Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin

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Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin
Catalog #	NA
Composers	Various, Nobuo Uematsu
Arrangers	Various
Producers	David W. Lloyd (djpretzel), Larry Oji (Liontamer)
Publisher	OverClocked ReMix
CD Info	4 CDs plus 1 Bonus CD. Free download. Physical copies and bonus DVD available for pledgers only.
Length	4 h 10 min
Release date	July 2, 2013

Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin is OverClocked ReMix's 40th album release, the first time the crew makes use of a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production. The album is a reinterpretation of the soundtrack of Final Fantasy VI.

Balance and Ruin features 74 tracks, performed, arranged and produced by 74 artists, not counting the orchestra that was hired for some of the recordings.

The original $30,000 goal of the campaign was surpassed with over five times the intended sum. The additional funding allowed the producers to ship additional copies of the previous Final Fantasy project albums, Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption, and Final Fantasy I: Random Encounter as well as to expand the scope of the project and produce a bonus DVD of content.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. "Prologue (Opening Theme)" - bustatunez
2. "Now Is the Winter (The Mines of Narshe)" - Mustin
3. "Remember (Awakening)" - Joshua Morse
4. "Smoke and Clouds (Locke)" - Jeff Ball feat. Laura Intravia
5. "Polemos (Battle Theme)" - SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard
6. "Tastes Like Victory (Fanfare)" - Leitbur
7. "Castles in the Sand (Edgar and Sabin) - Nutritious
8. "Ascension of a Madman (Kefka)" - Steffan Andrews
9. "La Montaña de los Caballos Jóvenes (Mount Koltz)" - XPRTNovice feat. Ray Webb
10. "On the Run (The Returners)" Leitbur
11. "A Fistful of Nickels (Shadow)" - zircon, XPRTNovice, Jillian Aversa, Jeff Ball
12. "Camp Kefka (Troops March On)" - Joshua Morse
13. "Stone Drum (Cyan)" - Radiowar
14. "Toxic (The Unforgiven)" - Beatdrop
15. "De Nuit (Phantom Forest)" - mv feat. Jeff Ball
16. "Gobble, Snarf, Snap (Phantom Train)" - XPRTNovice: whistling, guitar, vocals, clarinet
17. "Savage Triumph (Wild West)" - Flexstyle, OA, Nutritious

Disc 2

1. "Wild Child Ballad (Gau)" - bustatunez
2. "River of sine Waves (Serpent Trench)" - posu yan
3. "Idle City Street (Kids Run Through the City)" - Pot Hocket
4. "Courage, Failure, Rosebud (Under Martial Law)" - DragonAvenger, OA
5. "Bad Octopus (Save Them!, Grand Finale)" - Fishy feat. XPRTNovice
6. "Train Suplex (The Decisive Battle)" - Danny Baranowsky
7. "There Will Be Blood (Metamorphosis)" - Anti-Syne
8. "Terra's Resolve (Terra)" - Chad Seiter
9. "A Simple Coin Flip Can Change Fate (Coin Song)" - Level 99
10. "Electro de Chocobo (Techno de Chocobo)" - Tepid
11. "Reverie of the Broken Phoenix (Forever Rachel)" - McVaffe
12. "Slam Davis (Slam Shuffle)" - Mazedude
13. "Fiddlesticks Rag (Spinach Rag)" - diotrans
14. "The Nightmare Oath (Overture)" - OA, Moonlapse, BardicKnowledge, Laura Intravia feat. DragonAvenger
15. "The Impresario (Overture, Aria de Mezzo Carattere, The Wedding, Grand Finale?)" - Jake Kaufman, Tommy Pedrini
16. "Till We Meet Again (Aria di Mezzo Carattere)" - zircon, Jillian Aversa, AeroZ
17. "Full Speed Ahead (Setzer)" - zircon"

Disc 3

1. "Flava de Chocobo (Techno de Chocobo)" - Joshua Morse
2. "Johnny's Got That Funk (Johnny C Bad)" - Anti-Syne
3. "Gestahlian Sonata (The Empire 'Gestahl')" - Rexy
4. "The Megiddo Brigade (Devil's Lab)" - djpretzel
5. "There's Nothing Like Flying (Blackjack)" - DDRKirby(ISQ)
6. "Mogstradamus (Mog)" - Brandon Strader
7. "Aggressive Blue Magic (Strago)" - halc
8. "Pure Essence (Relm)" - Jose the Bronx Rican
9. "Illusionary (Another World of Beasts)" - Sole Signal
10. "Black Genesis (New Continent)" - Rexy, Brandon Strader
11. "Meditations on an Apocalypse (Catastrophe)" - zircon
12. "Evisceration (The Fierce Battle)" - Flexstyle
13. "A Tranquil Rest (Rest in Peace)" - Forrest Powell
14. "Elegy for a Ruined World (Dark World)" - Derek Oren, Jeremy Robson
15. "Event Horizon (The Day After)" - Palpable, OA
16. "Blackjack's Breakup Bossa (Blackjack)" - Calum Bowen feat. Xarnax42

Disc 4

1. "A Glimmer of Hope (Searching for Friends)" - Joshua Morse feat. Jeff Ball, Laura Intravia
2. "Go-Go Gadget Gonkulator (Gogo)" - XPRTNovice
3. "Katabasis (Epitaph)" - Forrest Powell feat. Laura Intravia
4. "13th Floor Demonstration (The Magic House)" - Flexstyle
5. "The Narshemellow (Umaro)" - XPRTNovice
6. "The Endless Stair (Fanatics)" - Argle
7. "Trauermarsch (Last Dungeon)" - Derek Oren, Jeremy Robson
8. "Demon, Fiend & Goddess (Dancing Mad)" - zircon, Sixto Sounds
9. "Ending Suite (Ending Theme)" - Shnabubula, Gabe Terracciano
10. "Humble Beginnings, Great Expectations (The Prelude)" - Disco Dan

Disc 5 - Bonus

1. "Omen - I. Black Dawn (Opening Theme)" - SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard
2. "Omen - II. Terror March (Opening Theme)" - SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard
3. "Omen - III. Daydream (Opening Theme, Battle Theme)" - SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard
4. "Omen - IV. Polemos (Battle Theme)" - SnappleMan, norg, Captain Finbeard
5. "Following Forgotten (The Mines of Narshe)" - Patrick Burns
6. "Royal Blood, Fraternal Love (Edgar & Sabin)" - pu_freak
7. "Bass of the Returners (The Returners)" - bLiNd
8. "Dark Blue Substance (Cyan)" - Mattias Haggstrom Gerdt
9. "Savage Dance (Wild West)" - McVaffe
10. "The 6th Kingdom (Terra)" - Jovette Rivera
11. "Slam Shufflin' (Slam Shuffle)" - bLiNd
12. "Jidoorian Rhapsody (The Wedding)" - sphexic
13. "Strange World (Another World of Beasts)" - WillRock
14. "Umaro's New Groove (Umaro)" - Archangel

External links

Official Project Page