Phonetic Hero

On the plus side, the composer's name is Trevor Morris.  If that was supposed to be a sneaky Castlevania-themed pseudonym, it couldn't have been better.

Aw, shit, son, that was amazing!  For anyone familiar with the lore, it's INCREDIBLY faithful.  BUT ONLY FOUR FUCKING EPISODES!!  They'd better keep making them until the entirety of Castlevania III's plot is covered.  Heck, they should keep doing it afterward and do more Castlevania game stories!  They really nailed Alucard, too!  I was worried about how they would treat the character, but it's like they took him straight out of the games!
 
Gah!  Season 2 can't get here fast enough!!
 
EDIT:  Also, I have no doubt that Grant will be in the next season.  They just didn't get to the part where they meet him yet in the story.

Watched it and loved it!  The faithfulness to the Castlevania canon with a bit of added depth was great, and I was kinda surprised at how well it works as an adaptation.  I wish the music would've been more memorable and melodic in keeping with the games' soundtracks, but it fits well enough.
Reeeeeeaaally missed a good opportunity for an emotive Bloody Tears arrangement though...

WOW what an impressive track. Great work!

Really digging the Casiopea feel of this one. This takes real talent.

Looks AWESOME. I'm very excited to see what they've done with this.
The music for the trailer seems appropriately creepy and tense - hopefully this is an indication of the kind of music in the actual show. I wonder if we will hear any of the CVIII soundtrack remixed in this - it would be a shame if we didn't hear Beginning somewhere in there, being Trevor's theme and all.
I'm not sure why everyone is disappointed with the anime style. What's wrong with it? Forgive my lack of terminology, but it seems like they went with a Ninja Scroll-esque approach, which doesn't seem wrong to me... were we expecting uber-CG or something?

Yup, I totally agree, edited quote that you didn't actually say.

Amazing stuff. Glad you worked through your initial doubts and put your nose to the grindstone - it shows

Nintendo just did a Direct featuring some of the upcoming indie titles for the Switch:
 
...Also I'm doing music for Wargroove (14:23 in the vid) 

Nintendo just did a Direct featuring some of the upcoming indie titles for the Switch:
 
...Also I'm doing music for Wargroove (14:23 in the vid) 

The support means a whole lot man :'D  Never thought I'd be here just 5.5 short years after joining the forums!  Goes without saying, but HUGE shout outs to the community for fostering my musical growth during some very formative years.  Wouldn't be where I am without y'all <3
Thanks!  And fair enough, though if you're conflating AW with Fire Emblem, I think that's a bit of a mistake.  The two play really differently from a strategic perspective - I personally am not a big fan of FE (RPG elements take out a lot of the strategy), but I LOVE Advance Wars.  I haven't played a game that captures its take on the tactical genre since.. the last AW game, which came out almost a decade ago now (not to mention Days of Ruin was way different from the rest), so I'm just as excited to play the game as I am to write for it

Nintendo just did a Direct featuring some of the upcoming indie titles for the Switch:
 
...Also I'm doing music for Wargroove (14:23 in the vid) 

Hey ocremix pals. Just wanted to let you know I'll be playing SNL this week with my new gig, Father John Misty. Check it out. I'll be the guy on piano.
http://jammcard.com/jon-titterington-books-father-john-misty-gig-playing-snl-and-coachella/
 
 

YO ITS THE BIG TIME SONNNNNN

Nintendo just did a Direct featuring some of the upcoming indie titles for the Switch:
 
...Also I'm doing music for Wargroove (14:23 in the vid) 

Double-post!

I don't mean to get people's hopes up unnecessarily, but I just want to mention that folks have recently been bugging Retro Studios staff on Twitter what they're currently working on.
They keep replying with pictures of prime rib.

That's literally nearly the opposite experience with the Phazon Mines.  I chose the wrong direction to explore that area at least 3 times, twice involving the large lava/ironworks room at the very bottom, and climbing back up out of that room takes forever.  Part of that was due to my not knowing that the X-Ray Visor not only let you look through some walls, but revealed invisible platforms, and the quick "back door" route into the Phazon Mines from the surface requires using one of those.
I found the Plasma Beam pretty quickly, but I actually got the Grapple Beam extremely late--not only did I not suss out the correct direction to look for it in, but I accidentally found a skip, not realizing it was a skip because it was just a very difficult jump not unlike all the other difficult jumps, that let me get much further without the Grapple Beam than I was supposed to.
I found about half of the artifacts naturally, but my point isn't that they were hard to find, it's that they were meaningless MacGuffins, not actual upgrades like everything else in earlier Metroid games (other than the bosses--of which, in Super Metroid, only one of which wasn't required just to proceed anyway).  Meanwhile, the actual upgrades were hidden extremely well--I never did find the missile upgrades for Wave or Ice, and finished the game at 81%.  Plus, in other Metroid games, a new upgrade would let you enter new areas if you backtracked, although sometimes those areas were small; to get the artifacts, often you could get all the way up to them but not actually collect them without the right upgrade (e.g. one that required Plasma Beam in Phendrana).  Plus, the game just wouldn't let you scan all the artifact hints at the beginning--there were a few I could have collected the first time though if I'd had the hints, but no.
Certainly 3D platforming is harder to get right than 2D, and DmC is a great example (one of its major problems was also in visibility, with its terrible camera angles, and I still personally found it easier than Metroid Prime).  But while lots of 3D platformers do get it right, very few first-person games have even arguably decent platforming.

