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Hi everyone!
I thought I'd post a thread in here to make it official that the OC Jazz Collective is currently working on their second ABSOLUTELY FREE OC Remix Album! The entire crew from Chronology returns to bring you some more jazz, this time in the form of a tribute to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. We've got some new faces on board as well and as per usual are open to arrangers who would like to submit their arrangements for us to record! Currently we do not have a working title for the album but we will keep you updated with this thread as we progress! Looking forward to bringing you more music!

-Currently seeking visual artists!
-Currently seeking arrangements! 
 
Musicians
XPRTNovice- Alto/Soprano
Anthony Lofton- Tenor Sax
Sir Jordanius- Trumpet
John Stacy- Horn/Trumpet
Fratto- Trombone
DrumUltima- Vibraphone
Nostalvania- Piano
Andy Pearce- Guitar
Jay Yaskin- Bass
Wiesty- Drums

Arrangers
Wiesty
Nostalvania
John Stacy
Amphibious 
Protodome
Fratto
Jorik Bergman
 

Sorry... I have to do this:
The "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" ones were pretty clever too and definitely made sense regarding how the story was told to us (no videos for these ones... sorry T.T).

It is recommended not to disturb the administrator, because this song is very aggressive for my body, but seriously speaking I love it a lot,  I really did not expect to hear an aggressive remix of Mr. djpretzel  (I like it so much added as a favorite on my playlist on my phone)
Before ending this text, I imagine djpretzel throwing money like a champion with this song
~Dr. Sephy 

This is the longest project I've seen in my life ... i know someday will be released, I still have a little hope

I feel that this album is going to be so good that I can almost taste it

I feel that this album is going to be so good that I can almost taste it

I feel that this album is going to be so good that I can almost taste it

this guy posted 17 posts in only 1 topic despite the redundancy this is more annoying when you bite your tongue instead of chewing gum

I can not contradict a person who is skilled in music
hey, don't worry i never said that your song was bad ... it's just the opposite I like so much

I can not contradict a person who is skilled in music
hey, don't worry i never said that your song was bad ... it's just the opposite I like so much

I can not contradict a person who is skilled in music
hey, don't worry i never said that your song was bad ... it's just the opposite I like so much

Thanks for the kind words Yosh! Metallica were my biggest musical influence during my teen years, so you're absolutely on point there!
Also thanks to the judges for the encouragement and for accepting the remix right away - I was almost sure I'd be rejected for being too conservative! Really happy that I was able to contribute to this amazing site

geez.. jesus christ...wow... i have no words... this song it makes me remember Metallica (I like so much) also it reminds me a Become Death - timaeus222 and Sir Jordanius (BA3) in this moment my brain exploded as if it were a chain reaction in other words.... just i like it 
 

geez.. jesus christ...wow... i have no words... this song it makes me remember Metallica (I like so much) also it reminds me a Become Death - timaeus222 and Sir Jordanius (BA3) in this moment my brain exploded as if it were a chain reaction in other words.... just i like it 
 

this seems the sequel Esther's Dreams (so good) the essence of jazz makes me feel like I could fly away (i love jazz music) the truth is they did an excellent job sorry for my english
EDIT: all songs are my favorite

Put together a teaser of some of the music on the album. Check it!
 
 

