Recruiting for a Chrono series album

[Wiesty]

Hey everyone,
I've had this idea brooding in my head for awhile and was thinking of just producing it on my own with local musicians/musicians ive worked with on OCR before, but I thought I'd open it up to the public and hopefully we can get something really awesome rolling here.

So basically the idea is to have a Chrono series album (Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers, Chrono Cross) with music arranged in more groove based genres such as Jazz, Soul, Blues, Funk, Prog, etc. with more emphasis based on arrangment and performance of the songs. This album will require much collaboration between the arrangers and musicians to produce something that feels very natural and smooth as opposed to over quantanized/mechanical (for a more musical example of what im hoping to achieve, there is always alot of music coming out of OneUp studios that is crafted in this fashion....). I'm hoping to finish with an album of hopefuly 15 or less songs so that we can focus on quality over quantity. I have no pre-planned song list per say, anything from these three games is fair game as far as I'm concerned, and there is plenty of great material. Yasunori Mitsuda is a very jazz/prog orientated composer and his works lend themselves very well to improvisation and jazz orientated genres. If you are at all interested in helping out with this project, whether you be an arranger, musician, album artist, site builder, please PM me and let me know and hopefully we can get you on board. I'm hoping that we can create something really original, genuine and memorable here, and hopefully we can assemble an awesome team.
Hope to hear from you!

[Brandon Strader]

Where are you planning to release this album upon completion?

[Wiesty]

Im hoping to get enough support on board and interest behind it to make an ocr release

[Meteo Xavier]

Chrono Trigger's music translates OK into jazz, but the rest of that is going to be pretty hard I might think, especially prog. What is endearing about the Chrono series music is how simple and easily digestible the songs were, which is Yasunori Mitsuda's trademark and secret weapon.

There's already been a jazz arrange album for Chrono Trigger and a project OCR did for CT already.

If I may suggest, it might work better to draw up interest and in general if you limited it to 15 songs from Chrono Cross. I think that soundtrack would translate better into prog/funk/etc based music. Chrono Trigger's been done to death whereas there is still stuff to mine from CC.

I'm definitely not trying to rain on a parade here, you can take this post with as much salt as you like, but most of the interest in projects, at least from my perspective, has gone toward existing projects in development of which we're plenty full up on anyway. Consider it.

[Brandon Strader]

I think you should allow any genre but orchestral. :<

And I would be on board to do a tune at some point, and hopefully others would too.

Though you might have more luck simply doing a Chrono Cross album with a specific track list for people to choose from. And considering CT and RD have albums, making an CC album is not a bad idea.

[Wiesty]

If it means getting more people on board, id be happy to open up the genres to include things such as rock etc, but mostly genres with improvisation, and genres which are not heavily over-refined (i.e. electronica etc.)And it'd be awesome to get you on for a tune Brandon, you can AIM or pm me if you have any questions.

[Brandon Strader]

I think improvisational genres like jazz are a grey area here where source usage is based on lead melody (and less solo'ing over source chords or a chord progression) I don't know if the improvisational idea would work out too well :cry:

[Meteo Xavier]

Though you might have more luck simply doing a Chrono Cross album with a specific track list for people to choose from. And considering CT and RD have albums, making an CC album is not a bad idea.

I already said that. :P

[Wiesty]

Maybe I'm being to loose (?) with the term improvisation, but I'm definitley going for a non electronica, sequenced based sound. For examples, almost anything coming out of OneupStudios, especially The One Ups (secret of the forest, aquatic ambience, anything off of volume 1) would be a good example.
Other examples (?)
-Midnight Club at Corel (red tailed fox/shnabubala)
-Short Skirts (djpretzel, vigilante)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JrgnmKNvx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLyvgKvMMEU&playnext=1&list=PL21568A4FF7FDF361
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoB8N2g6kCs


Hopefully I'm a little clearer now ha.

[Emunator]

I actually think this would be a really neat idea, I like the idea of doing more themed remix projects like this, even if the OSTs have already been remixed to death. I'm 100% in favor of this and wish you all the best, Wiesty :-)

[Brandon Strader]

Yurp I would like to see more info such as deadlines and stuff like that, but I could see myself grabbing a couple claims for this that I was planning to cover ANYWAY, like Star Stealing Girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoEMaWrQBQM), Magic Dreamers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2K12JjKC8s), and People Imprisoned by Destiny (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDbfOdvFBrA)

You should ask a lot moar people personally about joining this in addition to the thread :-D

[Wiesty]

For sure, I've been doing some recruiting on the side, and once I have at least a few hands on deck I'll get this thread up and rolling :)

[Dave the Rave]

I have to agree with Meteo & Brandon on this. Your better off doing a Chrono Cross album instead, since the other 2 already have albums.

Even though I've never played Chrono Cross, I MIGHT lend a helping hand on this project.

[Wiesty]

The track set is really open to any of the Chrono series, so if people tend to want to remix more Chrono Cross songs, then i'm sure the album will be mostly Chrono Cross. Its mostly to celebrate/pay tribute to Mitsudas work during this period and put a cool twist onto it, rather than be a chrono trigger, or chrono cross remix album. Personally I've only played a bit of Cross, and while I'm familiar with a fair bit of the music from it, i'd be a bit ahead of myself heading a chrono cross specific album, IMO. That being said, if it worked out that the album was like 80% Cross, I wouldn't complain. I want to keep it open to the mixers to choose what they want to mix, as I think pre-planning a setlist can kind of pigeon-hole people into mixing something even if it dosen't jump out at them right away.

