Damashii!!
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I've never done Speed before and that video has made me want to never even attempt it. -
This is phat! Sorry, I wish I had a cooler adjective or interesting metaphor but it's just too sick to describe.
I only disagree with the title. I thought this was going to sound Disney-Princess-ey at first but I was immediately proven wrong. Still cool though. Just replayed it 4 times so that's an automatic 5/5 in my book.
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For those of you that don't like reading long posts (it's okay, sometimes I don't read everything either) just click on the links and let me know what you think, but the very first link is the worst one (it's a 4 month old WIP).
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Yo, I kept checking the judges panel for the past 4.5 months and I finally saw that my submission was posted in the waiting list. I thought we weren't allowed to post another submission until it was received by the judges, but after re-reading [and actually understanding] the submission rules I saw that we could submit within a 3-week period...
so yeeeeaahh.... I'll definitely be submitting more stuff now that I don't have to wait a bajillion-trillion-fillion-onion days to send multiple stuff.I'm about 99.8% done with a Video-game tribute album that I've been working on (while waiting to submit more tracks:wink:. okay, okay, I've beaten that horse enough already.) Today I just now received the guitar parts from a friend for one of the songs so once I mix that and finish the album cover art I will be completely done by this Weekend! (if you have any suggestions on these tracks, I'll take not of them but I'm planning on releasing the Completed album by Sunday Night [latest]).
There are 11-12 tracks (I might squeeze two or three songs together in the final product) but these are the only tracks that I will most likely submit to OCR (I'm going to be honest... I can take criticism and suggestions, but some of these tracks were such a headache that I honestly don't want to redo them again--- "Not wanting to redo them again" is the literal translation of the Latin root word "lazy."):
Track 2: "Simple and Clean" from Kingdom Hearts
This is the original WIP. I knew in my mind that I wanted to achieve a Ratatat/Nujabes vibe with the song, but honestly the WIP sounded too much like a bad video-game with bad music that one could receive on a bad Christmas.
This is what the final product turned into. HEADS UP: do not increase your speaker volume too much. Yes, the intro may seem "too quiet" but the entire song is a giant crescendo/decrescendo. I'm not a crazy KH fan, but to me "Hikari" is an emotional heartbreak-y love song so I tried to make it sound like a relationship (the intro is like the confusion before an imminent break up, the middle is the awkward feeling between both lovers, and the end is supposed to hint that maybe things could get better). Also, sorry about the abrupt end. Each track in the album leads into the next.
reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orrnfPTqkuQ (Warning, very mushy lyrics. Do NOT listen to this unless you've just been rejected). also, IT SOUNDS BEST WITH HEADPHONES (unless your sound system was imported from Dexter's Lab and it's already perfect).
Track 3: Variations on the "Kid Chameleon" soundtrack
This track is supposed to be an obvious nod to Daft Punk's "Face to Face" and Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon" (duh). The drum sample is from Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and it is the reason why I seriously do not want to edit this song anymore. The Blue Screen of death caused my entire drum samples to be erased, so I had to redo the ENTIRE drum part (for non-samplers, just listen to the song and I think you'll be able to hear what I'm talking about).
References: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X32quIJqzKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70VeFZVvJI0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3KspN5zoQ&feature=related
Track 4: Variations on the "Shining Force" and "SF2" soundtrack
I just got the guitar parts in from my friend; so this is the 80% final draft (I just have to mix his guitar parts a bit). RPG games usually have interesting music (in my opinion) and Shining Force honestly got me into Progressive Rock. So this is supposed to sound like ELP's adaptation of Shining Force.
references:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRgpoa6mr4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NqjbbPtoYg&feature=related
Track 5: "MegaMan 3" theme
I don't know what style of music this is. I guess you could say prog/fusion/katamari-esque but I really don't know how to describe it. It's like trying to explain how somebody could have a blaster-cannon in place of an arm.
References: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQgYfyUdDs&feature=related
Track 10/11: Title theme from "Madden 91" (the best title theme of all Madden games, might I add.) It's supposed to sound like the cheesy-yet-intense old-school Hard Rock bands. The intro is pulled from Road Rash but the rest of the track is the Madden theme. I'm willing to take a few suggestions on this (up until this weekend) but if somebody says the cowbell is too loud they must be crazy. If you can still hear after listening to this then the cowbell isn't loud enough.
