Liontamer

This is just my opinion, and not the panel's collective call. TO brought up Map18 in May, and I'm 100% on not allowing it. I also don't care what Prince did in terms of legally insulating himself. Some of the remixes on OCR could probably be considered originals by that reasoning. IMO, the legal status of the Doom tracks has got nothing to do with how similar some Doom tracks sound next to their mainstream inspirations. Just to clarify, I've only done comparisons with Map18 and Map07. Other Doom 2 sources in question, I will be glad to check the others in due time and report back here with how I felt about the comparisons. In the meantime, I'm quoting myself from a judges discussion post a few minutes ago: Like I just mentioned to TO, lemme just run Map07 by one or two more of our colleagues just to make sure there's no conflict, and I'll be glad to basically sign off on it. Don't pull your hair out, Ash.

After seeing a FFV remix posted I went, "Hey, I have an FFV remix. Why not submit it?" So here you go. Warning: really weird. Probably too weird to pass the panel, but whatever. Sample credits: eli vance from HL2, Ievan Polkka. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That gives me a lot of faith. http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=ff5 - "The Ancient Library" (ff5-1-25.spc) Opens up sounding pretty beholden to the structure of the original. Hahaha, the sound choices are all over the place with this. I'm not sure what the appeal is supposed to be removing all of the melodic qualities of the original and making it sound so grating instead. As soon as the beatwork came in at :37, the soundfield became extremely crowded and messy, with the lead getting partially buried under all of the new sounds brought in. If literally anything else had been added into the mix at that point it would have gone off the rails. Balance the parts properly! SFX at 1:07 (cool idea) leads into 1:09 and some weird gating/stutter effects, picking back up into the aforementioned clutter and busyness at 1:34. The beats and kicks brought in from 1:59-2:46 were a killer. They sounded so generic and out of place, a really corny drumloop shoehorned into the picture. Nothing sounding the least bit melodic. No harmonies. What's there to like? Why would I want to listen to this compared to the original? C'mon Scott, weird doesn't have to mean poorly developed. We LIKE weird when it's done properly. This isn't "too weird to pass the panel." It's too poorly executed to pass the panel. NO

Original Decision: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10075 Remixer name: HoboKa Game remixed: Breath of Fire II Song name: Final battle/Deatheven's theme Remix name: JadedByDeath Hey, Alex S back with a resub of my BoF II remix. I read your guys' review on my original ver, and got cracking on it. Heh, you know it's only been about 5 months since I've started remixing and I think I've learned a lot during that time; so I'm proud of myself regardless if this gets accepted or not. BTW, look out for OC Remix's first Tyrano Lair remix made by LagunaCloud and I, it's gonna be epic As for the current remix at hand: I changed some of the voice effects, and placement of the sound clips, I improved upon the drums by nearly 100% (though I wish I had a better drum generator than FPC x_x) and I made the techno/electronica or whatever you call it longer and better. Hope you boys n girls enjoy it ^^ PS: Sorry about the megaupload useage...I don't know any other free hosting site asides from Putfile =/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=bof2 - "Evan ~ God of Death" (bof2-46.spc) Well, you cut down on the delay on Mike Z's stuff, which was good. The laugh sounded tacky pasted in after the dialogue. Would have been more natural for him to finish his evil words and move right into laughter. Good ambiance afterward building to the introduction of the source material. On the orchrestration side at 1:06, still pretty cover-ish. Not really much change from the overall instrumentation of the original there, but still a different mood. As with last time around, good textures there. Not the best samples, but used well to create a genuinely pleasing sound IMO up until 1:36. Not that I don't want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but given how uh...unmusical the latter half sounded, I'm led to believe you used a MIDI or the SPC as the base for this opening orch section. At 1:36, again with those poor electro-synths, only sounding a lot more distorted than last time especially given that the track's apparently not clipping. 2:10-2:33 just sounds like a cacophony of noise, and didn't sound very musical despite me recognizing the source. Everything's just SUPER murky and cluttered with 0 definition. And it continued that way all the way until the end around 3:25. I'd actually post this track in ReMixing and ask for major help on refining your sounds. In the latter half, there's no separation, everything sounds crunchy and the melody doesn't stand out at all, leaving the arrangement sounding rudderless. Seems like the sounds in the latter half were a bit beefed up compared to last time around, but that's about the only improvement I heard. You better learn to walk before you try to run. Keep at it. NO

Who knows if we'll get anyything that sounds like this ever again. Props to Aaron for making such a unique piece. Back when this debuted for the OCR4 flood, I enjoyed pretty much all of the new mixes that were a part. djpretzel's Revenge of Shinobi "Consent (Make Me Dance)" was my 2nd favorite and it actually took me a few loops to really appreciate the funked-out electro goodness. But this one grabbed my ears from the very start. The intro effects and vox were unique. As SOON as the music faded in, I had been hooked. This track was smooooooooooth to start. And when it switched gears with some more agressive beats, it ended the track with a lot of power. analoq, top of his game. Nowadays, the guy jokes that he's lost it. If even 1% of our submissions ever "found it" the way this guy did...

