Liontamer

Ribbit! Guifrog here! GAME ARRANGED: Super Mario Bros. SOURCE: The classic one. Or -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAxiGZKpGQ REMIX NAME: Super Mario Nightclub REMIX LINK: a) (secret url) if one doesn't work, the other will I think breakdown won't be necessary this time, rite? >P So, let's keep our trip around the world. When I initially thought of having my own take on Mario's so well known (and overremixed, if that's even a word) tune, Italy came to mind. But. Mario's tunes have such a latin vibe, and I wanted to create a mix that loyally had Mario in its core. Which means, classic square waves getting along with steel drums, a few simple and generic instrumentation choices, plus my own world-electronic touch. The idea came out as a latin house of some sort, and it's exactly how I imagine a nightclub in Mario's world. We're in the BAHAMAS, baby! P.s.: Thanks to mods Flexstyle and Gario for their excellent advice on the WIP forums! *untz untz untz* ---------------------------------------------------------- The brass was still pretty weak, something that always negatively stands out in Guilherme's stuff. The piano and disco strings also sounded super fake. The extreme simplicity of the core UNT-TSS beat also dragged this down. There were pretty bland, default-sounding lead synths at 1:32 as well. Too many of these sounds really need some polish. The organic-sounding percussion at 2:18 was super sweet and spicy, very well done, but then the bridge section from 2:25 came off VERY boring in contrast, just note-for-note like the original with no real uniqueness or interpretation. The same is true for the source tune chorus first used at 1:01; just a pretty straightforward cover of the theme that didn't really stand apart in a meaningful enough way from the original. Usually, I'll bring something up as a quality disparity, but this was a case of a creativity disparity. This is going in the right direction, clearly, this just needs more creativity in the treatment of the theme to match the creativity of the other instrumentation surrounding it. Stepping up the sample quality or learning to better mask the limitations of the exposed brass, piano and strings would also help a great deal as well, and it's about time you reach for some improvement there also. NO (resubmit)

Your poop is ugly.

There was no mistake on our side, so we can forget that "everyone's kind of at fault" nonsense.

Or yellow light reflecting on the monitor that makes the gray look like it has a pink tint. We've never needed any.

Correctz! I love the concept. Just polish up the instrumental part. Probably the singing too, but definitely the instrumentation. And that's all she wrote. NO (resub)

Not 1% under. .000000000000000000000000000001% under.

OOOOLD reminder for me to check on this.

Definitely an awesome album, no doubt.

Nah, the point of torrents is to seed big groups of files in perpetuity; there's no practical reason to do small, monthly batches as torrents. We've held off on torrent updates because of my massive project, but when we're back in the swing of things, we'd be updating once per 100 mixes. At some point, I may use RapidShare or some other Megaupload-ish service to do what you're asking, only with no torrent, just a direct, but straightforward batch download. Or someone else with more time can take up the cause!

We were thinking of dropping the restriction to VGM arrangements only so we could post analoq's extended Thundercats remix, but that would have been too epic to process.

Thanks for checking in. This has clearly been a long-tail type of project. We've recently updated the standards by 1) removing the filesize limit, and 2) asking for all encodings from now on to either be 192kbps or VBR1 quality. Because of this change in the standards, we're going to make a final push for upgraded encodings from the ReMixers for whatever older material we can get, then it's working out the logistics with djp on how to properly replace every file in the database, which is tougher than it looks. Just FYI, periodically I'm privately backing up my work in 2 places (external drive and online), so if my comp fried tomorrow, we wouldn't lose all of this progress. Sorry for the wait, though I promise it'll be worth it for this set of music.

