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🦇 Ahhhhhhh, yes. . . 'Tis the time, my children -- The Witching Hour *(GMT)! 🦇 Gather 'round!--for the Oogie Boogie Man has come to me bearing gifts on this eventful All Hallows' Eve! 🎃 It is (a)live, my darlings! The first ever 'Unofficial' An OverClocked Halloween, Volume I! 🪦 https://overclockedhalloween.boo/ 🪦 Get it now while it's *F R E S H* from the witches' brew, empowered by the fires of Hell and Brimstone!!! 😈 Have it in the background for your sordid partying affairs! Groove away the blasted day on-through till the dead of night with these wonderful tunes! I'd like to thank everyone who believed in this project: helped out, made the website, endorsed it, made their tracks for it (and placed them trustingly and lovingly into my claws to help produce and master), AND (lastly but not least-ly) those of **YOU** who're downloading the .zip folder *RIGHT NOW* and partaking of the treats (and tricks) this marvelous day! 🧡🌹 Thank you so, so much, from the bottom of my hearts (all three of them!!); have a lovely Halloween, and I look forward to spreading the spooky cheer next autumnal season, October 2026! ENJOY--and remember kids: "don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly [humans]. It renders you powerless!" 💀

(Bit late, but The Coop had a point.) 🦇 Ahhhhhhh, yes. . . 'Tis the time, my children -- The Witching Hour *(GMT)! 🦇 Gather 'round!--for the Oogie Boogie Man has come to me bearing gifts on this eventful All Hallows' Eve! 🎃 It is (a)live, my darlings! The first ever 'Unofficial' An OverClocked Halloween, Volume I! 🪦 https://overclockedhalloween.boo/ 🪦 Get it now while it's *F R E S H* from the witches' brew, empowered by the fires of Hell and Brimstone!!! 😈 Have it in the background for your sordid partying affairs! Groove away the blasted day on-through till the dead of night with these wonderful tunes! I'd like to thank everyone who believed in this project: helped out, made the website, endorsed it, made their tracks for it (and placed them trustingly and lovingly into my claws to help produce and master), AND (lastly but not least-ly) those of **YOU** who're downloading the .zip folder *RIGHT NOW* and partaking of the treats (and tricks) this marvelous day! 🧡🌹 Thank you so, so much, from the bottom of my hearts (all three of them!!); have a lovely Halloween, and I look forward to spreading the spooky cheer next autumnal season, October 2026! ENJOY--and remember kids: "don't ever invite a vampire into your house, you silly [humans]. It renders you powerless!" 💀

Fantastic round 1. Very impressed with what came out. Looking forward to the future rounds.

Amen. Highlight of the round for me :)

This is definitely "..oops! All Bangers" In particular shout outs to Dyluck and CW for doing what I love to do and do cheesy vocals over Mega Man Music.

Here's to the first of (hopefully) many Halloween album volumes to come! Thank you for putting the project together and sharing it with the world.

Hey all! I'm not on either team this time but wanted to stick my notes in writing somewhere: Калинка Cool proggy/post-rock opening, good vibe to start GSM4 on. Sounds like seph did a ton of overdubs. Ending is also cute and well thought-out. I Wish I Wish I can see people wishing the sources were more dominant but this is my second-favorite one for this round. Not sure who did what (I'm not familiar with Oscar/Atcero's styles) but it does a lot with a little* and I love the Satisfaction/VN-sounding portamento saws. Burning Obsession Perfect "fire stage" intro with the guitar trills and toms. Thought josh did these drums at first. Heard Queen did the mixing, sounds great. The bridge being tongue-in-cheek is really funny and Weeks' range works good for the X VA. Only real critique is that I think it could either be a little more punk/sludgy or a little more Broadway; as-is the backing track sounds almost surf rock at points splitting the difference. Vulcan's Doorstep Was expecting this to turn into full-fidelity psytrance at some point but kind of glad it didn't; JSA's writing with Xaleph's mixing/perfectionism is a great combo, reminds me of Project S-11 in some places. Specifically wrote down that the bass at 1:44 and Rocket Hideout-sounding foley at 2:08 are cool. Vile Circuitry Think this is my favorite one of the round. Seph(?)'s vocal foley at the start is funny but this one is really technically impressive. The almost djent-y rhythms and stuff in the second half help spice it up. I heard yami did the mixing - I'm not familiar with their style yet but it's a great start for mixing metal, the kicks around the 3 min mark are super aggressive. A Vile Medley Weil and Wave are both crazy sources - surprised neither team just called it Weilwave. Medley is really, really well-produced, to the point that I think it would have trounced anything from GSM3 Round 1. It's lush but not muddy. cammy's sax kicking in is comparable to Weeks' soprano coming in for Sakura Wa Karenai during GSM3. In practice this track has everything I'd want out of a jazz/funk mix, but I'm leaning slightly towards Circuitry, just because I'm familiar with seph's workflow and know he would have sunk a ton of time into doing those guitar overdubs/countermelodies for like 4 minutes straight. Hemo's debut on the keys is cool too - they're slightly too humanized imo, but a really strong opener and again, production is crazy across the board. --- Overall notes It's fun seeing the genres/production of each GSM based on who's playing. GSM2 leaned a lot more electronica, GSM3 was weirdly super consistent with longform pop/rock tracks. It was fun for 3, but I don't think 18 four- to five-minute tracks is sustainable or a normal expectation for every GSM. *The tracks being shorter but "burning brighter" for 4 gives it more room for stuff like I Wish I Wish to exist. I wouldn't really describe 4 as anything but "experimental" genre-wise so far but it'll be cool to see teams find more niches round-by-round. Also, just a suggestion for Team Mega Man - do something Splatoony! Get seph or someone to do some wobbly resonant synths and it splits the difference between the punk instrumentation and the more "aristocratic", un-filtered vocals on Burning Obsession.

