Ridiculously Garrett

Compo: MnP (Meat 'n Potatoes)
Midi 1:  http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/MnP90_brinstar.mid
Midi 2:  http://compo.thasauce.net/files/materials/MnP90_brinstar-3-.mid
Youtube: 
"Is it too early to go back to Metroid? Because the Brinstar theme from Metroid 1 is pretty great" -Dex   Deadline: April 2nd @ 1PM Vote Ends: April 4th @ 11PM
Submit your remix Here when completed.
MnP ARCHIVE  - made by Trism

MISSION STATEMENT
The goal of Compo:MnP is to promote that "meat and potatoes" conservative approach to remixing: this includes the mood and composition of source tunes. It is up to the remixer to create their own personalization, or to simply give it a sound upgrade. Moreover, the compo is a great opportunity to hone your remixing skills and give video game music the respect that is due. SOME reinterpretation is recommended, but not required.


MnP Instructions/Guidelines
Covers and Sound Upgrades are permitted. Most or all of the source notes must be present (but not necessarily in the exact same order), secondly the mood (energy, pacing, feelings being conveyed etc) should also be retained. For example, a source tune that is fast-paced and energetic that's remixed into a mellow/chill-out theme would be a hard sell. If you decide to do a genre swap (i.e. symphonic to techno), make sure that the conditions of #2 are met. Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max). Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry. Please don't make any comments about people's entries - including your own - until the Voting process is concluded.  BONUS entries are exempt of this rule. All competitors and voters must adhere to the rules stated within: Competition Code and Conduct
MISC/TIPS
- When picking a source tune, make sure it has a MIDI to make ppl's lives easier.
- In-game sound FX are permitted, so long as they don't comprise the whole track (i.e. replacing entire MIDI tracks with just sfx)

Hey everyone. I recently completed work on a short medley from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening centering around Mabe Village, Inside the Houses and Richard's VIlla. 
This game has always been near and dear to my heart, so I wanted to put my own take on some of my favorite tunes from the game. I'm using this video as the starting point for a 3 part series of medley arrangements featuring music from Link's Awakening.
Hope you guys enjoy this and have a wonderful weekend. 

I've never played any Final Fantasy Games, but I'm interested in The Twin Faces of Fate. I'll take that one. Does it have to be any genre specifically?

After several of my friends got me into Final Fantasy XIV, I fell in love with the game so hard that I've been playing pretty regularly for a year and a half straight now. The game has an incredible soundtrack, with over 400 songs, and I wanted to see an OCR album for it. Of course, 400+ songs is insane, to the point where this game has a legit Guinness World Record for the most original music in a video game. With that much music, and since XIV isn't the cultural touchstone something like VI or VII is (WHICH IS A TRAVESTY), I couldn't guarantee I'd be able to get enough interest in this for even the standard four-disc type OCR album. So instead we're going for a smaller, targeted idea here.
The concept is simple: an album specifically for the area themes of the game. This includes city-states, towns, villages, the various zones you travel through, etc. I'm hoping to direct a sequel album in the future centered on battle/dungeon/boss/primal/raid/PVP themes, but let's see how this one does first.
If you're interested, please look through the list of 47 potential sources below (cut down from my original list of 120, lol), complete with YouTube links, and if anything jumps out at you and you'd like to remix it for the project, let me know! Everything on a single line uses the same basic source for several in-game remixes, so I've listed them together, and you'd basically be claiming that one "melody" for a single remix, so to speak, rather than three or four different songs.
If you're familiar with the XIV soundtrack and actually want to remix a source not in this list, and it's an area theme like the rest, then also let me know.
I would like to see this released within a year, but I do not currently have any specific deadlines in mind otherwise. I'll decide that down the line, once I see how many people are interested in the project.
 
