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    [RECRUITING / GAUGING INTEREST] -- An (Unofficial) Yearly OverClocked Remix **Halloween** Album!

    in Recruit & Collaborate!

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    I could send you guys a remix I did for Animal Well that's fairly creepy. It would be a slightly different version than the one I submitted to the judges' panel earlier this month though. I can't export an unmastered version without the instances for certain randomized drum loops changing. Probably a couple other instruments other than drums as well.

    HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY, OC ReMix!

    in Announcements

    Posted · Edited by Mr. Hu

    I made a list of 25 ReMixes I really like. Certainly not a favorites list (but many of them are favorites. Maybe it's a partial favorites list.). There's something special about each of them to me. Can't put it into words for many of them. They just resonate, you know? 

    OCR04769 - Sonic Heroes "Sunshine Coaster"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

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    Agreed on the original four games on being superior. There's a big generation gap though, as you said - a lot of younger Sonic fans don't even consider S3 and S&K to be different games (I guess in part because they're too young to have held two separate cartridges in their hands). Mania did a fantastic job at recreating that style 

    Announcement + The Future of OC ReMix

    in Announcements

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    It's funny - from an OCR fan's perspective who has been listening since ~2001 but not submitting music to the site until 2019, I kind of saw djp as this VGM Morpheus, the leader of a secret circle of super cool musicians/programmer people. I guess that's what the early Internet was like to a kid before social media. But obviously people are just people who are pulled in this direction and that throughout the chapters of their lives. Still, it was a surreal moment to finally see my first OCR mix posted 4 years ago with a cool writeup from the man himself. That was very exciting and very validating, even more validating than getting approved by the judges panel, if I'm being honest. A full-circle moment for me. I always appreciated the care that he put into his write-ups for each ReMix, going back the early-mid aughts when I started downloading every other track this site would publish (sometimes I would read them and not even listen to the song because I liked the writing that much).

    Very happy to hear that there will be no retirement from music. Even if that wound up being the case, the existing djp catalog would speak for itself. Some of those ReMixes were parts of my formative years of being a music listener, and years after I go deaf from mixing my mids too loud I will still be humming them in my head. I can recall listening to "Love Hurts" on a burned CD on the school bus in I think 9th or 10th grade. I think he set the standard for OCR music in terms of creativity and quality (along with a few others) very early on, which helped OCR legitimize itself. 

    So, thank you for all of that.

     

    OCR04378 - Final Fantasy IV "Rainbow Forms"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted · Edited by Mr. Hu

    The idea of the noise gate activating a verb send I got from reading about the recording of Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice".

    When recording the vocals to the song, Steve Albini (the engineer) put a noise gate in front of a chorus & distortion combo effect, so when Kurt Cobain's voice hit a certain loudness, the effect would kick in. That's why the screaming in the chorus sounds blown-out but the rest of the vocal take (which is quieter) doesn't. 

    I also think this was used on Mark Hollis' self-titled album, except instead of distortion, the vocal chain noise gate was in front of the reverb. If you listen to that record, the verb kicks in only when the singing reaches a certain level. I actually haven't confirmed this but the verb swells sound too smooth to be a manual punch-in to my ears.

    I made an experimental half-length album...

    in Post Your Original Music!

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    It's called Polar. ~18 minutes long. Out on all music streaming services (except Tidal). If you give a listen, let me know what you think. I'm interested in hearing what others' impressions of it are, musicians/producers or otherwise. I purposefully scooped out much of the low end for aesthetic purposes (to remove warmth). Surprisingly, figuring out the tracks order for a 4-song release was way harder than I expected!

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