C_Matt's "A Kind of Magic (HD Revision)"

I agree that "A Kind Of Magic" should have the full guitar solo,I always loved it. Other than that,the whole album is amazing. Great work once again.

Hi Matt, when can we expect CD2 ?

Leave the boy alone! Magic takes time to conjure up. ;) :)

Hey, you know,there's always an urge in us waiting for new great releases :-))) And this is one of them!

I've been here a few days ago, but couldn't stop to read all and leave a reply. Thank you so very much to all of you for your comments! Por cierto, PabloArg, soy de Mar del Plata jajaja.

Reading all of them makes me wonder things about you, like how old are some of you, what other things you do in your life, or how is the real face of every single person writing behind the screen. That's strange but cool at the same time! A lot of strange people from differents generations and places joint by a same great phenomenon: Queen.

Is not that I don't have any time, but my free time bubbles during the week days usually aren't longer than 1:30 hours. And that is very little time to sit and start experimenting with the mixes and work on them.

I changed the last line in GtP because I felt that it needed a bit more of energy. The original one makes a drop to me, the song comes really at a powerful top and this last line delivers a weak conclussion to the song. Again, this is what I felt, not that it is actually like this.

Not to being boaster, but when I heard the new GtP mix at loud volume, I had a big shiver too! lol! Still, I would love to explore the entire world of possibilities that it's corresponding multitrack could give to mix. Imagine all the unnused sounds and bits!

For FWBF, I used the GVHII 5.1 version to make this stereo mix. At first I was a thinking about those 10 seconds that this version doesn't has, but after all I preferred that the song had 10 seconds less, but work with some great quality "multi-tracks" than the muddy stereo original one. Despite spending some time deleting the crowd choruses, the quality of it allowed to get a better result.

In conclussion of this reading, CD 2 will have a GtP mix with the original final line, and an extended AKoM mix, plus the original tracklist. Said that, I would think it's almost ready.

Again, thank you very much to everyone of you! Trough I can't answer every single comment, I've read all the replies, one by one, and I really appreciate every word of them! So don't think you are writting to the air, because I take the time to read them all.

This last days, I've been giving the final touches to the CD 1 songs, so I recommend you to download again the songs, which were re-uploaded with some new changes I forgot to do due the hurry. I've been finishing CD 2, and I've been working on this next track the last few days. To make less painful the delay, I upload it! Thanks for the patience, I hope you like it!

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I really like the new guitar and drums bits (around 1:54 and 2:52), where did you get them?

Blaise, those guitars are from OYoL demo, and I wrote the new drums line. Changed the drums pattern at some parts to give the song more strength, and at the 2:05 wanted to simulate that heart beat with the kick, without the hi-hat so you could hear it better.

Cheers!

Thanks!

Wow Matt, you got me in shock once more! This new extended version of OYoL is brilliant!
I enjoy so much noticing all the reworking that you're introducing here and there. Not only the most evident (like the guitar solo from the demo) but also those bits that can easily be unnoticed, like the percussion parts you commented above or some string layers that seem to be re-positioned throughout the song. Is it like this? At least that's the impression I've had in one particular moment of the track !

Thanks again man, sos más grande que Messi !! :-)

So, so good. Gimme The Prize? Holy Shit, dude...just had time yesterday to download the rest of the album.

Have not had time to hear it all, but, good lord. That song made my Ipod skip to the next song, it was shaking the system so much.

Thank you! About this new version of OYoL, Vali, It's exactly like you say above, those orchestral arrangements were repositioned in different places to accompain Freddie and give more strength, and the drums are the original one's but with better clarity. And thank you too for that comment below! Also, you had in mind that I'm Argentinian and used "sos" instead of "eres", great attention to detail!

Haystacks, the GtP shaking the system comment made me laugh! That song and WWtLF's climax have the most explosive and louder points of the whole album. The song has the original bass and lows restored and enhanced now, it makes my desktop to shake too lol!

Just a few days and I'll upload it all! All songs ended, only notes and cover left. I leave you here the extended version of AKoM. Enjoy!

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Really impressive! Brilliant job as usually, the drums at 3:00 are really catching!

That's great! Waiting for a full set to enjoy. Thanks a lot.

you´ve nailed it again, Matt !!

listened to the song 3 times in a row this morning, while driving to work ! yeah, those "new" drums and the extended solo bits are very enjoyable !

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(...) and WWtLF's climax have the most explosive and louder points of the whole album.

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this, specially, is very true ! it gives me goosebumps every time I listen to your version.