Eino Keskitalo

I've made the Workshop thread for the album: Here we go I feel like I'm too slow! Great to see the enthusiasm for this. Jorito, many thanks already! The feedback will be very useful. Bundeslang, I'm definitely cool with the idea of a special PRC round with the reworked tracks. Sounds like something new and different which is what I like. Fun, too! How's everyone else with that idea? Off to work on my track.. I also submitted the project to OCR approval for official status, figured it wouldn't hurt.

Hi, this is a collected work-in-progress thread for Earthworm Jim: Use Your Head - PRC281 EP. We, the participants of People's Remix Competition round 281, decided to make an EP/minialbum out of our submissions to the competition. The source of the round was Use Your Head from Earthworm Jim. Our aim is to improve our tracks so the EP is acceptable as an OCR-I release. The purpose of this thread is to track progress and also gather feedback on the WIPs. Everyone is invited to provide feedback! Artists on the album are encouraged to post WIP updates on this thread (or make their on Workshop thread if they so like!) (Also, you're not required to share your WIP publicly if you don't like, though it's probably the easiest way to get feedback from other project members). Tentative deadline: end of November. The album is not recruiting for additional tracks. We do need album art though. Here's the tracklist: Sir_NutS - Use Your Body - PRC281 version (2014/10/04) - update coming Grauw - Heading Into Worm Territory - PRC281 version (2014/10/12) MushroomSword - The Princess Is A Cow - PRC281 version (2014/10/12) supercoolmike - Head Into the Abyss - PRC281 version (2014/10/12) HoboKa - Whip Your Head Boi - WIP (2014/11/02) Eino Keskitalo - Mahtava mato - Update #1 (2014/10/26) Xsquader - User Your PLASMA! - WIP (2014/11/05)

Here's an interesting quote from Alexey Patijnov in an article from June regarding the history of Tetris (source): It kind of irks me personally how OCR allows the Game Boy Tetris music to be arranged for the site - because when I hear the music, I don't hear "Tetris" or game music but indeed that one Russian folk song (maybe it's because of living in a neighboring country). The final sentence in the above quote though - surely Tetris is a part of (or at least a product of) Russian culture too!

Wow - this is quite a nice surprise!

Excellent! I'm just not sure where I'd be allowed to put such a topic. R&C is supposed to be for recruitment (though we do need an artist). Perhaps we need to apply for official project approval and get our thread in the Projects forum. Most excellent! We have the whole roster - this is great. Thanks Jorito for playing the messenger! I've given everyone's tracks another listen-through and I'm brewing some feedback. Hope to get to everything in the weekend. It's coming, though you don't need to wait for it to keep working! Also I've worked on own track a bit.

Awesome! I'll mark you guys down. Yeah, I can and will definitely provide feedback. I also encourage everyone to give (more) feedback on each other's pieces. I was thinking what would be the easiest way to facilitate that, and I'm suggesting just posting it to the public Workshop forums. These works are out there via the compo anyway! You don't have to do that if you don't like, of course. I'll get back to you via PM - if you have updates before I do that, send them to me (or indeed, post them in the workshop). I think we should move reasonably quickly, so I suggest the end of November to be the tentative deadline. Here's how I figure this would proceed: 1) People refine their track with feedback, until the person thinks it's as good as it can/needs to be, considering time/resources/skill/willingness to keep working on the track etc. I'll make sure it's over the bar. Post new versions on workshop or PM them to me. 2) We need some album art. Front cover would suffice, though I think front cover + back cover with track list would be nice (think CD jacket). 3) Seeing as many of you had played the game before, some liner notes/track/game/soundtrack comments would be nice! 4) Once content is finished, I'll bundle the stuff up & send it to OCR for evaluation. 5) After evaluation, see if anything needs to be adjusted 6) Wait for the release One thing about album tracks is that they don't all need to be OCR individual release quality, and I believe there's even a bit more leeway for the smaller OCR-I release. Though I do have to contact staff about the bar for quality. But yeah, this should aim to be a fairly relaxed, fun & quick little project! Great to see that you guys are on board, I've also heard from HoboKa and Supercoolmike, so the only one who hasn't yet said yea or nay is Grauw. I'll try to get into commenting on tracks ASAP. Cheers!

