“Voices of the Lifestream” Director Co-Directing New Final Fantasy VI Remix Album

[Lex]

Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin

In celebration of the coming 25th Anniversary of the Final Fantasy series, OCRemix veterans McVaffe and zircon are now directing the making and release of a 4-Disc FF6 Album.

"Voices of the Lifestream" (also directed by zircon) brought four discs of remixed tracks from Final Fantasy VII in a magnificently diverse and intricate way, comprising a total of 45 titles of varying genres. From deeply atmospheric instrumental tracks such as "Frozen Landscape" to brilliant acoustic in "Sleep, My Sephy" to hardcore dance in "Ahead on our Rave", the album was well received across the board.

A kickstarter for the new album started recently. The video is below, and the site can be found here.

The Kickstarter's goal has already been tripled. However, donators who spend $50 or more will receive a limited edition physical copy of the game, of which only 1000 are being printed. As of writing, there are currently 410 copies remaining.

There also appears to be some hint at a mysterious FF VII related project in the works, based on this news update.

 

[Shademp]

I already donated $50 so I'll be getting a physical copy.

 

[Shademp]

I'm so excited! Update #4 says that due to the overflow of donations, they will do something related to Update #3...which means it is very likely they'll release something FFVII-related for the people who donated $50 or more. HURRAY! They will reveal this additional reward on Monday.

 

[Shademp]

Update #5

Spoiler

OMG OMG OMG I'M GETTING ALL FOUR PHYSICAL DISCS OF VOICES OF THE LIFESTREAM OMG OMG OMG

Spoiler: Calming down

Edit: Could somebody go ahead and make a front page update revealing that those who donate $50 or more will, aside from the 5-disc FFVI album, also get a print of the 4-disc FFVII album Voices of The Lifestream? I need to go to work now.

 

[Lex]

Spoiler: Calming down

Edit: Could somebody go ahead and make a front page update revealing that those who donate $50 or more will, aside from the 5-disc FFVI album, also get a print of the 4-disc FFVII album Voices of The Lifestream? I need to go to work now.

Oh I'm jealous. I'll quickly do the update.

 

[Shademp]

Dammit. Looks like the Kickstarter has been discontinued. I was hoping this wouldn't happen. I reckon Square stepped in and ruined the party. =/

OCRemix forums on the matter

So far no official announcement from the guys behind the remix album, aside from We are aware of the kickstarter issue and are currently looking into it.

Edit:

Maybe you can use excess funding to buy the rights of the music?

hard to use excess funds if they're not given to you

Well the good thing about this is if it does get taken down, all the backers just keep their money as kickstarter doesnt officially take any money until the end of the 30 day period. Essentially all the 'money' that had been raised thus far were just good faith investments, so to speak.

 

[Shademp]

Small update from the forum:

We anticipate having an update for everyone early next week.

 

[Lex]

Ohai guys. Looks like this is finally coming:

 

[Kuja9001]

Ohai guys. Looks like this is finally coming:

Been waiting for a long time for this finally.

 

[ForceStealer]

So have you guys been listening to it? Sounds pretty damn good so far.

I really like this mix of the Phantom Train:

 

[Kuja9001]

The lack of Celes Theme is sad.

 

[ForceStealer]

Isn't Aria de Mezzo Carattere her theme?

 

[Lex]

Here's a link to the official page where you can download the full album, I'm going to be listening to it tonight <3

 

[Arth]

Of the 74 tracks on it, there are probably 20 I like.Too bad OCRemix doesn´t have more guys like those who brilliantly conveyed the ´´Ending Suite´´ into a Violin/Piano duet, it´s definitely my favorite on the album. Uematsu´s music inspired by Classical and Romantic music doesn´t fit very well to the omnipresent Dubstep or Hardstyle arrangements imho...

 

[Lex]

I'm not so sure about that, there are some tracks that I like that are so far from the original style it's crazy. Which surprises me tbh.