Fishy

So after a bit of handbags in IRC I just want to reiterate my point publically. OCR University makes no sense, relates to no joke that I'm aware of, misrepresents what OCR is to people who don't recognise it, isn't funny to those who do, and imitates a trend we have no relation to. As official merchandise it serves no purpose whatsoever, and an hour-ish of debate gave me absolutely no solid reasons to suggest otherwise. It is marginally more stylish then our current t-shirt, but that is not a good enough reason. All I managed to get out of people was a sort of 'why not' attitude. Why not sell t-shirts with just pictures of Dave on it? I think that as a community we can do far better and that is a better reason not to do it then any reason I've heard for it.

The first one makes no sense to me at all. If I don't get the joke then anyone who doesn't know OCR will just get confused about what OCR is. Srsly if that was a mix I'd no override it, fo reel. Second one is cool though.

I think on friday I'll just pm everyone whos coming my mobile number and just gimme a call when you get there and I'll point you my way. How's that?

I'm getting there early to do a soundcheck. The other guys are meeting at a tube station at like 11 or something.

Yeah Uprising was totally what I was going for. Was definitely a challenge getting all the genres from the original across both faithfully and originally at the same time. I should play this on Saturday (lol j/k I can barely play it at all, that solo is comped to hell and back).

Finished preparing my backing tracks, I am excite. My mate Andy P is coming along. You might not know of him yet but just y'all wait until the FFIX album comes out .

Shall I put you down as coming? We'll be doing a talk about OCR, a bit of Q&A, a little music quiz using some remixes. Me and Will are also gonna rock out some guitar!

I've found three separate track list names. Even wikipedia lists two different names for every track, and I've not heard of either of them in most cases. If anyone knows the definitive list that would be helpful.

Well this is disappoint. Gotta be some more of you around!

Just Sat the 3rd. I have shit due on Monday, shouldn't be going at all really but I simply must.

That's not entirely true though. I was very new at the time, and I really wanted to be on it. Once the thread appeared I asked (got an indifferent answer) and started working on a free track anyway and kept sending him it and eventually got on. This before I had anything posted or even accepted. I can see your point too, and I don't think either is the right way to do it necessarily. But if someone wants to drop a surprise album with carefully picked remixers I don't think that can be viewed as unfair to the community.

Well there's a difference between secretive and surprise. votl was kept between the remixers involved for a long time, and was fairly effective at building up excitement as a result of carefully revealed information over time. It had 40-ish mixers involved, you can hardly say that's not a community effort.

Yeah economy picking is a two-faced bastard imo. Yes it's fast but it's hard to feel a rhythm with it. I try and stay away from it for everything but sweeping.

No worries, I know it's short notice. Hopefully this will be the start of more UK panels though!

Pretty solid! Nice to see another Guthrie fan around here.

VIDEOS: Fishy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2qVDmJ5lE Pokemon Gym Leader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHVXGjtsJN0 FF7 Aire Tam Break Willrock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5oovTl_KQ Green Hill Zone So thanks to the efforts of Larry introducing us to some peeps involved in the London Gaming convention there will be the UK's first OCReMix convention panel! If your an OC fan from the UK and want to come, we're hopefully gonna be there on the first day of the con on the 3rd of December. It's now been confirmed and the panel is on the downstairs stage at 2:30-3:30pm. There will be a presentation, a music based quiz with small prizes and a live performance from myself, PROTODOME and maybe willrock too! If you're a remixer or just a fan and want to meet/hang then here's a link to the convention site for more info. We'll get more specific about the details and meetup times closer to the day. http://www.londongamingcon.com/index.php Panel: Willrock PROTODOME Rexy Fishy Definitely coming: Lidawg Rhiannon Myfanwy Maybe Coming: ambient

Hrm... tricky one. It's hard to point out individual things that aren't working, but looking at it holistically it doesn't feel there. Very little happening in the bass. That piano sound is bizarre, sounds like it's right under my noise. Back off on the compression, the mids and volume on that thing. Some of those synths are very plain and woofy. A lot of instruments sound that way actually. Be careful with those mids, and probably worth cutting a bit of that range out of your reverbs. The arrangement additions do tend to meander at times. I'm not a fan of the glitches personally, the second one especially just sounds a bit gimmicky. I'm also finding my ears just want me to stop listening, which is usually a sign of over-compression resulting in leading-edge distortions and listener fatigue. Definitely some promise in there but the execution isn't there. NO

Smash that china. Pretty cool. Lots of timbre variety, a couple may not fit but with something like this everyones gonna find some sounds they don't like. Gurgu transition is a bit odd as mentioned. It does go on a bit, and sometimes a bit tricky to remember what it is. On the whole though nice work. YES ps. You deserve a slap for that vinyl rip.

I could argue the fact it never quite takes off but never did the original. The intro is incredibly blocky and I can't decide if I like that. The additions and harmonies are all quite nice and the sequencing, whilst not stellar, is alright. It kind of drifts between not-quite-borderline and really quite nice at times. On the whole I'm good with passing this but definitely bear in mind contour and tension in your next submission as they are a bit absent here. YES

I was joking. I spammed that shit on twitter anyway. TWICE!

This is closer to spam then the channel ever was.

Well this is stupid. If this is the result of a claim from a games company I will be very disappointed.

I simply must protest m'lady. Indeed it doth repeat on occasion, however the mixing is most apt for this particular oeuvre. Fucking brutal. VERILY

Shadow of the Colossus is the best narrative through gameplay evar. FF....4, 9, or X (if you look past the voice acting) have the most powerful stories to me. The endings to 9 and X are polar opposites but very powerfully happy/sad respectively.

Technically you have to crush at least 25 dreams to be a qualified judge.