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Alright! Looks like I'm making a trip to Flexstyle's place yet again to finish off the mastering and everything one last time If you have any last fixes you want to send me, they need to really, really be in my inbox in the next 3 or 4 hours. Otherwise, that's it. We won't be accepting any new versions of old songs past today. Will be posting a substantial update tonight about the status of the project and what the next few months will look like as far as Double the Trouble is concerned. Be prepared!

You really need to remix the entire Diddy Kong Racing soundtrack by yourself. I would be able to die happy if that wish came true. That's all I've got to say here

Right on man, I'll keep that in mind but you're still definitely at least getting credits in the Comments section on the Mp3s and in the writeup on the website at the very least

You bastards lucked out, I'm exhausted and I'm going to bed now. That buys you some extra time, but if the songs/updates aren't in my inbox in about 8 hours when I wake up, Imma bust some heads up in this joint! Word to ya momma

What is a bouzouki?

That's because everything is always Larry's fault. Mystery solved.

Fantastic performance! You don't see these kind of piano arrangements come around here often. Just as a side note, though it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the mix overall, I hear the same hi-frequency noise as OA did. Not crazy, bro

Awww, sorry I was asleep. I heard your version and it's actually sounding really awesome. Hit me up when you wake up and we'll discuss wrapping this up properly. It's deadline day, so as far as I've concerned there's about 23 hours left before I have to put down my angry foot and cap some mofos. Dig it.

I can chime in on this one, it's actually a TON of work. Hope I'm not stepping on any judge's toes here, but since I'm staff and a project director/coordinator/assistant multiple times over, I think I can speak to this a bit. Once all of the music for a project is completed, the whole album needs to go through the whole evaluation phase first, where it's basically looked at by a panel of staff to see if it's up to the OCR quality bar. Nothing really can move forward officially without passing eval. Also, staff needs to ensure that every artist on the album contributes a content policy agreement or else their songs can't be released on the album. Once it's approved, some things involved in the release process include creating a fully-functional website with mirrors and a torrent for all artwork and music. The music all needs to be tagged and properly encoded to Larry's stringent standards in FLAC and MP3 formats. This is super in-depth. Someone also needs to create an associated Facebook page for everybody to like. There's also the trailer and, eventually, uploading all of the individual tracks to Youtube and sometimes other sites like last.fm. Somebody's also got to draft up a press release as well as arranging any promotional pimpage to other websites as far as interviews or pre-release reviews go. Also, prepping any mixflood posts to accompany the album launch must be done, which entails a writeup by djp and separate OCR-format tagging for each song. All of this needs to be pretty tightly coordinated on release day to make sure everything goes smoothly, i.e. the torrent is properly seeded, there's no typos on any of the release materials, tags, or the website, and that all of the songs are properly encoded and ready to be unleashed on the world. There's probably more that I'm forgetting but that's just a sampling of all the stuff that needs to happen for an album to release. It's a huge amount of effort; I think a lot of folks start up projects assuming that it's just a matter of finding some quality remixers and getting a tracklist down, but it goes beyond that. Bottom line is, if you're not willing to be an integral part in making a lot of this happen, don't start a project in the first place. Getting claims and nice-sounding songs is often the easy part, but all of the non-music stuff really piles up. Staff will usually do as much as possible to help facilitate this but it requires commitment and effort from the director first and foremost to get there. This goes especially for big projects, as I'm finding out myself while tackling administrative/last-leg work for DKC3 and Maverick Rising at the same time It's totally doable and actually quite a bit of fun at times, but I don't think a lot of people are really aware of the time investment and effort required to do it right. Hope that answers your question to some extent!

Wow, did I never comment on this? My bad, I really like this one, it's funny hearing you tackle the same source over and over in different styles, each one being very enjoyable in its own right. Dig it!

Flagging for later listening, this looks promising Thanks for sharing!

Oooohhh, that's a great idea. I'd totally be down for collabing with Chris on this if he listens and feels interested in contributing Thanks a lot for the encouraging comments, hopefully I'll break out of my current writer's block and get this arrangement going again, cause I have a great idea for what to do with a later section, I just need to find a way to transition properly... I may just whip up the section separately and transition later. Very much appreciated!

