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A winner is you! http://twitter.com/Norgans/status/15516990311

Yeah, that's a bad attitude. This version's already different than any other before it. OPEN MINDS plz, not closed.

Chillaxation.

Don't blow it, Dave! If you need help, read Marriage for Dummies!

There's the expected snag of whether the tagging would be allowed to stay the same. Provided that we did not have to compromise our file tagging (or it was in a way that djp is OK with, per Last.fm), I'm in favor of this. The only other questions I have are whether iTunes would have a page that would have a description of the "podcast", and whether anyone else has successfully done a podcast that was just used to serve free music. If we expanded the reach/audience of the ReMixes, and the artist info and URLs were all up in 'em, I don't see how that hurts the site. By that extension, obviously there are people that subscribe to the OCR YouTube that don't/won't come to the site; they just favorite the videos they like. But at the same time, expanding our presence there has also led to a traffic increase by new visitors from YouTube. This was in spite of djp's reservation that it could pull visitors away from the main site. Well we've done it for a year now, and we get more visitors as a result, not less. As far as outside distribution, we could argue it, but there's really no argument to me. There are a lot of instances where people encounter OC ReMixes without being on the site. More awareness is good and would trickle down to the site. The entire point of Stevo's idea is to go where the people are. We could have argued 6-8 years ago that we shouldn't have had our music on Audiogalaxy, Kazaa and LimeWire, because people could get the ReMixes without coming to the site. That reasoning would be just as short-sighted as dismissing iTunes. If we didn't have to compromise the presentation of the tracks, and Stevo's speculative idea was actually doable, that would obviously be great. I just don't believe it would be that simple. It's worth looking into though.

Some in the list are waiting to be posted, FYI. Whatever few I'm missing, it's because I don't have lyrics for them Although if injury wanted to finally provide lyrics to 8-bit Eighties, that would be great. I've also seen sketchy transcriptions of Pac-Man Sinergia; if anyone could definitively get that down, I'd have those too. This list is brought to you by Larry retagging every OC ReMix, including lyrics for the ones that have lyrics. Nag your local pretzel today to get these shiny new, organized MP3s! OMG LIST OF MIXES WITH LYRICS Avoid these mixes if you are closed-minded (read: dumb) Artura Dublin Delight Astérix Niggaz 4 Life Banjo-Kazooie In the Darkness Lies Bust a Groove Bust This Groove '81 Castlevania II Simon's Symphony Castlevania III Demon Seed (Corrupted Infatuation) Castlevania Transylvanian Temptation Cauldron II It's Binary, Baby! Album Mix Chrono Cross Dreaming Still Chrono Trigger Forever Until Tomorrow Chrono Trigger Team Gato Chrono Trigger The Incredible Singing Robot Chrono Trigger The Place We Knew Chrono Trigger Town Life Civilization IV Destined for Greatness Commander Keen: Secret of the Oracle man sieht sich galaxie Conker's Bad Fur Day Rhapsody in Poo Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000 Dazed & Destroyed DarXide Starman (don't lose yourself) Dizzy the Adventurer Mix Dizz Donkey Kong Country 2 A New Place Donkey Kong Country 2 Trapped in the Minds Donkey Kong Country 2 Us Monkeys Together Donkey Kong Country Funky Monkey Love (Valentine Edit) Donkey Kong Country Permutation Doom Asphyxiated Soul EarthBound Da Black Market EarthBound Home Again EarthBound Venus-Signed Banana Peel Earthworm Jim 2 Invertebrate Retreat F-Zero The Freedom of Zero Final Fantasy IV Éminence Grise Final Fantasy IV Fighting for Tomorrow Final Fantasy IV Rhymes with Elixir Final Fantasy IV Somewhere to Hide Final Fantasy IV Tororian Love Song Final Fantasy IX The Rose General Final Fantasy V ROBOVoice Final Fantasy VI Cantata for Dancing: I. Mors ego sum mortis Final Fantasy VI Cantata for Dancing: II. Fuga Kefka Final Fantasy VI Keep Out the Veldt Final Fantasy VII Adrenalyne Kyck Final Fantasy VII Deliverance of the Heart Final Fantasy VII The Crossroads Final Fantasy VIII Devotion & Deception Final Fantasy VIII Shine Tonight Final Fantasy X Journey's End Final Fantasy X Summoner's Love Legend of Zelda Hyrule's Angel (The Sleeping Beauty) Legend of Zelda Rabbit Joint Cover Legend of Zelda The Music of My Groin Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Link to the Mask Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Falling Back Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Prayer Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess No Hope Lost Patrol In the Air Mix Mario Kart DS Charade Mega Man 2 ROBOVoice Mega Man 2 The Annihilation of Monsteropolis Mega Man 3 Blue Reflection Mega Man 3 Cataclysmic Clash Mega Man 4 Get a Weapon Weapon Mega Man X Dreams Come True Ninja Gaiden II In the Atrium Pac-Man Sinergia Paperboy Smooth Delivery Persona Satomi Tadashi Northside Rx Portal Live from [sUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE] Punch-Out!! Little Mac's Confession Secret of Mana Dragon Song Seiken Densetsu 3 The Fearless Angel Shenmue Come to Bob's Pizza Shenmue Dreaming While I Wake Sonic & Knuckles Lover Reef Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Oil Ocean (WT-40 Mix) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Knuckleduster Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Memories Frozen in Time Sonic the Hedgehog Absolution Comes in Dreams Space Harrier I Got the Spacebeam Star Ocean Summertime Stormlord Seneca's Marble Pack Edit Street Fighter II The Ken Song Streets of Rage Elevation [groovepump mix] Super Mario Bros. 8-bit Eighties Super Mario Bros. The 2-2 Blues Super Metroid Kindred Super Metroid The Mother Is in Control Tales of Phantasia as time goes on (you are love to me) Valkyrie Profile The Shining Blue Armor Descends Wild Arms A Ring and a Promise Wild Arms Dové L'Amore Wizards & Warriors Kono Sekai De Wizards & Warriors Theme Wizards & Warriors Wizards in My Armor (Warrior in My Long-Johns) Xenogears Hymn of Aveh Xenogears My Child Xenogears Pillar of Salt

