PRC99: A Follin-Radd Comic Adaptation (Silver Surfer) [RESULTS]

[Rexy]

The People's Remix Competition 99
PRCv4-21

Hello everyone and welcome to the People's Remix Competition! (www.doulifee.com/prc/PrcSong/PRCcommercial.wmv) PRC98's Zelda-related competition had the potential to gather attention like its Hylian predecessors, but two entries didn't make it suffice. Regardless, Tensei-San took the win with his first attempt at the competition - a good sized 50s-style incarnation.

We're almost at PRC100, which will be major when it comes towards the format. For now, let's wrap up the double figures with some Tim and Geoff Follin action. This tune has previously been used before as the source tune for the recent Dwelling of Duels 'Tornado of Solos' (http://dod.vgmix.com/specials/tos2006), but I don't see anything wrong with it being a PRC tune, right?

http://bev.wooff.googlepages.com/prc99.jpg

While it might be one of the most obscure games out there, it also boasts pretty much the most awesome soundtrack I've ever heard coming out of an NES (yes, it even tops Castlevania in my book), and I'm pretty sure some kick-ass remixes will come from it, though it should probably still prove to be a challenge to expand upon the source-material.

Have fun!

Silver Surfer - Level Theme 1
NSF (bev.wooff.googlepages.com/prc99.nsf) (track 1) | MIDI (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/PRC99_ss_theme1.mid) | MP3 (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/PRC99_ss-theme1.mp3)

I suppose this source tune is fair given the Fantastic Four movie sequel's gathered steam at the Box Office recently. But enough speculation...

GOOD LUCK!

Fine Print:
PRC instructions If you happen to be mixing this song already, start over in the interests of fairness.
There is no limit on entry format or file size, but length for length's sake and MIDI rips are not allowed.
Entries must be posted at the Compo ThaSauce link (http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC99) by NEXT SATURDAY, July 28th at 4:59am Eastern US Time. Alternatively, you can also email your submissions over to submission@doulifee.com, though it would also help if you put forward a reminder in the thread.
You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix.
Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted.
The winner of the previous contest may not enter an eligible mix, but his/her vote will count double.
Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score.
Doulifée's PRC Archives! (http://doulifee.com/prc/PrcSong/prc.php) If you need help with hosting your mix, contact myself or Doulifée, and we'll help you out.

[Tensei]

Ah that's great, everything worked out!


Anyway, good luck everyone! =3

[Sir_NutS]

OMG! Silver surfer for nes, lol. I can't say if I will participate or not, but seeing that picture brought a cascade of nostalgic memories to my mind.

good luck everyone.

[Nutritious]

This song makes me wish I knew how to play electric guitar. I'll see what I can come up with nonetheless :)

[Hylian Lemon]

I made an advertising sig. If anyone else wants to use it, that's fine with me. If you don't like it, make your own/don't use one, kthx.

I'll mess around with the tune and see if I can come up with something awesome.

[Tensei]

I made an advertising sig. If anyone else wants to use it, that's fine with me. If you don't like it, make your own/don't use one, kthx.

I'll mess around with the tune and see if I can come up with something awesome.

Well.. If you're alright with it, I guess I'll be using that sig. I like it, and I was still looking for one =P

[Rexy]

Nice work Lemon :) I approve of its use for supporting PRC. Odds are I might even borrow some elements of its construction for when I make the banner on Douli's page, if I ever get around to making ANY from PRC88 and upwards.

[Hylian Lemon]

Just trying to help. :3

I made myself a rather unique intro by accident. You'll most likely be getting an entry from me, if I can figure out how the heck I'm going to make the rest of it work. A lot of my best work happens when I'm trying to make it sound like something else. XP

[Nutritious]

Sigged

10

[Liontamer]

:-D

Hooray!

[V___]

Ugh, another song I'm just not feeling....

I may try this anyway, but I think I'd rather work on originals.

Best of luck all!!

[Chickenwarlord]

:-D

Hooray!

Yo Larry, do think the winner could get put as a bonus track on "Dirge"?

[Amayirot Akago]

Surprisingly awesome track here. Looking forward to hearing this mixed :)

[Hylian Lemon]

So, is something special planned for PRC100 source-wise? What should the winner of this round expect?

[Liontamer]

Yo Larry, do think the winner could get put as a bonus track on "Dirge"?

It's gotta be well-made though. Whatever wins, I'd have a lot of comments for it for improvement if it needed it. But yes, whoever wins, if it's good enough, I'd love to have ya on board.

Collab if you have to. PUT THE ELBOW GREASE INTO IT.

[Chickenwarlord]

Sweet. I probably won't enter anything though. The source is too badarse already.

[Theory of N]

I'm attempting this. Complete style change too. It's effin hard to find a melody that's not just runs and blips.

