Chimpazilla

There are additional musical themes incorporated into this arrangement. I hear the "I Love Lucy" theme from 2:11-2:20, and "When You Wish Upon A Star" from 2:20-2:26. This is a unique submission. I have never heard a remix presented to OCR in this way (Js, Larry, are there others?). I agree with Larry that the vocals are mixed way too loudly and sharply, with tons of sibilance and uncomfortable piercy highs. The vocal line sounds forced and unnatural to me, clearly being read instead of more naturally/gently spoken. The reverb on the vocals is also quite different from the instruments' reverb, so the vocals feel awkward in terms of placement within the soundscape; they are sitting on top of the soundscape instead of nestled into it. The musical arrangement has plenty of the three source tunes listed (and in addition, the other two I mentioned above), but the playing style is rather loose. I hear the crunchy noise Larry mentioned right before the outro, that should be cleaned up if possible. The singing in the outro is pitchy and the toy piano is piercy. At a bare minimum, the vocals need to be mixed better into this soundscape, and the piercing frequencies should be addressed. I am going to withhold my vote at this time. I'd like to see other responses to this, and also let the concept percolate in my mind a bit more before committing to a vote. edit 3-13-23: I wanted to see a few more evaluations before I made my decision, and MW's and Joe's words help me clarify my own feelings on this. I cannot tell what type of reverb was used on instruments or vocals, plate or spring or whatever, but I can definitely tell they are different, making the vocals and instrumentation sound like they aren't in the same room, so it feels awkward. Joe said the reverbs are fast, and that would explain in part why things sound so "sharp" overall, in addition to accentuating the timing differences in performances. Joe agrees with me that the timings of the performances are sloppy enough to be just under our bar. And I still feel that the mixing and volume-balancing need to be addressed (vocals are too loud, there is emphasis on a a mid-high to high frequency that sounds painful). A suggestion for mixing the vocals in: Figure out what the fundamental of the vocal is, it is probably somewhere between 1000-1500Hz, and make a slight EQ notch in the other instruments (between 1-3db, medium-ish Q) at that frequency to allow room for the vocal to sit in the mix and cut through in a way that it sounds more nestled into the soundscape vs. tacked on top. If done correctly, you won't need such a loud volume on the vocal to cut through the mix. I can probably deal with the loose performance timings if all the elements were mixed/balanced better and consistent reverbs applied. NO (resubmit)

This is a crazy, frantic remix with lots of personality and energy. It's extremely goofy which fits the theme of the original. It's definitely conservative in terms of style, instrumentation and energy. I think it's a lot of fun. I agree with prophetik that the mastering could be stronger, but I disagree totally that there is too much sub content or not enough highs. Honestly I don't hear that, nor do I see it on an instance of SPAN. The bass seems to live at 130Hz, and while I don't hear mud, it's not a bad idea to EQ other instruments so they aren't interfering too much in the 130Hz-and-below range (something to be aware of for next time). I do see that the EQ is hard cut-off at 16k Hz, not sure why? But I don't think that is killing the high end at all (and may in fact be cutting off a lot of painful fuzz!). This is a busy mix and while the mixing/mastering isn't perfect, I find it adequate and everything is audible. I like the transition into the sped-up finale a lot! Fun stuff, let's go! YES

I also haven't heard the original but it's very cool! I love this idea for a remix too, and there are many excellent ideas presented. I agree with Larry, it has that silly Mario 64 feel which is really fun. I happen to love sfx in a remix and I like how they are used here. Unfortunately I agree with MW and prophetik that the repetition is just too much. The drums are the biggest offender. The breakbeat is super cool but there needs to be a break from the pattern sooner than 2:22, after which there is just a simple fadeout of the mix. Changing the lead timbres at some point would also break up the repetitive feel nicely. The production is good. The mastering is on the gentle side, but works well enough and everything is punchy and audible. I don't think it will take too much to get this arrangement firing on all cylinders, really a breakdown section with slower drums, somewhere in the middle, would do it for me, although an additional countermelody or a swapping of the lead sound for something new halfway through would be appreciated too. NO (borderline, please resubmit)

