SuperiorX

I think you just need to sign up, so this can become a reality!

No, it just means that that is the Zone theme you'd be remixing with for the entirety of the tournament. Each round you will mix your theme with your opponent's zone theme. So for example, say you have Green Hill Zone and your first opponent has Chemical Plant. You would write a mix combining both themes into one song. So would your opponent. Then there would be a one week public voting period. If you win, you'd move on to the next round. You would still have Green Hill, but in the next round you'd write a new mix combining it together with whatever your new opponent's theme is. Then voting. Continue. Take a look at the bracket images in the first post of the SZRC 2012 thread and it'll make more sense.

Presented by the OverClocked ReMix forums TheGuitahHeroe wins! Congratulations!! Current News The Sonic Zone Remix Competition 2014 has now ended! Congratulations TheGuitahHeroe on your victory! Thanks to all the awesome artists who participated in the competition and thanks to everyone who supported & enjoyed the tournament! Check out the additional bonus tracks and grab the entire competition zip file below! Music Complete SZRC zip (all compo tracks + bonus) Bonus Tracks only Brackets Everyone's final assigned zones, game/soundtrack info, and source links are on this Roster Spreadsheet. Get your personalized bracket sigs here! About The Sonic Zone Remix Competition (SZRC) is an individual, single-elimination style tournament featuring two brackets: a Sonic Bracket and a Robotnik Bracket which will compete on alternating weeks. Each remixer will choose a Zone theme from one of the core Sonic the Hedgehog platformer games. This will be your theme for the entire tournament. When the round beings, remixers will have one week to write a single “VS Remix”, that is, a remix combining the theme of their Zone and their opponent’s Zone. When the round ends, a public voting period of one week will be conducted for each match-up. If you win the match-up, you’ll move on to the next round and make a new remix combining your theme and the theme of your new opponent. If you lose, you’re out. The last participant standing at the end of the competition is the winner! Submissions & File Names All entries must be sent to me (SuperiorX) by the round deadline via PM on the forums, with a link to a reliable host (i.e., Dropbox, box.com) for me to download your mix from. Please send me your submissions in 16bit, 44.1KHz WAV format. Do not send MP3s, I will encode MP3s myself. If your song includes vocals, please also send me the lyrics for your song. File names must be in the following format: Artist - Title (Your Zone Theme & Opponent Zone Theme) Example: SuperiorX – Green City (Green Hill & Crisis City).wav You do not need to put “Zone” in your mix name. Your artist name and mix title can be whatever capitalization you want but the Zone themes must be capitalized properly (e.g. Green Hill, not green hill). Properly formatted file names make it much easier for me to tag everything properly, which ensures good, consistent metadata on all the files that will be distributed to voters. Voting Rules Voting will take place in the SZRC Social Group. There will be a separate thread for each match-up in the social group. Voting instructions: Everyone is allowed (and encouraged) to vote. Use your OCR Forums account and join the social group to place your votes. When voting, consider three things: how well the mix is made from a technical standpoint, the enjoyability of the mix, and—most importantly—how well the mix arranges both source tunes. Post only the name of the ReMixer whose remix you are voting for in the voting thread. Do not post reviews in the social group voting threads. I encourage people to post reviews, but please post any reviews here in the main competition thread. You are required to vote in each match-up taking place during the round. If you don't, none of your votes will be counted for that round. This includes participants as well; you need to vote in your own match-up in addition to other match-ups. You are required to make an actual decision between two competitors for each match-up; you cannot declare a draw or a tie. This will be counted as not voting and your other votes will not be counted. Post only once in each voting thread. Everyone must adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct. FAQ When does it start? What's the schedule look like? The recruitment period will last 2 weeks and open on the weekend of January 10th, 2014. The Sonic Bracket first round will begin on January 26th, and subsequently mix the weeks of February 9th, February 23rd, and March 9th. The Robotnik Bracket first round will begin February 2nd, and subsequently mix the weeks of February 16th, March 2nd, and March 16th. The Final Round will begin on March 30th. Which Sonic games are eligible? Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 (8-bit MasterSystem/GameGear) Sonic Chaos (GameGear) Sonic Triple Trouble (GameGear) Sonic 1, 2, 3&K (Genesis) Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis & Saturn soundtracks) Sonic CD (Sega CD - JP & US soundtracks) Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 (Dreamcast) Sonic Advance 1, 2, 3 (GBA) Sonic Rush & Sonic Rush Adventure (DS) Sonic Heroes (PS2/Xbox/GC) Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 – PS3/Xbox360) Sonic Unleashed (PS3/Xbox360) Sonic Colors (Wii) Sonic 4 - Episodes 1 & 2 (DLC) Sonic Lost World (Wii U/3DS) Do I just pick a Zone theme then? Is it first-come first-serve? I'll be doing a draft for Zone theme selection. When the recruitment period opens, please post a list of five Zone themes you're interested in claiming, in the order of preference. Once everyone posts their lists, I'll go through and assign everyone their first-pick, resolving any conflicts with a coin-toss and moving down the lists as necessary. You will only be assigned one Zone theme for the competition. When listing your picks please post the Zone title AND the game it is from: Angel Island (Sonic 3). If necessary, also please specify the system/soundtrack. For example, Sonic CD has a US and JP soundtrack. Both are eligible. Someone could pick Tidal Tempest (US) and someone else could pick Tidal Tempest (JP). The same is true for Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis or Saturn). Can I collaborate with another ReMixer on one of my songs? Yes, as long as you, the participant, is still the primary mixer on the song. That means you need to do the bulk of the arrangement, sound design, production, etc. Having someone contribute vocals or an instrument solo would be acceptable. The contributor can be another remixer in the compo, or someone not involved in the compo. What about Boss themes/Special Stage themes/Title themes? Sorry, but those aren’t Zone themes. Themes have to be from one of the main zones/stages in the game. What about other Sonic games, like racing and puzzle games? Sorry, but the compo is limited to “core” Sonic platformer games. Any spinoffs like racing, puzzle, fighting, crossover games are not allowed. See the approved games list. What if the Zone I choose has slightly different themes in Act 1, Act 2, etc.? When you choose a Zone theme, you can use all variations of that Zone’s theme from any of the Acts. Some Sonic games have slightly different themes in Act 1 versus Act 2. So for example, if someone chooses Hydrocity Zone, they (and their opponent) can use both Act 1 & Act 2 sources in their mix if they want. In Sonic CD, a ReMixer would be able to utilize the Present, Past, Good Future & Bad Future sources as well. The one exception to this would be if someone picked a Sonic CD US theme they could not use the Past theme, because in the US soundtrack the Past theme is the same as in the JP soundtrack. So that Past source would be reserved for the JP soundtrack only. Check out the music from The Sonic Zone Remix Competition 2012