Yay, some PRC love! Gotta echo the cheers for Bundeslang for keeping the compo running. Overall this is a pleasant, energetic and suitably moody electronic trance mix. It is definitely evocative of the 90s trance that was on MTV Europe all the time it seems. The piano certainly doesn't sit well in the mix, especially in the intro and outro. My impression is that the pianos in the genre aren't ever all that humanized, but it's more a problem of tone and just plain sticking out of the mix. It sounds all right in the middle part of the song. There's some harmony stuff that doesn't gel well: 2:18 there's a transition from chord to another that sounds off, and the bassline sticking to that particular note at 3:00-3:08 and 3:12-3:15 doesn't sound right. Other than these, good work on making a working instrumental & genre adaptation of the original song!

You can delete your entry with the little cross in the upper right corner, and then re-upload.

Yes! It came out a day or two ago. I wanted to do a big write up with fanfares and all, but it seems that would only postpone it. So here we go: Sega Mixer Drive 2014/10/17: SMD Quest (Sega RPG Special featuring The 2014 Shining Force II 20th Anniversary Mix Drive The show was a ton of fun, lots of people showed up and commented on IRC generously! Plenty of the arrangers were around too. Every song sounded great on the show. It was fantastic to have an event like that for this music. An award-speechful of thank yous to everyone who took part & Rexy especially who took the idea on board!

After some thought, I decided to upload my mix as a bonus mix. Enjoy! I'll try to make this my last compo entry in a while. I need the time for other things. This is too addictive!

I have a good chunk done, I'd be happy to submit this but since there's still time, I have some ideas I want to try out.. plus right now I have a cop-out fadeout in the end, maybe I'll have more ideas for the structure. The mix is not that MnP, I'm pondering if I should submit it as a bonus.. but I'll see if it still has enough of the original feel left. edit: done, I'll try to upload later tonight.

Does that mean claiming is open, or still invite only?

Cool, Sir_NutS! Thanks for the support Bundeslang. What about the rest of you guys? I've pledged to finish my sketch and work on it until it hits the front page anyway. This could be a fun little project, personally it would motivate me to finish my track much quicker. The Shining Force II Drive was a similarly small-scoped thing and was very satisfying!

I was going to post that there'll be a surprise track in the show but maybe you can guess from whom it is! Just 1.5 hours to go! And I have a cats' toilet to wash!

The show is just few hours away! Four, to be exact. Here's the official blog blurp: https://www.radiosega.net/shows/blog/sega-mixer-drive/2014/10/17-october-2014-smd-quest-rpg-night/ Don't to forget to join the IRC chatroom! https://www.radiosega.net/community/chat/

I have a start. I wanted to reimagine the tune as a 80s/90s side-scrolling shooter theme. I am failing.

^ That guy is incredible, yeah.

Congrats to the winners! And another round to our first timers Grauw & Mushroom Sword, you both debuted very impressively. Hope to see you around! Since the turnout was so good, and the quality quite high, I had a crazy-ish idea: what would you people think of finishing the tunes / polishing them up, bundling them together to an EP, and submitting it to OCR for an OCR-I release? "Earthworm Jim: Use Your Head - The EP"

oops double post see below

I love that idea for Wood Man. I've had something similar in mind for it. I definitely want to hear it. Also, yay for deadline! I like that it's not too far away. ..I really need to work on my track. I have my plate full with other stuff right now though.. can I have until December for an update?

Thanks for the links. I'm definitely going to give another look to that. I'm taking a break from the tune to be more able to kill my darlings. To get a bit of distance to be a bit more objective. The FC3 version will be on the Sega Mixer Drive show tomorrow!

Excellent, looking forward to that. I took a listen to the updates on the project forums. I didn't have the energy to comment yet, but it's definitely solid stuff all around, constantly solidifying! This album is looking to be rock hard. Titanium hard. haarrrdd

I was thinking of going to the opposite direction: kill the swing feel and go strict 4/4. That's one reason I'm worried it won't be that M-n-P.

That's a good-looking lineup for sure. hehe "flexprt" I kinda hope you get more New SMB claims, that's the only Super Mario game I've beaten (I just realized).

I'm assuming it's the same as in previous rounds with several sources: you need to use either of the tracks, but you're an extra cool person if you combine them both. But that will not necessary earn you more points, unless a voter thinks it's a deciding factor for themselves. Cool sources both! Personally I have to slow down with all the music making though..