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Completely disagree. You're basically saying the title has to appeal to the superficial and stupid. The album is "The Sound of a Hedgehog That Runs Very Fast in His First Game." If people were expecting superfast BPM and can't get over that, especially when the original music wasn't superfast BPM, I couldn't care less. The single dumbest criticism I saw of OA & Scaredsim's Green Hill Zone mix on YouTube was that it was too slow, when it was slightly faster than the tempo of the original. It's an album about a speedy hedgehog not a speedy soundtrack, it's a play on words, and we have more than enough people without a stick up their ass enjoying the album to care about a minority of people hung up on the album title. It's the same people complaining that Voices of the Lifestream implied an all-vocal album; it's just a short-sighted, stupid criticism.

I had no problem with the structure or style of the track. It's perfectly fine for OCR as far as the writing and concept. That said, "Totaka's Song" is pretty short, and you didn't use it enough here for it to be the dominant aspect of the arrangement. For a 2:43-long track, this needed more than 81.5 seconds of source usage for the source tune to be the dominant aspect of the arrangement (i.e. in use more than 50% of the time), and for me to give it a pass on arrangement: :05-:15, :20-:30.75, :52.75-1:02.25, 1:30-1:52, 2:30.75-2:41 = 62.5 seconds or 38.34% Not nearly enough use of the theme in here. I like the slapsticky stuff going on. But you need to figure out other clever ways to have the source in play without getting, e.g slowing it down and using it as a backing part via some low bowed strings. Just think of some things you can do to further integrate the theme in here, preferably without just playing it more and more at the same rhythm and tempo in order to provide variation instead of mere repetition. The production sounds good, and the instrumentation sounds well put together. Now get the second part of the equation working. NO (resubmit)

Sorry, my man, really not feeling this track at all. The source tune was used enough, but the sequencing is just super unrealisitic and mechanical-sounding, and the guitar chugs at :17 sounded extremely fake and atonal. The melody sounded off-key from :38-:48 & 1:21-1:32, and NOTHING clicks together as far as the instrumentation, so the textures sounded loud yet sparse & flimsy. The resolution at the end is poorly written as well. Just brutal to listen to, you need to really get the fundamentals down as far as building something cohesive. NO

There are so many people who don't realize that at the time they sent their first (poor) submission and hate us to no end for rejecting it outright. Glad you didn't give up!

No one else cares what you think about how new or popular the source material is.

As if that's never happened before. Try to self-edit and give some non-stupid comments next time. The vocals felt a bit low compared to the music, but it's a nice mix, and solidly produced. Cool stutter effects more in the second half. Interesting take on it, Mofo. Definitely a good listen!

That pic's getting slammed by traffic. Someone should host it on their own.

It'll be out this year. I'm waiting for one big batch of WAVs to update, and then we should be ready to go. Hopefully within the next month we roll this out.

Hahaha, love that FF7 pic. And that Deia getting me in trubba being all up ons was the origin of the Stevobomb. Happy birfday, (not) Mega Beardo!

My stopwatch had you at about 170.25 seconds of source usage with 261 seconds of the track, so 65.23%. Since you asked. If there was any doubt, it wouldn't have been a direct post. Like Dave said, the arrangement was very additive, but it was certainly a fitting direction to take it in. Love the source tune, and loved the wank!

I'm assuming you mean OC ReMixes? If so, I can send you a list later today.

Not sure if the production "issues" are really that much of a dealbreaker, and a lot of y'all are wrong on the arrangement. I had trouble making it out entirely as well, but after stepping back from it a while ago and coming back fresh on it 2 months later, some of the stuff I felt was liberal was pretty obvious, so perhaps others need to go back to this and give it a fresh listen. I thought OA had the best NO regarding how he felt the source was treated (it's present, just not dominant enough), but the others NOs on arrangement seem to just say the source simply wasn't there enough. A NO on arrangement is looking like a really bad call, IMO.

Thanks for pointing those out. Something else to look at.

I'm just going to clarify/back up what the other Js said. Jordanius: Seems like you want to revise Gitaroo Man... again? If the changes aren't drastic, we don't need to revote. If they are a major overhaul, like your past major overhaul, we'd need to revote. At some point, I'd call it a wrap if I were you, BUT it's your arrangement, so if you need to do some more to get it where you need it, that's fine, just keep us in the loop by mailing the judges about how it's going. Just reply to our previous conversation from the judges mailbox and I'll see it. Strader: We generally post the album versions of mixes, so as long as your lossless version reached the project people, we'll also get it. Also, though we prefer MP3 submissions, I have no problem encoding other people's WAVs if they need a higher bitrate but don't know the ins-and-outs of how to encode. If needed, they can always talk to me about that.

<djpretzel> post-vb4, for sure Pretty durr, so just wait for it, Goghagalla [sic].

Our policy at OC ReMix is no ID3v1 tags on ANYTHING. They died in a fire.

I was about to say, the implication is it's something else, because all the individual OC ReMix postings work fine according to him, so that would mean it isn't necessarily a bitrate issue. Anyone else having these kind of problems with MP3 CDs of OC ReMixes or OCR albums in their car stereo?

I will gladly continue being silly. Credit where credit is due means no undue credit.

Dunno what drum samples those are for the first half, but I've always hated that snare tone. Never seems to have enough realism and body. Oh well. The guitar work was kind of thin and grating and the piano sound lacked realism. Those were the production negatives that stuck out, but nothing was near a dealbreaker issue. The way all of the elements were put together so cohesively (downplaying the issues) really helped in those regards. Was feeling the arrangement, which retained a lot of the dynamic ideas and energy of the original while definitely presenting it in a unique and interpretive style. The final section from 3:01 until the end really finished things strongly. Nice work on transforming this deadly aria. He can has long YES

I did, but we can talk Kyle, and see what I may have missed.

I made a new thread, since the old one got bahleeted somehow. Someone on YouTube pointed out that there was no review thread.

Uh... it's weird? What's your specific question/issue with that mix?

Necro'd! We're getting a lot closer to re-releasing the ReMixes than when I first made this thread. Along with mailing me at larryoji@ocremix.org, this is the place to hook me up with better quality encodings of your past ReMixes. READ THE FIRST POST

Indeed, this is some b00lshit. Hopefully James is able to see this through; this is terrible news, and pure greed from The Escapist.

José is the most important staffer on OCR besides djp, as far as making what we do look major league when it comes to trying to promote the artists and projects. Can't thank him enough for being a complete badass! Happy birfday!