Brandon Strader

You could send me a clip of your very best work in a private message, an mp3 would be fine. I'd avoid WIPs, when you send in auditions (now and in the future) your goal is to show the director what you are capable of, and whether your work is good enough to be included among the other remixers involved in the album. So, very best work! As for your resub that has been sitting so long, you should try contacting the judges panel. There's no justification for a resub, or even a regular submission, to sit for the better part of a year. I'm not completely sure who you could even ask now and get a response though, maybe @Chimpazilla! What about you @zykO?

Kicking myself cause I forgot to fund it, but being born September 28th, it was beyond me

Yup that's pretty dang true. There's a lot of stuff that gets passed even with cut and paste. (looking at Trance type stuff!) But the key word here is "lazy and excessive repetition" -- if it's not enjoyable then that's not a good thing. And making stuff less repetitious is as easy as changing up a drum beat for the second repetition. Why copy/paste the drum track when it's so easy to play the drums in,or heck, even click them in? /shrug I do have mixes with some repetition. But I repeat parts I think are enjoyable. Too much is too much, if people really want to hear something again, they can listen to the song again. That's how I keep out of excessively-long mixes, tho it depends on genre too. So I dunno I think I disagree with the ideas put forth about OCR, or the accusations? Whatever you'd call it As for whether my stuff sounds samey, you try making 80 songs and having them all sound completely different. Besides, I make music that I want to hear. I could make the same song over and over if it's what I like.

Come on folks, get excited! Here's what I've been looking at, it's really difficult to choose a town theme. I finally at long last settled on this non-lyrical theme from NieR I'm not 100% sure on writing my name down for the claim yet, though, mostly because the soundtrack is so good that it'd be a bit of a shame, a bit of an insult, if I did something with it. I could mix it with a hero theme such as Yonah or Kaine themes. On to other things, here's a couple of Town/City themes that I would like to see someone try to remix, although I don't think anyone could do it. I don't even think I could do it given a few months. ^ The entire game of Remember Me takes place in the city of Paris, maybe not quite what the project concept had in mind, but with games becoming more modern this is kinda what happens For laughs here's 1 more town theme, though not one I would say is overly difficult to remix. It's just a really enjoyable theme.

Tuesday is the new Monday

I disagree with any assertion that "OCR did _________ to my music" OCR will help you learn to write more interesting and concise arrangements. But it doesn't force you to write that way any more than you have to "unlearn" how to write enjoyable, concise songs later on because OCR ruined you and those people on Youtube know what they're talkin' about, why did I ever listen to the judges when fetuspuncher13 and kardashianfan69 is around? I have to unlearn everything I know so I can go back to making something "pure"! Haha alright dude! Meanwhile the only thing you unlearn is the idea that someone helped you get where you are

I'm hereby taking over this album!

you have not yet hit zenith

Pretty much everything you'll need is here: http://ocremix.org/info/Project_Guidelines#EXAMPLE_Project_Proposal It includes an example proposal, which you would send to projects@ocremix.org Generally some WIPs, any finished mixes too.. go into detail about your project, and if they see the potential of it being official, then it can be!

It didn't come out It didn't come out today It didn't come out

I'm an asshole because Winter has been "done" for so long and you've never even heard a WIP, you probably won't even like it, after all this time. It's pretty happy sounding from what I remember. All it has needed was acoustic guitars (though at this point I will probably redo the bass guitar too, just so it's current) And I actually had started writing on Rumbling way back when, but it was so small that I may as well start from scratch. At any rate anything I make for you now will be better just due to being more familiar with stuff as time goes on.

Elfen Leid? ...no.... I don't know... Those animes you mentioned have a lot of adult themes in them. And I can't really think of any that dont, maybe Sword Art Online? It's hard to say.

Season 4 is out, Larry let you down.. get to watchin'!

Mmmmyes. Maybe even city themes *gasp*!

All sounds cool so far! Some may have noticed this is targeting OCRA now -- no hard feelings if anyone chooses to drop out because of the additional work and stress involved with that. For those that aren't quite there yet but want to give it their all, we can still try to work it out and see if we can get you there.