Duly noted, although Dave knows about that issue. But we'll see what he says on whether it's a relatively straight forward fix.

For no reason, I refuse to make these fixes. (i.e. done, the fixes will be live later.) Re: GGX, I see what you're saying and agree, but Dave has a point that conventionally, practically no one at all uses "By Your Side" as a subtitle, unlike say Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. But I have added the data of the full GGX name as an alternate name.

For real, join or die.

Yeah, it's got an epic feel. This definitely put Jay on my radar as soon as I heard it.

The DoD month that Dr. M's came from was pretty stacked and this mix was just an alternate! The 1st place, 2nd place, and one of the ties for 3rd are all on OCR, as well as OA's DKC2 project mix, which placed 10th. To top it off, Doc won that month with the Scaredsim collab. Great stuff from DoD per the usual; don't sleep on it. Keep 'em coming, Hugo!

I dunno why everyone was being so nice to that brass sample, pointing out the flaw, but saying it wasn't a big deal. It sounded downright brutal compared to everything else, and was extremely fake-sounding, exposed, shrill and repetitive. It just blared out on top of the track and didn't even sound like it was in the same soundscape as the rest of the instrumentation. It dragged this down to NO. Get rid of it, it just cheapens the track. If you can program strings well, go for some emotive, resonant single and layered strings with instead. It's a suggestion. I can see where the others were coming from regarding the track dragging; it could stand to be shortened. But as long as the lead was fixed/replaced with something that fit the track, I'd pass this in a heartbeat. I can understand this being more a piece that served as something to kick back to that subtly evolves for a long time. However, it DID drag some because the melody was basically cut-and-pasted ad nauseum with that awful brass work, same volume every time. The lead got boring and repetitive even though there was so much great stuff and ear candy happening behind it. The drum programming and subtle mutations going on were great to listen to. I also loved the original countermelody on piano (first used at :47), which fit seamlessly with the source arrangement, even if it was drowned down too much during some sections. You may want to consider making it more audible throughout the track. Arrangement-wise, this was some good usage of the source with a constant presence. Just swap the brass lead for something good, and work with any other crits from the Js that you think you can use, and send this on back. Don't think you need to blow up what's here, Brad; the overall arrangement is solid. This just needs tweaks to push it over the bar, and we definitely want to post this. NO (refine/resubmit)

Eventually.