What an amazing idea to take the Stones' lyrics and translate them to Latin. I am digging the 6/8 feel that you achieved with the drum beats, it is subtle but adds a tremendous amount of groove to the piece. I agree with MW that the drums sound over-filtered if anything; certainly they are not too loud. To me the drums fit in fine, and could even be a tad snappier. The orchestration here is great; all instruments are sequenced and humanized well enough. This is a very full and busy mix, and I also agree with MW that there is a lack of overall mixing depth; the lows could be lower and highs could be more present, but this isn't a dealbreaker. The choir is an interesting device and adds nice texture to the layers of soundscape. I love the little squelchy synth bits. What is this, vocoding? Oh cool, what an unexpected and interesting element! Did Daft Punk drop in for a cameo? The guitar at 3:48 sounds excellent. I wish it were a little more audible. It can be difficult to mix an orchestral arrangement as often it sounds like a giant wall of sound since so many elements are doubled/tripled/quadrupled/etc. and many elements play in a similar frequency range, so while I wish the mixing were cleaner, I'm not disappointed by what I'm hearing. Outro is a perfect wrap-up to the piece. This arrangement is too creative and well crafted not to go with it. YES

I'm afraid my current thoughts on this mix aren't much different from my original vote. I hear that the mud and mushy reverb dissonances have been addressed, all of that is gone, but this still sounds like an uncomfortably bare and depressing soundscape. There seems to be no mastering on the track as it comes in at -6db peak at the loudest point. The writing is so stiff and simplistic and the arrangement and instrumentation are repetitive. I believe this concept could still work but it would need much more going on to maintain interest. I hear it in my mind with some huge dreamy pads playing varied emotive chords, and more sfx drifting in and out of the arrangement like shooting stars. Right now, as with the previous version, this mix just leaves me flat. Good luck with the rest of this vote! NO

This is indeed an eclectic mix! Filtered intro is cool but simplistic and it drones on a bit. It could be more fun with a few crackles or unexpected filtered noises but what's here works. I like the strings (they have a disco vibe) and guitar although as Larry said they sound fakey. The straight simplistic grid-locked writing all the way through the intro didn't help. I also like the doubling of the melody with the bell in the second half of that first guitar section. The guitar at 1:27 sounds clean and cool. The snare is too loud and isn't the greatest snare sound I ever heard. At the very least, this snare doesn't match well with this soundscape. Whistle lead at 1:48 is neato. The soloing at 2:29 is awesome! The e-piano/organ underneath that soloing fits very well. At 3:11, the soundscape sounds annoyingly empty. Another solo or strong lead instrument would have been nice but whatever is here trying to carry the lead melody is waaaay too soft and weak (could this just be a soft pad?). This section almost feels like you hit mute on your lead writing by accident. There are some moments in the piece where the harmonies aren't working the best they can, for example at 1:22-128 where the strings, bass, and guitar clash here and there, melodically. Also from 1:50-2:09 there is some clashing I can't quite put my finger on. At 2:42-2:50 during the soloing, there is more harmonic dissonance. Perhaps a J more versed in music theory can help me explain this. At 4:02 the bells play a chord that sounds very off to me. I do like the varied mix of sounds used in this mix and the creativity of the arrangement. I love the vocal clips. Overall the mixing is adequate but things could be better balanced and eq'd so that everything is more easily audible. Outro feels cut off at an awkward point since the writing just ends in mid-line, i.e. the writing was duplicated and meant to continue into another section but just came to a stop instead. Would have been better to either write the final portion into a legitimate outro (just altering the very last notes into a finale would do the trick) or let the writing roll on and do a full fadeout. This is a cool little beat with a small section of excellent guitar soloing. None of what I said above is a dealbreaker on its own, but a lot of little things together are causing me to be less sold on this arrangement than my peers. NO (borderline, resubmit)

