This one shatters my previous record for most hours invested in an audio project. I pushed myself hard and tried a lot of things I normally don't, some to greater success than others, but after something like three months of sporadic work, I've finally gotten this thing to a point where I think I'm happy with it.

My main challenge to myself was that I didn't want the song to grow stale; the Rain remix was, instrumentally, very repetitive, and Open Your Eyes had a smaller dose of that as well (as well as a painfully clear lack of positive reception and a rather weak opening verse). Here, I wanted every piece of the song to be distinct and interesting on its own, while working as an overall whole, working in a creepier theme that I felt would jive well with the direction Odyssey went in lyrically.

There was originally an opening ambient bit akin to what I did in Rain; too akin, in fact, as a lot of sounds were borrowed from what I'd found beforehand for that. It also wound up making the song something like 2-3 minutes long before the lyrics kicked in, which I found to be rather excessive. Another key challenge was sampling Fluttershy's voice from the opening number in Filli Vanillito generate workable samples, which proved interesting when every note is interrupted by some loud animal or other. I ended up blending two key notes as the situation called for; it's not perfect, but I'm still incredibly proud of the result. I've never done anything of that sort before, and it took me on an adventure.

All in all, I'm really quite happy with it, but also really glad it's done. I started this about a week after the original track dropped, so now several months later it's not the most timely of remixes, but I hope the wait proves worth it! :'D