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Yo guyzzzz here is a trailer!
The release date is MAY 30! The album is fully licensed and will be $10!
 

We are still looking at options for the physical release (production costs of 1 disc vs. 2), but the digital version of the album will have individual tracks as well as one super mix. 

Very cool! I recognize every track - I'm such a geek. And old, apparently. 
The sound you chose for the Triforce intro seems ... too synthetic for the sound created after the first ten seconds. The SNES OST used some sort of harp sound, so maybe something lighter would capture that feel a little better.
0:24 to 0:26 seems a little cluttered. Afterwards, however, the harmonies work very well together, flawless timing.
Not sure I like the voice clips, but the one at 2:09 is original and not sampled, yes? Definitely points for that.
One note on arrangement: Not sure I would end on the Song of Time. I mean, it works, but it might be more effective to end on Zelda's Lullaby and insert Song of Time after the Temple Theme but use that driving drumbeat to get back into Death Mountain. Just a suggestion.
This is awesome and already really polished. I like the video, it's like a trip down memory lane. Keep on shredding!

I just subbed. Thanks.

Awesome! Great to hear an update on that. Hylian and I have been a bit busy ourselves with ye olde life but we're still discussing how to best approach things like recruitment and project management so there's no rush, thank you for still having interest in joining in on this.
 
Also, might I add that both of our current mixers have done a superb work on their tunes so far, I can't wait till the day everyone can hear these.

Sounds like a scary movie in the beginning lol
This is not bad

Suspense! This one gives me goosebumps.
The tuba(?) between 0:50 and 1:00 sounds like 'blat... blat blat' - I can't really hear the notes it is trying to hit. Maybe it's a compression thing, I don't know. Not complaining about the effect, but maybe a slightly higher-frequency instrument like a baritone tuba or bassoon would make the notes sound a little better?
Violins come in a little strong for me at 0:54, but I get the effect you are trying to create - it's just a sharp moment when the overall feel of the track seems to be the building of tension.
Love the phases of this track, seeming to lead from one bad situation to another. Usually, Star Fox tracks are quite optimistic-sounding, but I actually think this track captures the 'real' feeling the characters would be experiencing - Slippy: "Oh &%$#, how are we going to get out of this one?"  Fox: " Quit whining, scramble the Arwings and figure it out!"

This is better than the original.

I just finished my Zelda Metal Medley (featuring 9 songs) from the Zelda series. I also spent a while trying to make the video look as interesting as possible to go with the song.
 

If you mean the background images, then no. I included links to them in the video description though.
But I did do all the video editing/effects.

ESTHER'S DREAMS! Mellow VGM ReMixes & lullabies for gamers of ALL ages!!
June 29, 2016
Contact: press@ocremix.org
FAIRFAX, VA... djpretzel is the founder of OverClocked ReMix. His first daughter, Esther Fiona Lloyd, was born on December 19th, 2013. To celebrate, artists from the community came together for an album of lighter VGM arrangements, centering on themes of playtime, downtime & sleepytime. The end result is Esther's Dreams -- OverClocked ReMix's 59th arrangement album -- a free tribute to video game music that babies, infants, toddlers, kids, adults, parents, grandparents, and young & old alike can enjoy. Except for teens.
...Okay, teens too. Esther's Dreams features nearly two hours of music, including arrangements of The Legend of Zelda, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario 64 & more. We hope you enjoy it, and we especially hope that new parents get their little ones to sleep & play while introducing them to some of the best music there is - video game music!
Esther's Dreams is available for free download at http://esther.ocremix.org. This album was produced to help promote video game music, the cuteness of babies, and the wonders of parenthood. Esther's Dreams was made by big fans, for lil' fans, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the publishers or developers of the original games; all original compositions are copyright their respective owners.
"The response to the call for tracks was tremendous, everyone was super-enthusiastic, and we received enough varied tracks to create three separate discs: Playtime, Downtime, and Sleepytime, with a mini-bonus disc of Sillytime," album co-director Kristina "Chimpazilla" Scheps explained. "We've got music for every baby mood!"
33 artists arranged video game themes as mellow music and lullabies suitable for your favorite young gamers and gamers-to-be, with 28 total games represented including:
Animal Crossing Bravely Default Chrono Trigger DuckTales Final Fantasy series Gradius series .hack//Infection ilomilo Kingdom Hearts The Legend of Zelda series Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Pokémon X & Y Secret of Mana The Secret of Monkey Island Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Super Mario series To the Moon Yoshi Touch & Go; and Zone of the Enders. "Thank you especially to the artists for their inspired work, baby photos (!), and for sharing pieces of themselves in their music," album co-director Larry "Liontamer" Oji said in praise of the contributors. "They've not only come together to do something cool for lil' Esther, her mom Anna, and proud papa Dave as OCR's founder; they've also come together to create music infused with the energy of youth, innocence, love, and family. From our VGM-loving family to yours, enjoy!"
About OverClocked ReMix
Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans.
 
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....I like it.

SCC! That's what I forgot to tell 'em.

Kindly do not post in the remix section. Upload your WIP and please send it to me in a PM. Thank you!