Larry is right, there is something off with the timing in the intro. The track is 100bpm, so I have lined it up on grid with my metronome, and it all seems to fit except from 0:00-0:07. After 0:07 it all lines up. I wonder if just one note was left out, in the intro, causing this timing difference? It does make the flow of the track feel disorienting. Ok so I just clipped the first seven seconds in Cubase and moved them back one beat and duplicated a note just before 0:07, and now it sounds normal. I wonder if this should be corrected before posting? In addition to this timing issue, I'm going to guess that the timing feels stilted to Larry even further than 0:07 simply due to the odd nature of the arpeggio that plays throughout the tune. The notes jump around in a way that can be hard to follow; the note progression aka "melodic contour" is a little awkward and unnatural. Add to that the timing error in the intro and many listeners may be feeling "off" throughout the entire piece. Other than ^this^ issue, this is a very cute and well crafted remix. Nothing groundbreaking, but cute and varied, and surely captures the feel of the original source tune to perfection. None of the instrumentation is wowing me but the arrangement is fun and creative. I like the inclusion of the underground theme into the arrangement. I agree with Larry, that outro is disappointing. It is the same arp from the intro, wrapping up with one snare roll and then... nothing. Some kind of ending or even a "ta-da" thing would have been fun and a nice conclusion. But yeah I like it. YES (not a conditional, but I'm curious if others want the intro timing corrected)

OOOOOOO PSYTRANCE... one of my favorite genres, and a perfect choice for the cave theme of Doki Doki Panic aka SMB2. Thank you Larry for the source timestamp because beyond having the feel of the source it feels light to me as well. I love this arrangement. I feel like some of the sounds used are on the vanilla side, for example the pluck at 0:21, the synth at 3:18, and I'm also not a fan of the synth guitar. The production is really very good, other than a few weakish timbres. But that's a massive nitpick. There are also excellent elements; all the drum work in the piece is top notch and the track is loaded with ear candy. This arrangement has so much creativity and variation and energetic shifts and dynamics all through the piece. I love the vocal clips. I love arrangements that set a mood and tell a story. The writing variations on the original theme are awesome. The outro is so different from what came before that it feels a bit tacked on. But I love this overall. YES

Welp, that which you set out to do, you accomplished. Very cool dystopian sounds used here. I had not heard this source before, and I was surprised at how droning it was. I actually prefer your version, as I like dark feely weird tunes. Production is loud and somewhat grungy which is completely appropriate here. Let's do this. YES

WHAT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU LARRY OVER THAT ENORMOUS KICK DRUM ok I do love a meaty kick. I agree with Larry that there are a lot of fun ideas in this short little remix. Love the storm sfx. The piano is indeed fake but with those fast note being played, who cares? The crash samples and white noise are not the greatest and they are quite loud and a bit cheesy. I do like the spooky intro and the heavy beat when it begins. This is a cute little remix, arrangement is interesting and there's enough variation and ear candy to keep things fresh. The trucker's gear shift at 1:16 is a nice touch. Let's do this. YES

This remix has many issues but I am paneling it because I checked and this remixer posted this as a wip and never got any feedback at all. I'd like to get him some real feedback. I like his creative idea of the intro saw sounding like airplane engines! His arrangement ideas are good generally.

This is Audiomancer, and this is a remix of the first stage music from 1943, Battle of Midway for the NES. I've always liked the game and the music in spite of the fact that P-51's we're not at that particular 1942 battle. Thanks for your consideration ahead of time! Original below, remix attached.

