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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 2 Remix Pack (MP3). For your reference, here are the source tunes for Round 2. Mega Man 4 vs. Gravity Circuit Pharaoh Man Theme of Ray (Optic Circuit) Mega Man X4 vs. Mighty Gunvolt Burst Cyber Space Beyond the Watery Vortex Mega Man Zero 4 vs. 30XX Ciel d'aube Slave to Duty (Midgard Boss 1)

🦇 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! ♥

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

I'm baffled there are not tons of remixes from this game on the site, the songs are all so catchy.

Howdy, here's my track. The source is Kirby's Epic Yarn - Snowy Fields https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XhjH2RCEQ1ECXwpORlO01gn2Z5UIwJpx/view?usp=sharing There's a nonzero chance I'll send a tweaked version down the line but mentally it's good to get this off my plate by sending this verison.

You already know Josh and I are down - we’ll be mashing AQA from Fusion with Heart of Fire from Castlevania Aria of Sorrow

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...

Glad you caught that! Clutch is a Maryland/DC-based band but the inspiration track (“Son of Virginia”) has more southern rock influences from bands like Corrosion of Conformity. Can’t recommend either band highly enough!

I was a fan of Blackthorne ever since I heard it on DoD. I'm glad it was recently posted on OCR, and it's perfect for this 8Track!

feels like a demoscene track, i dig it

That synth and percussion work is glorious. The shift from the opening to the main beat in the middle was cool, and it makes sense to shift back at the end. Damn good arrangement for a very nice ReMix.

Has anyone got any advice for getting back into the remix game after a 15 year absence? 😂 https://ocremix.org/artist/4705/random-hero For the first time ever, (my old computer was horribly underpowered 15 years ago, let alone now) I have a computer powerful enough to properly run my music software. But it’s been over a decade! Does that muscle even exist anymore? At times, it felt like those 5 years or so when I was active on this site were like me catching lightening in a bottle. Can I do it again, with new, more user friendly tools? I’m gonna find out! So to shake off some of the creative rust, I made this. I guess you could call it ‘The Angels of Hell: 15th Anniversary Re-Remix’ https://drive.google.com/file/d/14bPcavUvStgJAfFU_TtcKjWRj1_i1Qzd/view?usp=drive_link I used the sample pack from the original. Compared to what’s out there now, it might show its age a little (like me) It’s the same song structurally with a few additions, subtractions, alterations and substitutions with a way better mix. Wish me luck! RH (Ryan)

I was out of the arranging game for most of the last decade due to burnout and just not being able to harness any inspiration, and I'm back into it as hard as I ever was in the 2010s and I think I'm making my best stuff ever now. So yeah as long as the muse has grabbed you again you'll be fine!

I held off listening to any of the other tracks until after it was released. Lots of great stuff on this, and a fair bit of variety among them as well. Looking forward to participating next year as well.

I can literally smell a human sinner here. For this incredibly grave sin, you should regularly repent and synth hard! ... Dude, 15 years? Were you in a creative coma as a musician, snoring away comfortably like a huge Flemish Giant flopped into the cozy meadow, or were you somehow on the run from the Mafia or something? I mean, hey. I'm also kind of a pro at picking up an old remix from over 10 years ago and completely remixing it or rewriting the composition (simply because I've just started getting into music, composition, mixing and mastering around this time). But if you haven't done anything musically in all these years, you've really let yourself go and metaphorically left your passion in your bum bag. ... Nevertheless, welcome back to the club. ))

Just jumping in and writing is probably the best way. Work on the broad strokes of composition without focusing on details, making stuff you don't intend to polish to a 'finished product' to keep yourself familiar with tools, and possibly trying out ideas or techniques you are not as familiar with to stretch yourself. If you end up with something you particularly like the direction of, then maybe circle back to work more on it.

My understanding these days is the preferred way to emulate games on Linux is RetroArch (https://docs.libretro.com/guides/install-gnu/ ) which also integrates with really neat stuff like Retro Achievements.

I hope this starts an annuel thing (Like the Overclocked Christmas)... Last Halloween Album I downloaded from here was "Candy Corn" .... Keep up the amazing work ... Cheers!

If I do join, I'm thinking of doing "Another Winter" from Scott PIlgrim vs The World...

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 😊

In theory I would love to go to Linux because of the ethos and Microsoft sucks balls, but in practice I would need to see some extensive documented setup by someone who operates very similar to me and has installed all of my big heavy hitter stuff that I can't live without (Spectrasonics, Kontakt libraries + Native Access, iLok), and it works smoothly. Bringing up these issues seems to result in 2 responses, neither of which acceptable for me... a) tear your hair trying to get specific software to work and maybe suffer with a buggy, crippled workflow, or b) abandon your expensive paid Windows exclusives and switch to native FOSS solutions. For someone starting out who doesn't mind having access to the best of the best virtual instruments I think Linux is well worth a try, but someone with $10k of Windows-based software the cost-benefit just ain't there. That said I don't have to worry until 2032 because I'm using W10 LTSC IoT. I would LOVE for Linux to pop off before then. But then again the year of the Linux desktop has been coming every year for, what, the last 30 years? It's like cold fusion lol I would very much prefer to not ever touch Windows 11, which for my music production rig it's safe until 2032 (at which point whatever horror after W11 will make W11 look like the halcyon days haha). My gaming rig, I have until next October with that and then that's gonna be a reaaally interesting choice.

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.

My favorite thing about GSM is listening to the different takes on the sources that each team comes up, and how unique those takes are between each team. We’ve got a great spread of styles here - classic rock, electronica, emo, psytrance chiptune, doom metal, and funk!! Excellent work from both teams! 6 bangers off the rip, as is the standard 😆

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/

Epic Idk how this all works I just made my account

some creepy bass effects to start, but the ice path bass line is clear right away when it comes in. there's a filtered build that's clearly going to go hard, and it hits at 0:41. band sound is a big, aggressive vibe that feels like it's in half-time, and there's some really fun gating and effecting to keep it feeling like that even through the initial break at 1:09. bongo tone is really unexpected and tbh doesn't feel like it fits into the rest of the super-synthetic vibe. the team rocket theme comes in right after this and really fits the feel well - what a great combo. there's a bit of a break at 1:36 that's more of a drop and build - again, excellent work combining in the team rocket theme here - and at 1:55 we get a transition back to the ice path melody. this transition into this was a little rockier (no pun intended) in that the key didn't make immediate sense in my head listening to it. there's a big fall-off after this section at about 2:40, and we get some sfx before a slam transition back to team rocket for a few seconds before we close out on the ice path bassline again. this is a fun ride! i really like the approach and how intense it is without relying on a fast tempo to bring the energy. there's a ton of details hidden in here that are fun to explore. excellent work combining two great themes. YES

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