Ditto #2. Next-to-no polish, which definitely hurt this one. Vig's high for saying the sound design was good. :-/ Pretty vanilla synths starting at :43, with the textures feeling pretty flimsy. There were some delay effects at 1:10 that at least thickened up the drums a little, but the drum sample was skimpy and extremely fake sounding, and the overall textures were pretty flimsy. There's a ton of empty space in this soundscape, and the basic/beginner-level effects employed don't do nearly enough to produce a cohesive full sound. The arrangement seemed disjointed, but I felt the lack of balance with the sounds created that perception more than the actual composition. Not enough care or expertise put into this one on the production side. NO

The drums were definitely a weak link here as well and sounded pretty flimsy. I thought the arrangement was solid, but agreed with the production criticisms. During the build, for example, the bassline was playing lines from the source, but the bass level were so low and overly subdued that it's easy to completely miss it. That said, I'm in Palp and Nutritious's camp that I could live with this as is, though I'd also prefer another pass at the balance and production if Jani's up for it. YES

Wow. This is a pretty damn good arrangement. The weak tone and exposed fakeness of the piano sample at 5:50 was unfortunate, but not a big deal given all the strengths here. That said, I'm scratching my head at these NOs. Y'all are all making the perfect the enemy of the good. On the seesaw that is "good enough" vs. "needs a resub," this sounded absolutely fine, and I'm just surprised this is splitting the panel, when the sample articulations and overall production are more than capable, the balance is reasonable though not perfect, and the arrangement is absolutely strong. The arrangement can seem too long, but I didn't think it truly meandered, and the "Zelda's Theme" treatment had nothing but subtle yet constant variations. Bobby nailed it here, this is generally top notch and completely what we're looking for. We need to not miss the big picture on this. Solidly above the bar, and great work from Bobby. YES EDIT (11/7): Yeaaaah... I copy DarkeSword re: Fishy's NO.

Hahaha! This was pretty sweet. Definitely good for non-rap haters. Good shit.

Upgrade that year, Mark!

VBR1, which is the second highest VBR quality.

QFT! Birfday!

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I'm never biased. This is definitely an amazing album.

