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OC ReMix Presents Super Cartography Bros.! November 30, 2015 Contact: press@ocremix.org FAIRFAX, VA... OverClocked ReMix today released its 55th community arrangement album, Super Cartography Bros.. The album pays tribute to map themes from nine games in Nintendo's Super Mario series, and features 17 electronic tracks with an EDM focus. Accompanying the main "Radio Edit" version of the album are the "Club Edit" version, as well as a non-stop "DJ Mix" version edited by Aaron "Global-Trance" Wu. Super Cartography Bros. is directed by OC ReMixer and submissions judge Mike "Flexstyle" Birch, and is available for free download at http://cartography.ocremix.org. Super Cartography Bros. includes a deep roster of 15 musicians tackling soundtracks ranging from Super Mario Bros. 3 for the original NES all the way to Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U. Super Cartography Bros. was made by fans, for fans, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo; all original compositions are copyright their respective owners. "EDM is a genre near and dear to my heart. Video game music is also near and dear to my heart," remarked director Michael Birch. "I've been wanting to direct a high-production-value album for OCR that combines these two things for quite a long time, so when DarkeSword posted his ideas in the forums, I knew this was going to be the project for me." The album's cover artwork was designed by Maya "rnn" Petersen, who also created the art of For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man, OC ReMix's commercial album in partnership with Capcom. rnn has also been featured in UDON's series of video game tribute art books, including Mega Man Tribute. OC ReMixer and submissions judge Shariq "DarkeSword" Ansari conceptualized the album, loving "the idea of OC ReMix putting out something that was proudly and unapologetically "techno.'" In noting OCR's growing acceptance of longer musical arrangements, Ansari added, "I really wanted to see artists explore and expand smaller source tunes into big, sprawling electronic epics. This album has turned into something that's so unbelievably fun to listen to." About OverClocked ReMix Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans. ### Preview it: http://youtu.be/S7Aeuge5-E0 Download it: http://cartography.ocremix.org Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Super_Cartography_Bros.torrent Comments/Reviews: http://ocremix.org/community/topic/42255-

I use an external Samsung T1 for all my soundware now. The only thing I haven't moved over is Omnisphere (which hugely suffers for it, but I'm lazy). SOOOO GOOD The reason for the external is that I have my DAW on both desktop and laptop set up to read stuff from the same drive letters, so now I can take all my stuff on the go without having to make sure both computers have the same installations and version .dll's and whatnot. I frequently need to work on stuff outside of the home (at cons/panels, for game studio in-person meetings, etc.) Added bonus is that they read projects from a dropbox folder. Zing!

I submitted somehting. YOLO.

Aladdin getting no love? 16 hours remaining. I'll enter tonight.

A really interesting theme/concept. Nice job to Flex and team! Now time to listen in detail to it.

I still haven't listened to the Aladdin tune, saw Big Blue and instantly decided to go with that, haven't done fast synth rock in a while

I had an Aladdin tune in the works, but between the two I opted for my Big Blue arrangement. I also opted for the shortened version of it because I wasn't satisfied enough with the second half, but eh.

>_> Actually, I just do that to emphasize the important premises, assumptions, etc., in a sea of information*. * Yeah, metaphor in a casual response! [/awkward enthusiasm]

Well, when your stated opinion is a comparison of a novel series (and a movie or two based upon them) that promotes an unhealthy BDSM-based relationship with a psychopath who treats the main character like shit because "she gradually learns to like it", to a TV series about a woman with super-strength, that has a soft-core, no-nudity sex scene (that I honestly didn't even remember happening until someone posted pictures about it)... you're going to get called out on it. And thus, you have been called out on it. To that matter, let's compare the number of sex scenes from the Shades movie to the JJ series. The movie has 20 minutes of sex scenes, with a whopping 7 scenes (not counting nudity, not counting any of the strictly BDSM stuff, and not counting any of the ass-slaps, which would make that number MUCH higher). Jessica Jones has... two? Three? I honestly can't remember. I can look up Shades stats easily (hence the above paragraph), but I can't find anything about JJ's sex scenes. Well, I guess that means people are more interested in the ones from Shades than JJ. Poor man's 50 Shades of Grey, indeed...

Poor man's 50 shades of gray indeed.

Find the quotes, I will send the money! I need not say more, comparing my position on sexism in games to what you conjecture my position on gun control is (I've never once expressed to you my position on gun control, so not sure how you formulated it) is really cheeki breeki. Yes, but there is a difference between forcing people not to make sexist media and actually changing their mind about how they view gender/sex differences so that they don't feel creating sexist media is appropriate or something they actually want to do. A very tangible way of doing that is boycotting or otherwise discouraging the consumption of said media. Since a lot of motivation behind these depictions are the effervescent "sex sells!" adage, proving that wrong to content creators who use that as a primary motivation is a great start. Taking the game off the shelves as a "no-no" to content creators, on the other hand, is not as much. This approach doesn't stifle sexist expression; it removes the creator's need and perhaps even desire for it (in the specific circumstance where the need is motivated economically rather than... artistically)

I will reiterate in part my audio review of Jessica Jones, partially redacted for work purposes, and transcribed into text form: "Jessica Jones! Poor man's 50 Shades of Gray; I can't afford to read, I don't buy books! But I'll subscribe to Netflix..."

Ooohhh nice, I like the production personally. Probably always room for improvement, you should pm some of the guitar pro's on ocr, for input. Reminds me of Dragonforce and Nightwish a bit.

Indeed, Mr. Steed :3 Me too!!

2016 will be badass.

Where do you think people get sexist tendencies from? By absorbing the attitudes of the society around them -- the people in their lives and the media they consume. It's a chicken-egg problem. Sexist cultures produce sexist media, sexist media reinforces sexist attitudes, and sexist attitudes contribute to sexist culture. If you can short-circuit the process at any point, then the cycle ends. Since you can't very well keep media from influencing attitudes or attitudes from contributing to culture, you try to stop it at the "producing sexist media" point. It won't solve the problem by itself, certainly, but it will help.

I'm going to give this a shot! Working on something for Big Blue. Edit: K, it's in!

I'll talk with DragonAvenger and see if we can do anything cool for December Reviews month.

My computer is all ssd now. No mechanicals; just 840 and 850 EVO/PROs and an M2 SSD for OS. Looove it.

That would make an interesting mash-up, yo.

So as this is MnP instead of PRC do we have to choose a single source and go with it or are you allowing mashups for this round?

If only this was a PRC round. I could make that Aladdin track into a Klezmer Club remix.