We love a little Licc every now and again 😂

Still proud for contributing to that song via bell synths hehe Also I may have put... too many Lickitungs in the MIDI...

We are three days out from Halloween! I am pleased to announce that almost everyone has approved of their final tracks, and the track-list itself has been approved, and I also have the front and back covers for Vol. 1 fully done! :D Now it's time to get that website done up! ♥

This will indeed become an annual album (classic, hopefully like AOCC). :) I will do my utmost to ensure it continues long after this year. ♡ Hope you enjoy it!

Hey! Kinda weird to post a comment on my own track, but there's just a couple things I wanted to respond to from what was said by the judges. First, @Chimpazilla the fact that you assumed this was @jnWake's own arrangement was like... one of the biggest compliments I got in a long while 🥰 You are right on how the original source totally fits his style, tho, and that's why I called him for keys. Also to @Hemophiliac, you are right on that more stuff could be added after the outro and voice clips. I can totally imagine more action coming, with the initial riff along with some drum hits caving the path for a somewhat funky section and then having a solos duet between guitars and keys. I note that for a potential future versions if everyone else involved agrees (maybe just toying on my own DAW with the additional stuff and then @minusworld adding the extra parts on his own mix project). And in general, thanks all 3 judges for the nice comments! I was quite discouraged after the first rejected track because that one was too much personal in many ways, so I'll consider submitting more tracks like this that, while proud of them, aren't that important in a personal/emotional level. In fact I was already toying with the idea of submitting the track 5 from the same Phantasia tribute album, which has a very similar lineup.

I'm having the strangest sense of deja vu right now 😛

Voting Guidelines Teams were tasked with writing three mashup arrangements of two songs each, one from a Mega Man game and the other from a Mega Man Successor game. In order to make your vote, listen to the remixes and, for each pair, choose the remix that fulfills the following criteria (listed in order of importance): The remix arranges both source tunes in an interesting and identifiable way into one cohesive piece of music. The remix is well-produced within the conventions of the genre. The remix is enjoyable to listen to. Stream the remixes via Soundcloud or Download the Round 1 Remix Pack (MP3). For your reference, here are the source tunes for Round 1. Mega Man 4 vs. Mighty Gunvolt Burst Cossack Fortress 1 Joule's Wish Mega Man X4 vs. 30XX Volcano At Her Doorstep (Aspera 1) Mega Man Zero 4 vs. Gravity Circuit Fate - Theme of Weil Theme of Medley (Wave Circuit)

Didn’t do any vocals this round, them spooky noises are all foley found on Splice :)

Absolutely legendary!

WHY ARE ALL OF THESE SONGS GOOD??? I really had to hesitate and decide for a long moment for all of them...

Today's the day. I sent mine in. Did everyone else send in theirs?

JESUS FUC-! You can't just pop in here like that! You'll scare the children!

