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OC ReMix presents Seiken Densetsu 3: Songs of Light and Darkness! October 1, 2018 Contact: press@ocremix.org FAIRFAX, VA... OverClocked ReMix today released its 67th free community arrangement album, Seiken Densetsu 3: Songs of Light and Darkness. Featuring 70 tracks from 56 artists as well as an interview with the game's legendary composer Hiroki Kikuta, Songs of Light and Darkness pays tribute to the celebrated Japan-exclusive 16-bit Square RPG Seiken Densetsu 3, and is directed by Finnish musician Rozovian along with assistant director Meteo Xavier. The album is available for free download at http://sd3.ocremix.org. Released just after the game's 23rd anniversary and representing over 10 years of gradual development, Songs of Light and Darkness assembles a global lineup of musicians tackling Hiroki Kikuta's progressive SNES soundtrack in a variety of styles across 4 1/2 hours of interpretive arrangements. Songs of Light and Darkness was made by fans, for fans, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Square Enix; all images, characters, and original compositions are copyright their respective owners. "The album project began more than a decade ago. And, hey, we got the whole tracklist done. The slow progress eventually gave us the whole soundtrack wonderfully remixed by OC ReMix regulars and strangers alike," recalled album director Rozovian. "It's an eclectic mix of things, with the expected orchestral and metal epics sharing space with instrumentation and styles including waltz, rap, Mellotron, reggae, harpsichord, J-rock, and plenty of world music elements from all over the place incorporated into a large number of the remixes." The album's immersive character and environment artwork -- focused on the game's light and dark classes -- was designed by New Jersey artist Min "Keiiii" Kwon, author and illustrator of the Korean webtoon-inspired fantasy comic Heart of Keol. "Though only released in Japan, the Western gamers who came across [Seiken Densetsu 3], either on cartridge or by other means, found it one of the most beautiful games on the SNES. The music plays a big part in that," Rozovian observed. "I'm very happy to have my name among the artists here, and I'm sure you can find something you like on this behemoth of an album." Songs of Light and Darkness is OC ReMix's second album honoring composer Hiroki Kikuta, following 2017's Resonance of the Pure Land, which arranged the soundtrack of Seiken Densetsu 3's more widely released 1993 prequel Secret of Mana. 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. OC ReMix operates under the umbrella and sponsorship of Game Music Initiative, Inc, a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization (EIN: 81-4140676). ### Preview it: http://youtu.be/cC4irIc-x6s Download it: http://sd3.ocremix.org Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Seiken_Densetsu_3_-_Songs_of_Light_and_Darkness.torrent Comments/Reviews: http://ocremix.org/community/topic/47649/