EDM: Every Day Matters "Every Day Matters" is a 78-track electronic dance music compilation where all profits go to charity. I am in no way affiliated with this album, but I figured I'd share cause I thought people here would enjoy the release! I've listened through about half of it so far and it is a pretty solid album, which spans a wide range of electronic music subgenres. OC ReMixers PrototypeRaptor and Portanexus each have a track on the compilation too! Plus the whole thing is only £9.99 GBP (roughly $16). From the bandcamp page: Enjoy!

Cool, I hadn't voted on the Light Bracket yet and I thought I missed it. So what's that mean then, since there were only two entries for each of the pre-finals, then there will be only one more round correct? And the final round mixing will start on Jan 6th? Voting on both now!

Thanks for bumping this! I had indeed missed the original post. I've really enjoyed the previous EFP releases, so I'm sure I'll like this one too. Checking it out now!

This game looks really cool! I was unfamiliar with the notion of an interactive music & platformer game before seeing this. I had the privilege of playing an early beta level from this game earlier this year and was mesmerized with how the music and sound effects interacted with the gameplay mechanics. It was definitely something you could get swept away in easily. The art is looking so nice and colorful too! I'll definitely drop something on this kickstarter before the deadline. I've always been a big fan of all your Sonic remixes Alex, so good luck with this!

That's great news! Glad to see it worked out. Question on the physicals (and I apologize if this was already covered somewhere in this thread), are they only being handed out at the APEX event, or is there an opportunity to get one through other means?

I loved the original version I heard from Stevo back on the WIP forums ages ago. I had no idea that this song actually got finished up and was going to be posted! That's awesome! I love how the song has progressed from the old version I heard. The stuff Ben added was great. Well done. This song still reminds me so much of the the alt-rock/punk band "The Ataris" from the early 2000s

Happy birthday Shariq!

