Emunator

... wow. That was intense, and it should go without saying that I've never heard anything remotely like this on OCR before. It's great to see new ground being broken all the time on this site, so thanks for perpetuating that notion of expansion and creativity! That being said, I have no idea how to go about reviewing this. I've never listened to Viking Metal in my life so I don't know how this stacks up compared to the professional stuff. I liked the growling vocals, but the spoken word felt pretty corny to me, honestly. That's about all I've got to say.

Your guitar/bass sounds work great here. I wasn't a fan of the spoken word stuff particularly but I can see how it works here; I just thought the cutoff before the spoken part came in was a bit too abrupt. The growling vocals are intense and well-performed, you should be proud of that! This is a very cohesive package that fits together wonderfully and creates an ambient, dark song that I won't soon forget.

You absolutely did justice to the mostly-underused sources used here. The drums are intense and captivating. The whole mix really clicked for me when the Castle theme from NSMB kicked in; that's a source I completely overlooked when playing through the game, but it works great for this genre. At times, the organ/strings can be overpoweringly loud, but that might just be my cheap $20 headphones at work! I would have liked to hear the synth elements that you briefly introduced towards the beginning of the song employed more, but I could see how that might clash with the overall style you're going for. When you did use them, it sounded pretty neat though! Great job, though. Part 2 needs to get up on the front page ASAP!

Hoooooly crap, you played my two most anticipated songs off the entire album Granted, the podcast was skipping so I wasn't really able to appreciate the flow of the songs, but Fishy & Audix are sounding awesome here. Thanks for the preview tracks!

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3480 Post it there so it can be added to the master list!

Holy -- Someone remind me why the vocal version wasn't submitted instead? The instrumental is nice on it's own, but really the rapping brought it to a whole another level and it deserves to be heard by a bigger audience. Great work on all fronts guys!

I've only been lurking these forums for a little while and even I saw this coming! OA definitely stands out as one of the most motivated, talented individuals to emerge from the community in the past few years, so I guess I had a sense this was coming sooner or later - I'm just surprised at the timing! Congratulations!

Bumped, because I'm excited to see this project fill out!

Ah yeah, you'd love Dwelling of Duels. A lot of the remixers you mentioned have submitted there, and the majority of the songs there are in the style that you'd probably like. http://dod.vgmix.com/index.php A few artist recommendations: Prince of Darkness Darengan SnappleMan Joren De Bruin Dr.Manhattan (from DoD; he's won 1st place in the last 4 competitions.)

Really melodic and bubbly mix, it definitely makes me happy to listen to I can't be the only one to have drawn the connection between this remix and the Rainbow Road song from Mario Kart Wii at certain parts, though. I asked my girlfriend about it and she immediately drew the connection to Rainbow Road, too. Of course, I've been playing that game all day so it might just be stuck in my head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRbm_v9DHpI

Dammit, I don't think I've ever been so sad to hear a song end. I wanted this one to keep going on forever, I just got lost in the vocals and the simple but entrancing instrumental. The source tune is excellent too and you most definitely did it justice! I'm going to be looping this all night - I daresay this is the most emotive vocal act I've ever heard on this site, or at least on-par with my current favorite ("The Place We Knew") Thank you so much for sharing this awesome song, please keep submitting stuff here!

Oooh, the suspense!

This is a friggin' stellar artist list so far! I hope most/all of these artists follow through and finish the tracks they've claimed. This could be really great, best of luck to all those involved!

Any project with Audix and Fishy showing up this frequently on the track list has got to be good! I can't wait to hear the finished product!

Well, I can't say I'm a fan of the spoken intro, but the rest of it is pretty sweet!

So wait a minute, is that Party song actually a part of the project?

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/Emunator/Game%20Collection/IMG_1829.jpg That was taken two Thanksgivings ago, IIRC. That's the combined possessions of my whole family though, it's not just mine. There's no reason I would buy that many DS's or duplicate games for myself

Rozo, is this the one you're talking about? http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR00704/

The first 15 minutes, as well as the scene where he was looking through the scrapbook were pretty much the best Pixar moments I've ever seen. Coupled with the beautiful music, I was on the verge of tears a couple times in the movie. It was very melancholy for a Pixar movie, but it was executed so well. The animations and textures were flawless, as well. But the rest of the movie did absolutely nothing for me. Most of the gags felt kind of stale compared to what I've come to expect from Pixar, and the storyline itself just didn't entertain me much. The first 15 minutes of the movie were so great, it gave me the impression that the whole movie would be more of an introspective, quiet film that carried more of an emotional impact, and I ended up disappointed because of those expectations I set. There was a lot of merit to the movie, but it just made me realize how much I'd love it if Pixar would make an entire movie with the same mood and tone as the first 15 minutes of Up, crossed with the lighter-hearted, but still low-key and personal opening scenes of Wall-E. Obviously it's an unrealistic thing to expect, but I'd still like to see Pixar expand on the themes they introduced in the opening scenes of this movie and carry out that mood in a full-length movie geared more towards adults.

Brilliant start, as always. The song progresses beautifully and I really like the way the drums build up in particular. This reminds me of djp's Sunken Suite but with more personality and overall production/arrangement quality. I don't really have any particular feedback on how to improve, but I think you're on the right track with this. I can't wait to see your work get submitted and published, you're an AMAZING remixer and you deserve to be recognized for it!

Haha, I actually just made some money off of DKC2 the other day. I bet my brother that I could beat the game 102% in one day, without getting any game overs, and beating my previous personal best time (5 hours and 3 minutes.) I ended up beating it in 4:30 'course, it was only 5 bucks and I got paid in spare change, but still... money for playing videogames is always good! There were some levels that just sucked in terms of repeatedly dying... I can't remember any aside from the obvious Animal Antics, but it did remind me just how hard this game could be at times! I plan on rerunning the game again right before this album releases, too. I'd like to get some other people from this site to do the same thing and we'll compete for bragging rights

That's great to hear about the extra surprises - I was starting to think that I'd spoiled most of the magic of the project by overlistening to the preview track. I have no self control D: Glad to hear things are moving along though!

Remixers, don't listen to this dude. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Leak, leak, leak like a cheap tampon!

Link? I can't find the radio show anywhere.

I can't wait to check out the preview tracks on 8-Bit Radio when I get home! I'm really psyched for that and the interview. I hope the bLiNd track that's gonna be played is the one from the MAGFEST preview!