GUESS WHAT Y'ALL?! ALL tracks are now finished and turned in. Sure we got two remaining tracks to master, but the bigger point here is this: We have a FULL and COMPLETE 36 track, 3-disc album finished on our hands! Now is the time to finish up any last minute admin stuff, designing the website, working with OCR on trailer creation and setting a release date around Christmas of this year to hopefully still land within the 15th anniversary year of Skies of Arcadia: Legends release! To top it off, we are working with DJPretzel himself to see if we can get a limited run print of physical copies of this album! Every contributor will get about 2 copies (One for themselves and one to share), while the rest will be handed out as promos and prizes/gifts free at Magfest and other events that OCRemix attends. There won't be any other way to snag these puppies if you weren't contributing, so another reason to come out to these fantastic events and meet OCR staff in person in hopes that you might get one of these beauties. More words to follow on that part. I'm just jazzed that it's all done and now it is time to clean up and get this out there to you! Now without further adieu, The final track list which also has been updated on the first post of this thread: Disc 1 - Defend the Home Isle 01 - Main Theme (Title Screen) - Claimed by pu_freak - Genre: Orchestral/Piano - 'The Voyage Begins' 02 - Vyse's Theme - Claimed by SBeast - Genre: Metal - 'Legend in the Making' 03 - Blue Pirate's Theme/Ship (combo track) - Clamed by OA - Genre: Rock/Dance - 'Blue Skies, Pirate Surprise' 04 - Air Pirate Island - Claimed by Ganae - Genre: Orchestral - 'Rogue Sanctuary' 05 - Air Pirate Secret Base - Claimed by Silent Ice - Genre: Dubstep Reggae - 'Secret Bass' 06 - Dungeon Cave - Claimed by Orphanin - Genre: Orchestral - 'Into the Deep Dark' 07 - Battle 1/Battle 2 (combo track) - Claimed by fxsnowy - Genre: Dubstep - 'Arcadian Assault' 08 - Victory in Battle / Bombardment Victory (combo track) - Claimed by GlacialSpoon - Genre: Techno - 'Victory! Glory! Profit?' 09 - Sailor Town - Claimed by Bluelighter - Genre: Marching Band - 'A Sailor's Respite.' 10 - Fina's Theme - Claimed by Moseph - Piano w/Accompaniment - 'Light of the Silver Moon' 11 - Drachma's Theme - Claimed by Tsori-Deedubs - Genre: K-Indie Folk - 'Better Days' 12 - Little Jack - Claimed by Chadlee/Rotten Eggplant/John Stacy - Genre: Jazz - 'On Wings of Feathers' Estimated Run time: 46 mins Disc 2 - To the Horizon 01 - Kingdom of Nasrad - Claimed by shredd - Genre: Metal - 'Blasting the Sand Demon' 02 - Bombardment 1 / Bombardment 2 (combo track) - Claimed by Deedubs - Genre: Trance - 'From the Perilous Skies to Your Heart' 03 - Entique's Theme - Claimed by Deedubs - Genre: Waltz - 'Valse pour un Prince Rebelle' 04 - Kingdom of Ixa'taki - Claimed by Garpocalypse - Genre: Folk - 'Valhorteka' 05 - Theme of Reflection - Claimed by Yoshiblade - Genre: Trance/Dance - 'Inner Reflections' 06 - Remote Town - Claimed by RebeccaETripp - Genre: Celtic - 'Rusted Hopes' 07 - Dark Rift Theme - Claimed by ZykO - Genre: Creepy Ambient - 'The Darkness is Already Here' 08 - Yafutoma Dawn / Eastern Air Pirates (combo track) - Claimed by Jorito/Aster/Furilas/Lauren the Flute - Genre: Spaghetti Wester - 'Il buono, il brutto e il pirata dell'aria' 09 - Theme of Loneliness - Claimed by Sentient Pulse - Genre: Chill EDM - 'Shrouded Void' 10 - Valua City - Claimed by Kylok - Genre: Folk Rock - 'Undervalued' 11 - Gilder's Theme - Claimed by Jason Covenant - Genre: Experimental - 'Coding Angel' 12 - Delphinus - Claimed by Jorito + Others - Genre: Orchestal - 'To the Horizon' Estimated Run time: 64 mins Disc 3 - I Am Legend 01 - Military Facility Dungeon - Claimed by djpretzel - Genre: Funk Rock - 'The MFD' 02 - Ramirez's Theme - Claimed by Guifrog - Genre: Orchestral Dubstep - 'Brain Sound Tilt' 03 - Gigas Theme - Claimed by PrototypeRaptor - Genre: Electronic - 'Black Moon' 04 - Nervous Crisis 1/ Nervous Crisis 2 (combo track) - Claimed by GlacialSpoon - Genre: Dubstep - 'Nervousness is Just Bravery Disguised' 05 - Boss Battle - Claimed by Tuberz McGee - Genre: Progressive Metal - 'Life in a Vyse' 06 - Great Silver Temple - Claimed by Sam Dillard - Genre: Orchestral - 'Shining Silver' 07 - Armada/Armada Battle (combo track) - Claimed by Deedubs - Genre: Orchestal/Electronica - 'God's Ambition' 08 - Last Dungeon - Claimed by Supercookmile/Deedubs - Genre: Synthezied Loneliness - 'In Solitude, I Scream' 09 - Zealous - Claimed by Glejs - Genre: Electronica Trance - 'Unknown Menace' 10 - Last Battle - Claimed by Deedubs/Sixto Sounds - Genre: Orchestral Metal - 'Silver Nightmare' 11 - Legendary Sinking Continent - Claimed by Scott Buckley - Genre: Orchestral - 'The End of a Dream' 12 - Credits - Claimed by Juke - Genre: Orchestral - 'Hearth and Home' Estimated Run time: 58 mins Total Run time: 168 mins - or - 2 hours and 48 mins

I'm beyond words.