Track 11/12: "Bob-omb Battlefield" theme from SM64
This is what I submitted to OCR. I'm actually willing to edit this because I don't feel like it is really that much different from the original version, but I'm DEFINITELY not going to edit The Kid Chameleon Track at all... that track was a nightmare.
I'll have the free download link of the Entire album posted by the end of this week (it doesn't take that long for me to wrap up a project, but that's enough time for me to clear any second thoughts).
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Looks kinda retro, like a gamegear meets a gamecube controller. :/
phew, I really wanted to point that out too but I thought some hardcore PS fans would vehemently disagree.
http://www.hightech-edge.com/retro-gaming-sega-game-gear-games/1515/
it just looks like a New-school version of it.
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I think I got a boner watching that trailer.
Also Ryan Reynolds isn't a bad actor.
As a huge GL fan, I don't care if Hollywood does the typical 1) completely-ignore-the-fans gag, 2) exploit-the-franchise-by-spawning-useless-sequels trick, or even 3) the get-us-hyped-up-and-completely-blow-us-over-like-the-last-airbender combo.
The only boner that matters is if it is caused by at least 5 minutes of Kilowog bamf-ness. I will be highly unaroused if they ruin the "Poozer" man.
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10/10. I agree with the others about how most lyric-based remixes aren't interesting, but this was definitely an exception. awesome.
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FF5?
This video says hi:it's not that bad of a song... I just think it's something that should be on an educational kids' show--- minus the language (f*^king rainbowssss!!!
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this is hilarious because it just seems to me like my (or any typical) little brother just got a record deal; but I can't take this seriously. It's kind of catchy but that was some intense discordianism.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SNOAcD3ak (for anyone that somehow hasn't seen this one yet)For those of you needing to be sonically cleansed, Pogo put out a new track yesterday.Snow White.
*takes an immensely big gasp*... you don't appreciate fresh air until you've been around stank for a while. Pogo is always refreshing.
however, I hope I'm dead by the time the chipmunk country rap nonsense gets big. I still cringe when little kids around me quote Alvin and The Chipmunks songs (from the cheesy movie. the show was alright).
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Back to playing Port Royal over and over in Kingdom Hearts II.
That news made my day worse, but your comment made my day better again.
but I admit that I'm going to have to do the same thing as well.
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Is the "Ruby my dear" track still broken? I've tried to download and listen to it but it's having a seizure and Mediafire is giving me a bunch of unnecessary popups.
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I dig it. it's weird to remix an already awesome song, but this was a cool arrangement. love the bass.
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when the shoulder buttons go out on your seventh nintendo handheld
seriously why the fuck haven't they fixed these damned things yet
it's a good thing I'm still 3 months under warranty but that just means that when they go out again later I'll be SOL
oh man... that sucks a lot.
I only had that problem with Turbo controllers. The turbo pad/button would get stuck so every game I played with that controller would be annoying because of continuous jumping, punching, and "hi-yah" ing.
those rage moments made me quit playing with Turbo controllers.
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In order from least to greatest amount of rage:
1) The Screws in Metropolis Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
2) Fighting Shocker (Spiderman: The Movie: The Game; actually, any game where you face Shocker is rage-inducing)
and lastly and certainly not least
3) When it is mathematically proven and "humanly" obvious that the final block is the solution and there's no way it should explode... and yet it does explode and you die and lose and the cool guy with sun glasses gets "Xs" over his eyes because even he can't believe it. (Minesweeper).
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Maybe if I tried that, I could actually get past the first stage.
I concur. I haven't played Sonic 2006, but if you can do that stuff then I know it's gotta be a way-past-cool game. and if Mr. Como sings in it or you can unlock the Como soundtracks somehow then I definitely know it's gotta be a killer game. -
cool guys don't look at explosions
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Speaking as a crazed Sonic Fan who just played a few minutes of Sonic 4:
Sonic 4 was almost a complete disappointment (I still have to give SEGA props for at least teasing us with an "old school" feel).