I'm excited

Introduction
Past and future collide as two factions clash in the greatest musical battle the world has ever seen. Armored heroes meet metal warriors on the battlefield of wailing guitars, dirty drops, and soaring strings. Get ready, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for Robots vs. Knights!
Current News
MUSIC FOR THE FINAL BATTLE IS UP! Round 9: One vs. One Final Battle
Team Robot           Team Knight Squad Artist Source vs Source Artist Squad Rush Squad Gario Ballade vs Wandering Travelers JohnStacy Armor Squad Rush Squad Starpheonix Enker vs Shield Knight GCJ Armor Squad Rush Squad Thirdkoopa Mercury vs Shovel Knight Jorito Relic Squad Tango Squad Chiwalker Uranus vs Polar Knight theshaggyfreak Shovel Squad Tango Squad Yami Pluto vs Plague Knight akalink Armor Squad Tango Squad Ronald Poe Mars vs Propeller Knight Anorax Shovel Squad Beat Squad Trism Saturn vs Spectre Knight PlanarianHugger Shovel Squad Beat Squad Xenonetix Punk vs King Knight Dewey Newt Relic Squad Beat Squad MegaDrive Venus vs Mole Knight Arrow Relic Squad Remixes are due Sunday, June 18th at 9 PM EDT.
All competitors will compose and produce remixes that combine both sources into one, cohesive piece of music. Collaboration with teammates is allowed, but the primary artists should be the competitors listed in the table above. All competitors are encouraged (but not required) to share WIPs with teammates in order to get constructive feedback. Good luck and happy mixing.
A lot of team discussion is happening on the OC ReMix Discord, be sure to make yourselves available.
As always, all participants (competitors and voters) are expected to adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct.
Scoreboard
Battle Team Knight Team Robot Ballade vs Shovel Knight 2 0 Uranus vs Propeller Knight 0 2 Saturn vs Plague Knight 2 0 Enker vs Polar Knight 0 2 Pluto vs King Knight 0 2 Punk vs Shield Knight 2 0 Mercury vs Spectre Knight 0 2 Mars vs Mole Knight 0 0 Venus vs Wandering Travelers 0 2 Boss Battle vs Tinker Knight 0 9 Total 6 19 Teams
Team Knight
Artist Source Squad Anorax Propeller Knight Shovel Squad theshaggyfreak Polar Knight Shovel Squad PlanarianHugger Spectre Knight Shovel Squad akalink Plague Knight Armor Squad GCJ Shield Knight Armor Squad JohnStacy Wandering Travelers Armor Squad Jorito Shovel Knight Relic Squad Dewey Newt King Knight Relic Squad Arrow Mole Knight Relic Squad Team Robot
Artist Source Squad Gario Ballade Rush Squad Starpheonix Enker Rush Squad Thirdkoopa Mercury Rush Squad Chiwalker Uranus Tango Squad Yami Pluto Tango Squad Ronald Poe Mars Tango Squad Trism Saturn Beat Squad Xenonetix Punk Beat Squad MegaDrive Venus Beat Squad Releases
Round 1: Squad vs. Squad Block 1 Round 2: Squad vs. Squad Block 1 Round 3: Squad vs. Squad Block 1 Round 4: Boss Battle 1 Rounds 5-8: Block 2 Round 9: One vs. One Final Battle About
Robots vs. Knights (RvK) is a Team vs. Team competition. It’s a new format that I’ve been developing for a couple of months now, combining elements of the head-to-head battles of the Remix Battle tournaments (GRMRB, etc.) with the teamwork aspect of Gauntlet tournaments (WCRG, etc.). Here’s the full breakdown of how it’s going to work.
Sign-ups 18 people sign up. I’ll divide everyone into 2 teams of 9. I’ll be assigning people to their respective teams in order to ensure a balanced competition. Each team will be given a pool of sources to select from. Team members will decide how to assign sources themselves. I won’t be running a draft. Team Robots will be given a selection of sources from the Mega Man Game Boy games. Team Knights will be given a selection of sources from Shovel Knight. Each team will form 3 squads of 3 members each. The squad will be your group that you’ll rotate with throughout the competition, similar to the teams from gauntlet competitions. Squad-vs-Squad Battle 1 The first 3 rounds are squad-vs-squad battles. Each squad will decide their remixing order for the first three rounds and provide that to me. Each round, I’ll post 3 match-ups between squads on opposing teams. Each squad’s artist will submit a remix that uses their selected source and the opposing squad’s selected source. At the end of each round, artists send their remixes to me, I’ll put the tracks up, and people will vote. Each victory will earn points for the team. Boss Battle 1 The 4th round is a boss battle. I’ll post a boss theme source. All 6 squads will submit a remix that combines the boss theme with one of the squad’s sources. Any member of the squad can be the primary artist. The primary artist is not required to use their own personal source; they can use any of their squad’s 3 sources. At the end of the round, voters will select their 3 favorite remixes, unranked. The team that has the most selections at the end of the voting period will choose between two rewards: a chunk of points, or the right to counterpick in the next block of squad-vs-squad battles. Break 1 While votes are being collected for Boss Battle 1, we will take a week-long break, using the time to review remixes from past rounds. Squad-vs-Squad Battle 2 The next 3 rounds are squad-vs-squad battles. If a team has the right to counterpick, they’ll be provided the opposing team’s remixing orders first before determining their remixing orders. I will still determine the actual match-ups based on the updated remixing orders. The 3 rounds of squad-vs-squad battles are conducted as before. Boss Battle 2 The 8th round is