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  1. Great idea - not one that had ever occurred to me, but the tracks seem almost made for eachother (which I suppose is the ultimate aim for an A+B). The chiptune sections work best - I love the way the backing changes when Eminem hands over to... that other guy (I'm hardly a D12 aficionado) at 0:50. (There's a similarly great moment at 2:37). The "uh-huh"s fit perfectly at 1:10-1:15. Virt's arrangement is perhaps just a bit too busy to fit comfortably under the vocals - the soloing kinda gets in the way - but it's a minor complaint, and I think it's a terrific idea to use both a rearrangement and the chip - it adds a lot of variety.

    "Bitch!" coinciding with the crash at 2:55 is just perfect. Did you spend hours moving things around to find moments like that, or was it all fluke? Either way, it's brilliant. Already one of my favourite VG-mashups (not that it's a huge genre, of course). Keep 'em coming!

    [cross-posted at GYBO, just because]

  2. It's so nice to hear a boot made with professional-quality indgredients :)

    I can't really think of much to say about this one, because it all works. The vocals fit nicely over the Rob D track and the NIN instrumental elements are well chosen. The only part I'm not so keen on is the NIN synth which enters around 2" and contributes little more than hiss. It's a minor gripe, though, and it does add to the NIN feel. Like you said, 3 down, 7 to go :D

    You know, until recently I was very ambivalent about Dougan, but you've almost singlehandedly converted me: to the point where I'm seriously considering buying the album - the version with all those lovely instrumentals, of course.

    edit: provided your GYBO thread with a completely unnecessary bump

  3. I have been unable to find Pilotwings 64 Midnight Altitude (1057) in the torrent.

    I guess that explains why the torrent still includes Pilotwings 64 'Birdman Clear Skies' (OCR00141), which is listed in the Changelog as part of the lockdown. Looks like a simple mixup. But, aside from a few minor discrepancies in the id3 tags, I haven't noticed any other problems. Thanks to Aubrey and everyone else who put these torrents together – I know a lot of time and effort went into it.

    I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but the Boogerman Sewer Thug mix by JAXX is missing the tag information (at least the version I had didn't have any of it). I noticed it when I was scrolling through the mixes in the folder, and it didn't have the artist or album info. Just thought someone would like to know.

    Sewer Thug is a weird one – neither Quicktime nor WMP can play it, for some reason. See the reviews thread for more info.

    I'have a program to catalog all ocremix mp3 (and other songs) called "Mediamonkey". It is a very usefull interface, with an access back end database. I want to put the OCRemix ID in the track number, so that I have the exact order in which the songs where released, and I can burn cds from the first mix to the last mix. It is also very usefull to search back a remix on the web site.

    So I'm loading this in the database, and updating the track number with the OCR number, with the help of the xml file.

    Sigh... I wish I'd found such an easy way of doing that. I've wasted hours of my life manually drag-and-dropping songs into my iTunes playlist. :roll:

    Speaking of which, if anyone wants a copy, PM me and I'll post the playlist as an xml file.

  4. I don't think solo guitar/vocal folk songs are exactly sweeping the nation, and I wouldn't expect the genre to be popular with gamers in particular, but I've been wrong before.

    On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of remix I've been waiting for since I discovered OCR. From an early age, I've been exposed (not entirely unwillingly) to a lot of folk music, so it's a genre I have a certain affinity for, and I think there's a lot of mileage in adapting VGM to this style. I hope others will follow djp and Taucer's lead. I'd attempt it myself if I possessed even a modicum of talent.

    The vocals and guitar are a good match, both for each other and for the spirit of the original piece. Yes, it's short, but I don't think it needed to be any longer as the idea is as fully explored as it could be without adding further melodies or instrumentation, which might have worked but would have totally changed the feel of the song. Plus the short running time leaves you wanting more, which is never a bad thing, is it?

  5. This mp3 will not play in Windows Media Player, Quicktime, or iTunes. It only plays in Winamp.

    It also works in VLC Media Player. I'm glad I finally found a way to play it, 'cos it's a nice little track – not one of Jaxx's best, but the sax, breakbeats and general unpredictability make it worth a listen. Shame so few have heard it, really...

  6. I've been looking forward to this since checking out an early version on the WIP forum. Since then, SGX has worked wonders with the production - it's terrifically dirty, without ever getting muddy. And Sephfire has done a great job of transforming a simple little ditty into a dark, brooding arrangement. I'd say this is up there with Glass Cage as one of the best of OCR's more liberal mixes.

  7. Yeah, just the jumblies.

    Just happened with Kid Icarus MegaloKidMarch. Its usually at least three songs.

    EDIT: Again with Halo Ruined Desert

    So the torrent hasn't actually finished downloading? When the torrent reaches 100% and you have all 500 tracks (or however many are in the torrent), they will be un-jumbled. BitTorrent, as far as I understand it, splits each file into handy, bite-sized chunks, which won't be correctly assembled until you've downloaded them all. So there's nothing to worry about. 8)

    Do not try to play ReMixes while the download is in progress. The songs you listen to will very likely be messed up and sound like they contain pieces of several songs in them. Once your bit torrent client finishes the download, all the songs downloaded will sound like they are supposed to. Seriously. Have some faith.
  8. TORRENTS are now AVAILABLE

    Which means, you can now grab EP#020, EP#021 and the latest batch for shows EP#011 - EP#020.

    Don't forget, seeders are always needed.

    I can't download the Episode 21 .torrent file - I'm getting a "file doesn't exist" error.

    iTunes isn't showing it either, for some reason. Same thing happened last week.

  9. Nice work, D-Lux.

    While I'm here, I have a question regarding the OCR torrents:

    Does iTunes (for Mac) do anything to the mp3s which means I shouldn't seed them? Or can I just point my BT client at

    ~Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Compilations/http___www.ocremix.org

    and seed from there?

    (I have OCR01001+ stored in a separate folder from the rest, as I haven't yet added them to my iTunes library. These are the only files I've been seeding, since I'm not 100% sure that iTunes doesn't mess with the files in some way...)

    Any iTunes/Mac users out there know what I'm talking about?

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