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Super groovy source, as expected from a Sonic OST! Not much for me to add that hasn't already been noted by Proph and Wake, unfortunately. As a bassist, I can get behind a bass-guitar-forward mix all day - as long as what the bass is doing is meant to be the focus. As it stands, the bass is in direct competition with both the Omnisphere bells and piano (:00 - :12, :12 - :38). I definitely agree that volume-wise it could be lowered several dB and still have the presence in the mix it deserves without standing on the toes of the melodic phrases. There's nothing inherently wrong with the bass using passing tones to transition chord roots, though you'll want to be careful that the harmony you're crafting between all the layers (bass, strings, piano, pad, and all the reverb and delay) is copacetic. Wake and Proph noted the dissonance/crunchiness @ :38 - :51 where the delay FX on the piano clash with the piano itself as well as the pad/string layers. You may need to automate or duck the delay during those clashing sections or remove that effect in that section. :51 - :55 is such a highlight section, and I also would love more of that feel in this piece. :55 - 1:20 would be a cool spot to continue the tonality of that gnarly distortion guitar since you're recapping the A section here. In general, when reintroducing sections from the piece, it's a good idea to vary parts of that section to keep things from feeling stale or redundant. For me to sign off on this one when it comes back, I'd need to hear: the bass guitar reduced in volume to give space to the piano, bells the clashing/unwanted dissonant notes fixed @ :38 - :51 more variety to the sections after :55 There's a lot of opportunity here to make this one feel more like AshleyXR, and you've got a good foundation established here to build on. Feel free to bring it on back to us after spending some more time with it! NO (resubmit)

Begins similarly to the source, with a loud electric bass doing the low notes. Right away there's something off in the sound, I'm not sure if the bass sample is slightly out of tune but it's just not fitting correctly with the rest of the instruments. I'm fairly confident it's playing "correct" notes though... except for 0:12 where it plays a very unfitting C. At 0:13 a percussion enters but the bass is so loud that it gets buried quick. I'm still hearing the bass as being off here, but now I'm more confident it's actually playing at least some wrong notes. At 0:25 we move to the next section and my impressions are more or less the same. We change to a new section at 0:39 and now things are definitely not fitting together, the pads, bass and keys seem to be playing different songs entirely (0:44 for example is very dissonant). Fun breakdown at 0:52, would've been a neat way to introduce and keep a guitar for the rest of the arrangement. There's a repeat of the first part and then on the second one there's some sort of piano solo over the backing that I commented not fitting well together. The 0:52 breakdown repeats and then we get a repeat of the main melody over a spicy chord for the end. On arrangement, this is a fairly conservative take on the original. You got creative with the backing around 1:25 but other than that it seems very similar to the source, on spirit. Like I mentioned above, there's various spots with potentially wrong notes that should get a second look, especially the entire 0:39 section. On production, this is kinda getting ruined by the bass. It's so loud that it drowns out everything else and makes it hard to judge whether the rest of the mix works or not. From what I can tell, the piano tone seems overly bright but I'd need to recheck the mix on a more balanced version. Overall, this needs more work to get posted. As prophetik recommended, going to the Discord's workshop to get suggestions would be great. I'd focus on nailing the arrangement first, taking care of potentially wrong notes and finding out how to make the source "yours" by adding more original ideas/variations. NO

Ah, fair enough. I understand the history of that now, and as a fellow writer, yeah...shit can take awhile to plot out and edit, especially if it's that long. I'll see how it goes, then. I might make it simple and like some weird opposite to what you do yearly. Call it a...'Halloween Haiku'. Or something equally catchy and short form. :P

Like we wouldn't have them... :-D https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kbxL0oM6xsneNMq5fwCkAqKWgI93IIz5/view?usp=sharing

Then I'll get started on my eerie pixel idea and see where it goes. As for poems, Twas actually has nothing to do with AOCC. The Twas series was started by me back in 2002 as something goofy to post for Christmas in the old UnMod forum that year. It became a yearly thing after that, focusing on various UnMod and OCR happenings until around the seventh year, when it became about original stories that had nothing to do with the forums. Each one's been written entirely by me, and as one can imagine, they take some time to flesh out and write nowadays (20-plus pages of stanzas do be like that). Doing a second one each year just isn't something I have the time for, so if someone else wants to write up a poem specifically for the Halloween project, they can do it. I gotta save up my ideas for the rhyming novellas I write once a year 😄

