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  1. Another interesting question:

    What are the exact songwriting credits on the original "Hard Times"?

    If we check the notes on the "Complete Jetzons" compilation, will we find only Brad Buxer, or were there other people involved?

    It seems to be just Bruce and Brad.

    For pretty much all of The Jetzons released work the only names listed as writers seem to be the two main guys.

    Some of the videos posted by Fervor Music on youtube displays the image of the LP it came from, and on those images Connole and Buxer are the only names appearing on it.

    I'm hazarding a guess but i'm going to say Buxer was the only person responsible for writing Hard Times. It would explain how the song in its entirety made its way to MJ when he was working on Sonic 3. Not sure if the whole track would have been given to MJ had Connole been connected to writing it ...unless Connole had given permission for Buxer to take it over.

    But just a guess, as i said. I could be totally wrong here.

  2. I'm confused, the upload date for the video says 2009 so why do we only know about this now? Still weird that it took this long for us to notice!

    It's not as strange as you might think.

    The way i try to see it is this:

    A short lived band from the 80's had a tune that was unreleased to anybody until just 4 years ago. This band had fans few and far between, so what were the chances that one of those fans also happened to have played Sonic 3 and known what Ice Cap sounded like? The answer seems to be zero, because none of them noticed when the unreleased track hit YouTube. Instead, this track was found by GeneHF over at Sonic Retro, who must have specifically gone searching for Brad Buxer related articles and then just happened to come across this video due to Brad being the bands keyboardist at the time that Hard Times was recorded.

    If you ask me, i think we're lucky this was ever found at all. XD

  3. Smoother than melted butter ice on a silk limousine.

    Love it, Matt. Just love it!

    Ah man, the Sonic Zone Remix Battle though.

    We had some good times in that thing, huh? Such a long time ago now ...actually, now that i really think about it, it was that competition that got me speaking to some of you guys in the first place. You, Sir J, Halc, Phonetic Hero.

    Lol, that competition not only brought out a magnitude of awesome music like this but connected me to some of you on a more personal level ....and then we all skipped merrily off down the road to go and mix up the Sonic CD soundtrack! What a legacy this turned in to, huh XD

    Anyways, again. Great great track, going to bump this from the playlist for the rest of the evening.

  4. So, i decided to spend my entire evening last night going through The Jetzons catalogue (or what is available of their stuff on online ...which is not a lot) to see if i can find anything else resembling a Sonic 3 song. And while i'm not finding anything, there are a few other Jetzons songs that do sound very Sonic-y in sound though. So i definitely recommend people to check out their work. Especially if you dig a little New Wave. And if you find anything that i've overlooked then let us know, i'm interested to see what you might dig up.

    Their track

    is a beast of a track, i'm really digging that.

    This unreleased song of theirs

    is pretty damn smooth too. But there's a very short guitar section at the 1:30 mark which is making me think i've heard this somewhere else before. At first, i thought it was Sandopolis, but in hindsight and after checking it out i've come to realise it really isn't.

    Dunno though, it does feel like i've heard it somewhere before though.

    Anyways, yeah. Enjoy. Some great music is sitting there, with or without the Sonic connections.

  5. Ah, yes yes. Thanks for editing the first post and linking to the original article. I found out about this through a news post elsewhere and i overlooked the link back to Retro, so cheers for that! :)

    But yeah ...it's first appearance was in Sonic 3 so it shouldn't be a problem, in the grand scheme of things and OCR guidelines.

    Lol now it makes perfect sense why the original PC port of Sonic 3 at the time had the music for the level completely changed!

    And now i'm starting to wonder what other VGM music is old music that was never released officially by artists and wound up becoming VGM music later on down the line! XD

  6. Ok, not sure if this has been posted anywhere here on the OCR forums. If it has, my bad. Can't find it anywhere. Nor am i sure if i should be posting this in this sub forum or somewhere else but i digress.

    Something has recently come to light regarding the legendary ever-so-mostly-remixed Sonic tune of the bag - Ice Cap.

    Listen to this -

    What you are listening to is a note for note song that is technically Ice Cap ..roughly a decade before Ice Cap zone even appeared in Sonic 3.

    The story goes like this.

    Brad Buxer was the keyboardist from a New Wave band called The Jetzons.

    This is their unreleased track, called Hard Times.

    Now, those who have done their homework will know Brad Buxer also contributed music to Sonic 3 ...he should be in the credits for the game, even.

    What people believe happened is that an unreleased track from The Jetzons winds it way in to the hands of MJ, who had been working on Sonic 3's music at the time.

    Boom!

    Instant level music for Ice Cap zone.

    This ....this is insaaaane! And unbelievably mind blowing.