another boss battle, conducted in the same way as the previous boss battle round. Break 2 While votes are being collected for Boss Battle 2, we will take a week-long break, using the time to review remixes from past rounds. One-vs-One Battle The 9th and final round is comprised of 9 one-on-one battles. If a team has earned the right to counterpick from the previous round, they’ll be allowed to determine the 9 match-ups; rematches of previous battles from the squad-vs-squad blocks are not allowed. If no team has counterpick, I’ll determine the match-ups. Each artist will be responsible for writing a remix that uses their selected source and their opponent’s source. At the end of the round, remixes will be submitted and voted on. The team with the most victories will earn a large chunk of points. The team with the most points at the end of the competition wins. Submissions and File Name Rules
Submission
All entries must be sent to me (DarkeSword) via PM on the forums. Please include your team name, squad name, and the round number in the subject line of your PM. I encode all MP3s myself, so please send me your submissions in 16bit, 44.1KHz WAV format. Don’t send MP3s.
Please do not use MediaFire, RapidShare, or any other ad-ridden public sharing site as a host for your entry. There are many better options you can and should be using to host your music. I recommend Dropbox or SoundCloud. Make sure your files are downloadable.
File Names
If you worked on the remix without the help of your teammates:
Team Robots - DarkeSword - Be Cool, Man (Ice Man vs. Polar Knight).wav If one team member helps you with your entry in a significant way and you want to give them credit, add their name as follows:
Team Robots - DarkeSword feat. Neblix - Be Cool, Man (Ice Man vs. Polar Knight).wav If more than one team members help you with your entry in a significant way and you want to give them credit, add their names as follows:
Team Robots - DarkeSword feat. Neblix, Liontamer - Be Cool, Man (Ice Man vs. Polar Knight).wav Notes
Make sure you’re using proper capitalization for team names and character names. Put spaces on both sides of the hyphens between Team Name, Artist, and Title. If your remix’s title has special punctuation that you can’t include in the file name (e.g. \ / : \* ? " < > |), please let me know in your submission PM so I can include the correct title in the tags. Please follow the file name format exactly; I use the file names to make sure that all the metadata is correct when I tag the MP3s. It’s a massive pain sitting there renaming, re-spacing, and reformatting so that everything works properly with mp3tag’s file-name-to-tag tools, and ultimately it means that when you all do it right, I can get the music up for voting way faster.
Voting Rules and Guidelines
Voting is conducted publicly in the Public Voting forum. Every week, a thread will be created for the most recently completed round of remixing. Because RvK has two different types of rounds (squad-vs-squad and boss battle), please make sure you read and follow the instructions in the voting thread.
Things to keep in mind when voting:
The most important thing to consider when voting is how well the remix incorporates and arranges both themes. Production and enjoyability should also be considered, but this is primarily an arrangement competition. Everyone is allowed (and encouraged) to vote, including competitors. Everyone must adhere to the Competitions Code of Conduct. FAQ
This is pretty interesting, but why are you doing this instead of just another Tournament or Gauntlet?
The philosophy behind RvK is to create an environment where more artists will be working together to help and learn from each other. I want to tap into the spirit of teamwork and collaboration in a bigger way this tournament. Rather than just having two friends working on tracks with you week to week, you’ll have eight other teammates that you can use as resources.
What do you mean by resources?
In the past, I’ve tried to limit the amount of collaboration allowed in competitions because I wanted to make sure that people were putting forth a concerted effort to grow as artists on their own. While we’ll still be adhering to the idea of a Primary Artist for each remix in RvK, some of the limitations will be relaxed. Artists will be able to get help from all 8 of their teammates. This includes production help, session instruments, and arrangement feedback. The Primary Artist will still be responsible for the bulk of the work that goes into a remix, but they’ll have a lot more help in getting that remix polished up.
How many remixes do I have to write?
You will be responsible for at least 3 remixes: 2 remixes from the squad-vs-squad battles, and 1 remix in the final battle. You may also be responsible for any of the boss battle remixes, but that will be up to your team.
Why can’t we choose our own teams?
I’m going to determine the teams based on skill level in order to ensure fairness across the board. I want both teams to have a healthy balance between novices and veterans.
Do we get to pick team names or squad names?
No. The two teams will be known as Team Robots and Team Knights. I will also be setting the squad names which will be revealed once we get the competition started.
I really want to be on Team Robots/Team Knights! Can you put me on that team?
I’ll consider your preference but I can’t guarantee anything.
Notes
Stardroid sprites used in Team Robot sigs were colorized by onyx801.