[Less Ashamed Of Self]

This is indeed a bad-ass mother of a track. I knew the Follin Bros deliver, but their nes stuff is possibly even better than their post nes stuff.

I'll be dling the whole soundtrack soon.

[Rexy]

So, is something special planned for PRC100 source-wise? What should the winner of this round expect?

The winner of this round should be able to choose PRC101's source tune. I have plans for PRC100 when it comes to the structure, though I am still stumped on what to reward the winners and who to consult for a source tune.

On that latter point, if that fails I might even pick something myself, given that I'm going to turn 21 assuming the PRC gets launched on that day.

[andyjayne]

Status - Rockin'

[Liontamer]

Free judgy feedback for any contest entrant if you PM me before the entry deadline. To be conservative with my time, don't hit me with any WIPs. Give me what you intend to be the finished product.

[Hylian Lemon]

I don't know for a fact if I'll be able to enter this week or not. Fruity loops is acting up and I have no idea what it's doing to me. I'd appreciate if people could help me figure it out (http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10931).

[andyjayne]

Free judgy feedback for any contest entrant if you PM me before the entry deadline. To be conservative with my time, don't hit me with any WIPs. Give me what you intend to be the finished product.
Sent you mine yesterday.

[Anorak]

Looks like I'm out. Been listening all week, and nothing has jumped out at me.

So much for my big comeback.

[Chickenwarlord]

Ugh. This track is impossible for me to work with :(.

[Hylian Lemon]

Finished my entry, sort of. I just need my free Liontamerage, and then I'll be frantically remaking it for the rest of the week.

[Sir_NutS]

I had some ideas, and when i started developing them they sounded good, but then, when trying to incorporato those crazy crescendos everything falls apart XD.

I dunno if I'll be able to submit something decent, but we'll see.

[Nutritious]

I'll be submitting something decent, you'll see.

Fixed

Man, this song was hard to get going on with good ideas. I think there is such a thing as too awesome of a source tune. Anyway, I'm finally moving along at a good clip with it

[Rexy]

Larry, I know you're a judge and all, but you're not supposed to post qualitive commentary in the thread until after the voting stage is done and dusted. It's there to prevent any bias/anti-bias during the voting stage, that's all.

[Nutritious]

Sent my song to LT to be crushed by constructive criticism.

[Liontamer]

Larry, I know you're a judge and all, but you're not supposed to post qualitive commentary in the thread until after the voting stage is done and dusted. It's there to prevent any bias/anti-bias during the voting stage, that's all.

I run roughshod over any rules, i.e. PMs sent.

[Chickenwarlord]

Since I have no chance of being on the project with the minimal arrangement/production, mine is the first mix formally in the competition. I look forward to hearing these before I leave tomorrow.

[Bundeslang]

I won't be able to vote for the songs in time. I'll listen to the songs after I return from vacation.

[Nutritious]

Larry stomped my song :). I'm revamping and will submit.

[Liontamer]

Larry lovingly caressed my song :). I'm revamping and will submit.

U c wut i did dere?

[Chickenwarlord]

I'm in the same boat as Bundleslang. I won't be able to vote due to vacation-y purposes. Hopefully my competition absolutely blows me out of the water (my spoon collection is growing steadily).

[Nutritious]

U c wut i did dere?

The glass is half full I guess :D

[andyjayne]

I can't do anything else before the deadline so I'm going to upload mine now.

Damn I can't upload it, it's too big (by 3kb). Going to have to encode it at a lower bit-rate tomorrow morning if I have time otherwise I'm out.

[Hylian Lemon]

I have entered. I'm just sick of working on it by now. I might continue fixing its awfulness after the competition's over...

Also, I will be around to vote because I'm awesome like that.

[Rexy]

I can't do anything else before the deadline so I'm going to upload mine now.

Damn I can't upload it, it's too big (by 3kb). Going to have to encode it at a lower bit-rate tomorrow morning if I have time otherwise I'm out.
Whoa, how did that happen? I wonder what the size limit for submissions are at C:TS anyway.
I can still help you out, Andy. If you're worried about there not being enough time for a re-encoding, you can send the MP3 to me via the usual email address, I'll give it a go, and hopefully you should be good to do with a PRC entry.

[analoq]

entry size limit says 6 MB on the submission form, however the actual undocumented limit should be 10 MB.

how big is your entry, anyway?

[Liontamer]

For the record, I didn't hear any bad entries. Stop crapping on yourselves. :lol:

[Nutritious]

For the record, I didn't hear any bad entries. Stop crapping on yourselves. :lol:

I think you inadvertently raised the bar on this competition :nicework:

[Rexy]

Well, even though we have a healthy number for the voting stage, I'm still willing to wait for Andy. A file upload error shouldn't really cost anyone a chance for the PRC wooden spoon.

[andyjayne]

I've been trying to upload it this morning but I got this message 3 times:

The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

I'll try again...

Oh and now my track is 4.97 mb which is low enough.

