OCR, 8 Bit Weapon & Nokia! The Reset Generation ReMix contest!
It's time for some summer contest action! It's not the usual
OC ReMix compos though, we've got swag on the line for this one! Legendary chiptune musicians
Seth Sternberger & Michelle Mitchell, aka 8 Bit Weapon, have been putting out some awesome music & products lately. Along with several albums (their latest being
Electric High) and the recent
"8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey" loop & sample library, some of 8BW's proudest work was gaining the title of video game composers with their soundtrack to
RedLynx and
Nokia's awesome puzzle/strategy title
Reset Generation on the
Nokia N-Gage.
In
Reset Generation, old school gamers choose from a cast of classically influenced characters like Plumber, Hedgehog, and Babe Gunner to rescue a princess while taking out all other would-be heroes. Besides being able to get the game free at
ResetGeneration.com to play anyone using their PC or N-Gage, fans can download
the entire soundtrack to Nokia's Reset Generation free from 8BitWeapon.com!
Because Seth & Michelle are so supportive of game music & the OCR community, we're teaming up with 8 Bit Weapon AND Nokia to hook up the artist who can do the best job of remixing and interpreting the
Reset Generation soundtrack! Besides getting their ReMix posted to OCR as our first N-Gage mix, 8 Bit Weapon has delivered with an amazing phone hookup courtesy of Nokia.
The grand prize... a brand new Nokia N81, a US$399 value, with 8GB of memory including Reset Generation installed!
Contest Rules
The rules are simple. No MIDI format submissions, no chiptune-sounding submissions without some modern sounds & production techniques, no covers with little interpretation, no traditional remixes heavily sampling original audio, no mashups. If you're new,
read up on OC ReMix's standards and compare recent ReMixes to their original game tracks to understand what we're all about.
Beyond that though,
you can arrange the source material for any genre, any style, any length, any number of source tunes, any number of artists, and any number of entries.
In short, make a kickass Reset Generation OC ReMix! Reset Generation's tracks are all in the 8-bit style of classic, old-school game music, so you have a lot of flexibility with your arrangement!
We've already provided the link to download
Reset Generation's MP3s, but 8 Bit Weapon has also provided you
the 21 MIDIs of the Reset Generation soundtrack (also attached) in case you need references. You have from now until the middle of July to complete as many entries as you want.
But once we hit 11:59PM EST on Friday, July 10th, 2009, we're done accepting contest entries! All contest entries need to be emailed to admin@ocremix.org, subject "Nokia & 8 Bit Weapon!" Be sure to mention who was involved & what songs are being ReMixed!
Our illustrious judges will be chiptune assassin 8 Bit Weapon (Seth Sternberger), the lovely ComputeHer (Michelle Mitchell), OCR founder djpretzel (David Lloyd) & OCR head submissions evaluator Liontamer (Larry Oji), who'll be judging every track on a simple 1-5 scale, so make sure your entries are creatively arranged and capably produced for the win!
WHAT CAN I WIN?!? (Winning collaborators will be responsible for divvying up their prizes)
1st place!
- The Nokia N81 phone (a US$399 value) with 8GB of memory and Reset Generation installed!
- An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
- A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
- Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!
- Your choice of 1 more prize out of the OCR prize pool below!
- Cakewalk SONAR 7 Producer Edition (NFR)
- Sony ACID Pro 6 (NFR)
- Sony Sound Forge 9 (NFR)
- Novation V-Station Virtual Instrument
- SONiVOX Playa Hip-Hop Virtual Instrument
- A bundle of loops by M-Audio
- Project Gotham Racing (Microsoft, Xbox 360)
- Unreal Anthology (Midway, Windows)
2nd place!
- An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
- A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
- Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!
- A limited physical edition of OC ReMix's Final Fantasy VII album, Voices of the Lifestream!
3rd place!
- An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
- A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
- Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!
If you want to win a badass free Nokia N81 phone, the limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest album signed, some fashionable gear and MOAR, you've gotta get crackin' on your ReMix! Let's get it on!
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