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Happy Mother's Day (I hope everyone had a good one). Despite having some plans on incorporating "Bloody Tears" (I consider it a VGM classic with a great melody) into one of my own remixes, I decided to listen to this track after Larry posted about it. I feel the Rap portion covers Alucard's story well and is a nice gift for the occasion. While I've never been a fan of Trap music personally (especially when done by amateurs), I found the arrangement strong and distinct for a source that's been remixed plenty (not saying that's a bad thing, especially in this case). Over all, good job.

Sampled Bryan Fury's ending theme from Tekken 4 aaand this was the end result.

Reharmonization :)

Thank you! That was one of my favorites as well. I did a bit of a harmonic trick in the middle where I used the same melody with different chords, and it felt like a new key. Still don't know what to call that technique today. :-)

Looking forward to the great work you guys will bring! :-) Honestly, I did feel the same way about the Evaluators' position - this is a great change.

Pretty heavy stuff, and while I admit screamo isn't my cup of tea and sometimes the music was louder than the vocals, altogether this felt like a solid ReMix. Really liked the violin for the time it was there.

Sexy sax, clean electric guitar and oozing with triumphant 80's energy, this is an awesome arrangement. Loved this one.

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Ah, I loved making this! The tradeoffs from one key to another was my personal favorite part to write. I also think that this ReMix more-or-less defines my go-to sound palette today! I didn't look at any other songs for sound design inspiration in this case. I kept the sound design inspiration internal to what made sense for this ReMix.

Interesting idea for an album. I would be interested in joining...now just gotta think which song to remix

I think he meant the shift into the solo having a change in tempo made it seem like the solo (regardless of instrument) came out of nowhere. But I understand that it can be read like that as well. --- I actually love this style you found for yourself, with a funky synth/guitar palette. Also love to see more Goemon ReMixes on the site. I have one in the pipeline from 2016. :-)

It's completely experimental and generic sounding I suppose but it was fun to make lol

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DarkeSword just moved the post (Thank you!!) We had some others show interest - I do have the Lunar Panic mix mostly done, I'll be doing some touch-ups, fixing the ending and submitting it. I'll likely move a lot of the status updates to the projects/albums discord channel.

i've recently downloaded zxtune on android, and it has similar functionality. i've found lots of cool japanese arcade game osts on obscure FM synth chips since. just by randomly going through the archives while taking a walk. basically stuff that's reminiscent of the streets of rage sound. i haven't had a cellphone for a while, but i borrowed this fat clunky one from my dad that he bought specifically for watching youtube. it has this big integrated loudspeaker. it's perfect for blasting your vicinity with blaring chiptunes XD i can see myself annoying a lot of folks when i go travelling in the summer, hehe. going on walks with an app like this is perfect for finding new interesting OSTs. when i'm at home, i tend to only listen to the old stuff i know already, if at all. and i agree, these apps are great, it's like digging for gold nuggets. there's so much trash in these archives, but when you find a nugget it's so fun. it goes for game OSTs as well as chip musician archives. there should be a random radio play feature in there. something that randomly draws the next tune from the big archive lists.

Hi @Gario! Looking forward to the update.

Nice seeing this posted. I agree with the judges comments about the timings on the intro, I had a hard time adjusting the shuffles to a degree I was 100% satisfied. I kinda just left what satisfied me the most haha. I don't like to complain about judge comments too much, but this one left me so confused: Like... what?! The track even has a guitar solo near the outro. It must be the weirdest comment I've gotten from an OCR judge. It's a live solo played on the keys, I don't see how that's anything weird or unusual at all.

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What can I say about our scene's chaos agent, Brandon Strader? Welcome back. :-) I have my own special "appreciation", a carefully chosen word, for my interactions with Brandon, and I sincerely meant "chaos agent" as a term of endearment. As much as he went about it in the wrong way, we did have the formation of our Game Music Initiative 501c3 non-profit organization hustled along due to Brandon's complaints, so there's the genuine positivity of that outcome (in hindsight, of course). Strader's extremely talented, and hopefully not as prone to conspiratorial confrontation these days. He did a great job here, the vocals were really on point!

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I am a fan of the Mako Reactor source, and I gotta say I really enjoyed this creative take on the source. I really enjoyed the bass and I REALLY enjoyed the leads and secondary lead instruments. Pretty much everything from 1:00 - 2:00 was music gold! Fantastic remix here!

This was definitely a treat. This remix is definitely a slow burn, starting off very chill and then ramping up slowly with the drums until that big powerful finale and a trail off of a lovely ending. Excellent remix! :)

This remix definitely brings me a feeling of going down some sort of memory lane. I suppose that's fitting because since one of the sources has "memories" in the name. As someone else pointed out, this piano playing is very emotive, which is very useful so that repeated parts don't get stale. This was extremely well done, bravo and kudos!

That e-piano is a crispy clear as a set of fresh snow. What a lovely remix. Very chill, very cool . Excellent job on this!

I enjoyed the retro rock feel of this remix. I feel like I need to blast this remix in an old ford pickup truck while I drive down a creek trail. Definitely a bop, great work on this!