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And I just posted on Reyn Ouwehand's new C64 arrangement album "The Blithe, The Blend & The Bizarre". It's extra swanky. Check out ze blog, and once you get a look at that cover, you know it'll be some crazy stuff. The previews for the album are solid, so check it out!

After mailing Greg about the production criticism, Greg hooked it up with a new version that sounds sleeker, like ze majestic puma. Thanks for taking another look at this, Greg.

It's a one time thing to inform people of posted submissions that have used the WIP boards. Not sure if you weren't clear on it, but locking a thread can't bump it, only posting can. As more people post, the locked threads will naturally fall off of page 1 of WIPs. I don't believe we ever had our URLs in that style to begin with. Also, all of our game database URLs have a / at the end anyway.

Original Decision: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11085 OK I changed the string sample, brought out the oboe, and raised the master volume a little bit. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhere it is:

Watching the time attack for this game, this mix would have fit very well in place of the original. A great upgrade arrangement that THANKFULLY did its own thing in the second half to save it. Very well put together, and always a enjoyable listen, Ryan. Don't listen to Vigilante about your orchestration. He smells like cat pee.

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That's clearly implied, Nitpiq Ansari!

Dizzamn, Michael posted a much-improved version over at VGMix via some great advice from Dennis about a week and a half ago. Why did you not send this newer cut in while this was still in the judging process? You gotta keep me aware of situations like this, as we could have replaced the version you sent with the more recent one. :'-( It could still use a little bit of refinement with the production as some of it gets pretty cluttered, but it was a much stronger piece than what you sent us. Definitely keep working on it and send it on back. I'd love to see you make a front page comeback, Mike.

Dat's essentially what it's emulating. I kill u!

Never any rush from me. Tis upcoming, and that's good enough for me. The only person I put on deadlines is myself.

I've just posted regarding another interview from Tales of Shadows, this time putting the questions to Sephfire. If you can be persuaded, leave comments. They are currently my lifeblood. Meanwhile, the content flows like wine over at VGF thanks to efforts of beautiful people like The Lady (who likes "Cerebral Rose Jam") as well as the smelly likes of no-good miscreants such as CHz and Dhsu (who, for the sake of being contrary, likely spit upon "Cerebral Rose Jam"). Keep an eye on the next few days for more from the latter two. Dhsu recently discovered his own tribute that he's gonna share some comments on at my behest. And why not? It isn't often that you get that kind of fan recognition. Like I warned David though, it also means there's yet another rival AZN PIANO PLAYER!~ for him to be aware of. Just when he thought all he had to do was kidnap the Video Game Pianist...

Keep an open mind; it's a doozy - LT ReMix: Escalloniaceae (version)+ Link: http://www.duke.edu/~jfw7/DemanusFlint-_Escalloniaceae_(version)+.mp3 ReMixer name: DemanusFlint Real name: Jonathan Wall E-mail address: jfw7@duke.edu Website: http://www.duke.edu/~jfw7 Userid: 2200 Name of game ReMixed: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Name of individual song ReMixed: Yoshi's Island (Title Screen) I request that the link to this file remains if the ReMix is rejected. Comments: Well, after five or six years of reading and listening to OCReMix I finally decided to submit something. While there have been tons of examples of really interesting dance or techno music, plenty of neat rock tracks, some well-done orchestral pieces, and some swingin' jazz tunes, I still feel like there is a lot of musical territory that OCR has (as yet) left alone. This piece is an attempt to branch out into genres that have never been explored by many other ReMixes. This piece is, at heart, lo-fi organic drone, inspired by artists such as Fursaxa, Organ Eye, and Avarus. The mbira has a Yuka & Yoshimi influence. A lot of the field recordings and loop-based composition have their roots in Noah Lennox, Eric Copeland, and David Portner, and the distortion is inspired by Daniel Higgs. Basically, without that gratuitous name-dropping, this piece represents a lot of what I listen to. Nearly every track in this piece was recorded by me, whether I performed them live or created field recordings. The bass and toms are synthesized, but every other track is as purely organic as I could make it. While it has been confirmed that other people enjoy this piece, I do understand that it may not follow the standards that OCR has already established. It's simply my wish to see a great site with plenty of great songs grow into what I consider great genres of music. Let me know what you think, and if you think it can be salvaged be sure to point out how! Thanks so much! --Jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------- The part of the source first used starts at :24. http://snesmusic.org/v2/download.php?spcNow=yi - "Yoshi's Island" (yi-03.spc) Now to me, this is a bunch of noise. And I don't mean to sound close-minded on it, because I'm not. I can roll with this approach, and realize that it's a purposeful one. Yet the way everything's put together, it's difficult to pick out any one part vs. all of the others. Keep in mind, this stuff would be less of a factor in the face of a kick-ass interpretation of the source material. But... Aside from the source melody though, there's nothing else with arrangement value in terms of interpreting the source. On top of that, the few parts you have playing the source melody and percussion essentially do so verbatim compared with the original. The percussion might as well be direct sampling with how close it sounds. There's very little interpretive substance here besides adding all the various loops on top; if you mentally peel them away, you're left with very little substance in terms of your interpretation of the source. Whatever little arrangement value may have been present from 3:26 until the end was lost among a lot of noise. If you're going to go this route where you go for more of a wall of noise, I think it's still necessary to produce so that it doesn't attack the ears. It seems to me from your WIP thread though, that this came out how you want it, so, on that level, more power to you. But if you'd like to provide more interpretive substance with the actual source tune and not hinge nearly everything on the surrounding sounds, then tone down the ear-breakage portions also and try again. This is something different and that's cool, but there's gotta be that balance between honoring the framework of the chosen genre and effectively interpreting the original VGM material. NO

More background information please.

Good job, y'all. Be sure to read http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6716 once you visit that area of the forums.

Excellent. The track's already come a long way in just PRC99, so I'm looking forward to seeing how else you spruce it up. Definitely keep us informed of your progress and welcome aboard.

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Props on getting the pass for this one, Ryan.

The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

Late in arriving to this one, but I like to seal the deal on passed mixes. The complete version is now available here and any further reviews can be posted here.

Nice work on this one. The ending needs to be fixed, but definitely a really smooth track in terms of blending the various themes together. Great job there, Niels.

Nice work, Rich, thanks a lot for sending this!