Decision was long closed, so I'm coming in way after the fact, but I finally got around to listening to this myself. Nice sampling of the Bernard Purdie drum lesson, BTW, that was strong. I'v enjoyed his stuff ever since I heard Gwilym sample an interview of his for some original stuff he wrote back in the VGMix2 days. Again, I had 0 problem with po!'s arrangement approach, i.e. the A-B-A-style source usage in just the beginning and ending sections. As far as the "formula" of using the source tune enough, I'm just looking for over 50% usage so the source usage is dominant. The methods you use to get there generally don't matter to me as long as you get there. po! had it here, and everything flowed nicely. YES

As soon as I heard this, I knew OA's previous ReMix was the reason this happened. Yeah, I can see what's up with the balance issues even with this revised version. The supporting instruments sound too far off in the soundscape. Still not a fan of that snare either. I wish he'd find a different one; he basically uses the same one no matter what the situation. On drums, you're a one-trick pony. This production definitely wasn't a dealbreaker though, by any stretch, and the arrangement completely makes up for any shortcomings there. The arrangement was strong, mostly keeping the melody intact, but spicing it up with variations on top of variations. There shouldn't be a debate here. Let's go! YES

No, we don't want remasters and edits. Dave best explains the policy here: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01251/

No. But that's because this is part of updating EVERY ReMix with better tagging. If we happen to get stuff with better encodes, that's great.

Contact Information Remixer Name: Iggy Koopa Real Name: Erik Xian E-Mail: iggykoopa@gmail.com Website: (none) User ID: 8972 Submission Information Game Arranged: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Song Arranged: Ending (http://ocremix.org/song/274) Remarks: This is a piece I wrote after about a month of listening to nothing but Sigur Rós and I believe it shows rather clearly. I was aiming for an ambient/dream pop sort of sound with this, but I'm fine with whatever it is now. The song is in 6/8 time rather than the original 4/4. The tag says "2010" but it's lying; it's really 2009. And that's all I have to say for now. Decide whether it's worthy, judges. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yoshi's Island - "Ending"

Contact Information Remixer Name: da2Dbm Real Name: Daniel Azof Email: da2dbm@gmail.com Userid: 20548 Submission Information Game: Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES) Songs Remixed: Stickerbrush Symphony Source: Hot-Head Bop Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KR3hE0_6Nk Donkey Kong Country on the Super Nintendo was the first video game I got to play and I immediately fell in love with the music and atmosphere. Imagine my glee when I received Donkey Kong Country 2 the following Christmas. Being a pirate lover, I was in heaven while playing DKC2. Whenever I hear the music from this series, I can't help but feel happy reminiscing of these childhood memories. This is my attempt to take my two favorite songs from this game and remix them into a nice trip down memory lane. I was always fascinated at how dangerous these levels were, yet the music was so calming. This is my attempt to recapture their essence and share to others my love for these songs. - Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------- The overall soundscape was decent, but the production needs some touching up, because there was distortion in several louder areas, including the intro. 1:06-1:25's section seemed too aimless; there was nothing interesting or engaging about it. Interesting dropoff and transition at 1:52. Not the smoothest, but serviceable. Some gated synth stuff as the lead at 2:14. At 2:20, the percussion was constantly distorting. Arrangement-wise, I didn't hear anything particularly interpretive as far as how the themes were handled. The meat of the track doesn't have much; we just get some brief flashes of it (e.g. 1:45-1:55), but nothing sustained. The source usage was generally verbatim with the originals; this needs to do more to stand apart from them. NO

Remixer alias: HoboKa name: Alex Shtokalko Game: Seiken Densetu 3 Source: Political Pressure Remix: Midi: http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/SD3Dark.mid Description: So, Rozovian recruited me for the project - albeit I've never played the game before. So I decided to remix a rather sparse yet foreboding track...yeah my usual style. I implemented orchestral, percussion and DnB elements, as well as some ambient stuff. It begins as orchestral and it slowly transitions into a distorted DnB/ambient style. Had some veterans check this track out and they told me to submit it, so hopefully you guys think the same thing lol. And thanks for being patient with my slow learning curve and so forth, regardless of the outcome. ------------------------------------------------------------