DJ Pretzel you are an amazing dude. I found OCRemix in the glorious heyday of my middle/highschool years, and I had endless fun hanging out with friends and "mining" cool new tracks that we would download and make mp3 cds from. The good old days when most of the music was techno, Hah! I am just rambling because I have been a casual explorer with no musical background for about 24 years here on the site, and wow, the love and passion of this project just oozes good vibes. One of my favorite things was DJ Pretzel's critiques. I did not have an ear for music at all, but the more I listened to his reviews/critiques/judgements and explanations of the music, I felt my own understanding and listening habits change. I began to notice little details and appreciate what the remixer was going for. As a non musician it's hard to put into words how much appreciation I have rooted in this little corner of the digital universe, even as a non contributor I have a warm feeling for this community and wish for continued success and music. Now time to go browse some old remixes from you OG admins back in the day. P.S. I am beginning my journey under a mentor to repair and play piano, so maybe one day, I will contribute to this community, or maybe my daughter when she's old enough to learn, will also be inspired by the music OCRemix has spread.

Absolutely 100% agreed with Argle that this mix NEEDED to exist. Loved every second!

So i happened to find THIS absouletly SLAPPING metal orchestral Remix of the Cog Dancers song. Which is not only BEAUTIFUL but it just is like a Banger! So please find a way to get this song onto the site!

woah!!!

Very fun, I started listening and right away envisioned Scarlet as the singer without knowing what track was being covered. Great stuff. 😎

Oh, and just a note, since it was not included in neither the website or the txt inside the zip download, worth adding the credits list for my own track, because the way it's shown right now it might look like it's a solo track, and unfortunately I could never archive that level alone 😅 DeLuxDolemite - orchestral percusions (timpani, bells, taiko drums and cymbals) donut - clarinet jnWake - lead synths (organs, harpsichord, music box) minusworld - bass robshoppe - rhythm guitars Serrin's Toes - metal drums tibonev - lead guitars Unknown Pseudoartist - arrangement, programming, SFX, mix, etc I'm still planning to finnish a music video for it in my usual weird style but it'll take at least a few more days.

Oops! Haha, I commented in the other thread before noticing this one. So funny and also kinda ironic considering the plan to post it in General was to give it more visibility, yet I noticed the one in Recruiting first :D Anyways, glad to be part of this spooky cool thing! I finally managed to listen to all tracks and just saying everyone did an awesowe work! Special mention to the Golden Sun one, maybe a bit biased because how much I love that game, but still have nothing but sweet words about how great and original the reinterpretation is, since the source is that extremely different (more into the spiritual or mysterious vibes rather than dark or spooky, yet fitting so well as a soundtrack for a horror movie or whatever!

I agree that this subforum might be not the most appropiate if we want more people to notice the album release. After all, this is more like the place to find people interested to make something new, rather than showing the world the cool stuff that was just already done. As a former lurker in the scene (and including these forums) I might not even check here at all. But yeah, I understand the hesitance, and even more so in times when forums in general aren't as active as used to, unfortunately. So, if anything, my complain is that... why not adding the spooky front cover artwork to the first post too, instead of just the spooky Santa or whatever that creature is? :P

Well, you've got about 49 days to get something done. If you believe you can do that, then welcome aboard.

I'm still relatively new, but I'd like to participate.

Nice. Very nice. In fact, you might say this is **puts on sunglasses** Nice Work. However, I think this was the wrong place to put the album release thread. When AOCC albums are ready, I make a post in General Discussion. It gets more traffic overall, and it puts the album release in a more noticeable spot. Not as many people are going to look in the Recruiting forum for album releases, especially for something seasonal like AOCH (and AOCC). That said, congrats everyone on getting it done and out the proverbial door 😊

I didn't touch any Windows system since 2008-2009, when my transition to GNU/Linux and free software programs began. The times when Ubuntu was still good, basically. Of course my situation is kinda different, since I was not interested in music production back then (I barely started on this around 2020-2021, or arguably late 2022 - mid 2023 if you count only the serious attempts). So I hadn't any problem with any of the creative subjects or programs I was active in at the moment, as I had a proper replacement working for pretty much all programs I was used to before the transition, even if some of these weren't the most convenient. And regarding user interfaces and customizability and all that I couldn't be happier. Used to hard-closed and walled gardens all felt so fresh and so much like "my own system" in comparision... With music making, however, I was already hearing/reading comments online about how the situation on GNU/Linux and free software was still pretty rough and many steps away from other systems. So when I got into this (by totally accidental ways) in 2020 I expected the worst, but to my surprise all was a lot easier than expected. Surely a lot of stuff improved and lots of new programs, plugins, etc making life easier in comparision to 1 decade earlier. And nowadays I know of a few examples of musician doing great stuff using exclusively free software and on GNU/Linux systems. The guitarist Daniel Bautista is a good example, if anyone knows him or is curious to check. Although totally experimental and bizarre stuff I wouldn't recomend to everyone, the avant-garde band Sebkha-Chott is another curious example that also relies purely on free software for their live shows and other related stuff. So definitively things can be done, and not even needing the privative DAWs everyone is used to. And still with Reaper having its own native version and Wine working pretty well to open Windows programs, Jack as low latency sound server, etc... probably easy to do stuff without even needing to migrate regarding your favorite DAW. It's weird, as a person who was long fleeing away from the many problems of Microsoft and other "big tech" companies, to see so many people joining such campaigns precisely now, but kinda optimistic about that. Hopefully will see similar steps happening regarding the situation with Youtube and the move to free and federated alternatives instead (already started prioritizing on Peertube myself).