IT'S REALLY GOOD go listen

Sup OCR! Journey to the Centre of the World is my second full length original album, and is available for download at Bandcamp! Journey to the Centre of the World is a 10 track album, which i've been working on for the past 2-3 years. The album is a big fat 80's inspired Chiptune/Rock fusion. It has authentic chiptunes, less authentic chiptunes, and big fat 80s production with operatic singing and crazy synth/guitar solos! And it's FREE!!!
https://willrock1.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-world

Track 1 features the Vocal Talents of Valentino Francavilla (Best known as the vocalist of ShockFront) and the famitracker chops of @DaMonz and the album also features a Remix by OCRs @DDRKirby(ISQ)!
You can download it on Bandcamp, or on overclocked records for the small price of free, but every donation helps me support myself and continue to make great music! If you end up enjoying the music, please consider paying what you think is a fair price for the download  
Thanks guys! REALLY hope you enjoy this one, a lot of effort went into it!
 
 

Many film and game scores just sound the same these days, especially in action genres.  The Zimmer Remote Control style has become so trendy that it has permeated basically everything, and the thought process seems to be that simply adding pounding percussion and power anthem styled themes automatically makes something good.  Many of the newer composers are products of this mentality.  And it's fine in context and works well in certain titles, but there should not be a "default sound" for any spectrum of media.
Basically, it's seems like many modern soundtracks are just back-to-back cues for action movie trailers.  It's become the new four-chord pop music phenomenon.
Sometimes it feels like creativity across the board is becoming bottlenecked, with re-hashed writing and endless reboots, visual effects and cinematography is almost indistinguishable among whatever summer tentpole films are playing, and you can basically inter-change all of their soundtracks and not really tell much of a difference.  Art in general is becoming homogenized for the sake of studios being able to mass-produce titles and franchises on auto pilot.  It's almost shocking when something truly unique is released these days... now I am laughing at the irony of the Blair Witch reboot trailer playing as I write this.

Been a whiiiiile since I posted in the WIP forums, how's everyone been?

I ended up getting stumped on an orchestral remix commission and took some time to transcribe a tune from FFT (with probably more on the way) to help get me past the blockage and stay productive.  I added a bit of light interpretation in the form of a pizzicato double bass section for some low end support and some choir chords for added harmonic coloration, based off of the implied harmonies in the source.  I included a MIDI download in the description on soundcloud as well as some additional notes for anyone interested.  This was mostly for my personal studies (and for fun), but I figured someone might enjoy it anyway
 
 

I'll quote music theory professor Frank Lehman here, who after noting that the YT channel this comes from is excellent, notes:

"...they bizarrely gloss over the most glaring issue with these franchises -- the lack of firmly defined or hummable themes. (Exceptions, IMHO, w/ Capt. America leitmotif and maybe the Avengers theme--not accidentally both from Silvestri). And they further claim that the music is not evoking an emotional response, when that's pretty much all it's doing: pure affect"
That pretty much sums up my thoughts.  Get Silvestri to do more, haha

Agreed, this looks awesome! Great work on all fronts man

Well you must have liked the Torvus Bog music. Your rendition torvus clockwork was the first remix I listened to that I would be completely fine with if it replaced the original track. Unless you did the track because you didn't like it.
I agree though. Don't skip Echoes. I would have to say the first is my favourite out of the trilogy. Echoes and corruption both have good points and bad points. Echoes had annoying ammo and big difficulty spikes at points (at least for me). But a great, if somewhat dark atmosphere. Corruption had too many cut-scenes when navigating, and I feel the supercharge function was used to little.(Although, that is probably a realistic approach.) But it had a good balance between leaving you alone in the world, and interacting with the GF.

It's tedious and bleak. At least the soundtrack is good.