Well clearly they're scraping Bandcamp. Anyone ReMixer or composer here who has a page there may want to check for their stuff on (il)Legalsounds. BTW, if I'm missing the Bandcamp page of a posted mixer for their profile, lemme know. 8 Bit Instrumental - http://8bitinstrumental.bandcamp.com 8 Bit Weapon - http://8bitweapon.bandcamp.com A_Rival - http://rivalrivalrival.bandcamp.com Aetherius - http://aetherius.bandcamp.com Alec Holowka - http://infiniteammo.bandcamp.com Alexander Brandon - http://alexanderbrandon.bandcamp.com Andrew Curnock - http://beattherapy.bandcamp.com Arkimedes - http://leitbur.bandcamp.com Benjamin Briggs - http://benjaminbriggs.bandcamp.com Big Giant Circles - http://biggiantcircles.bandcamp.com Binster - http://binster.bandcamp.com brentalfloss - http://brentalfloss.bandcamp.com Brian Allen Holmes - http://brianallenholmes.bandcamp.com Brian Grainger - http://milieu.bandcamp.com C418 - http://c418.bandcamp.com CFX - http://cfxmusic.bandcamp.com Christian Pacaud - http://unconsciouscity.bandcamp.com Cyborg Jeff - http://cyborgjeff.bandcamp.com Danny Baranowsky - http://dbsoundworks.bandcamp.com DarK PurPLe - http://phrancis.bandcamp.com DCT - http://sonicskillz.bandcamp.com Derek Huelsman - http://dhuelsman.bandcamp.com DiGi Valentine - http://digivalentine.bandcamp.com Disasterpeace - http://disasterpeace.bandcamp.com DrumUltimA - http://medicinelake.bandcamp.com elzfernomusic - http://elzfernomusic.bandcamp.com Erik Asmussen - http://erikthomas82.bandcamp.com Evahn - http://evanp.bandcamp.com flashygoodness - http://flashygoodness.bandcamp.com Flexstyle - http://flexstyle.bandcamp.com Frédéric Motte - http://elmobo.bandcamp.com Grant Kirkhope - http://grantkirkhope.bandcamp.com halc - http://halc.bandcamp.com Hot Freaks - http://hotfreaks.bandcamp.com Howard Drossin - http://howarddrossin.bandcamp.com HyperDuck SoundWorks - http://hyperduck.bandcamp.com Insert Rupee - http://insertrupee.bandcamp.com Inverse Phase - http://inversephase.bandcamp.com Jake Kaufman - http://virt.bandcamp.com Jakesnke17 - http://djjd.bandcamp.com Jason Covenant - http://jasoncovenant.bandcamp.com JH Sounds - http://jhsounds.bandcamp.com jmr - http://jmrmusic.bandcamp.com Jonathan Geer - http://jonathangeer.bandcamp.com Jonathan van den Wijngaarden - http://musicbyjonathan.bandcamp.com Jormungand - http://jschwebke.bandcamp.com Josh Whelchel - http://joshw.bandcamp.com Joshua Morse - http://joshuamorse.bandcamp.com kLuTz - http://klutzmusic.bandcamp.com ktriton - http://ktriton.bandcamp.com k-wix - http://k-wix.bandcamp.com Laura Shigihara - http://laurashigihara.bandcamp.com Magnus Pålsson - http://souleyedigitalmusic.bandcamp.com Malcos - http://malcos.bandcamp.com Mattias Häggström Gerdt - http://anosou.bandcamp.com Mattias Holmgren - http://mattiasholmgren.bandcamp.com Mazedude - http://mazedude.bandcamp.com Mega Ran - http://random.bandcamp.com Mellogear - http://summerherekids.bandcamp.com Meteo Xavier - http://meteoxavier.bandcamp.com Minibosses - http://minibosses.bandcamp.com N00dle - http://noodletheinnocentchild.bandcamp.com Navi - http://swamisound.bandcamp.com Nick Perrin - http://nickperrin.bandcamp.com OverCoat - http://overcoat.bandcamp.com Peter Hajba - http://skaven252.bandcamp.com Phr4kture - http://phrakture.bandcamp.com Poolside - http://poolside.bandcamp.com Prince of Darkness - http://tonydickinson.bandcamp.com Project X - http://projectx.bandcamp.com PROTO·DOME - http://protodome.bandcamp.com PrototypeRaptor - http://prototyperaptor.bandcamp.com RoeTaKa - http://alexroe.bandcamp.com Romain Gauthier - http://ninomojo.bandcamp.com sci - http://soundsfromsci.bandcamp.com Sefiros - http://sefiros.bandcamp.com Select Start - http://selectstartband.bandcamp.com Shane Barber - http://rushcoil.bandcamp.com Shnabubula - http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com Sir Jordanius - http://sirjordanius.bandcamp.com some1namedjeff - http://jeffball.bandcamp.com Stemage - http://stemage.bandcamp.com The Grammar Club - http://thegrammarclub.bandcamp.com The Joker - http://davidlpuga.bandcamp.com The Megas - http://themegas.bandcamp.com The OneUps - http://theoneups.bandcamp.com The Vagrance - http://thecoldcoldhearts.bandcamp.com TheGuitahHeroe - http://theguitahheroe.bandcamp.com Theophany - http://theophany-rmx.bandcamp.com Tim Wright - http://coldstorage.bandcamp.com Tomáš Dvořák - http://innerfx.bandcamp.com Tuned Logic - http://tunedlogic.bandcamp.com Tyler Heath - http://tylerheath.bandcamp.com WillRock - http://willrock1.bandcamp.com Year 200X - http://year200x.bandcamp.com Zas - http://zazmusic.bandcamp.com zid - http://mohammadyazid.bandcamp.com zircon - http://zirconstudios.bandcamp.com zyko - http://zyko.bandcamp.com

Couldn't have said it better! <3 Ha! The benefits of being on the EVIL team. BIRFDAY!

I've seen it come up twice now. We'll see if it comes up again. That may be twice in a few weeks, but that's also twice in 7 years, AFAIK.

Following up on the live show (Much love for spinning the ReMixes, Dan!): http://www.ted.com/nominate/speaker - TED Talk speaker nominations Anyone hear have any TED connections?

Because I'm the man.