[Rexy]

I'm still willing to wait, Andy. If you still have problems uploading it yourself, you can still email it to me and I'll give it a go in uploading it.

[andyjayne]

I uploaded it but the mp3 is screwed up as my asio driver is running at 48khz which the mp3 encoding picked up. It now streams back at 44khz which plays it at the wrong pace/pitch. I have to leave now so could you either remove it or let me replace it later with exactly the same track just at 44khz?

Edit: It appears I can remove the track myself, which I have done. I don't have enough time to re-render it so I'll have to decode and re-encode it to get it to play properly (which I would normally try and avoid as much as possible).

Edit 2: Done.

[Rexy]

OK, thanks for letting me know about that. I had to extend the deadline by about an hour to wait for you, and I'm glad you chipped in. We will begin the voting stage in 45 minutes.

[Rexy]

The mixing stage was over, and now let's vote. Here's what you need to do -


Sign up at ThaSauce if you haven't done so already.
At the page for PRC99, select your three preferences and rank them from first to third (Contestants don't need to place their own work in).
Write a reasoning to elaborate on your decision.
Click "submit vote" and get a birthday present for yours truly by Tuesday (heh jk).

You have until Tuesday, July 31st at 5:59AM EST to vote. Because of the special conditions for PRC100, the winner will choose the source for PRC101!

Andy Jayne - Silver Tainted Rock (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/andyjayne_-_Silver_Tainted_Rock(PRC99).mp3)
Chickenwarlord - Ivory Surfer (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Chickenwarlord_-_Ivory_Surfer(PRC99).mp3)
Hylian Lemon - Smaller Silver Surfer (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Hylian_Lemon_-_Smaller_Silver_Surfer(PRC99).mp3)
Nutritious - Ride the Sky (http://compo.thasauce.net/files/Nutritious_-_Ride_the_Sky(PRC99).mp3)

[Tensei]

Damn, voting was everything but easy, but I somehow managed. Great to see we had some awesome interpretations this time. I'll be joining in the mixing again for PRC 100.

[Hylian Lemon]

Woo, four entries.

I have voted. Part of it was easy and part of it was hard.

Can't wait to see what PRC 100 is all about. I dunno if I'll enter or not; I'll be gone for the first few days of it.

Stop crapping on yourselves. That's my job.
Fixed.

Aw, you know we really love you. *group hug*

[reelmojo]

So I figured since I got my internet back I'd check to see how PRC is doing. Not only is it all the way up to 99 (holy crap!) but I'm having a really hard time voting because I can't pick a favorite. Good job all around everyone.

(One minute later)

Okay, so I voted. But it was hard.

I can't wait to see what you're cooking up for PRC100, Rexy!

[Nutritious]

Uhh, I don't know who to vote for. I'm going to hold off for a while, lol

[Liontamer]

/vote

Good stuff.

[Rexy]

Yeah, I hope PRC100 gets down okay. The only issue is that I'm a little short on a prize for the winner(s), but other than that we're on form.

Nice to see you again, Caleb :D

[Hylian Lemon]

Need us to come up with suggestions? I'm sure someone has a good idea. :3

"Someone" not being me.

[Anorak]

I hadn't voted before using the new system, so hopefully I did it right.

I had no idea what to say in comments.:???: I've never been good at those.

[Rexy]

Need us to come up with suggestions? I'm sure someone has a good idea. :3

"Someone" not being me.

Suggestions would have been cool, though somehow I'm more leaning in the direction of a prize relating to PRC100's source material, assuming that the source provider would give the green light on it. We'll find out when we start it off at 7AM EST tomorrow.

For now, let's go go go - 10 hours remain until THIS PRC's voting stage comes to a close.

[Rexy]

Time's up! Now, who got out of Mephisto's grasp alive? It's time we braced ourselves for the final conclusion.

Total number of votes - 12
Total number of mixes - 4
Highest possible score: 36

Chickenwarlord received another last place wooden spoon with 3 points.

Andy Jayne rocked his way to third place with 22 points.

Nutritious rode onto second place with 26 points.

And the winner of PRC99 is Hylian Lemon with 30 points!

Well done on your second PRC win, Ben. You've managed to pull through some intense competition to get this far. Now all you got to do now is figure out a source tune for PRC101. Hurry up, you only have 17 days :)

PRC100 will begin in an hour at the least. I hope you're all ready for what's there, fokes. Be there or be square!

[Hylian Lemon]

Holy............you guys are too nice. XD

Well, I've already picked my source tune, so I'm looking forward to that. I might take a break from this round, because I just realized I haven't started reading the book that's due for analysis in about a week. And I'm a slow reader. >.<

[Bundeslang]

Nice songs.
I personally prefered Nutritious work, but Hylian Lemon was close. Both songs where good, even as the other two. It wouldn't change the winner if I had voted for this round.