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I also enjoyed the first album , previewing some of the tracks now it sounds great, also some of the loudness issues i had with the first one seem to be gone, .. great job.

Thanks for all the comments and discussion everyone especially Ella for responding to my question directly. You've all provided some interesting perspective on this subject for me. While I still feel that I can listen to a rearrangement and take out the context of where it came from (eye of the beholder and all that jazz), I do agree that the artists intent was to accentuate the original nostalgia that comes from the context.

While this album isn't really directly related to Christmas I guess I can accept it in that context. Thanks for all the listens and downloads people I hope you all really like it. I've had one friend of mine say that i should do the other seasons as well and I'm considering it but I'll have to think about that.

I love winter, it's such an enchanting season to me. The whole landscape changes and becomes this snowy playground. This whole project started about two or three years ago i guess when the east coast had that huge snowstorm. In the middle of a break of shoveling 4 feet of snow out of our driveway i wrote the rough draft of Icicles ,and that's sort of where it all started. Welp here it is now my sentimental ode to winter, I hope all of you enjoy.

yeah that is true Xarn, although recently the ocremix room has pretty much become the main room for both parties. I check in alot during the after hours and it's pretty full of alot of regulars. so pretty much when liontamer is Djing it's a large OCR based room and after that it's more like Overclocked Remix. maybe the other room will come back during times of heavy traffic but for right now it's pretty much all ocremix.

yeah it sucks that turntable is still unavailable to international users

It lives!!!!! Phoenix down baby!!!

Fair point Nase, I didn't mean to come off as angry about that, i was hardly ranting imho. i think a good example of people hating on the interpretation on a remix would be Spinlock. it's a pretty polarizing remix if i remember alot of people didn't like this because it didn't sound like the original (it seems some of the comments from the original thread are gone). Like i said it's fine for people to not like something but i hate seeing people bash something that someone put alot of work into. aluminum put alot of work into his arrangement and once you compare the remix and the source you can see where the interpretation is but some people instantly hate it because it doesn't sound like the original. maybe i'm coming off as angry again ,and hate is a strong word and most of the comments in the reviews section are respectful. I know some of you have seen youtube comments like this though "what the hell is this crap this sounds nothing like the original!?" I guess the point i'm making is that sometimes a remix can be more than just a fun nod to the original (not that i mean to discredit remixes like that or cheapen them) but with some remixes you can look past it having to sound similar to the original and enjoy the arrangement and the song in it's own right, it becomes art in it's own right (maybe i'm not articualting that correctly but i hope you understand what i mean) I think good examples of this are Permutation,Revolutions,(don't lose yourself),Cry of the Chasmal Critter Chain and Trippin' On Rainbows just to name a few.

This did cross my mind' date=' and i realize that the answer to this question from people isn't so black and white, alot of factors go into the enjoyment of any particular song, genre, production, performance etc. Although back to my point on the nostalgia factor in vg remixes. i hear this comment alot about ocremixes and it kind of irks me sometimes. "this doesn't sound like the original" Well it's an interpretation maybe it's not supposed to sound like the original, a rearrangement or remix can turn a song into a completely different one. I hear this alot about remixes and rearrangements as well. "this isn't as good as the original" This is so completely invalid a statement it makes me really shake my head sometimes. A remix isn't supposed to improve on the original, it's a different take on that particular song, you can say "i don't enjoy this as much as the original" but comparing apples and oranges is just dense. A good point, as I said I don't believe I really appreciated videogame music before i came here maybe i saw it as more of a novelty outside of the context of the game,sure i thought some songs were catchy but I don't think i really validated it as art until i came here.

This question has been bugging me for a little while since i discovered the vgremix/vgmusic scene about three years ago. For what reason do you listen to videogame remixes for, for nostalgia or interpretation? For me, ever since i discovered ocr in november 2008 it sort of blew my mind on how someone could take the super mario bros. theme and turn it into a jazz song or have a Megaman X3 song and turn it into an expansive electronic masterpiece etc etc. I never really appreciated videogame music until i found this place, I was never able to listen to the original sources without the context of remixes. So maybe i have a different perspective on all this. For me when i listen to a remix I'm able to take the nostalgia factor out of it and listen to the song in it's own right. I love it when a remix is able to shake off the nostalgia effect and become art and expression in itself. But I've been hanging around in some videogame music rooms on turntable.fm and they let you play videogame remixes and everything but the majority is osts and such, not that there isn't anything wrong with that, i enjoy original videogame music just as much as the next person here, but it makes me wonder when i play an oc remix in one of those rooms that if people are enjoying the song itself or the nostalgia effect it brings. So i pose this question when you listen to an ocremix what do you love more? The interpretation and expression or the nostalgia effect? (I'm sure lots of ocr regulars are going to answer interpretation but i want you to really think about this as i said for me i may have a different perspective on this whole thing since it's still relatively fresh and new to me) I posed this question to the people i was hanging out with on turntable and didn't get much of an answer, I'm not sure if they ever thought about it in this sort of context before. I think this post by ella guro can sum up how i feel about videogame remixes http://ocremix.org/forums/showpost.php?p=623368&postcount=29 and ella if you read this i'd love to get your take on this question.

Yes Mr. L I wish there were more people active with this. I would've accepted the challenge but having just come off another match i wanted a little bit of a break. Of course now I'll accept the challenge, since I'm a bit burnt out right now and you're inexperienced let's take our time with this one. Also for anyone wondering about my fathers surgery, it went just fine and he's doing well he's back walking and full of piss and vinegar just like his old self.

i'm not sure what program you're using but a few compressors with a master limiter/compressor on you're main mixing track helps a bit. I like your ear for sound though all the samples or synths used sound really well.

ok so mine is done it's called TimeWarp i couldn't really blend the themes too well some of the flashman parts are a little forced imho, there are a few bits where it's blending though. I really liked yours Superior you blended the themes so well. your production is good perhaps a bit quiet but that's more a personal preference kind of thing.

This post is perfect My one friend on xbox live has been multiplayer alot lately he's staying in some sort of forest area for pvp with a covenant and he seems to get invaded alot. Has anybody beaten this my one friend says he's on his third playthrough and the game scales like crazy on repeat playthroughs. I've always loved dungeon crawlers and action rpgs, I'm also a huge fighting game fan. This game seems awesome with all the combat and dungeon crawling aspects of it. Almost sort of has a Sporeish idea with the online singleplayer approach it has to multiplayer.

yeah I've heard that it is harder than demon souls ..one of the toughest games of all time actually ( well relatively). I've been reading some reviews for this game and it's getting crazy insane praise, yet hardly anyone seems to know about it.

I'm curious about this game I've been talking to a friend on xbox live who has been playing it. It seems really hardcore and punishing but rewarding as well. Any feedback on it yet from those who might be playing this?

sorry i haven't made much progress, I've had some personal stuff going on right now ,my dad had surgery today and that's taken up most of the last week. I have some basic elements done ,but not much inspiration. I'm fine with you posting yours now and i'll have something done soon.

I actually haven't gotten much so far i haven't put much time into mine yet i've had a few personal things going on and made a few original songs this actually kind of snuck up on me a few days ago

yes I'm actually quite happy with a longer time to work on something sometimes a deadline can be stressful also most of us here aren't "pros" at this kind of thing yet so we'll have more time to work on production, etc.

yeah it doesn't really

a few weeks is quite fine so let's say two

ok fair enough one week from now starting saturday...

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