Legend
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Purple - Initial WIP complete
Blue - Significant WIP complete
Green - Done
 
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1.0
Navigator's Glory
Freedom
On Windy Meadows/Saltswept (ARR) - claimed by Furorezu
Born of the Boughs
Whisper of the Land - claimed by hylianonbi
Emerald Labyrinth
The Twin Faces of Fate - claimed by Ridiculously Garrett
Twilight over Thanalan
Widdershins
Unspoken
Tears for Mor Dhona
 
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A Realm Reborn
A New Hope/Sultana Dreaming - claimed by Manji
To the Sun - claimed by Earth Kid
I Am the Sea/A Sailor Never Sleeps
On Westerly Winds
Ruby Sunrise - claimed by John Stacy
Wailers and Waterwheels/Dance of the Fireflies
Serenity - claimed by Darangen
Greenwrath
The Waking Sands
Fealty
Frontiers Within/Reflections
Intertwined/Silver Tears
Crystal Rain
Thicker than a Knife's Blade
The Edge
The Emperor's Wont - claimed by DusK
 
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Heavensward
Solid/Nobility Obliges/Night in the Brume/Nobility Sleeps/Hallowed Halls - claimed by OA
Against the Wind/Black and White/Descent - claimed by DaMonz
Lost in the Clouds/Close to the Heavens/Like a Summer Rain
Coming Home/Heavy Rain
Painted Foothills/Painted Skies/Slumber Eternal - claimed by Jake Meacham
Landlords/Skylords/Roar of the Wyrm/Apologies - claimed by Arrow
What is Love
Missing Pages/The Silent Regard of Stars/Poison Ivy
Paradise Found/Homestead
The Mushroomery
Order Yet Undeciphered/Unbreakable/He who Continues the Attack/Unbreakable (Duality) - claimed by XPRTNovice
 
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Stormblood (songs that don't yet have official OST titles are in brackets)
Beyond the Wall/Hope Forgotten/Their Deadly Mission
Keepers of the Lock
Impact/Afterglow/The Measure of Our Reach/The Measure of His Reach/Heroes of Stormblood/[The Royal Menagerie]
On High/The Stone Remembers/Alienus
Crimson Sunrise/Crimson Sunset/Deception - claimed by Thirdkoopa
Liquid Flame/Westward Tide/The Open Box/Down Where Daemons Dwell
Indomitable
A Father's Pride/A Mother's Pride/Gates of the Moon
Drowning in the Horizon/He Rises Above/Most Unworthy
Songs of Salt and Suffering/Old Wounds/Liberty or Death/Far From Home - claimed by AdLib

I started a remix of the Minish Village in a bluesier form. A little liberal in comparison to the original.
Source:
ReMix:
Somebody Stole My Jabber Nuts

Nice! My type of music. I like the first one better than the second but they're both good. The mix sounds good everything seems clear to me. What would make everything even better to me would be to play around with the volumes and timing of the instruments and drums so everything is not so even. It's the same advice I've gotten before and I think it applies here too. 
And yeah, go ahead with that album homie you've got something. 

At the beginning, the electric piano I think could have some panning.
My first keyboard was a portable grand piano, and one of the electric piano presets had it oscillating from left to right and it was a pretty neat effect with the tone of the piano, which was similar to what you have at the beginning of the track. 
You have this lead guitar kind of sound a little bit into the track, I think it's just a tad bright (maybe a midtone sticking out) and it's a tad jarring at first.  The swelling guitar that happens is very effective tho, definitely keep going with that.

I'm always all over the place with tracks, and I had on attempt at remixing this song a while ago and it sucked. This already sounds miles better.
ReMix:
Ocarina of Time Title
Source:
You all know the source, it's iconic, it's been done a lot, it's cool, its chill; I dunno I had this idea so I guess it's cool.
 

So here's my thought, I've not seen any Monster Hunter music here and I'm a HUGE fan of Monster Hunter.  I've been a mod of R/MonsterHunter for 5 years and a member it's full 7.  I also run a Podcast Hunter's Hub https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx9Kb87WU8stDtj-GJX11A so here's my proposal... I want to see a full remix album.  I know it's a LOT but I think it would be really neat to see some kind of collaboration for a HUGE series with not a lot of musical appreciation outside of Japan.  
So my thoughts are an 11 track album that spans the 4 at this point generations of Monster Hunter with the 5th on the horizon

Track 1 MH 1 the beginning -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Ha8GCv788
Track 2 the Rathalos (battle) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UKn1SZlEc
Track 3 Tirgrex -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvVf52XI1es
Track 4 Nargacuga -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvADPBVOX8
Track 5 Lagaicrus -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eyRBYoKp48
Track 6 Zinogre -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPN7_6q2vA
Track 7 Brachidios -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7PlOxyMQks
Track 8 Gore Magala -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOY6ZDdK224
Track 9 Seregios -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlpSjiKzso
Track 10 Glavenous, Mitsune, Gammoth, and Aastalos mashup -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vMJRm-StSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFFWEeBXr1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HFXuiI6E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5EvSRnh32Q
Track 11 Monster Hunter World -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCpmcpcMqZA
 
I hope someone can do this I think it would be really awesome even to just get a few.
 
