Liontamer

One of my personal favorite mixes throughout his whole musical career, and that's saying something, because he has so many unique pieces. Just when you think you've heard it all from Chris... amazing.

Dayum. http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-buys-lucasfilm-for-4-billion-2012-10 http://youtu.be/YyqlTi7lkhY Disney seems to take care of their franchises, and the Marvel Comics purchase has worked out great so far, IMO. But Scott Bloom on the Tweeter had a fun question: Can't say I'm hyped about Star Wars: Episode VII personally, but it'll make bank, let's not waste time assuming otherwise. So how are you guys feeling about this major acquisition?

Sorry for the wait on this one; I held it in order to give this the fairest look at the arrangement that I could alongside your breakdown. I didn't quite agree with some of the most liberal aspects of the arrangement counting as overt source usage; some moments you gave yourself credit for sounded too liberal and too loose of a connection to count. That said, there were also some brief spots here and there where a note or pattern based from the source was trailing off that I'd count. The track needed 120 seconds worth of overt source usage to pass on arrangement with over 50%: :19-:27, :49-1:13, 1:21-1:33, 1:36-1:48, 2:14-2:23.75, 2:33.5-2:38, 2:42.75-3:02, 3:31-3:52 = 110.5 seconds or 46.04% I didn't find the production bothersome enough to have any criticisms of it, but I'd say this is a great base where you could tweak some of the mixing and add a few more overt references to the source that don't get too liberal and you could easily get this mixes passed. You're 90% of the way there. NO (resubmit)

Those should be fixed, and the first one was just a link typo that needed to be corrected. If you catch other things, feel free to let me know, sure.

The lossless version from HoaH ending cuts off due to their crossfading (poo), so I'll get a proper one from DS if he has a WAV, or just use the previous version. Thanks for the catch!

That. I'm also still a NO on the revised version. Let's not get hasty about the edits it needs to be a fully-formed song sans the Beatles sampling.

I'll go back later and add some more things, but the list is there for anyone's haunted house or whatever spooky thing you may need it for.

uTorrent's a perfectly fine program to use and it's what I use. I'll admit, I don't quite get what you're so concerned about, but if you're basically asking "Is it safe to install uTorrent on my computer, or will uTorrent somehow infect my computer with a virus?" then everyone's telling you it's fine. The uTorrent program itself is safe. To ensure you don't install any bloatware, just pay attention to each step of the installation process.

That's an original demoscene song by Laxity (Thomas E. Petersen) called "The Alibi." Pretty sure that's the version played through Vibrants though (http://youtu.be/sXto5fBFC1E), as it's definitely not the the SID chip original. Over at Remix.Kwed.Org, moog made an awesome smooth version as well: http://remix.kwed.org/?search_id=3048 - All of moog's material on R:K:O is worth checking out.

Normally DarkeSword is bad cop, but this is ridiculous, so I'm chiming in. If you so much as look at someone here cross-eyed and I'm told about it, you're DEFINITELY banned and erased from this forum. Legit community member or not, you can't treat people like they're stupid and pull something shady like this TWICE, and feign ignorance the second time.

Above and beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Thanks to EVERYONE for helping make this happen!

No pressure. But if you DO, please give us a heads up so we can announce on Twitter for someone to get the $50 spot that would open up.

Load the group up in Mp3tag, sort the Comments alphabetically, and look for ones that begin with "http". If the mix is from an album of some sort with a homepage, I'd usually include it. From there, you'd have to manually look through what you have and don't have, and many of those designations are also of non-OCR albums, but that's the easiest way to start sorting through it.

We're in the final stretch, with only 7 FF6 albums left to be claimed by backing at the $50 level. WHOOOOO will be the final people to snag that set???

Correct, it's by ID #. Neblix has you there.

Thanks for the catch. Not sure what happened with this one, as the WAV I have said 3:18 when viewing the file in Windows Explorer (and still does), but is indeed 2:43 when you actually load it up in WinAmp. There could have been some sort of corruption when downloading that one, but it'll be fixed.

Heard back and will vote on this later: EDIT (10/29): Don't agree there. These connections, IMO, aren't overt enough, and the chord connection is a very loose one. You shouldn't only be looking for the melody, and I don't agree with how you gave it credit there. That said, the pads from 1:46-1:58.5 use backing writing ideas from sustained lines from :30-:35 and :03-:16 of the source. 2:00.5-2:05 refers to 4 notes from the bassline at :28-:30 of Cold Man, only slowed down. At least that's something. In the chorus, you could argue for the 2-note chords taken from 1:04-1:06 of the source's YouTube, but that's about it and anything else there sounds like a total reach. None of the vocals beyond the verses sounded like they had any overt connection to either source. So you could conceiveably credit 2:07-2:10.5, 2:15-2:18.5, 2:23.25-2:26.75, 2:32-2:35.5 for 14 seconds of a super tenuous connection. There are two more instances of that repeating from 3:09 until the end for a total of 52 seconds. IMO, that's just too tangential of a connection to actually give credit for, so I don't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think the explanations for the "liberal" parts of the track are vague and only account for unspecific portions of the sections that were timestamped. Much of those explanations seems too liberal to credit, IMO. So I needed more than 129 seconds of a 4:18-long track to overtly use the sources so that the source material is dominant: :01.5-:16, :17.75-:36, :38.5-1:02, 1:03.5-1:12, 1:46-1:58.5, 2:00.5-2:07, 2:40.5-3:04, 3:07.75-3:09.75 - 109.25 seconds or 42.34% I love the piece, but I can't co-sign on these YESs. I'm not saying you have to treat Robbie's explanation as a "gotcha" on the arrangement, as I've seen plenty of artists undersell how connected their own arrangements are to the source tunes. But when he says the Wily links are tenuous and reliant on the chord structure, he isn't kidding. While the track sounds awesome in a vacuum, I think it got a little too indulgent with some very, very scant connections that are for all intents and purposes original writing, making the arrangement a little too heavy with original writing vs. overt source tune usage. I think it could be easy enough for Robbie to use some portions of the Wily theme in the background in a more straightforward, more overtly identifiable way to easily and unambiguously put this over the top on source usage. NO (resubmit)

He's right. Real life intervened 8 months into the process, but it was a worthwhile project, definitely worth the subsequent 34 months of part-time work on it.

Yep. However, game assignment can only go to one game; when I know which specific game inspired the ReMixer, I use that.

If you read Ryan's sub letter in the judging decision, it's representing Escape. There are a handful of game reassignments we still need to make live on the site to reflect corrections I've made for the torrents, but we'll get everything updated soon.

I definitely thought about that, but I had two reasons I didn't pursue it. 1) I haven't seen any mainstream music programs that make any notable use of the field (correct me if I'm wrong). And 2) With the way we post ReMixes in the present day, djp may queue up a few mixes intending to post them on a certain day, but then circumstances change, so I didn't want files out there with potentially inaccurate dates. It would be annoying for djp to have to keep retagging and reuploading mixes he's about to post.

It's OK. ... I'm just playin'. A truly incredible collab and great music to bump in the car!

Told ya.

Forgot to fix that in the database, but we'll get around to it. Good catch!

That's OK. If you're the only one seeding it down the line, it's a moot point anyway.