really lovely to listen to

So I'm a little ahead of the game on this, as I've been using Linux as my primary OS for about 20 years now. The good news is that switching to Linux has never been easier. There's never been more options for user-friendly distros, and almost everything just works now. For general Linux advice, almost any beginner distro will do. I would personally avoid Ubuntu (and its flavors, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc). Ubuntu derivatives are fine, but Ubuntu itself has a new package format (snap) that only it uses, and I've found it to be a bit janky. I would also avoid Arch and its derivatives because first of all Arch is not user friendly at all, and second, Arch updates tend to be pretty unstable. Updates are frequent and pretty bleeding edge and you can expect stuff to be janky or stop working over time. I think the current best beginner distros are PopOS, Mint, and MXLinux. Honorable mention for ElementaryOS. As for DAWs, for obvious reasons I only ever considered DAWs that run on Linux. I found Ardour to have too much of a learning curve and not enough documentation to surmount it. Audacity is easy enough to use, but pretty clunky and not really intended as a full DAW so much as feature-heavy audio file editing. Someone (I think Argle) brought Reaper to my attention. I tried it out, fell deeply, madly in love with it, and have been using it ever since. That said, I'm only using it to do podcast editing. The closest I get to actual music production is Furnace Tracker, which does run flawlessly in Linux. I'm sticking with Linux for the foreseeable future, but I do have a couple of caveats and quibbles with the modern state of Linux. I don't mean this as a discouragement, but just to temper expectations. Things are improving but not perfect in Linux right now. We are somewhere in the middle of a major infrastructure transition. Everything still works, but you might notice more little inconsistencies and bugs and jank than you would have even five years ago. Distros and desktop environments are moving towards making the newer Wayland windowing system the default instead of ye olde X11. Wayland is a much cleaner design than X11, but it is less mature and rougher around the edges. My experience using Wayland has been a desktop with annoying little bugs and bits of jank everywhere. Because of this, I still run X11, but I know someday I'll have to make the switch. Linux audio infrastructure is also a bit complex these days. Something called PipeWire has largely replaced the older PulseAudio and is backwards compatible with it. There is a similar story with PulseAudio and JACK. But if you need to do anything off the beaten path with audio at the moment, which I suspect a lot of us might, you will probably find yourself having to wrestle configs that have to mess with pulse and pipewire and JACK all at the same time. As for what made me switch? Windows Vista was waaaaaay too slow on the laptop I had 20 years ago.

Man, it took me a long time to finally break away from Windows. Coming from a graphic design background, I was deep in Adobe’s ecosystem, so it wasn’t easy to let go. I eventually gave up on Windows 10 when support was ending — I was just completely fed up with the whole experience. I decided to try Ubuntu, which sent me down the rabbit hole of hopping from distro to distro until I finally landed on Debian 12. Since I’m on a budget, I’ve always used older, inexpensive hardware — stuff that often had no real support on Windows. But on Debian? Everything just worked! Sure, a few things needed extra drivers, but the community support for aging hardware was incredible. It’s honestly a beautiful thing. Plus, not having to support a mega-corporation that’s pushing spyware into its latest version feels even better. Finding a new DAW was the real struggle. I came from FL Studio and was slowly transitioning to Ableton, so switching to Linux was pretty jarring. At first, all I could find were Reaper, Ardour, and LMMS — none of which really clicked with me. I just wanted something that felt like Ableton, with an attractive, intuitive interface that was easy to navigate. After a while, I stumbled upon Bitwig Studio. One of the main reasons I chose it is because it runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, so I’m not locked into a single operating system. I often see people say they can’t switch OSs because their DAWs, VSTs, and other tools are tied to one platform — and I totally get that. But for me, I want the freedom to go wherever I want. VSTs are still the one area I haven’t fully figured out yet, but for now I’m using CLAP plugins and plan to explore Winboat for running VSTs in the future. Other than that, I’m really glad I finally made the switch to Linux. It took some time to learn, but with the help of ChatGPT and the online community, the transition was so much smoother. Sidenote, this was the video that convinced me to make the switch.

