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Affiliates

Using our referral links below when purchasing from our affiliates helps cover the site's bandwidth costs and support some excellent partners in the process.
  • Dreamhost - Excellent shared and dedicated web hosting with generous bandwidth
  • eStarland.com - Games, consoles, anime merchandise, and more, with international shipping
  • Mad-Gear LLC - Our convention partners provide you not only with OCR gear, they specialize a deep selection of new and used import games
  • LiquidWeb - OverClocked ReMix's primary web hosting provider; great dedicated hosting
  • VG Frequency - Larry "Liontamer" Oji's former Atlanta radio show, reborn as OC ReMix's official blog covering the video game arrangement scene.
  • Zzounds.com - Music hardware & software with excellent prices & fast shipping

Game Music

Game Music Arrangement Community

  • AMIGAremix - A newer site dedicated to remixes of tunes from the Commodore Amiga platform.
  • Arrange Stream - Your (Japanese-language) guide to the loose confederation that is Japan's doujin VGM arrangement scene.
  • Dwelling of Duels - The popular monthly live performance arrangement competition.
  • OverLooked ReMiX - OLR is the comedic offshoot and bastard stepcousin of OCR.
  • Remix.Kwed.Org - The definitive guide to C64 MP3 remakes showcases SID remixes.
  • Remix64 - The informational hub and gathering point of the Commodore arrangement scene.
  • Remix:ThaSauce - R:TS has a relaxed quality control system in the attempt to showcase more music.
  • VGMix - VGMix is part of a community of amateur musicians who write arrangements of video game music.
  • VgPiano - A pianist's dream, VgPiano is newer hub focused on arranging in the 88 keys.

Albums

  • Blood on the Asphalt - A Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo ReMix collaboration with an urban flavor.
  • Chrono Symphonic - Designed to be the orchestrated soundtrack for the long-desired Chrono Trigger movie.
  • Hedgehog Heaven - A Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrangement project featuring developing artists.
  • Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country's memorable soundtrack is diversely handled here, and generally regarded as OCR's most creatively successful album project.
  • Project Chaos - Inspired by the game with LOCK-ON TECHNOLOGY™ (and possibly Michael Jackson), Sonic 3 & Knuckles was rearranged in a variety of styles.
  • ReCapitated - Focusing on one the most memorable pieces of VGM ever created, Sonic the Hedgehog 3's IceCap Zone, resulting in an album of biblical proportions.
  • Relics of the Chozo - The album project that started it all, a Super Metroid Musical Collaboration.
  • Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation - RoFL is a humorous upgrade to the hallowed soundtrack of Duck Hunt.
  • Rise of the Star - An upbeat collection of arrangements from the classic NES platformer, Kirby's Adventure.
  • The Dark Side of Phobos - A decidedly dark interpretation of the legendary PC title DooM.
  • Thieves of Fate - Tributing the little-known, but formative chapter in the Chrono series, Radical Dreamers.
  • Voices of the Lifestream - OC ReMix's largest community album to date, this 4-disc, 3 1/2 hour album features ReMixers giving it their all in tribute to Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy VII score.
Non-OCR Albums
  • Bound Together - Several areas of the community contributed to this EarthBound tribute.
  • Cave Story Remix Project - An album dedicated to the homebrew sensation Cave Story, and praised by game creator Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya.
  • The American Album - Mazedude's tribute honors the often-overlooked American video game composers.

Bands / Performers

  • Eminence - Based in Australia, this nearly 60-person orchestra aims to spread the orchestra to a wider audience, arranging the music of video games, anime and pop culture.
  • Game Over - Fantastic Swedish metal video game cover band - did the great Punch-Out!! ReMix hosted here. Cool.
  • Minibosses - One of the very first game cover bands, with a rock emphasis and some energetic material.
  • NESkimos - Fun and irreverent video game cover band.
  • Neskvartetten - Literally Sweden's NES quartet, they specialize in giving Zelda's music the jazzy treatment.
  • PLAY! A Video Game Symphony - From the same team that brought Final Fantasy: Dear Friends to the United States, PLAY's concerts expand the format to a broader selection of game music.
  • Project X - The collaborative effort of two musical robots to record new versions of the classic soundtracks of Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3.
  • Select Start - This Florida-based sextet offers something different with their classical repertoire.
  • temp sound solutions - shawn phase has tons of great rock covers from classic games, with new material constantly in the works.
  • The Advantage - "8 BIT nintendo band - serious dudes that rock with good nintentions".
  • Video Game Pianist - One of the first pianists to gain recognition and respect for performing video game music on the piano.
  • Video Games Live - Tommy Tallarico & Jack Wall's ambitious world concert tour aiming to bring VGM to the masses, including many international locations never before visited by a VGM concert.
  • Xoc - Performing with almost any instrument or object within reach, Xoc first gained notice with his Super Mario World cover album.

Labels

  • C64Audio - C64Audio works with original composers and fan arrangers for its catalog of Commodore arrangement albums.
  • OneUp Studios - OneUp was started in 2002 to arrange video game music with a new flavor and then license and sell those arrangements on CD.

Game Music Composers

Game Music Emulation (NSF, SPC, etc.)

Please see Chipamp's links page, featuring chiptune news, players, archives and radio/podcasts.
  • Chipamp - OC ReMix's official Winamp plugin bundle supporting game music formats (NSF, SPC, PSF, SID, VGM, etc.)

Game Music in MIDI Format

  • Videogame Music Archive (VGMusic) - Video Game MIDI music from NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Genesis, Master System, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Turbo-Grafx 16, and more!

Game Music Industry / Organizations

  • Gamasutra - "The Art & Business of Making Games", Gamasutra's resources cover all aspects of the gaming industry.
  • Game Audio Network Guild - The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) is a non-profit organization established to educate the masses in regards to interactive audio.
  • MAGFest - The Music and Games Festival is THE yearly destination for VGM cover bands, as well as artists & fans of the US-based VGM arrangement scene.
  • MobyGames - The world's most comprehensive gaming database project.
  • Music 4 Games - News, interviews, and info regarding the game music industry.
  • VGMdb - The ultimate resource for information on video game music albums, both physical and digital.

Game Music Radio Stations

Radio Stations that Play OC ReMixes

ReMixing

  • Harmony Central - The biggest, oldest, best online resource for musicians - awesome.
  • K-v-R - The definitive site supporting open standard audio plugins (VST, DXi, AU, etc.)

Music Equipment/Software Manufacturer Websites

Access, Alesis, Cakewalk, Casio, Clavia (Nord), E-MU / Ensoniq, Emagic, Fender, Image-Line (FruityLoops), Kawai, Korg, Kurzweil, Lexicon, M-Audio, Mackie, MOTU, Native Instruments, Propellerhead Software, rgc:audio, Roland, Shure, Steinberg, Tascam, Yamaha

Music Theory, History & Terminology

Music-Making Magazines

Electronic Musician, Future Music, Keyboard, Mix, Sound on Sound

Music-Making Software

Buzz

Cubase

FruityLoops

Reason

Trackers

  • DMOZ entry for MOD Software - Open directory list of good links on MODs / tracking in general.
  • MAZ Sound - One of the oldest and best sites on trackers, with tons of links, downloads, and information.
  • United Trackers - Non-profit organization of musicians supporting the Internet (MOD) music scene - site has good scene news and resources.

Samples & Patches

Samples in Audio / WAV Format

Samples in Soundfont Format


Promotion

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