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Oh you've got to be kidding me. These renders keep getting glitchier and glitchier. Aight, I will fix and repost as soon as I can get home. Thanks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDE! Can't wait to hang with you again at MAG, have a great day.

That's Proto on the left, I'm on the right. You found us both out. Back on topic, I have this really ugly sofa from when I had an apartment in College. It is ugly and big but comfy as anything and you just kinda sink in it. I did buy a new Sofa recently, from Ikea. It is awesome because it turns into a Double-sized Bed when you use a pullout section. My computer rocks.

You all suck, this thread is, like, halfway dead of activity. Come on, PICK UP THE PACE! What? What's that? You say you need some more horrific fanfic to get you in the mood to talk/hate life? Well, your wish is granted. Gentlemen, BEHOLD! ROOTS OF LIFE: A CRADLE TO LOVE! Fanfic Reading - Roots of Life + Bonus! Two Bonus readings, one from squirrelking and the other from Peter Chimaera. Links to all text in there, along with the reading mp3. It was...pretty horrible. I'll never look at toothbrushes, houseplants, or ticks ever the same way again. That's all I'm gonna say.

Dude. DUDE. That sofa is kickass.

Yeah, shouldn't you make your own thread for this, bro? Not saying don't pimp it, but using thasauce's thread is kinda moochin'.

Plaid Muffins are DONE.

Gorgeous orchestration, great sample quality, a testament to the original source tune, man is this remix top notch! I guess if you can only do one remix a year, you better make it a knockout, and you definitely have here!

Smooth, funky, and it pushes all my right buttons. Loving the cheesy vocoded robotic voice, amazing production, and yeah...this is really good!

Really cool synth modulation that stretches across the board, really giving the speakers a workout here. Feels like some kind of neon ninja game, this thing has aged very well, and it's short and sweet. I can dig it, mang. Signature Pretzel sound.

This along with the fact that you seem to have started your recruiting before coming on OCR suggests to me that having this be an official OC ReMix album isn't a main goal. If that is the case, I see no reason why this couldn't be done by your intended guideline (throwing quality standards somewhat to the wind has the ability to negate some of the time restrictions in some cases). If you are considering this to become an official OC ReMix album, there are quite a few things that need to be taken into account. Regardless, I wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing what you can pull out in your intended timeline. AFAIK there are quite a few mixes that have been made primarily or entirely in REASON, but I guess that's besides the point. However, considering that you've already made up your opinion about things, no point in trying to point out things like how arrangement and production are both evaluated and that being picky is just another way of saying "standards of quality.

Mixing is good, production is crisp if a bit conservative, and it is definitely pumping. If anything I would have liked to have heard some more diverse parts and sections thrown in but it is good as-is. Holds up very well over time.

Okay....umm, this chopper is on drugs and needs to be grounded a bit. The hihat distorts and is distracting, the flange effect is WAY out of proportion, and the mixing in general is iffy. Guess I'm not a fan of what was done here, is what I'm saying. Not horrendous but it did make me feel seasick while sitting still.

Very soothing, some cool stereo-play going on as well. Music for a day relaxing at a spa with a massage in a bathtub full of natural mud or something. Production is...really really good, actually. Lots of cool and intricate chippy effects going on too. Yeah, I would write more but I'm having too much fun with my head in the clouds listening to this track. Great choice of samples and a really good attention to detail. Very chill and enjoyable.

This mix is competent for the age it came out in, but it could have used more flare and some better mixing (the high end range really has a lot of fighting going on and the only things in the mid are the top of the bass and a tiny bit of the snare). Unfortunately this definitely doesn't hold up to the test of time, but there are quite a few neat ideas employed like parts of the drum layering. Still, can't fight the fact that it does not really develop much. Shows that OCR has come a VERY long way, and its roots are full of many things.

Ooooooo, me rikey. Some niggles with the mixing (flute could have some more verb and the production is a bit too much IN YOUR FACE for the chill arrangement) but...yeah, this song is nice and WAY TOO SHORT...oh, Val already said that...and so did other people. Carry on. Do it again. Longer. And with feeling.

I'm not sure if it is the MP3 compression of the sample used, but there's a lot of really odd sound artifacts here. I can tell that this is mixed pretty well, though this has quite a trance philosophy attached to it (slow builds and it takes a while for any melody to fully kick in, if it kicks in at all) so I had to fight myself to pay attention. Bass is nice and the pads are slick for the most part (when the eq phaser pushes the high end of the lead synth fully it does hurt my ears a little, though). Despite some quibbles though, actually a pleasant trance mix. Not supershine highproduction stuff but I liked it, would put it on as just music to play at a party or something. DANCE, DEIA'S LARRYSIG, DANCE!

WHOA GOD MY GUMMI SHIP TOOK A LOT OF SPEED AND IS RACING ALL THROUGH THE CANDY NEBULA!!! WHOAAAAA. Yeah, talk about a HAPPY and UPBEAT electronica song, I don't think you can get much more chipper than this. I really could care less if it sounds a tad generic. This thing is mixed pretty damn well and it had me bouncing in the bed in an utterly superhappy personal rave (read that as you will). Lead synth gets a little old by the end and, if it were made today, production could have been a few levels up, but it still holds up alright now. brb, playing candyland on ecstasy in a room full of blacklights and strobes.

If this were bitcrushed just a little more, I would have been super-happy. Would have been more robotic sounding and changed it from sounding coincidentally kinda like a robot to deliberately definitely like a robot. Still, I'm liking the stiff semi-funk with the slow build, like the robots are out on the streets in the wrong part of town looking for a good time. Not familiar too much with the source but on its own merits, this doesn't age as bad as others because of the intended sound. Could have had a bit more development and attention to the "robot sound" (really, I was secretly hoping for a ripoff of Daft Punk's ROBOT ROCK), but I still kinda liked it. Guilty pleasure, you could say.

This summer....Eddie Murphy encounters his most difficult enemy as a Beverly Hills Cop yet....Chinatown. The drums are quite impressive despite sounding overly mechanical, could do with a touch more wetness in the verb area and maybe a little less volume because it pushes down the other instruments that really deserve more attention. Interesting arrangement ideas but ultimately this was kinda disappointing. Yes, even at times the drums sound like someone threw the drumkit down the stairs. I'm sure in a few years, all of our current mixes will sound aged...uh oh...

YAY! SEAGULLS! but then I was kinda like "ehhh....grating saw synth". This one...yeah, perky and very very cheesy. Actually, make that a bit TOO cheesy. Sounds almost like it's from a workout tape for kids. Off all the things about it, its the saw and the drums that age poorly, otherwise this ain't half bad minus the excessive cheese. Also, Val's reviews are beacons of eloquence and in-depth analysis.

Despite some of the lackluster mixing, I actually really like this. Reminds of a song from a late 80's movie where there's a street chase going on or something (those no good mall cops chasing the rad dude on a skateboard who's just all IN YOUR FACE RADICAL). Doesn't age spectacularly, but I think that adds a bit of charm to this one, can't put my finger on why though. Needs more C64 synth though. MORE.