    Just figured the vgm community would dig this little find.

    All credits go to Sonic Retro for digging this one up.

    LT Edit: http://www.sonicretro.org/2013/11/even-more-sonic-3-music-details-emerge/ - Gotta link Sonic Retro to properly credit this find. :-)

  7. Hey guys!

    Do you know how i came up with the name 'OverClocked Assembled'?

    Well, i took the name of this website. And then i ripped off the Avengers!

    And that's how rap groups are made! :D

    Lol, but yeah, it was an absolute pleasure to work on this track and help spearhead what will eventually become one hell of a movement under the OCR roof.

    The Assembled is now officially IN THE BUILDING!

    Now continue turning it up and getting down, etc etc.

    Much love and respect for the support you've shown us all so far!

    p.s - we've thrown this tune at Naoto Oshima, the guy who created Sonic CD because we're kinda like ...friends ...with him. yeah~

  8. Don't worry about the date though, cause it's not set in stone and I may end up moving it anyway.
    Ah, ok. Cool. :)

    In any case, i'll see what i can do within that time, just might be a tad difficult. Since i'm just featuring as a vocalist though maybe i can see about getting the dudes to have the beat started, perhaps. I'll keep ya posted on what happens!

  9. I was more of a SEGA kid during my childhood, didn't own the older Nintendo consoles ..lol, my first was a GameCube. (oh, and a Gameboy. Can't forget that. Pokémon. yeah).

    But i can't deny the impact this guy had on the industry, i truly respect it all. I mean, it's been noted on record that half the SEGA employee's at that time owe their motivation to their brand because of Nintendo merely existing. People like Sonic's creator 'Yuji Naka' and others like Hoshino and Ohshima have all stated that they felt compelled to make games and consoles as good as Nintendo. Without Nintendo being here there probably wouldn't have been as an iconic SEGA as there was during the 90's, and Yamauchi was the head boss in charge of Nintendo during that era. My respect goes out to him not just for his own work to his company but for also inspiring the other companies around him. Literally speaking, it really did help shape the industry at the time.

    Yamauchi did something very similar to what the president of SEGA (Okawa) done too, during the Dreamcast era. Upon Okawa's passing he left his money to the company, wanting it to continue forth even after he died.

    These old skool guys, man. They truly gave a shi- when it came down to their companies.

    Anyways, all that aside, my hats off to Yamauchi for the work he did in helping run Nintendo and shaping the industry around it.

    r.i.p~

  10. I'm not sure i'll be able to make it in time for a February check in date, i still need to speak to someone about our track and i want to pick the right moment for that. Things are kinda hectic right now for everybody so i've yet to talk with them.

    The major thing for me is that VROOM is meant to be wrapping up in February so my hands are completely full leading up to that month, as well as college probably kicking my ass around that time too. Under pressure~ :D

    If you can take my word for it that i'll get 'City' rolling a month or two after Feb then i would really appreciate that! :)

    Anyways, have a think about it and let me know!

  11. To be honest. I reckon something in the style of the vocal tracks from Sonic Colours would RULE.

    You've got the EDM talent here. Haha. I can add gee-tarz and vox though, as well as arrangement shtoof. ;)

    I'm super excited right now to be honest dude. I'll have to hold myself back from making this too early. Haha

    Just gonna throw a PM your way real quick, but for the most part you and me are definitely collaborating on City! XD No doubt about that at all!

    -EDiT-

    Yo, Wildfire. You can go put Tuberz's name down on Living in the City's main vocals and live instruments. We may be teaming up with a certain someone to give our tune that EDM vibe. But i'll let you know more about that once i've spoken with them ;)

    Living in the City, baby! Aaaooowww!! ~♥

  12. If it means I get to make a sweet ass mix with DiGi, I'd be down with even mixing crud like Crazy Bus.
    Then shake my hand good sir, because the City is ours! XD hahaaaa! Will you be remixing the track and doing all the production as well then, yeah? Or did you want some else to handle that and you just perform the singing? Either way, i'm most certainly down with both! As long as you're on it in some capacity then i'm a happy man!

    Oh yo, i really shouldn't be getting inspired and excited for this project already, i got so much work to get through ^^; but definitely can't wait for this to kick off next year (or later, or whenever it gets rolling).

  13. I can potentially take Number One, but since this a "not anytime soon" project and because I'm so busy, I wouldn't get any WIP in for a long time.
    I would just like to say i'd love to see you tackle 'Number One'! I remember you and me toying with the same idea for VROOM before we went with the other song option, so seeing you possibly remix this track for this project instead at some point down the line has my support! :)

    Because if it's anything like your track for VROOM i know you're going to kill it, man!

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