 

This is quite good. The lyrics/vocal samples actually really helped make this song work for me.
 
Awesome job!

Hello ladies and gentle peoples!
After months of work and lots of pestering, the latest An OverClocked Christmas is done and ready for downloading. Featuring a record-breaking 15 remixes of Christmas carols and VGM, it's got many different moods and genres covered. R&B, Jazzy, Orchestral, Metal... that and more are present. So with a big thanks to everyone who stepped up and submitted a remix, and to Dyne for continuing to host the files, feel free to go ahead and download the finished product that we all slaved over for you
http://williammichael.info/aocc/aoccv11.htm
Enjoy everyone. And of course, Merry Christmas!
Edit: Looks like Dyne got the official website updated, so I've changed the link. Thanks Dyne

Well, it being your first remix, I can probably say, you shouldn't worry about getting anything onto the site yet. How much do you know about music? If you don't know a lot, I'd suggest reading up on music theory, at least the basics. From there I'd say start with Garage Band. Garage Band is great to start, not the best DAW, but certainly worth it as a learning tool. I'd say given you only have less than 24 hours, that's not really enough time to make anything spectacular, albeit your first stuff is never gonna be spectacular. Especially since it seems like you haven't used a DAW before, it's gonna take some time just to learn how to use it. On the other hand, though, compos are what help you to get better. If you wanna try, I'd say go for it, but don't be hard on yourself or discouraged if it doesn't come out amazing. That'll come with experience.

Thanks dude!

Nice, I thoroughly enjoyed this 

Playing slow is hard. My first teacher always told me "if you can't play it slow, you can't play it fast". I think there are exceptions but this is usually the case. When I was in college we got to see professional musicians from all over. Lemme tell ya they ALL make mistakes. But If you can improv your way out with a sweep and keep rhythm you're doing okay. 
 

Time for a 4th teaser of my VGM remix (or covers, whatever you want to call it ^^) album! 
CAN I GET SOME ZELDA LOVE? Please subscribe to my YT channel, muchos gracias guys!
 

Sup guys!
So I did a vocal remix to the Sonic Mania Intro! If the intro had lyrics this would be it! Enjoy! Original song is called “Friends” by Hyper Potions, and the lyrics are fitting! Hope yall like this one!
 

Be careful with this.
The ipad's speakers are too small to reproduce the low-end frequencies, but a car stereo can easily give you the exact opposite problem — too much bass.
If you can, I'd recommend in investing in at least a good pair of headphones that will give you as "flat" as possible of a frequency response. I recommend the AudioTechnica ATH-M50x if you can't afford or don't have an ideal room for speaker monitors.

I put this album on my chicken saute.
It didn't affect the flavor but it sure sounded good.

I finally finished the original album I've had in the works for years! Check it out if you like anything vaguely chiptuney!


https://hylianlemon.bandcamp.com/album/zest-quest

Thanks to Phonetic Hero for helping out with the final track and for holding me accountable for making progress.

@JohnStacy We had a strict band director in high school, but you could ALWAYS, always, always tell that he cared about the music, about the band, about what he was doing, and about what we were all doing. For this role especially, I think, any scent of apathy is absolutely toxic.
He'd occasionally provide some background on a given piece, or its composer, but I wish he'd done a little bit more of that, actually... not sure if most students would be interested in that, but I was.

Hey guys,
It's been forever since I've made a proper remix. This one is definitely leaning towards more of a remake than a more traditional OCReMix so I don't think this would ever be able to be submitted. As the song progresses there's a bit more variation and deviation from the original tune. Over this was sort of a project to get me back into the swing of things. I think I really do need to submit a proper remix one day though. Either way, I'm looking for criticism on this I guess more on the mixing side of things. But any criticism is welcomed.
Thanks for listening!
~Syllix

And here... we... GO!