Preview Seiken Densetsu 3: Songs of Light and Darkness: http://youtu.be/cC4irIc-x6s Download Seiken Densetsu 3: Songs of Light and Darkness: http://sd3.ocremix.org Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Seiken_Densetsu_3_-_Songs_of_Light_and_Darkness.torrent What a journey! It's been a long, long time, but now it's finally released. Songs of Light and Darkness is a tribute to Hiroki Kikuta's soundtrack for Seiken Densetsu 3, the game following Secret of Mana in the same franchise. Though only released in Japan, the Western gamers who came across it, either on cartridge or by other means, found it one of the most beautiful games on the SNES. The music plays a big part in that. The album project began more than a decade ago. And, hey, we got the whole tracklist done. Your favorite track from the game has been remixed here. It's possible we have multiple remixes of it, even. Through a troubling many issues over the years, and a troubling number of years of slow progress, the slow progress eventually gave us the whole soundtrack wonderfully remixed by OC ReMix regulars and strangers alike. You get to hear what I've been keeping mostly to myself for years. And what a wonderful set of tracks this is. In some ways, it's a bit of a time capsule. I joined OC ReMix in late 2007, and this project was in the works already then. Some of the tracks sound like those old tracks that drew me to the site and its community in the first place. It's an eclectic mix of things, with the expected orchestral and metal epics sharing space with instrumentation and styles including waltz, rap, Mellotron, reggae, harpsichord, J-rock, and plenty of world music elements from all over the place incorporated into a large number of the remixes. I'm very happy to have my name among the artists here, and I'm sure you can find something you like on this behemoth of an album. I hope you not only enjoy the album, but get something out of reading the comments too. Enjoy. - Ad G (Rozovian)

What. I thought this was the longest running April Fools. Guys. Gals. We did it! :D

I basically stopped remixing from 2004 to 2015 while I was more useful to people for the other stuff I do, but I'm back now and have been concentrating on proper orchestral arrangements for this concert (which I'm responsible for): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-45677787 - I hope some of you will come to this! (website is http://www.8-bit-symphony.com) One thing we're not using in the concert is this cover of Ghouls and Ghosts... (the C64 version with Tim Follin's messing) which you can download from here if you want: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gvkz9y1zgaabcuu/07. Ghouls and Ghosts.mp3?dl=0 This is before it's been cleaned up and otherwise messed with by the orchestrator who makes sure the scores are as playable by humans as I think they are! Done mostly with Orchestral Tools and recorded straight out of Sibelius Ultimate. Er, cheers

This round has been...resurrected!! I live again!!! Deadline: October 29th @ 1PM Vote Ends: October 31st @ 5PM (so we can enjoy final product on Howlowe'en night!) ENJOY!! Depending on participation, I will submit an actual entry, or as a BONUS. Hoping I only have to do the latter. RESURRECTED for Howlowe'en, my ghoulish whippin' good self-flagellating friends!! Or is that just me? Anyhooo...it's time to give this monster of a song a 2nd chance for Howlowe'en! Give it up forrrr....CASTLEVANIA IV!!!!

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It's the Emulator II Shakuhachi which was a patch used in a lot of 80's music like the start of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and Sadeness from Enigma and a sound I wanted for awhile. I finally was able to get it when I picked up UVI's Vintage Collection which includes all of their retro synth romplers. My only problem with UVI's EMU II Shakuhachi patch is that it's fairly limited and unflexible due to the sample used in the rompler not having much of an attack. Fast passages don't sound like anything regardless of the attack settings on the interface. Sustains though sound ok though and you know how much I like those :). For this competition I aimed to emphasize one retro synth with each mix. My round 6 entry makes use of the Fairlight CMI IIX rompler. glad you enjoyed it!

Sounds great! I love the atmosphere you have made here. The various instruments mesh very well together. My only suggestion is I think the bass is a touch too loud. Other than that, it's great!