"Forgotten Gems" from VGMix X – Finale (Remixer: abg)

Published 2016-09-13

Game: Tetris Attack | Source Material: Walk On A Rainbow

In 2008, VGMix – www.vgmix.com/ – had a final version of their site, called VGMix X, before Jake "virt" Kaufman took it down forever.
(And replaced it with a pug holding a beer-bottle pillow.)

The official archive for the site's past remixes can be found here: vgmixarchive.com/
But many from VGMix X in particular are very, very, very absent from the archive.

Originally, quite a large number of remixes were uploaded to VGMix X.

Not many people have the entire archive, if anyone.

That is, besides "Apollia", whom I found on the Internet after intensely wanting to be able to hear a certain remix again.
(That remix was abg's "Finale" – a trance remix from Tetris Attack's ending. I couldn't even remember the title of at the time.)

Her website can be found at astroblahhh.com.
She has some pages dedicated to information regarding certain remixes from VGMix.

I e-mailed her after finding one of her e-mail addresses on her site.
Props to her for sending me the entire archives of both VGMix 2.0 and X, after holding them for almost a decade.

I have since logged into various IRC rooms to share it, and was met with apathy. (Maybe it's because of my social standing in the community.)
But, after many attempts I did get some people in #ocremix to realize that I have the archive and am interested in getting it out to people.

From that: so far, only an unknown amount of people from the IRC room have successfully downloaded the entire archive.

It is yet to be decided when a greater organization to the preservation of these remixes will ever come to be.

I'm just some guy – online moniker: Audity – who, outside of 100% text (i.e. very little microphone, camera, and no travel), has very little social affiliation with people in any online community ever, with the exception of a tiny amount of beatmaniaIIDX travel.

But I have been a wavering part of the remixing community, as a listener, since 2000 or 2001, and have a memory well suited for nostalgia.
And for, of course, recognizing excellence—especially after much scrutiny over the years, from myself judging music.
And especially after listening to any vastly important scrutinizing of my own tastes for 20+ years out of 30. It's been quite a ride.

As such, I'm uploading a few of the best video game remixes out there to this account—particularly ones that were almost forgotten forever. I've gone through 800+ VGMix X tracks to do this. ( ... A big percentage of the VGMix X archive was uploaded by artists who already submitted them to VGMix 2.0, so some of these might even be from 2.0.)

ABOUT THE REMIX: This is one of the only remixes I can consider being 10/10, maybe because of the sheer thoughts it brings me through (considering the above description, for one out of various reasons). And it's one nobody has much or any memory of. I think people should really know this exists.

DOWNLOAD: www.escaprism.org/abg%20-%20Finale.mp3