Battle! (Champion Cynthia) Re-Record - Pokémon Diamond & Pearl (Patreon Exclusive) (Patreon)

Hey all! Back at it with another weekly Wednesday Patreon exclusive Year of Sinnoh post! I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to have one of these for this week - been having a bit of a rough past few days with some mental health stuff due to quarantine, so I took a few days to just not work on YouTube stuff and relax a bit. That seems to have helped a bit! I actually had started the re-recording process of this arrangement maybe a week or two ago, and I just now got a pretty solid mixdown for the track, so I figured I'd share it here to keep up my streak :)

On the channel, I just posted Parts I & II of "Prelude to the Champion" - my arrangements of Champion Cynthia's pre-battle music. I thought it'd be appropriate to follow those up here on Patreon with my re-recorded version of the Champion Cynthia battle theme!

This re-recorded version has a few changes, and I'll try and list the ones I can think of below:

• Added intro to incorporate the opening few seconds of Cynthia's battle theme
• Completely new choral vocals to add intensity and epic-ness to the track! Very inspired by Kamasi Washington's "Change of the Guard" from his album "The Epic".
• Newly-recorded piano, saxophone, and upright bass parts - including a new saxophone solo!
• New mix and master.

Hope ya'll like this version! I mentioned this in the Discord, but figured it bears repeating here: normally I tag all my MP3 / WAV / FLAC files for your guys' convenience, but I will not be tagging these Patreon Exclusive files for the time being. These tracks aren't final mixes, and aren't getting definitely published anywhere other than Patreon until the Year of Sinnoh album release, so I wouldn't feel quite right tagging them as if they were a final release. Plus, I'd have no idea where they'd fit as far as track numbering goes, haha. If you have been tagging some of these files already yourself, please be my guest, but know that I am intentionally not doing it myself :)

Please continue to stay as well as you can, folks!  I've been taking decently long walks each day to get myself some sun exposure and to clear my mind, that's been very helpful. I'm hoping that my music can help you a bit as well! Thanks all.

- Carlos