With Dyne having officially stepped down from this project, we're starting a new chapter in this long-running album series' life. No, it's not going all death polka or grunge barbershop quartet, it's simply been put under my watchful eye. And what that watchful eye saw was that we kept having one of two things happen. Either 1) it was started two months before the deadline and people had to cram work in for it, or 2) they had so much time that they kind of forgot about it. So, we're trying a middle ground this year. And what better middle ground than July, the month that retailers love to have a second Christmas in? Yes, while 2 months was awfully short notice and a full year made it slip peoples' minds, I figure a good five months might be about the right amount of time. Guess we'll see, huh?

This project is open to any and all OCR members, regardless of whether you're a posted remixer or not. And now, a few details...

When's The Project Deadline?- December 20th, 2017 at 11:59 P.M. EST.

This is now a REALLY hard, non-negotiable deadline, since it's very close to Christmas. We've had lots of last-minute entries and updates over the years and, to be perfectly honest, it shouldn't be that way. With months of time, having to hold off as long as possible for people made things pretty hectic for myself and Dyne in the past, between updating the artwork and getting everything uploaded. Treating this project like a college paper that doesn't get worked on until the last minute got annoying rather quickly when it kept adding up to lots of hurrying year after year. As such, you have until one minute before midnight EST on December 20th to get me the final WAV or MP3 of your song. After that, you're shit outta luck until next year. I need time to do everything, including possibly make a little website to host this one if Dyne isn't online for one reason or another. So this deadline's set in stone... PERIOD.

What Information Does The Coop Need?- When you send me your final versions, I'll need what name you want to use (real or remixer handle), the name of your remix and the name of the song you're remixing (in case someone asks what this or that remix is from). Plus, if you have a website you'd like to pimp, supply that as well and I can add it to the MP3 tags.

What Can Be Remixed?- Any song, really. Traditional Christmas carols, video game music, published music by a signed artist, music from TV/cartoons/anime... whatever gets your heart racing and into that Christmas spirit. This isn't an official OCR album, so you can draw from more sources than just VGM. Plus, you can take a non-Christmas tune, like the Main Theme from Space Harrier, Stage 6 Mission 2 from Metal Head, or I Defend STM from Truxton II, and turn it into a Christmasy one. So know that it's not limited only to songs that are Christmas-like to begin with. All that said, do keep in mind that if you want to submit your song to OCR later, you'll need to keep this site's guidelines in the back of your mind. But for this album, you can take it in just about any direction you want and get as crazy as you'd like (but please, no "Silver Bells" done in farts or something).

How Long Can My Song Be?- As long as you want it to be. There are no restrictions on this, so whether it's 1:30, or 9:51 with a five minute guitar solo ala Metallica, it's all good. But again, if you want to submit your song to OCR later, keep their guidelines in mind.

What Genres Can I Remix In?- Again, the door's wide open here. Rap, Metal, Pop, Piano-solo, Orchestral, Jazz, 8/16-bit, Barber Shop Quartet, A capella... it's up to you where you want to take it.

What Format Should I Submit My Song In?- WAV and/or an MP3 of at least 192KB/s quality. I'll be tagging the MP3s and making MP3s from any submitted wavs, so you don't have to worry about that. But, if you'd like your website to be in the MP3 comments section, be sure to give it to me when you submit your song.

How About A Little Music To Get Us In The Mood?- To help everyone along, here's a YouTube list of Christmasy tunes made by Ocre a number of years ago... http://ocremix.org/f...72&postcount=19

But remember, not all famous Christmas tunes are upbeat and cheerful. There are some that are more somber or haunting in tone, so you have more moods to play with than happy happy joy joy.

What's The Website's Address Again?- It's got a new home at... http://williammichael.info/aocc/ This album will still be download there as well, as Dyne will continue to host the albums on his site.

How Do We Contact This The Coop Person?- If you've got questions, comments, concerns, or your track is done and ready to be sent to me, you can PM me here on OCR, or send me an E-mail at thecoopscorner@gmail.com.

So yeah, there we go. You've got over five months to get something done for the lovely people of OverClocked Remix and the millions of listeners around the world who've become followers of our project.

Good luck, have fun and make everyone some Nice Work™!

Artists involved thus far...

The Coop (director, cover artist and remixer)
JohnStacy (remixer)
wildfire (remixer)
Ronald Poe (remixer)
HoboKa (remixer)
Ridiculously Garrett (remixer)
Skull (remixer)
PlanarianHugger (remixer)
TheChargingRhino (remixer)
Yannic Geerts (remixer)
Earth Kid (remixer)
CelestialSonata (remixer)