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'Still'? You imply that this was the way it was some time ago. Pics or it didn't happen... With all the sexual tension in this thread, I think pictures of that would be quite fitting.

Alright, the little ditty with the Deus Ex remake was pretty fucked up. Yes, my spirits soared for about two seconds, only to come crashing down hard. Otherwise it was great.

I'd love to, but I already took a last minute track, which is more than enough for this project

Be patient. It normally takes roughly three months just to have the track reach the J's. Then it takes about a month more for them to respond. That's how it's been for a while now, so it's nothing personal. Welcome to OCR panel, folks. Give them credit, though, the job isn't an easy one to do, especially not as a volunteer. EDIT: Totally ninja'd by Fishy.

Two days! Great to see Chroxic on board with it, but it'd be even better to see someone else join on the fun, here. Let's end this compo with a competition at the end with two or more participants!

To be fair, I didn't know about his other stuff (you know, other than the OCR track). That's a fairly sweet Lufia track he's got goin', there.

I wouldn't know. I really haven't been able to get into the most recent generation of games, unfortunately. Perhaps I'm easily impressed.

The genre is a bit tired, imo, so I'm not really 'pumped' for it. However, that trailer should get awards for being the most experimental VG trailer, the most depressing trailer and containing the only CGI moment I've seen where for a moment I thought it was real (the eye in the beginning was pretty damn impressive). Very nice trailer.

You wanted to break the overbearing praise here tastefully, eh Snappleman? Listening to it, I've got to be honest - the remix is on the bland side, here. The samples are raw and... not too high up there, on the quality scale. I personally love the slap bass, though. The production is not up to snuff, here - there's quite a bit of clipping that's bringing down the quality of the entire track, here (especially with that piano - that clips like no other). Turn down the master track and/or the limiter you might have used on the master track so the sound stops pumping when it gets too loud. There's no real creative liberty on this track. That's not a bad thing, really, unless you want to submit to OCR. Still, rearranging it to make it your own would improve this track quite a bit and help remove the 'bland' quality it has. The percussion is pretty strong in this track, I'll give you credit for that. There's a hat that sounds a bit flat/uninteresting, but otherwise the rest of it is really neat and well placed, and sets the track on a strong foundation. It's not bad, but it doesn't have much to make it stand out, either. I'd like to hear it stand out. Also, YT will compress your track and add artifacts to it. Please provide an Mp3 link to your track using a free hosting site - that will help people comment on the production end better. Good luck.

Cave Story? Nutritious? I'm sold already, and I haven't even listened to it yet. Alrighty, let's see what we've got. Not a bad start - I like the atmosphere you set up, here. There's a whole lot of anticipation for somethng that's going to blow me away with that string/woodwind combo which normally anticipates 'EPIC' in movie soundtracks. Then that pretty weak synth cramps the climax. I see you anticipate that the synth(s) will need some work, and I'm here to emphasis that they need work . They're generally far too thin and simplistic, for the buildup that you gave. The synth at 1:44 would be a pretty awesome breakdown if the synths before it were thicker and had more punch behind them. The drums work sonically, but the pattern is bland. I'm sure they're filler, right now, so I'm guessing you know that already. The snare doesn't mesh well with the rest of the track, in my opinion. It seems to take too much of the mids and leave too much space in the highs, I think, 'cause it seems to be cutting into the track a little. The overall soundscape is a little thin in the low & high area. This'll probably be fixed when you fatten up the synths, though, so it'll most likely fix itself. Be aware of it, though. Great source, and I hear some sweet potential in it. Best of luck to ya.

Well best of luck to you - it's not going to be easy, at all. There might be a run back to the boss or two, but if you kill one boss or two, they stay dead after, so it's not completely hopeless. I'm rootin' for ya.

Well, what are you going to do at the boss? If you die once you have to beat those levels all over again. That would not be a good thing for you.

It's an interesting take on the theme, for sure. It's got a way to go, I suspect, but it's a good start. The claps are quite high-heavy. Combined with the heavy reverb it muddies the upper range of the track. You might want to either reduce the reverb or lower the upper-end, there, so the rest of the instruments have some high end head room. The soundscape sounds hollow. You seem to skimp on the lower end of the track, so it sounds incomplete. If this is building into a more fully developed portion of the remix then I could see it working as it is, but as a whole the soundscape isn't filling out. The ending... well, everyone else nailed you for that It has an interesting sound to it, and the textures/instruments are cool. It sounds like you could expand the source considerably more, though. Nice, but it doesn't sound finished to me, quite yet.

Fun, smooth and original. A bit dry, for my tastes, but that's easy to work around... Wait, this is supposed to be a remix of the FFVI Owzer's house theme? I really don't hear it in this at all. I hear a snipit in there, from time to time (and those snipits clash with the rest of the soundscape something nasty), and something in the beginning, but this track has very little to do with the original track. It's a neat, interesting track, but it's not the Magic House from FFVI. I've been shot down with tracks less liberal than this one with the J's, so I don't see this one passing due to lack of source. It's not a bad tune at all, don't get me wrong - it just doesn't sound like a remix of that source. It sounds like an original with some of that track sprinkled in there, for good measure.

No, I love them too much. Just yet.

Ooo, not a bad concept for an album. If I joined right now, though, I could name... at least five people that would stab me for it, lol. It's an intriguing idea. Shame I can't participate, just yet.

Wow, that's amazing. It's great to hear something like this in the Grammy awards. Maybe I'll actually watch them next year because of this

Bumping because it fell off the front page. Hey peeps, I understand that you all can be busy and such, and that there are quite a few projects and such to keep you busy, but unless you want to see this unique compo disappear for a good while then you best participate! A bad month is not all that big a deal, but three months straight of no entries (and two months beforehand of single entry compos) is simply asinine. I don't know if this compo can survive another month like that. This is a unique opportunity to have your own music remixed by other people in this community, and it'd be a shame to see this compo die off like this. I've seen artists like Willrock and Protodome get their start here, and others like JerryTerry and... well, myself, that have gotten better and better with every entry here, so that goes to show that this compo can do you some good, if you're willing to participate. Seriously, though, give this compo some love. You don't know what you're missing, here. We've got a week to do something for this - I'd be all over this right now if I could be, but I can't since it's my source(s) that are up. Let's bring this one back from the brink! Go go go!!

You're just fishing for people to read your newb's guide to mixing, aren't you, Rozo? He's right, though - be sure to really get involved, if you want to get into what people do here. Be proactive; there's too many people that post here that just don't get too much further than posting in here.

I guess the lady at Bowser's Castle isn't really the princess, then?

Have a happy birthday, man. Hopefully people are finishing up their songs for the Dk3 project, to celebrate.

I will, I promise. I can't say no to a brother Reason user in arms.

Dude, I think that's a moot point, by now. I mean DS just burst a vessel there and bled his message on the screen. Alas, the damage surely has already been done.

What a stupid cliche that FFIX thankfully broke with Zidane... unless they were going for a 'Hurricane' knockoff, or something, which would be stupid, and not surprising, knowing Squaresoft.