[Liontamer]

• Preview it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjV0fIXFtgI
• Download it: http://badass.ocremix.org/
• Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/BadAs...Themes.torrent

BadAss. Hardcore. Ass-Kickery, if you're dirty. These are the words I used when I officially announced BadAss back in March of 2009. The origins of BadAss begin a few years earlier. It was 2006, and a guy named Pi_R_[]ed decided he wanted to make a project that was nothing but boss themes. Kanjika joined up as the co-director and they made a good push with it. I eventually joined up, as did pu_freak. This incarnation was called Crescendo to Chaos, and while it was a great concept, it still felt like something was lacking. I always felt that it needed to be harder, grittier, and simply more evil than it was, you dig? The concept of an album made up entirely of boss themes conjured up a certain feeling; a certain state of mind, and this wasn't delivering it.

Crescendo to Chaos eventually went defunct. Where many saw a loss, I saw a glimmer of awesomeness. With the encouragement of Kyle Crouse and the support of my assistant director, pu_freak, I re-launched the project with new guidelines: "Everything must be BadAss! Can you hear me, damn you?" The album needed to encapsulate the idea of bosses by featuring dark, visceral, and aggressive tracks. The name was changed to BadAss for obvious reasons, and here we are today. I'd be remiss not to thank KyleJCrb, evktalo, and everyone else at the KNGI Boards for all their contributions, so thank you guys! To every artist, ReMixer and graphic artist alike, I salute you! You all indeed are BadAsses.

We're unleashing hell on an unassuming populace! Can you feel it?! Can you hear it?! That?s the sound of ass-kickery of a magnitude previously unheard of. We're not just gonna win, we're gonna change the game! We are BadAss. Hope you enjoy the ride!

-The Joker

[The Joker]

Hell yeah! I'm so porud of everyone who contributed to this project right here! Awesome Album overall!

[HitoriJaNai]

Y'know, I figure since this month is Reviews Month, I'm going to go ahead and give a track-by-track review, particularly since the consistency on this project really seems top-notch, and I'm not entirely sure whose tracks will get posted when... not sure whether or not I'll count this towards defeating OA (probably not ), but hey, at least the artists may know firsthand how awesome they made this album.

(To be filled in)

[HitoriJaNai]

Originally Posted by Liontamer

Twenty artists collaborated on musical tributes to some of gaming's biggest evildoers, including:

Not to be a nitpicker or anything (really, I mean it), but I counted only nineteen artists. O_O;

That aside: YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BADASS ALBUM IS BADASS! :D

[pu_freak]

A track-by-track review would be awesome!

[Melbu Frahma]

Did you count both members of the Dual Dragons?

Also, congrats on an awesome 30th album, OCR.

[HitoriJaNai]

Originally Posted by Melbu Frahma

Did you count both members of the Dual Dragons?

Also, congrats on an awesome 30th album, OCR.

.... DOH! That's it!

[GTAHater836]

I heard somewhere that this is only Volume 1. Will there ever be a second volume?

[Brandon Strader]

Don't let them haters on YouTube get to you! List each FF separately.

[Chernabogue]

Originally Posted by pu_freak

A track-by-track review would be awesome!

Seconded!

Originally Posted by GTAHater836

I heard somewhere that this is only Volume 1. Will there ever be a second volume?

Yes, there will be a second volume if everything is okay. But for now, enjoy Volume 1.