I like the original idea of one "best of"album that would cover all the games. An "all star" approach like this doesn't need to cover all the sources, nor does it need to equally cover each game. If you think the first four games will be more popular remix choices, then you could simply have more mixes from those games. That's even more reason to not do a part 1 and part 2, if you think the second four games will draw less enthusiasm. Just one album that covers highlights from all the games is good. So it could kind of be like "Maverick Rising" that covered all the MMX games, but focused more so on the earlier games. People will always complain about certain sources not being covered regardless of the album approach. Just my two cents. And I think pokemonstein meant 78 sources would be covered by the medley approach. NOT 78 individual tracks.

Cool! Yeah we're flexible as for timing. I had just meant that sometime *after* the APEX track is out would be preferable for OCA cause there'd be more to talk about. Thanks!

Hey Shariq, what do you think about doing an OverClocked Assembled talkback show one of these times? We were thinking like maybe sometime in January perhaps after the track off APEX is out and whatnot. We could talk about that, our Temporal Duality track, and some of the other things in the works? If people are interested, of course. I floated the idea by the 'core' team and Sir Jordanius, metaphist, BrothaDom, DiGi Valentine, The Auracle, and myself are all interested. My only question would be if we stick to the Friday show format, if we'd be able to start it earlier (like maybe 7pm ET?) to better accommodate our British pals DiGi and Auracle?

If anyone wants/needs collab help, I'm down for helping with arrangement/instrumentation stuff (basically anything but vocals ). I was definitely interested in this project but it looks like everything is claimed already now!

Yeah unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make it (again) . I wasn't able to coordinate travel and time-off between all the other family/holiday stuff and year-end work stuff I need to wrap up. I really wish MAGFest was in the spring or summer time, cause it always seems like I end up being too busy to travel that week of the New Year, between everything else going on. I was really looking forward to meeting people and hanging out too. Have a great time everyone!

It sounded like you were saying 8 tracks from each game, and there will be 8 main games thus far. That's where they were getting 64 from. But yeah, that would be a really large project - and at that point you might as well just dedicate one album to one game instead of trying to cover nearly all the tracks from ALL the games. That's quite a large scope. Keeping it simple, like 4 tracks per game, in sort of an "all-stars" approach might be the best idea. Even then, it'll still be a large project. You could let people choose which tracks they want to cover though, so it doesn't feel restrictive. The idea of remixing tracks together might work too... not necessarily in a 'medley' style, but maybe like more of a "vs" remix. Like remixing two course themes together. Sort of like what we do in Darkesword's Mega Man compos, where you mix two Robot Master themes together to make one cohesive song. It might be kinda cool - if done right and cohesively, you might be able to include 8 tracks from one game within 4 songs. It would fit well within the whole racing/competition/versus theme too.

Yeah, I have nothing constructive to add here either, other than what the others have already mentioned. I've always been a big fan of your music, and I think I heard a version of this mix on your website awhile back, unless I'm mistaken. This is indeed quite the fresh and interesting arrangement of Marble Zone. Keep it up!

Well, Mario Kart (and Mario in general) is another series that means a lot to me from a nostalgia standpoint, growing up and whatnot. I have lots of good memories playing SNES & N64 Mario Kart with friends, so I'd love to see this come to fruition and executed properly And no problem. I do not have a desire to direct another project anytime soon though, hahaha (need a little break). But yeah, I can definitely provide advice/guidance in that light, and maybe help out to a further extent depending on timing in the future!

It'll work out I'm super excited to hear what everyone else has cookin'!

This is a really really big 'maybe', but I might be able to help out from a directing standpoint at some point. It wouldn't be anytime soon however. If nothing else, I can offer some advice on my experiences directing a project and provide some general guidelines for those who do helm the project. Regardless, Tuberz and I want to collab on a song for this if it takes off. We were talking about it the other day

Pretty cool track Garrett. I can't really stand Christmas music since I used to work retail in college and it's all we'd hear every day straight for two months. But disregarding that, I like the funky pop vibe you have going in this song, and the vocals sound nice too. I had forgotten you sang. Nice work! Can "secularized Santa filth" be a new musical genre? I'm picturing Xmas tunes done in a really dirty and distorted heavy metal style