Remixer name: Guifrog Real name: Guilherme Arcoverde Website: www.myspace.com/guifrog Country: Brazil ----- Game arranged: Diddy Kong Racing Song arranged: Taj's Challenge (source link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbp-SZ62OEw) Ribbit! As you might notice, I pretty like to mix world rhythms with electronica. This time, I chose the indian beat to create a nice dancing tune! In Hinduism, Shiva refers to one of the 3 gods that control universe on a certain aspect; he's the "destroyer" or "transformer", while Brahma's the "creator" and Vishnu, the "preserver". Shiva can be represented in various kinds of symbolism, one of them being Nataraja, which can be translated as "Lord of Dance". So, in order to maintain a cycle, Shiva performs his dance to destroy an old and overused universe, allowing Brahma to start the process of creation. There's a moment on this remix that I tried to represent Shiva's dance, which is the percussion solo, that gets more and more aggressive as it goes. Once it ends, a few keys re-appear to make a transition to the chorus, that comes in like Brahma's new beginning. You can see the song kinda spins in a cycle, but a key's never exactly the same as another. And I need the song to end, so I re-used the :36 part with a few adjustments =P That's it... Hope you like it ^^" --------------------------------------------------------------

Submission Information: Name of the remix: Journey of a Dream Name of the game: Super Metroid Name of the song: Brinstar Overgrown with Vegetation Area Your own comments: This is my first remix on OC-Remix. It's a combination of spacy and ambiental pads mashed up with some breakbeat / arpeggiators. It shows the vasteness of space on one hand and the fast moving you have to do to travell through it on the other hand - Like a horizon. It sounds like some old Trance tunes of the 90th in combination with a modern drum'n'bass breakbeat. Even if the tempo is only 140bpm. Some artists and songs, that inspirated me where: Brainchild (Symmetry C), Robert Miles (Children), Evol Intent and Spor. ReMixer name: DJ The Fishhead real name: Helge Lahann email address: TheFishhead@gmx.net Your website: http://www.myspace.com/fishheadmuzic Your userid: 31954 -------------------------------------------------------------- Super Metroid - "Brinstar Overgrown with Vegetation Area"

Here is a submission for you to consider. This is my first submission, if I've done it incorrectly, let me know. Thanks. -- Hizzle House ---------------------------------------------------------- ToeJam & Earl - "ToeJam Jammin'" Interesting style. It's definitely too spartan, which may be intentional, but just comes off very, very empty. Minimalism and emptyness aren't mutually inclusive. 2:16 finally added more meat on the bones; before that, things felt too simple and plodding. Arrangement-wise, there was interpretation, but it didn't feel developed enough, basically because there was always so little complementing the melodic variation. If the overall style were like 2:16-onward to keep things more fleshed out, this could work, but it needs more substance. NO (resubmit)

ReMixer name: DJ Velly Forum userid: 27583 Name of game arranged: Chrono Trigger Name of song arranged: Frog's Theme I've been working on this mix for a very long time. It's the largest music project I've ever compiled, having spent countless hours tweaking and adding extra layers. At first I was a little skeptical about whether I should even bother with this source tune, since it's already been done eight times on the OCR site. Still, none of these mixes were in my style (whatever that is!), so I figured it was worth a shot, given how much I absolutely adore this theme. And I'm quite satisfied with how it's turned out. --------------------------------------------------------------- Chrono Trigger - "Frog's Theme" Really disliked the opening breaktbeats; they sounded like premade loops that were taken from somewhere else. Basically no source usage until :38. The melody there was so quiet compared to everything going on. But at :53, the source tune came in full force. The melodic variations were there, but some seemed more for the sake of not sounding 100% like the original than sounding like a natural interpretation of the source. Not always a comfortable fit, but still some capable ideas. Production-wise, this was too cluttered for my tastes, and should have sounded cleaner, but it was nothing that was a deal-breaker. Rough around the edges, but ultimately it's got the bread and butter arrangement & production qualities needed to get above the bar, even though I'm not feeling this all the way. Keep improving, Josh. YES (borderline) Hahaha! I only now looked at the mix title. That kind of stuff doesn't actually affect my vote, but that'd definitely a rare instance of a very n00b, form-letter-sounding title making it through. No offense, it's just kind of...yeah. LT Edit (11/14): Vote changed to NO.