I have proceeded and you can proceed to see a thing I guess that's that then. *lays back and waits for the remixes to flow in*

Hometown Heroes Created by Mirby, directed by Brandon Strader and Mirby Welcome back to the Hometown Heroes project, starting up again here in 2016. There are existing claims -- if you are one of these remixers, please check in! The original concept for this album was to remix town themes from obscure games. However, any town theme from a video game will be acceptable, and optionally you can choose to mix in a hero theme into your mix (to use 2 sources for the mix). This is entirely optional, but will help to see the HomeTOWN HEROES concept a little more. It will be interesting to see how people interpret this, especially with heroes being in stylistically diverse towns. Right now we're in a check-in phase, so currently no deadlines or WIP dates. Please check in, and feel free to make a claim. Tracklist Persona 2 Innocent Sin - Sumaru City (claimed by @AMT) Radiant Historia - Mechanical Kingdom (claimed by @Arrow) Phantasy Star IV - Motavia Town, Dezolis Town (claimed by @AngelsDen) Kingdom Hearts II - Twilight Town (claimed by @Tuberz McGee) Tsugunai - Early Afternoon in the Village (claimed by @Ivan Hakštok) Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire - Slateport City (claimed by @Chucklehofft) Illusion of Gaia - Village Theme (claimed by @DjjD) Ys III - Trading Town of Redmont (claimed by @Jorito) Monster Hunter 3 (tri) - Village Theme 1 (day) (claimed by @Amphibious) Castlevania II: Simon's Quest - Town (claimed by @Metal Man) Threads of Fate - Serene Town (claimed by @thatandyguy) Soul Blazer - Lonely Town (claimed by @evktalo) Dragon Slayer 6 - Town (claimed by @Jorito) Important final note, we will be targeting an official OCRA release. As such, the quality bar is a little bit higher than it was in the previous incarnation of the project. If you have finished mixes made for the previous version of the project, please submit them to the panel so they can be evaluated!

@djpretzel to the rescue Do you have anything against me putting this in Projects instead of Recruitment since the target will be OCRA instead of OCRI and it has a subforum?

Dang fools. The DLC was awesome. Short, but awesome. It brought a handful of new bosses, 3 of which were pretty hard on NG+. I didn't want to make another character at the time just for the DLC and with the recommended level being 60 it seemed like a dumb idea. So now my main guy is level 166 and his stats are roughly split up like this: VIT: 45 END: 32 STR: 50 SKL: 50 BLD: low as hell, untouched ARC: 20 So here's the main thing, as a level 166 I am clearly out of PVP range, but I kinda want to have an Arcane character. I have a 2nd character that is level 56 or so that is focused on Arcane with around 25 right now. I was wondering how worthwhile it would be to hit 50 arcane or if the soft cap of 25 is good enough, say for my level 166 guy. What I wanted to do was run the Orphan of Cosby Parasite which does only arcane damage, so would I have to have 50 arcane for that for it to be effective? Right now I'm not using any arcane weapons on my lvl 166 guy, but my lvl 56 has the Tonitrus at +7 and it's cool but kinda underwhelming. The Moonlight Holy Sword is also cool but seems kinda meh. That Cosby Parasite seems very very very meh but at least it is interesting. What are your thoughts on this? @Supercoolmikedid you git gud yet

I dropped "I Closed My Eyes" and "A Conclusion" I believe it was because I knew someone else would be able to claim them and deliver on them good before I could.. I was going to focus on Lufia 2 and get those songs done first! But if there's anything left that appeals to me here when I'm able to tackle one, I will be back on board! I'm excited to see what Dan does with "I Closed My Eyes"

There's still 4 Mondays in March, which one is it gonna be?

That's what I did. Have fun.

To prepare for Dark Souls 3, I redownloaded Bloodborne and have been helping some of my newb friends play the game. I don't like that they're using guides and rushing through and all that. It seems cheap compared to how I played the game.But at least 1 of them is getting Dark Souls 3 with me at the midnight launch (digital) so we'll see what happens and if any of thise translates to "gitting gud" It still took a bunch of tries to kill Ludwig in their game (DLC). Even though I was level 166 and scaled down. Man, what a crazy ass boss. Then I shareplayed the guy later and I saw why it took so many tries HAHAHA... He dodge rolled off the map in Research Hall no less than 2 times just during the 10 minutes I shareplay watched him. And he got killed by the exploding book shelf twice I am excited to see how my gud will need to be changed for DS3, different play style. I hate using shields though. I (f-wording) hate shields!