Link seems to be hella broke.. D: Is this an original thing, or something from a source? I had put you down for the Baby Shark thing, so IDK if you changed your mind or not. xD Nah, no one is. xD Adrian and Audiomancer voiced they might do some artwork / cover stuff for this, but nothing says there can't be multiple (as in, art inserts + front & back covers). ;) So if you've got some grand, spooktacular plan, feel free! I'd love it to be pixel art, or at least, thematically uniform. :) If we've got a base idea for direction, that'd be cool. This year's theme is a bit of a 'free-for-all', but the only thing I think I've got a centered idea on is pumpkins. xD Having no game characters or funny/goofy scenes will help to separate this a bit from AOCC. Don't wanna mimic your ideas, or have it be a carbon copy but with "it's spooky" instead. I was also wondering how you'd feel about your yearly poem thing for AOCC being adopted by AOCH? I know that's pretty much tradition at this stage to do that, as you release the album for the songs for the 25th of December... Who's doing the poem? IDK. I can write a thematic poem, but was wondering how you felt about it? :D

Anyone opposed to the idea of me doing a cover for this? I have an idea. It'll be pixel art like my other stuff, but no game characters or funny/goofy scenes.

i claim HOTPOCKETS.wav (ホッホッedition)

We have some of them still on the site's webspace. Can probably put a download together when I find time.

The ones from the golden age? EA remix. Schala's THEME. etc. Wondering if the files are still in the archives - sent from my ipod at the senior's residence

Haha, nah, man, people can join in on this from now until, like...the second to last week in October. X'D It doesn't officially start until June 1st, but starting early is cool with me! It'd be an absolute honour to have you be a part of this. Should poke some of the AOCC regulars, as well, and Dyne! But seriously, I'm humbled and welcome you on-board. :) I'll update the first post with your claim shortly. ♡

Huh. I missed this somehow. Well, assuming people are still allowed to join in, I've been thinking about updating my song "Revenant's Waltz" to see if I can spruce it up over the original I did back in 2016.

Wow! And to think I have been coming here since 2003! Congrats to all! One of my most favorite songs from here was, and still is, "For You", from MegaMan 2, by AkumajoBelmont: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02121 Scrolling back to look at it, it was the first remix that made me actually *sign up* just to leave a comment because it moved me so much. Still sing along to it to this day! Thanks for the great memories OCRemix! Here's to another 25 years! <3

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Dunno, when I saw the new dark theme the first times, I thought that some kind of apocalyptic Kefka cult must have raided the peaceful OCR platform - just to plunge the colourful world of video game music into chaos, darkness and depression. But then I thought you're just following the legendary Japanese prophecy, aren't you? O_O ... Nah, just thought that the world could need much more light 'cause of the annoying weather (c'mon - only writing about it and it's just already raining like in late autumn again) and because the world got already dark enough for many people. But maybe I'll just hang up a bright and sunny picture with a really nice tropical motif in my living room next to my studio environment. This one has a really stunning paradisiacal ambience: Or maybe this one? I'm not really a designer with an addional degree in psychology. But I think you understand how strongly certain colors and motifs can influence people's thoughts and feelings. This was perhaps one of the reasons why the painter Vincent van Gogh, in a mentally unstable phase of his life, longed for much more light, sun and colors to capture them in his works and even moved his place of residence to the sunny south. So if you want to have a few ambient-heavy Chrono Cross and Star Tropics remixes again, or if you want to tempt all the remixers on OC to make some of these, you can use the picture motifs as a new (tropical sun) light theme after the prophesied battle against darkness is over. ))

The build-up of intensity and passion is just wonderful; I felt it in my heart, just an absolutely beautiful track to sit with for the near five-minute runtime. Unique and emotionally moving, a thoroughly pleasant arrangement.

What a great vibe! Cozy and warm feeling. Great accordion playing and appreciate the flute in the background to add the extra warmth of the piece.

Such a fun piece to listen to. With the accordion and background music makes me feel that I am in a actual pub. Well done!

Yffish does not disappoint! Same energy as their "Rum Barrel" remix. Makes me feel "Argh, matey"!

When this song release I was instantly hooked! I have never played the game but by listening to this remix I would love to play this game. The tune is catchy, fun, and makes you feel that you are a pirate. Arr!