stated, lacks creativity. I'd almost go so far as to say that you replaced the samples and moved the patterns around. Don't get me wrong, around 3:15, the song immediatly becomes much better, mostly because it was the first time in the entire song that it sounded like something new.

Your delay on the orchestra hits, (0:55), is far too much in my opinion. I don't think you should delay on that sample, or if you do, not to do it so overtly.

It was cool sounding, when it was just the original tune and when your original ideas showed through. But overall, tie it together more. Fill the gaps between your ideas and sections. They're not just filler areas you need to make them grow and meaningfully contribute.