RebeccaETripp Rebecca Tripp http://www.crystalechosound.com/ ID: 48262 Game(s): FF7 Song Title: Prayers of the Earth Songs Remixed: The Forested Temple

Your ReMixer name: Biggoron Your real name: Logan Tucker Your email address: Your website(s): https://biggoron.bandcamp.com/ UserID: 38369 Name of game(s) arranged: Mischief Makers Name of arrangement: The Floor is Lava Name of individual songs: Volcanic, Opening Title Additional information about game: Composed by Norio Hanzawa for Treasure, released on Nintendo 64 Comments: I leaned heavily into an industrial vibe which gives way to a full blown 90s house vibe. The source material is so catchy and was stuck in my head for weeks after recording. Most instruments were played live on keyboard.

I love me some Lavender Town, and this remix is so weird and cool! This is a wonderfully eclectic mix of sounds; playful and energetic. The vocal clips add interest and energy. The drops are clean and cool, sidechaining is just right. The master is very loud but I don't hear any overcompression artifacts. I am slightly concerned about repetition, but as far as I can tell there are variations in the repeated sections. The two buildups are nearly if not identical. The drops are also very similar, but not total copy pasta. I would have preferred that there be even more variation, but what is here works well enough. This is a fun remix. YES

ReMixer Name: Rux Ton ReMix Title: Club Lavender (Theme Of Lavender Town, Composed by Junichi Masuda ) Real Name: Dustin St. John E-Mail: My Page: www.flowcode.com/page/rux_ton My Userid: 33757 Hi there! My name is Rux Ton (Dustin St. John) and I remixed Lavender Town from Pokemon Red (Or Blue, but I had Red growing up). Its kind of surreal for me to be sending this e-mail actually because I have been following OCRemix ever since i was 8 years old (I am 30 now) and I was inspired by so many incredible artists here to the point where I wanted to make music and start remixing! In the beginning my work wasn't that good and MEGA shoutouts to the community for being so nice to me and I actually was told by someone who was a mod (the name has completely left me unfortunately but I hope you know that your advice was the best advice I was ever given) to start working on originals to help develop a style because I was struggling with that at the time. So with "Club Lavender", a slightly generic name I must admit, seems to be the only fitting title for this. I actually have struggled with ever wanting to make a remix again because I got really into making "EDM" music and this whole identity I created for myself was making heavy bass music. After a while I realized its a little hard to just shoe-horn a videogame melody into this kind of music and I didn't think its something i'd be able to do. But because of that I finally one day made it a challenge and this was the result! These days I make a lot of Speed House and Hard Dance music. This track very much so touches on my roots of what I used to make when I was much younger and this project started to feel special because I was remembering all of the unique ideas I heard on OCReMix as a kid and how i still have a massive playlist i listen to on the daily (shoutouts to my Wife for not only putting up with this playlist all the time, but for seeking more remixes on here of her favorite songs!) The real challenge here was realizing that this song has a very interesting melody that can either be destroyed if done wrong, or just sound awkward. I like to think I played it out pretty well. This song features 2 drops (pretty common with this kind of music, because of playing it out when I perform or others, i like to give people options in the form of 2 differing drops.) The first drop is more of an original idea, where I wanted it to be super minimal and eerie just like the original melody was. Drop 2 I wanted to have more familiarity and actually used the infamous Lavender Town arpeggio as the bassline, which I didn't think would work as well as it did but I am very glad I did it! It felt like the missing puzzle piece! All in all I have to say I am pretty proud of this remix, and i'm stoked to be able to share it with you all! Its time to get spooky and to bounce that booty! Thank you so much for listening, and for reading! I do plan to put this track out, i'd love to see how the judges fair with this and I will time it accordingly if it gets accepted! Originally I had planned to release this on the 29th but I am in no way shape or form married to that date currently. Shoutouts to all the judges and OCReMix fam! Love you all, have a wonderful day/night! Love, Rux Ton

Initial impressions: well produced mix, screechy lead timbre, repetitive arrangement.