[Brandon Strader]

Mitsuda tribute album.... now THAT sounds cool. :-)

He's done more than Chronos though, yaknow

[Tuberz McGee]

Heck, Chrono Trigger is my favourite game of all time...
But Chrono Cross's soundtrack was a million times better.
I don't see ANY problems with a Chrono Cross album.
I had an awesome/silly idea that people may even mock me for too. Haha
Chrono Cross had the two dimensions right?
Have the "Home Dimension" mixes as being really somber and calm.
Then have the "Other Dimension" mixes as being really upbeat and more aggressive.
Though, say the track "Another Mabuure" doesn't need to only be on the "Other Dimension" disk or whatever.
So each track has the ability to be done twice within different styles.
( Thought of that while thinking of a Chrono album idea to the same effect, except with seven different styles pertaining to the different time regions (Prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Present, Judgement Day, Future, End of Time)).
Let the making fun of begin.

[avaris]

I like the idea of doing a themed project as well.

Once the planning has come to fruition I might jump on if I can find a source that fits the theme.

Good luck Wiesty!

[Blue Magic]

I kinda agree that this project should focus mostly on CC. Maybe a little CT as a bonus. Since CC has two dimensions, it can easily become a two-disk album.

BTW, if this idea does indeed become a project in the future, would anyone be against me sliding one of my already finished CC tracks on to this album? It is on my YouTube channel and I didn't really want to submit it to OCR, yet I would like to expose it to more people.

[Wiesty]

As stated before, I'm not to well versed with CC, so for me to lead a CC project would be a little wreckless. I want to leave it open for mixers to choose, and moreso just focus on a theme. Personally I will be focusing on CT and RD, but if everything else turns out to be CC, then that is fine as well.

[Brandon Strader]

So this is gonna be the "show up with your CC" album that was never meant to be a fully CC album, but is totally going to be a CC album by the time it's over :-P (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/)

[Wiesty]

Howd you guess?!

[-Dan]

I think that's a good idea a Crono Cross album project only, because CTrigger already has an album and many songs remixed, including the last schala remix ever by Brandon.

[-Dan]

or so, we should do The Schala Remix project, heheh

[Wiesty]

True that CT already has an album, but it itself was fairly themed, with it being the producers imagined soundtrack for a CT film. This itself would be themed, so it would give it a completely different spin. And besides that, Chrono Symphonic was almost 6 years ago, I think theres been a good cushion of time.

[LegendaryFrog]

I agree thats since Chrono Symphonic was so specific on what it was, OCR could use another CT album and it wouldn't feel repetitive.

[-Dan]

But they are two great games with very rich soundtrack. Thus, a single project incorporating the two games would take so long that I think most interesting to do one at a time.

[Meteo Xavier]

I agree thats since Chrono Symphonic was so specific on what it was, OCR could use another CT album and it wouldn't feel repetitive.

This same concept already exists 4-5 times over in existing mixes.
http://ocremix.org/game/16/chrono-trigger-snes/remixes

Pretty much anything but a Chrono Trigger bluegrass tribute would be repetitive.

[Kuolema]

Pretty much anything but a Chrono Trigger bluegrass tribute would be repetitive.


That sounds good to me! :P

[Brandon Strader]

I support the creation of a good new CT album for the sake of having new good music. I'm not against repetition for the sake of not having repetition if the songs are good.

[prophetik music]

i didn't read the thread, but didn't someone already do a jazz-themed chrono album? it's darn good, too.

[Meteo Xavier]

i didn't read the thread, but didn't someone already do a jazz-themed chrono album?

Yeah - Mitsuda

[prophetik music]

what was it called? had a good soprano sax player and ten tracks. brink of time, maybe?

[Brandon Strader]

The Bad Dudes made a Chronopolis album.

And CT is a game that can justify multiple albums...

Just because there's so much music and most of it is perfect

[Wiesty]

Well ous had time and space, which wasnt exactly jazz/groove/prog based

[prophetik music]

The Bad Dudes made a Chronopolis album.

And CT is a game that can justify multiple albums...

Just because there's so much music and most of it is perfect

CT's music is not mostly perfect. if it was, then the only tracks people would remix would be the crappy ones. the other tracks would be un-remixable, since any remix would be worse than the original.

[-Dan]

There is an album about Chrono Cross?

[Wiesty]

CT's music is not mostly perfect. if it was, then the only tracks people would remix would be the crappy ones. the other tracks would be un-remixable, since any remix would be worse than the original.

Blasphemy!

[SapSpecial]

maybe something along the lines of this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOjKr312BEM
looking for a recruitment project in the meantime, send me a message

[michinoku]

I would definitely be interested in revisiting some of the Chrono cross music. I spent a long time dissecting that music (having purchased the soundtrack at a local anime shop when I was growing up) and it certainly had an influence as well - not as much certainly as Chrono Trigger but I spent a LONG time on that game and the music really did sink in.

If it were to be Chrono Cross focused, the project could go in many, many directions. That would be up to the project creator, for sure. If it were to include Chrono Trigger music or Radical Dreamers music I think it would have to have a specific focus, either by musical genre or by some connecting thread in the plots in order to justify getting people who have doing remixes for awhile to come back to these really obvious choices.

[Angeousa Quicksilver]

I did love to do a collaboration with Chrono Cross series.

[tschiefer]

I would definitely be interested in revisiting some of the Chrono cross music.

[2]. Highly interested.

[Bahamut]

CT's music is not mostly perfect. if it was, then the only tracks people would remix would be the crappy ones. the other tracks would be un-remixable, since any remix would be worse than the original.

I have felt for quite a while that Chrono Cross's music is a lot more memorable overall, not to mention more emotional. I would love to hear the music revisited for sure!

[Anorax]

Is this PM only?

I want to see a track list of some sort!

[Level 99]

Need a tracklist and whatnot before I can list in the active projects thread.

[Anorax]

Need a tracklist and whatnot before I can list in the active projects thread.

I'm not sure if this project is organized yet