These are so wonderful to hear, and honestly? I have no tangible notes. Already went through the playlist THREE TIMES, and am enjoying every Goddamned second. Six bangers. Huzzah! Everyone did such lovely work, and I am proud to have helped and been a part of this already. ♥ Good luck with the votes! See ya'll in Round 2. :3

Hi everyone! We're nearly there, folks! Today I'll be sending everyone the version of their track that's to be on the album, after any mastering/clean-up/balancing I've done to them! This is to ensure artists are 100% happy with the final product, before I send a zipped file of the tracks to my website team to get them up and on there in time for the 31st of Oct! Be on the lookout for my DMs/PMs either through Discord or on the forums soon! ♥ Can't wait to show people how cool they all sound! \o/

Yeah, the really good soundtracks in Dissidia alone would be reason enough to buy it. And as far as I remember, you could also use or unlock a kind of jukebox in the game, as well as additional music tracks. But basically, the soundtrack is just the icing on the cake of the game, which is partly a modern beat 'em up with interactive, destructible arenas and partly a very complex, extensive RPG with an atmospheric story - in other words, a really successful combination of game genres. ... Here you can get a tiny glimpse of how music, gameplay, and story come together in the second Dissidia game, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, for the PSP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKtTPeUk0yA And that's just the beginning of the game, which can offer over 500 hours of gameplay until you've unlocked all story parts, game modes, characters, music tracks, equipment, summons, items, and other secrets. ... Given the huge potential of this game, which is far superior even to the legendary Super Smash Bros. series, I'm already expecting a really big next-gen title for the Dissidia series, even if it's just a remake of the first two PSP games for now.

YUP I DID!!! VODOU LIKED IT :D

I have to say..... What an awesome mashup, AND, the violent but....deep space(?) feel, is being dug by me. There was some really fabulous transitions in this piece, and I love the way the crescendos on the synths swapped to angry guitar. Bravo. 😎🤙

Love this remix, I never played pictionary, but I do remember some of those "game show" style NES games, and I mostly hated them! This title screen song, however, is a different story. It's just a vibe, I can't help but be propelled to a jazzy, funky elevator in the 80s, it's where the real party is. Or something. I was only 3 years old when the 80s ended, but I imagine an elevator party with all kinds of crazy stuff going on would be COOL. Alright I need to stop leaving my 2 cents when I'm zombie mode tired. Great remix!

I'm going to throw out the other option that I went with: Windows 10 LTSC IoT. You have to deal with purchasing a grey market key, as this is not technically meant for home users. Then you have to find a full ISO as the trial ISO from MS can't be upgraded to the full version without a lot of headache. Finding it is not hard but that may or may not be a deal breaker for you. But it's Win10 (with some of the unnecessary fluff stripped out) that will keep receiving updates until 2032. (!!) I recently migrated from 10 Pro to 10 LTSC IoT and all of my music software works fine. The only downside is since it's a version of Windows 10 that's basically be frozen in time in the past, other than security updates, new software could theoretically not work on it. But all of my stuff (including Kontakt 8) installed no problem, and I have a ton of VSTs.

Oh shit I'll have to check these out

I really appreciate the look and your perspective on all the Dissidia music. I didn't ever get a chance to play Dissidia, so I definitely didn't hear a lot of those gems and remixes. Also hadn't thought about that movie the rock in years. Gotta rewatch it. It's cool to know that one of the most iconic FF8 sons (imo) was very much inspired by it.

Just a humble reminder for those planning to submit that it is now October 13th, and you have about two more months to submit your tracks to The Coop. Though, I wouldn't delay too long, as this year is flying by.

Epic Idk how this all works I just made my account

I haven't watch this show myself (though I hear good things), but I thought this was a fun concept for an 8Track.

LOL

There is so much going on, in a good way, that everything just gels together in a super cool way. The drum breaks, the almost mega-man like style as alluded to in the write up in the middle and the voices, all work awesomely in this mix. This is so good.

Love it! Very energetic, dynamic, and soundtrack-y. I could 100% see this being the score of an FF9 movie. I think it would be fine with a touch less reverb, but I almost always think orchestral tracks have too much reverb.