Speaking as a normal Sonic fan who just played a few minutes of Sonic 4:
This game makes Sonic look bad because several parts of the game play require no more skill other than holding down the Right directional button and occasionally jumping up.
Speaking as a typical gamer who just played a few minutes of Sonic 4:
"HD" doesn't make everything better, and using "old school" sounds and music sometimes will make people prefer to play the game on mute... or not even play the game at all.
Speaking as a human who just played a few minutes of Sonic 4:
What the heck just happened? Am I dead?
overall, regardless if you're a Sonic fan or not I would personally recommend that you only get this game for a collector's item or out of sheer boredom. It's not really an engaging platform/adventure/hold-down-one-button game at all (IMO). I will admit that it's a good game for little children (whenever I babysit my younger cousins I sometimes let them play VGs, and surprisingly they liked this game a lot).
oh yeah... and I've never seen Rayman, Spyro, Crash, Mario, Ratchet, Sly, or Jak fans complain this much about their respective games. Maybe this time the Sonic fans aren't overreacting?
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Will the 3ds be capable of Fun-mode? It was on the other versions and I just wanted to make sure.
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I'd take this route far before rap, for that.
I'd take that route too, but it's a road less traveled nowadays. much much much MUCH less traveled nowadays; at least where I'm from.and if allowing a random hooligan to curse for no reason is the price to pay for songs liketo exist then I'm totally fine with that.I'm willing to pay that price too (especially since that song is hella tight and it wouldn't have the same meaning if it was "Screw you, go and grab some poop") but sometimes I'm ashamed of paying that price when some rappers take the easy/lazy route of using the typical "bitch,shit,dick" rhymes (From the top of my head Kanye's verse in "Go Hard" and basically all of Soulja Boy's freestyles come to mind).
And yeah, I'm about as tired of the "art card" as I am with the "race card." It's waaaay too overused for just about anything and almost always in the wrong way. If you're going to drop irrelevant f-bombs all over the place [or release "soothing waters" and "clean" mellow, Kirby's Dreamland optimistic beats] then go ahead and embrace your opinion because everyone is entitled to it; but saying that profound profanity in any particular song is "for the sake of art/free-speech" comes across to my ears as saying that smashing my video game console after losing a boss fight is "for the sake of consumer review."
seriously though: is somebody going to work on the Kirby Rap song?
I'm actually looking forward to that. -
Seriously though, if you start making some more dstep beats I'd love to check them out. That Whomp beat was waaaay dirtier than most cut-and-paste dsteps people have been putting out.
peace
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This is a blammin track! so fresh.
Sorry for my childhish terminologies, but I'll try to critique this in the most coherent way:
your triplet wah/phase/whatever thingies starting at about 1:32 are sick nasty, but I think it would be cool if you had them alternating between the left and right speakers. oh yeah, since it's "Womp" do you think maybe you could insert some kind of rhythmic clip of Whomp? it's probably cheesy, but I'm just saying. Also, I think the kick/bass drum could use more bass/volume/compression or some kind of emphasis because after the intro it seems like you either lowered the volume or the wah/phase bass is drowning out its sound.
Yeah, that's all the negative things I have to say because I like it a lot. The ending is sick and it's awesome/clever how it sounds like an infinite loop if you have your player set on replay.
Would you mind if I used this song in a skate video?
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So heres a remix i made of the ending theme from Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Its one of my first actually decent remixes. I would still like to improve it though. Made in FL Studio.
props: the piano transition at about 1:06 is really cool how it ascends and builds into the climatic part of the song (I'm an old school Sonic fan and I think you did justice to the original). The Drum beat is cool; it seems to get a bit redundant until you mix it up some more at the climax, but it reminds me a lot of the drum part from Sky Sanctuary (in S&K).
nuisances: If you like that weird trumpet sound then rock on, but I think it sounds ridiculously cheesy. The strings remind me of an incident where someone left the sink plugged up and running so the water just keeps overflowing everywhere (does that make sense? Not trying to be harsh, the strings are just too much and it would be cool if you experimented with some syncopation instead of just holding down whole note chords throughout); Lastly, I can't really tell what the bass sound is until the ending [besides your lowest string tone]; I recognized the bass only because I know the song and it was throbbing in my head, but you should make it audible to everyone.