Your ReMixer name: Pixel Pirates Your real name: Tobaunta Torkelsson & Fredrik Vinterstjärna Your email address: Your website: pixelpirates.nu Your userid: 37469 Name of game(s) arranged: Final Fantasy VII Name of arrangement: Fantasy Fighting Name of individual song(s) arranged: Those Who Fight Your own comments about the mix, for example the inspiration behind it, how it was made, etc: When it was announced that a remake of Final Fantasy VII was in the works I got really hyped and had the fighting music in my head for days and that is how this song was created. Was a hard tune to remix since it can't be done in normal 4x4 but after a lot of work we are happy with the result.

Initial impressions: Interesting mix of orchestral, chip and synth elements. Cute, fun arrangement. Heavy on the master compression. Is Tetris remix.

hello, I'm French and don't speak English very well, this is my third submission, I hope my request is correct. Thanks Link to my submission : Re Mixer : Onirik Dreamer real name : Karim Ajroud email : website : https://onirikdreamer.com Link of vidéoclip : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uT54Ajfsk user id : 38210 Name of game arranged : Tetris (Nintendo GameBoy) Name of original track : Theme A (composed by Hirokazu Tanaka) Name of my track : Crazy Tetrominos OD remix Additional information about game : Nintendo 1989 (GameBoy) Link to the original soundtrack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc9ATIE17GA Your own comments about the mix : I love this piece and I wanted to add electronic and dynamic, cool and energic touch to it, i hope you like it.

Initial impressions: Cute little remix, weird dry vocal clips

(will need original title if it passes - Chimpa) Hey OCRemix! A friend of mine forwarded me to your channel, and I had no idea a place like this existed. Super cool. lol I'd love to submit a track I covered recently. ReMixer Name: System Glow Real Name: Michael Schadow E-mail: USER ID #: 38326 Website(s): https://linktr.ee/systemglow Name of Game - STAR FOX Name of Arrangement - "CORNERIA"

Initial impressions: This is COOL, could probably be a DP but just want more thoughts on it. Super unique mix of instrumentation. Chill, yet groovy.

hi djp & judges! considering it's been like ten years since i submitted anything to ocr, i figured i needed a good reason to request that ya'll pllllease change that horrible picture of me that's up on my artist page. (i've attached a replacement if that helps). THUS, i'm submitting a new remix~! (i'm a bit rusty at this so lmk if i missed anything?) Game Arranged: Chicory: A Colorful Tale Song Arranged: Supper Woods Composer: Lena Raine Remix Title: dear wielder... Remixer name: navi Userid: 6328 Additional Musicians: Ryan Buell (guitars) @rbuellmusic Klopfenpop (assorted percussion) @klopfenpop Please credit Ryan as a co-remixer, but keep Klopfenpop in the description only About the Remix: Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a coloring book RPG about artists antagonized by their feelings of inferiority - how your demons can be a greater foe than anything the world can throw at you. While art-making can often lead to the highest highs, it can also lead to blocks, stress, self-doubt, and emptiness. How do you grow through that, learn from it, and keep going? I have the unfortunate joy of having my first attempts at musicmaking ~ nearly 20 years ago! ~ mummified on this site for the world to hear. Back then, i would blaze through ideas and move on without any real thought towards the sustainability of that practice. As i am very older now, i'm constantly working to balance and tame the more extreme natures of my creativity and its effects on my mental health (ie: how to properly harness a spark of inspiration and resolve it in a way that's both satisfying and healthy). This song takes the themes (melodic and otherwise) presented in Chicory and reimagines them as an internal conversation between an artist and their idea: from the spark, to the doubt, to the flowstate, to the afterglow...an arc of inspiration and resolution~ or maybe it just a song. idk, take what you want from it. anyways, have a good one! ~navi ps: i didnt see anything on the submissions about file name formatting, so if i need to reup w/ a specific file name lmk?

Initial impressions: Loud, buzzy, busy mix with quite a few sources. Instrumentation and energy stays consistent throughout, fatiguing.