Guys I have the album and I can officially confirm that is is actually fan-friggin'-tastic.

Side note: Braxton Burks of Pokémon Reorchestrated fame arranged the track "Traverse Town," and Youtube's xclassicalcatx played the viola solos you hear throughout the album.

I'm gonna start listening to it in an hour or two. Glad to hear good stuff about it. And seeing this is just the first volume, I am curious what tracks will be covered next.

I'm always confused when covers/remixes of songs are sold by people who have no affiliation with the original artist/composer/record label/etc. No matter how much work you put into it, it's still not original. I don't believe any artist should ever make money off remixes/covers unless it comes with the added bonus of their own original work.

That being said, I'm listening to a few of the pieces here and I'm not too impressed. I'm not usually a fan of rearrangements because they often don't add much to the original song. They all fit within the same "genre" and feeling of the originals so they're not really adding anything new musically speaking. If this had been done in a different style like jazz, techno, metal, heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal, metal just makes everything better okay? ...Well, if it had been done with a different feeling other than trying to preserve that found the original songs, it'd be much more interesting. The tracks aren't badly done. In fact, they're very well done. They're just not interesting.

Significantly? Not really. As I said before. The songs pretty much have the same feeling as the originals. "Revamped" doesn't really mean much. Especially considering that the originals weren't some old timy 8/16-bit songs.

Also, I still don't think people should make money off remixes. It just feels wrong. But if it's legal then well, there's nothing legally wrong about it.

Of course I know that(I'm an amateur musician myself). Every musician is influenced by another. Though I don't see what any of this has to do with what I said. Covers and remixes are nice when they add something new or build on underdeveloped ideas of the original song. They're just usually not interesting when they keep to the same style, genre, instrumentation, and feeling of the original. That being said, I've seen plenty of "rock" remixes of KH songs(and hundreds of other songs) that just aren't good simply because they're pure transcriptions of the originals. I'm extremely opinionated when it comes to music. Maybe a little more than what's healthy.