Nick The Newbie

Life tip: If you use a debit card for everything, you're much better off using a credit card and paying it completely off every month. It solves situations like this.

With us growing and changing venues, we just can't provide the super supporter badges the attention they deserve. We'll consider revisiting them in the future, but they're discontinued for now. We really appreciate the community's support on this, as many people have been asking about the super supporter badges. If you'd like to really support as as much as you can, please buy a supporter badge, get merch at the event, volunteer, and please please please tell all your friends about us.

It's not a convention, it's a festival. PROBLEM SOLVED.

If any new OCR bands are looking to play M11, now's your chance to be considered by the MAGFest music department. You can read the details on the most recent news post, but the gist is that you should e-mail music@magfest.org if you or your group would like to perform on the main stage or second stage. Please note that you should only let them know about YOUR band, not another band that you would like to see play If you do know a good band you'd like to hear, though, please encourage them to get in contact with us.

Just one final reminder: This event is coming up January 5-8, 2012, and pre-registration ends december 16 at 11:59pm USA eastern time. Full-weekend and One-day tickets will be available at the door, but will be more expensive than if you pre-registered.

Sorry, MAGFest does not provide refunds, but you may sell or transfer your badge to someone else.

Mustin doesn't say "no" when he's drunk. Honestly, though, there is literally nothing else in the universe that would warrant this kind of hype for a magfest announcement. Why would I let you down like that? Who do you think I am, Nintendo?

I theorize, sir, that you will be the one blowing me.

MAGFest will be making a MAJOR announcement at 12pm eastern on Novemeber 4th. Check out our website, facebook.com/magfest, and twitter.com/magfest at that time to be BLOWN AWAY.

Might? Considering your love for VGM, son I will be disappoint if you don't.

Mega awesome

Barring us exploding in size by 10 times, we likely won't sell out this year. We will be upping the prices of badge come november 1st, though, so pre-register and pay before then to save yourself a few bucks!

Tons of thanks to everyone going for the supporter/super supporter badges. As you guys know, we don't have any major sponsors, so the extra funding from you guys buying those passes in advance is a HUGE help in allowing us to put on the best fest we can.

I love all of you. Especially Liontamer. I love him long time.

He's just being an ass because I'm going. Aren't you, buddy.

I'll definitely be there. Come say hi to me at the MAGFest table!

Maybe I'm not explaining myself properly? I'm not saying like how upbeat or grungy or UNTZ it is when I say "tone". I'm saying that if i were to play an original piece of music, and then dub just the melody of a video game song on top of it, the original song I've created doesn't then become an arrangement of the vg song just because they have the same key and tempo. Let me reiterate here that I think spring junkie is very enjoyable, I just think the second half is more demonstrative of it being an "arrangement" than the first half is, regardless of the existence of the places where source melody pops up in the first half.

Obviously I was being a bit hyperbolic, but the point I was trying to make is that "source material" cannot be defined as simply the melody or the harmony from the original song. Having that melody/harmony floating over a piece of original music, regardless of if its musically "correct", doesn't necessarily reflect the tone of the original song. If anything, I feel it's a little backwards in that the focus when bringing in the source material should be the bassline/chord progression, and you should then add in your new original material to accompany that. That description is not unlike a solo, no? All that being said, I enjoy the song. The beats are catchy, the production is smooth, and, upon further listening, the second half really does come together in capturing the feel original. Tony's griping in the shizz thread (THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP, LARRY ) and his post above was to demonstrate confusion about the 50/50 rule because what may be considered "source" is possibly up for debate, as I've pointed out in the first paragraph of this post. The first half of the song, if that debate is to be considered, is a tough call in how true to the original it is, but this thread is not the place for that kind of debate. The beats are fresh, and that's all that matters for now.

So what you're saying is that, yes, context is required to recognize what this particular song is from, but that doesn't matter since that's not one of your submission guidelines?

Context helps, but should it be required? If this song were to be played live, the crowd wouldn't know what they're cheering for unless the band gave it a thorough introduction. Not to say that the song is bad, it's just very difficult to determine the springyardiness of it.

By that logic, if I took a 10 second backing harmony out of a video game song, and made a completely original song, but pasted those 10 seconds in there on loop during the whole song, my new song would be considered 100% source material. I gotta go with prince of darkness on this one, the arrangement is hardly recognizable, and stays fixated on parts of the song that are not very easily identifiable. Had I not known context of the album, I would likely have had no idea what the song was.

There is seriously so much awesome stuff up for auction. Thank you so much to OCReMix for your support!

I had to earn that title.

Looks like the group on theshizz is larger than the ocremix group. You guys aren't going to let them show you up, are you?

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