The electronica genre at large has never concerned itself with small soundchips found in game consoles. Sound synthesis, resampling, and electronic music in general was conceived long before and not even in direct relation before or after the advent of chiptune music.
To say electronica would not exist without chiptunes is simply historically inaccurate. Chiptunes have nothing to do with the advancement of electronic music since synthesizer technology has been created and developed for years completely independent of what game soundchips were doing. The Moog was pioneered in the 1960s. That was when computers were still gigantic machines that lined the walls of a control room.
This is of course except until the recent couple decades where emulating chiptunes became an appealing aspect of music and thus we started seeing it infused into our electronic music as an instrumentation choice. You could say chiptunes have had a profound (but latent) effect on the electronica genre as it's opened up opportunities to exploit the appeal of those nostalgic digital game sounds.
It would be more accurate to say that without the advent of the analog synthesizer, game soundchips might not have existed; but that's the equivalent of saying if guns were not invented, we would still be using the precursor to guns. It's true if the premise is "if it was never invented and never could be for the purposes of the thought experiment" but false if the premise is more realistic such as "if it wasn't invented then, it would just be a matter of time until it was invented at some other time". If you prefer the former premise, it's not a very insightful thought experiment since it isn't based on critically analyzing patterns of reality.

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Just in case people might be interested, I decided to remaster my most recent remix. I may have overdone it, but I still think it's an improvement:
 

Hey guys! Long time no post
I think this is probably my first video game remix in forever, and I'm super stoked about it. I know there have been tons of undertale remixes but here is my entry into the foray haha
Really hope you guys enjoy it!

Where's the "dislike" button...?

Well Bunch of Johnny Come Latelies I am, to the Undertale party. Well this was done months ago, but I've been dragging my heels and haven't posted anything in the workshop in awhile, so I figured I'll put this up for notes, then consider going back to work on it. I've had a hard time watching the play through with out ruining the game (Full disclosure: I've yet to play it) and the one consistent track that offers no spoilers was this one. I liked how the fights were stop and start-ish ( I think quirky is the overused word to describe it), so I tried to captures that in the track. Thank You for the listen and all feedback is welcome!
Remix- https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B80H6SsEW90wc1pVZGIyeXZQYjQ
Original- 
 

Hello everyone!
I am back to help contribute to the community, and the next new album project I previously was getting together was for Secret of Mana. After a couple of years of mostly absence, I return to finish this good work up! This was started originally with the aim of getting it out in time for the 20th anniversary of Secret of Mana, but it came and went, and real life kept me too busy.
Directors: Bahamut, pu_freak
Here is the tracklist:
01 - Fear of the Heavens (claimed by Ergosonic) 02 - A Curious Tale (claimed by Hylian Lemon) 03 - Phantom and a Rose (claimed by zyko) 04 - Together Always (claimed by Hakstock) 05 - Fond Memories 06 - Into the Thick of It (claimed by Ergosonic) 07 - The Color of the Summer Sky (claimed by Rexy) 08 - Dancing Animals (claimed by Guifrog) 09 - Distant Thunder (claimed by halc) 10 - The Little Sprite (claimed by Audio Fidelity, bustatunez, DrumUltimA, Jeff Ball, Abi Coffer) 11 - It Happened One Evening (claimed by Guifrog) 12 - In the Dead of Night 13 - Mystic Invasion (claimed by evktalo) 14 - Secret of the Arid Sands 15 - What the Forest Taught Me (claimed by Harmony & djpretzel) 16 - A Wish 17 - Spirit of the Night (claimed by RebeccaETripp) 18 - Did You See the Ocean (claimed by Ergosonic) 19 - Danger (claimed by Sagnewshreds & jnWake) 20 - Calm Before the Storm (claimed by PabloComa) 21 - The Wind Never Ceases 22 - Flight of the Unknown (claimed by Sagnewshreds) 23 - Eternal Recurrence (claimed by pu_freak) 24 - The Legend (claimed by Devastus) 25 - A Bell is Tolling (claimed by Chernabogue) 26 - A Curious Happening 27 - Monarch on the Shore 28 - The Dark Star (claimed by Darangen) 29 - Prophecy (claimed by Sbeast) 30 - Steel and Snare 31 - Whisper and Mantra (claimed by RebeccaETripp) 32 - Ceremony (claimed by Radiowar) 33 - Morning is Here 34 - Leave Time For Love (claimed by GaMetal) 35 - Still of the Night (claimed by Ergosonic) 37 - The Oracle (claimed by The Legendary Zoltan) 38 - A Conclusion 39 - I Won’t Forget (also rearranged in Seiken Densetsu 3 - Where Angels Fear to Tread) 40 - One of Them is Hope 41 - Meridian Dance (claimed by Fishy) 42 - Now Flightless Wings (claimed by Mikeaudio) 43 - The Second Truth From the Left (claimed by Sir Jordanius) 44 - I Closed My Eyes (claimed by dannthr)  
Red means claimed, but no WIP
Green means claimed, with a rough WIP
Purple means claimed, with a good progress WIP
Magenta means claimed, with a near completion WIP
Blue means the final wav is in my hands
More info to come shortly, but feel free to message me about unclaimed tracks (sources linked in tracklist) & proof of quality (if unposted mixer).