Suggestions: Let the drum beat fade in by itself for a few seconds/measures (I think it's really cool and you should show it off), then bring the strings or the bass followed by the main melody. Take away the trumpet sound or use something with a softer wave tone (A Sine wave synth lead or maybe a flute or whatever you experiment with). Try to emphasize the difference/importance of each section instead of just having something that sounds the same the whole way through up until the climax part. Extend whatever cool rhythmic synth pattern that you had in the climax (it sounded like a slap bass or some kind of phased loop); whatever it was, it was mad cool and you shouldn't just tease us with it for a few seconds and then drop it out. MOAR bass
basically, 1:06 onward is awesome but the beginning needs to be developed more. fuck the dude who said "total shit, thumbs down" as if that's supposed to help at all.
peace
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it was my idea to put big mac ingredients into a snack wrap at mcdonald's
they didn't even credit ocr
lmao! i feel you... Several years back I had a great idea of mixing powdered cheese with fries and you know what Burger King did?---- they didn't just have the "shake-em-up" fries, they had it for a while and then canceled it. They basically stole my idea and said that it was too cheesy all at once.
but concerning scripts, I used to have a vivid drawing imagination as a kid and I came up with ideas such as Spiderman with a cape in the future, a teenager with metallic powers named "Max," and a dude that uses otherworldly powers to fight crime and survive school. If I lack creativity today it's because the writers of Spiderman: Unlimited, Max Steel, and Danny Phantom stole it from me.
Oh, and Shyamalan. He stole the potential of a great airbending film from all of us.
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Anyway, I need to hear some critic or advice(better) cause I'm n00b in music:banghead: I'm still learning.. So I need your advice! Thanks!!
WTF? I wish I had played in "n00b" bands like that when I was growing up. Your music sounds awesome man! The only thing: each of the songs feel as though they need a strong melody (or a stronger emphasis on the melody if it's already there and I'm just not noticing it)... I would prefer to keep listening to these as instrumentals, but if you do decide to have vocals please proceed with caution; the music already sounds awesome in itself.
My favorite song is "The Tide" but it seems like you need to develop it more (unless it's just a preview for now. The other songs seemed "complete."). It seems like you're going in a progressive direction with this album so my best advice would be to listen to some ELP, Dream Theatre, or An Endless Sporadic (for newer fans) and just experiment with some synth melodies (typically square wave/ lead sounds). and the compression is great now (I don't think you can ever have too much compression on hard rock drums).
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Nice, it's cool that some headbangers still play this kind of rock.
This reminds me of HORSE the band's take on TMNT. (I don't know if you know them, but it seems like that's the kind of direction you're going in).
The idea is cool as a rough draft but all it needs is more overall volume to the entire mix, more volume to the bass to drive it, definitely more compression or emphasis on the snare drum (unless you're going for that old school classic rock vibe),and the singer just has to imagine that he/she is Donatello so he/she can hit those high notes!
keep shredding
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duuuuuuude.... I "used headphones" as you requested and I was personally swept away (but I'm already a fan of this type of music... so that may be biased). there are some very awesome stereo vibes pumping through this mix!
I don't think the guitar thing in the middle is relevant to the style, but the shifts from Ice Cap to Panic Puppet were very slick.
Overall it's perfect for a rave, but as an OCR it seem too long in getting to the point and building up to the melodies.
8/10 (only because it drags after a while)
99.8% Done with a Video-game music Tribute album
in Post Your Game ReMixes!
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back to the drawing board...
I really don't understand how you (as well as the others) find the Bob-omb mix to be good... lol, I seriously slopped that whole thing in a few minutes sometime last year (I re-uploaded it on the Tube this year). After hearing the Super Mario Galaxy "Throwback Galaxy" rendition of this theme I seriously through my hands up and said I'm done with Bob-omb.
oh well, thanks. Now I know that apparently my best work is the stuff that I spend the least amount of time on
. (When I used to be in a few bands they all liked the songs that I slopped together a few minutes before practice but they didn't care much for the songs that took me weeks to "perfect." So obviously I've been cursed by the muses).
And I'll just put the link up with the rest of the album.