As for the name change, the theme for the album was the tale of the Hero of Time being passed down "On the Breath of the Wind". Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! Some of them fit quite well actually. I was thinking something along the lines of "Whispers on the Waves"

We've seen a little of it.  Some of the Shrines contain Runes, and the way the bombs and the magnet thing work definitely would have put them in true dungeons in a traditional Zelda game.  We've seen bows and the Fire Rod just lying around in random places.  It'll be interesting to see if you need certain items to beat certain dungeons--it could be frustrating to have to track down the one shrine out of a hundred that has the right thing.  The developers have made it really clear that the overworld isn't going to have Metroid-style roadblocks in it.  I haven't played Link Between Worlds yet, but it may take cues from that.
Because you're right?  I mean, I think it's fun to theorize, but we all know Nintendo came up with this whole multi-timeline explanation way after the fact.  There are a few references in the games that say something about a chronological order, especially Ocarina of Time through Spirit Tracks, and the Vaati/Four Sword stories, but most of the others are either completely disconnected or "This guy used to be the hero in a previous adventure of some sort."  If Nintendo ever does put Breath of the Wild into the chronology in some official way, you know it's something they came up with late into its development at best, and possibly not even before it was finished.

Wh... why are you people agreeing with me? Why are you liking my post? I said it was an unpopular opinion! You're supposed to hate me now!

I'm pretty much with you.  The timeline stuff is completely ancillary to the games themselves and (barring a few obvious links-- er, connections, like OOT -> MM), it's honestly not at all relevant to the games.  (I also think the official timeline is stupid because it requires time travel to work differently than we actually see it work in OOT, but whatever.  That's also ancillary to the games.)
Personally, I'm looking forward to see how the new stuff in Breath of the Wild is going to change the standard Zelda experience.  Is it just going to be "look for some fruit to eat instead of slicing up grass and smashing pots to find hearts"?  Or is it going to be a more profound change than that?  The various (breakable!) weapons is definitely going to be sizable change, but I'm not sure yet whether that's going to be in place of or in addition to a more standard "beat dungeons, get key items, use in the overworld" Zelda formula.

I know it's really late in the game but... maybe you should consider renaming the album?  There will be a lot of confusion with Breath of the Wild with the current name.

Few ideas:
"I'm On a Boat!" (okay lolz... but not terrible) "The Young Man and the Sea" (play on Hemingway) "King of Red Lions" (obvious, but that doesn't make it bad) "After the Flood" "Songs of the Great Sea" (also obvious, but pretty intuitive... perhaps my favorite) "Sailing" (minimalist, keep-it-simple option)

Hurricane Halitosis

Wake me up for Metroid 5.

Agreed. I know it's not a popular opinion (like.. anywhere Zelda is discussed), but I actually kinda maybe sorta really despise the whole timeline thing. I suspect some flack for it after this, but whatever. Opinions gotta opin.. ion. Opinionate. Opin-... Shit.
Part of it is the fact that I have never seen any of the games as part of a continuous series. I always viewed them as stand alone games that shared certain elements and characters. So I find the timeline idea kind of pointless. I don't need to know any of it to enjoy any of the game. You can play them in any order and they still work, as a series and as individual games. The overly mixed-up branching timeline mess makes it even less helpful. None of it affects the ability to play the games in any way. And frankly, I find the notion that I have know about timeline to enjoy Zelda to be laughable at best, insulting to my intelligence at worst.
Yes, there actually are some out there that honestly believe you can only truly appreciate Zelda is you embrace the timeline. If you don't, you're not truly a fan. Personally, that kind of elitist fanboy snobbery pisses me off the most. Like, more than people that don't use their signal lights when changing lanes.
The other part of it is that I've found the timeline theorist subset of Zelda fandom to approach obsessive, and even cringe-levels of fanboyism. I've seen entire threads, 500 pages long or more, just yelling at each other over how everyone else is wrong and only their particular version works. Hell, even after Hyrule Historia came out and showed the official canon timeline, they still argued over it. "NINTENDO IS WRONG, HERE'S WHY!: A COMPREHENSIVE BREAKDOWN OF THE FIVE BRANCH TIMELINE!" wasn't unheard of for months afterwards.
Yeah, I get it's fun to speculate and all that, but god damn, the vocal minority of them has ruined that whole thing for me. I can't stand reading timeline stuff even to this day. You guys aren't that bad, but I still avoid all timeline talk when I can. I don't even read any posts about it any more.
So maybe news about the game goes here, and timeline stuff can go in its own thread. I'm here for news about the new game, maybe even updates on recent games.
(braces for downvotes/thumbs down/wait do we even have anything like that here/minuses)

Same. Also-I'M SO HUNGRY I COULD COOK AN OCTOROCK.
I CAN'T WAIT TO COOK SOME DOGONGOS.
MY BOI-THIS IS WHAT COOKS STRIVE FOR.
We need these quotes in the game. Seriously.

Well, while FL isn't the best DAW in terms of what stock sounds are provided, I've been using it for the past 5 years and I've never wanted to switch. I think if you proceed to check out zircon's FL Studio tutorials, you'd learn a lot.