Nowadays, this would NEVER make it past me on the panel, AFAIK. Ye olden days were a lot looser in terms of what got on. It's certainly not bad in any way from a sound quality perspective. This sounds awesome, and it definitely one of my favorite tracks to listen to. The connections to the original though are rather minimal, which is unfortunate in retrospect. Someone (Chris?) fill me in on whether I'm missing something. Just based on this sound quality though, I always wanted MIDIman to hit us again with some new stuff. Now that we've met at Otakon this past summer, hopefully he'll come out with some new material like he alluded to. Good luck to him and Escape Pod Audio!

Man, I'm slipping. This was another one I told djp about enjoying back in the day while visiting his house. Funny, because last weekend I was there working on some site stuff, and he started playing this arrangement downstairs on his Motif. Brought back memories of ye olden days while pondering in my head what he was playing. The sound choices provided by the Motif are great here. And it helps to be working with such great source material. While the original had the raw materials to be pretty catchy, it didn't really have that good of an energy to me that would have struck me as great arrangement material. That's where djp proved me wrong by showing off the original's full potential. With this ReMix though, djpretzel beefs up the sound quality but also smooths out the performance, adds some nice embellishments and really takes the original to another level from the Master System. Much like his Socket mix, you just can't go wrong with this one. It's got that hook.

Great fusion of the FF6 and FF9 sources, not in melding them together, but in writing something where the sections of the arrangement somehow pieced together and WORKED despite no major stylistic similarities. Dunno how he does it. A true NoppZ classic.

Trippin'! Excellent, and glad to find this thread close to Trippin' on Snails so I could comment on this one as well. Love the off-kilter groove here. It's totally different than anything I'd expect with the source tune. That's Mazedude's specialty and he's never done wrong with that style. Bueno!

Too brief! The only criticism I had. Great sound choices, effects & production, awesome energy, and a total (but effective) style change from the original. Someone kick ABG and make him realize he needs to submit more high octane hotness like this.

Yeah, wow. Just a weeeeeird piece. Chris was definitely trippin' on something when he made this. Not always my cup of tea with this one, but a very inspired and offbeat take on Rygar, much like Mazedude's Bayou Billy "Trippin' on Alligators" which I enjoy just for being so crazy.

Just scanning through Reviews, I can't believe how many tracks I enjoyed and never commented on. Yet another mix here, this time by Mr_44, that made me take notice of the soundtrack and seek it out. And indeed, "Fear (Rez Edit)" from the original soundtrack kicks ass. Again, the quality of the ReMix prompting me to check out the the original soundtrack was a hallmark of a good arrangement. It made me want to know more about where it was inspired from. Love the arrangement here, which caught my attention but also took me a little bit to really get a bead on in terms of the very unique style. I'm glad I gave this a chance, but really this was so odd and catchy, I couldn't have helped listening more than once. Dunno a THING about the Dune movie. Never seen it. I once tried to read the book back in middle school for summer reading because it counted as 2 books. There was so much stupid sci-fi jargon that made me turn to the glossary every other word that I gave up after 10 pages. I certainly didn't miss much. But regardless, the movie clips fit really fit the atmosphere well and enhanced the almost sordid darkness of the arrangement. Allllways worth the listen.

This was the first mix over here that really showed me how diverse Jon was an an arranger. I definitely never expected something like this from him at the time. Like Jared's comments alluded to, this was definitely a big hit at the time when I spotlighted Kong in Concert on VG Frequency. I also agreed with comments likening the feel to something out of The Jungle Book, albeit jazzier. It's got a great energy to it, and only makes you appreciate the source material more. Getting him to join the panel in 2005 probably helped to get him to release some material that we otherwise might never have heard. Score one for the bad guys.

It was originally posted in Community and I put it in Works. Anything VG-related performance can be posted in Works, even if it's not meant for submission. You damn rocket scientists, he's not even claiming the arrangement is his, just that he played on top of it. You saw him say that anyway. Just stick to critiquing the performance. Definitely could stand to be tighter, but showed decent skill and certainly potential for improvement. Yeah, keep it up.

