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  1. This is nearly verbatim the source. I don't want to discourage you, as I very much enjoy the game and its music, but I think you need much more interpretation for this to be accepted into ocr. Also, the instruments also sound very mechanical and even harsh at times, but humainzation isn't always to be expected from a wip. I suggest you take the source and make it your own. If you fleshed out the instrumentation, you could have a rather nice cover, but that's still shy of what you could do. That is, if you'd take a non-remixer's, non-judge's, non-baconstrip's thoughts.
  2. Well, it's not sophisticated minimalism, to say the least (it was the gleefullness of the atmosphere and the novelty of the endeavor that excited me; it's certainly no Reich or Glass). But you'd need several instrument patches and a rather complex design to make that work... for any given section. But if you could assign an instrument and a tone, based on time, for any given reflect-point... That's still quite the connection to make. And I missed that thread completely. also thanks for listening tilde
  3. Last before leaving. Ciela - 稲田姫様の夏 It might not be my best upload, but if it isn't it's close. Aside from that fade. Description tells more.
  4. flap+frog - call her name... To set the mood for your Friday evening. [touhou] Moving during c80. If anyone actually reads the recs I post here for comikets/reitaisais, let me know and I'll bother to get on it after I get set up in Ohio. Not saying anything beforehand out of jinx superstition.
  5. Links are youtubes. Not always good quality; just what's available. Ignore the vids. What prophet said, although not everything Thile has done is accessible. Nickle Creek for sure though. Also, it's not that modern 'country' is bad, it's that it's been commercialized just like everything else, so you usually have to search to find good music. Plus, the same way music was grouped under mass-genres like 'rock' and 'jazz', and just as enlightening as those are, a term like 'country' proves to be just as useless. Regardless, I think country music has progressed and is far better now than when you strummed a few chords and sang along. Here are a few recs. Note that I am far from an expert in country (and country-crossed genres) but these are simply excellent albums I've found in my dabbling. I know you asked for country and not cross-genres, but it's all good music and mixing with the more familiar makes for an easier transition. Blugrass: Alison Krauss And Union Station. Aka Soggy Bottom Boys. You've heard them and the rest of their stuff is just as good. Bluegrass/country (mostly bluegrass): Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band - The Mountain. I'm certain that several other works by those two (usually independent artists) are just as good, but that's one of those albums that I play to death and never get sick of, so I've yet to move on to discover more (surely to my loss). Graveyard Shift Alt Country: Neko Case (And Her Boyfriends). Blacklisted is my favorite by them, but I've also heard Fox Confessor [...] and Furnace Room Lullaby. All good stuff. I think "alt country" means whatever is country that doesn't meet Nashville's approval (like the "rebels" of the past), but in the end this is conventional pop-rock song structure with a twang... that's also really good. Deep Red Bells Country Rock: Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera. Great band; this is their best album. Second side is better. Earthy lyrics. Slighty dirty mixing (for effect, I assume) but excellent music. Highly recommended. Daddy's Cup (different album) Zip City More to give, but that's more than enough input for one fag.
  6. Shmupmame. For the rest of your shmupping fix.
  7. minimum electric design - and although med incredible, on top... of a field of clouds.Just linkin', just linkin'.
  8. The other week, while I was driving home after a long day of work, I had a sequence of notes playing in my head and knew there was a track that I wanted to hear. A beautiful, moving piece of music that would help me forget my troubles. But I couldn't place what it was or mentally finish the tune myself. When I got home, I searched my player for it. To my discredit, it was amongst music I hadn't listened to for many months but, once I played it, I immediately and completely knew why I had to hear it again. I've been mostly absent for quite a while, but some of what I've found here seems to stay with me. Sorry for short-shrifting you, Darke. This has been at the top of my to-review list since I first heard it, and I'm hardly giving it the descriptors it deserves. I suppose I'm not much of a reviewer anymore... not that I was ever one to begin with. But I wanted to let you know that I agree. Well, that is, there are things you have done since that I haven't yet heard. However, freezing time from back then until now, this is your best work on ocr, and it's absolutely stunning. Thank you for making it.
  9. Eulogic is a cool dude. I wish him a happy yesterday.
  10. Shitty qual, but listenable enough. Perhaps his work clicks for no one else. Maybe via some cosmic twist he's my inner voice. Maybe I'm just ears to anyone who can put a layman's explanation to this simple, silly struggle. I'm reposting this because life.
