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There are a lot of video games that are essentially digital versions of card games: Hearthstone, the Pokémon TCG game for gameboy, Duelyst, the various Yu Gi Oh games, etc. These games have some pretty solid soundtracks. I'd like to see a small single-disc album focusing on music from games like these. Anyone up for the task of directing? I'll take on an advisory/exec producer role and help out, but this'll be your show with regards to track selection and stylistic choices.

So hey, Undertale is a year old. Not too early for a MASSIVE TRIBUTE ALBUM, is it? Doug Perry (you may know him around these parts as DrumUltimA) and the Materia Collective organized this tribute album with nearly 100 arrangements of the game's soundtrack. I'm on the album with Marshall Art, and there are at least a handful of other posted OCReMixers on here, so I think it's kosher to have a thread in the community forum, right? http://www.materiacollective.com/music/fallen-undertale-tribute/ https://materiacollective.bandcamp.com/album/fallen-an-undertale-tribute https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/fallen-an-undertale-tribute/id1152673403?ls=1&uo=8&at=1l3v4op https://loudr.fm/release/fallen-an-undertale-tribute/S7RFW

Hello everybody. It's been a long time until I post something. I tried this tonight with african samples. Absolutely not perfect but I liked making this. I this that everybody knows the original track!!

I'm impressed how fitting it is that you combined the percussive elements with the theme playing thru flute - it creates a vivid soundscape that paints more of a middle/south american vibe for me than african. Well done!

I sincerely hope you're listening to the OverClocked PodCast.

I'm game. I heard compo's are like, the best way to improve thanks to you lovely people at the PAX West panel, so I'll give it a shot.

Great jam. Got me listening to Zawinul this morning, which is always a great start to a day.

I'll quote music theory professor Frank Lehman here, who after noting that the YT channel this comes from is excellent, notes: "...they bizarrely gloss over the most glaring issue with these franchises -- the lack of firmly defined or hummable themes. (Exceptions, IMHO, w/ Capt. America leitmotif and maybe the Avengers theme--not accidentally both from Silvestri). And they further claim that the music is not evoking an emotional response, when that's pretty much all it's doing: pure affect" That pretty much sums up my thoughts. Get Silvestri to do more, haha

If you were to move a bit away from the original, it would be an awesome addition to OCR. Nintendo hasn't made a new F-Zero game and it'd be great to hear more remixes for F-Zero in general. This was one of my favorite tracks in FZX. Sounds pretty good.

This is more of a remake then a remix, but it sure sounds good. I like the tone set by this. It's a little bottom-heavy on the EQ, but I don't think that's a problem in this case - I like that boomy drive and the lead with a tad more reverb and a tad less volume is quite effective, IMO. However, it's a loop and becomes repetitive quickly. I think what this is missing is a screamin' lead guitar solo at 1:34 and an epic ending of some sort...

Yeah .... I think this is good. I can hear good panning on most things, decent mix, and nothing seems out of place. There still a lot of 'space' in the song, but it matches the original tone of the track, IMO. If you're confident, tag this thread as 'eval' so you can get a good check-over by a judge before you submit. Great work!

Well, to be fair, if you strip an arrangement down and take off the elements that make it different from the source, very often you get something that is... well, not interesting and too conservative. That's probably why YoshiBlade added all of those cool, interesting elements on top of the arrangement. There are mixes that change up the form of the track, but that's not a requirement for a track to be posted - it just can't be a straight cover with nothing added to it to make it really stand out as his own. As far as I can tell, it's not against site or submission policy to have a mix that stacks a whole lot of other elements over a relatively straight arrangement, as long as the source isn't straight sample'd from the game itself throughout (which isn't the case here). In this track, all of those extra elements, the gating of the theme, etc., add a lot of extra atmosphere. Changing the atmosphere of a track (or making it so much more intensely "that atmosphere", like in this track) does count as change, as far as following OCR standards is concerned, and adding elements on top of a straight source certainly counts as "adding a personal touch", as well. This is a good example of a track that's extremely conservative that got posted (along with the judge decision that lead to it being YES'd) - very conservative, as far as arrangement goes, but it adds so much flavor in how it presents the material, in the little bits added on top, that it got a pretty solid pass from the J's. Following the form of a source isn't an issue as long as you do something to it to really make it your own. On that front, anyway, I think YoshiBlade would fare alright.