Sources: (Fungi Forest) (Crystal Caves [future])Remix Link http://tindeck.com/listen/zpqn (v. 5.0) Hey all, this is the very first honest-to-god remix I've ever started that involved more than just pure improvisation on the piano/guitar, so this is very new territory for me. I think all the time I've spent on workshop mod review and project evaluation has trained me to avoid a lot of noob traps that often trip up new remixers, but I've spent so long working on this that I'm not so sure anymore. Things I'm aware of that need fixing: Percussion is all placeholder, I just sequenced a 4-bar pattern and repeated/chopped it everywhere. The last section of the arrangement is pretty bare-bones, I'm struggling to write parts for that :\ The arrangement itself is obviously not done, I still want to reprise back to the original Fungi Forest melody and then move into Crystal Caves later on. So far it's pretty conservative, I'm aware that later down the line I need to spice things up to drive this away from cover-territory. Aside from that, I think the production is sounding pretty good and the samples aren't problematic, but it's my first multi-instrument remix that I've produced myself so I'd love to get some more feedback. Do the background loops get too repetitive? Cheers!

Posting here to flag this for a track I need to review, I'll be getting back to you ASAP Cheers!

Yeah! This title is amazing XD I'm just gonna piggyback on top of what Will and halc said (because they're gonna BUST ME UP if I don't agree with them) and say that this should have gotten a floodpost, it's by far Proto's best mix from the project and it's probably my all-time favorite Pokemon mix and my favorite Proto mix. SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS TRACK <3

Hmmmmm... first off, the arrangement is ace. Love it love it love it!~ I'm still hearing some of the same issues that were addressed in the judges decision thread, but the sample articulation and humanization is a lot better than I remember it. I don't think this should have much of a problem passing if you were already nabbing several YES votes on the original version. The soundscape feels a little thin and lacking in instrumentation, but I dunno man... this arrangement is so strong and your writing is very strong. I'm inclined to say this is passable as-is, to be honest

Alright, let's see what you've done with this one since I last commented. I like the groove in the intro with the unconventional hi-hat rhythm, but watch your velocities on your hats. They start to sound a little stiff when everything's playing at the same velocity. Once the piano drops in, the writing is sounding GREATLY improved since the last effort. The sound of the piano itself is still a little funky, I'm going to 100% echo what Guifrog said here about watching your EQ and seeing if you can achieve a piano sound that's a little bit less thin and narrow that fills out the soundscape a little more without stepping on other instruments. While you're at it, a bit of humanization on the note timing/velocities so it sounds a little more like it's being performed by a person instead of being read off with perfect timing and velocities by a sequencer. I'm noticing a similar set of issues when you've got the strummed guitar in the background. The sample itself isn't the best but I think it could work if you checked your velocities/note timing and reworked it in a way that sounded more like you were actually strumming a guitar. Right now it just sounds too noticeably unrealistic and it definitely hurts the section it's featured in. Guifrog's also on point about the latter half of the mix needing a bit of extra instrumentation, something subtle to pad out the rest of the mix, when the melody starts to repeat. It's not bad at all the way it is but you could definitely fill it out a bit so the song has a more gradual dynamic curve. Let's see what you can do with this one, I really like what you've got so far!

^^ This is completely true. We're not going to let those two tracks go unrepresented. But in all honesty, I'm probably not going to let those two artists back out on their tracks either, because the WIPs are insanely unique and original and I don't think there's a single artist on this site who could replicate it. Hope that answers your question

Yet another great example of how I spend my mornings, and my inability to remember what year it is.

ya seriously, this ep is the shit! definitely not the most accessible kinda music in the world but I really dig the Burial-meets-hiphop vibe you've got going on. Downloading for some really great chillout mindtrip music when the time is right Heres hoping this gets some attention here! and good to see you on the forums again!

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH burn

Well, to replace an artist who had gone AWOL, newcomer Tweek has stepped in to fill Chase SNES, and it's awesome. The album's sorely lacking in orchestral and/or metal representation, and his song has both! Gonna rock, thanks a million Tweek! The rest of you, please finish blah blah blah you know the drill. Once we get these last 4 songs done, the project will pretty much be done and ready for evaluation. Hurry up!

The album's in the evaluation phase right now.