  11. I've heard that gg subs were good as well. Wish they did theirs in lower resolution so I could compare; compy was already frame-dumping on most of the action sequences, so I wasn't about try ones nearly twice the file size. I enjoyed the ending. I also enjoyed Lain. It was a terrible comparison on my part, as I was misremembering Lain. Both deal with the surreal and with friendship and loss, but mostly beyond that they're very different. So please disregard. I read a scathing review that called Madoka "emotional porn", and I think that's a fair assessment. There's a decent plot (with good storytelling and pacing), a superb antagonist, and some neat visuals in the action sequences, but the selling point is the characters' reactions to misfortune. Seinen, magical girl, slice-of-life turned tragedy. So yeah it's basically about a bunch of girls bawling their eyes out. Go watch it.
  12. Madoka Magica is excellent. Approaching Lain-levels of goodness. Only quicksubs out atm. I watched nutbladder and it was very good; one maybe two identifyable mistakes per ep. Of course that's simply from an English perspective; I've heard that it's the best around, but I can't validate. I think that if you liked Lain, you'd like this. It's fairly heartwrenching.
  13. Nutshell is great. Hell, Jar Of Flies is a damned good album from start to finish. And I miss when the Foo Fighters were still . One By One was still solid but their sound changed too much after that.Made some much-needed corrections to my previous post. Namely RD-Sounds (excellent), ~xi-on~ (excellent), and oriens-music (very good). [Maybe I thought I had listened to RD-Sounds when it was actually something else I heard?] Also, prorogue was an uploader typo and I am disappointed. Hopefully I can get Perfect Dark working this weekend so I can grab lossless versions to mux and start my youtube uploads.
  14. Sound test to the Ten Desires demo. Digging stage one and stage three is dece, but sadly meh on the rest. He's still got more than half a soundtrack up his sleeve though - which should be the better part - so here's hoping. Been listening to some stuff from Reitaisai. Too lazy to link but here's a rundown. Albums from Fox Factory (狐の工作室), Floating Cloud (Toho Irish), and Tutti Sound are must-haves. Almost want to throw in RD-Sounds (凋叶棕) and xi-on (彩音) with those three, but i suppose you could live without them. I suppose. ジャージと愉快な仲間たち's is neat because of the style (Andes folk music with all-live instrumentation), kimino-museum's (君の美術館's) is really fun rock-pop with vox, Misty Rain's... goddamn I want to make love to those guitar tones, oriens' (オリエンス's) orchestral isn't quite up to Tutti Sound's level but it's definitely worth grabbing, Felt's is worthwhile but is a step down from their c79 offering, and Pizuya's Cell went piano again and the arrangments and playing are decent (but conservative in terms of difficulty). アドレナ義塾's is good but for only the acoustic guitar instrumentals (tracks 1,3,9), and similarly sisimai-brothers' (ししまいブラザーズ's) had two good instrumentals (Prologue is especially good, though since it's fairly loyal I like to think of it as what Zun's music could sound like if he used samples made in this century and if he bothered with production at all). Some other albums are meh/ok and not worth mentioning. There're probably a couple/few other good ones, but I mostly burned out on this in March and SA and MoF have been devouring my free time. Sup wall of text. ... Ok fine one youtube: .
  15. With some torturous music, amateurishly directed cutscenes, retconned character personalities, painful voice acting, and vastly inferior gameplay. Oh, right... vastly inferior "quest mode". But as bad as all that is, one could almost look past it as a studio shitting over their prior work just to turn a sequel and milk it for cash. Almost, that is, until they took the best thing they had going - a kickass anime gynoid - and not only relegated it to the background but sent it plummeting to the uncanny valley. This is Japan we're talking about. JAPAN. Robots and anime chicks is what they do. How do you fuck that up?
  16. That looks like fun for casual surfing, but for serious interwebbers like myself the Razer Talon is definitely the way to go.
  17. Why would you do this? I know this is a plus-one thread, but have at least a semblance of integrity.
  18. ^ Yep, that's the stated policy. Something like once a month... yep, that's what it is. Anyway, awesome. Listening to this tomorrow.
  19. .Decently funny. Did not regret watching. Love this track.
  20. gy!be is a posterchild for the necessity of subgenres.
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