If I had any practical arrangement or vocals skills whatsoever, I would do a ReMix of this ReMix. I already have a concept in my head. It would be the greatest ReMix in God's creation. I agreed with the criticisms of too much reverb and Starla's vocals needing a boost to cut through the soundscape more. Nonetheless, excellent stuff. That was the REAL birthday review, Starla. Why, oh why will you not make anything new? Even just on the vocal side! :'-(

My favorite djpizzle mix and I never dropped a comment. This track was smooooth back in the day. Still is. Infectious groove, great sounds, polished production. I still give Dave a little crap every now and then about how he'll never make anything else that I'll like more than this and that he's jumped the shark. But driving to Baltimore with him last year for a meetup, he was nice enough to throw this ReMix on a mix CD he made for the drive down. If I'm remembering it right, I also got to hear his Summoning of Spirits mix "The Koan of Drums" right after he finished it. In any case, this was also a track that made me go back and check out the original, as well as snag a ROM of the game. Well, to me the game sucked, and I don't recall any other tracks being as good as the one's djp arranged, but I definitely love what he's done with the source material here. Seamless fusion of the two themes, I never would have known there was more than one source if I hadn't checked the soundtrack out. Great stuff, and of the few tracks that lots of people around here have taken a chance on and liked despite not knowing the game. The number of reviews back in the day definitely illustrated that.

Hehehe! Happy birthday, Starla! To celebrate, I'll poo on this mix. Well, nothing new from me. Repetitive as all get out, but yes, tre old. Thems the breaks backs in ye olden days. Hit or miss. If you really like the source material, it'll give you a little nostalgia boost.

Hahaha! Dunno how I passed up commenting on this one. Awesome upgrade-style remix. Goofy sounds, along some solid brass (good brass?!?), it's Gux with some serious flavor here, "Psghetti Cowboy." [sic] If only the game weren't so fast-paced or had some 1-one-1 shootout areas, this would set the scene perfectly while being a little tongue-in-cheek.

What, yet another song Prot hated? Blehz. Could have sworn I dropped a quick review on this a long time ago, back when I was working on Lockdown 2 (The Revenge) and verifying the source tunes of all the ReMixes. Was surprised to find I didn't. With this arrangement, talk about turning chicken shit into chicken salad. There wasn't really much to the source at all. Props to Jon and Mustin for crafting this into a more fleshed out piece that still felt very spacey & mysterious. It's definitely a sleeper hit in my book.

I remember being pretty on the fence about this one back when I first listened to all of the ReMixes in mid-2002. The sound choices and overall groove were pretty smooth, and definitely had that NiGHTS in-game style energy, but for whatever reason, I didn't keep it then. But checking it out a couple of years ago, having found even more appreciation for McVaffe (is that even possible?), I realized how solid this mix was. A shame Mike never released an arrangement album with exclusive material or anything like that. I've never seen anyone so good at creating grade-up style arrangement that still had their own voice while retaining the feel of the original.

Ah man, I remember this one vividly. This was around mid-2002 when I finally listened to all of the ReMixes available. At the time, this was newly posted, and when I checked it out, I found a new favorite ReMixer. In retrospect with Quinn's style, probably heavy on some looooopz, but Quinn's the best at making any drumloop fit well in the bigger picture and not seeming slapped on. He really crafts the rest of the arrangement well, and there was nothing else like it on OCR. A brief ReMix, but it definitely got me interested in not only Quinn's work, but also the Phantasy Star Online soundtracks in general. And THAT is what a successful arrangement can do. Old-school hotness. Remember to kick Rob for his evil leadoff review.

Yeah, the volume should have been raised, but other than that, I was a big fan of this one back in the day. Prot thought it was weak, but you know, it's Prot. The usual faegyness at the time. Disregard. A nice example of a subtle mix that still has a lot of substance behind it. Too bad we never heard from Will again.

This is why Binster is great. Obscure source material to bring something new into the spotlight, plus the arrangement's full of energy and excellent dynamics. Actually, considering Martin's work after this, maybe it's just me, but I can't say I've ever heard him create anything else like this mix. Most of Martin's stuff involves pretty heavy beats, while this one was more melodic and grooooooooooooooove-oriented. Always looking forward to whatever arrangements he releases.

We're fan art, akin to fan drawings published in video game magazines. Those people aren't sued for paying tribute to video games works they enjoy through creations made out of pure fandom. In any case, locked.

Keep it up, Sebastian! Looking forward to more.

Seemed like the only way she could rationalize an ad hominem attack. KEEP IT CLEAN. INRECIBLY