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Tracks updated! ♥ I might be utilizing the forum's 'CLUBS' function here for this, as suggested by DarkeSword himself. :) I've also got access to the CRAC server as admin / album director, so I will be adding channels for AOCC and AOCH there as well, soon. :D Here's the link to the server, if you're not already on there! -- https://discord.gg/wKyadaTT And as a bit of a surprise, The Coop and I are working on the front and back covers for this!! Yay! Progress! :3 Official website details are still up in the air, but I'll be touching base with @tibonev & @colorado weeks on that ASAP. Hang ten, guys! Looking forward to hearing your WIPs! 🎃🥰

I feel that, lol.

I'll add you and H36T's choices up soon, ty for notifying me! :D ^_^ DK64 FF is baller, and would be glad for it to be on the album! If you have troubles with it, just keep in touch and keep me informed. We can work something out, I'm sure. ♡

It'll be a link to the server itself, but I hadn't made the channel + threads yet. D: I'll be doing so when I return home in a couple days. Defo by this Sunday / next Monday. ♡ And I'll post the link to the server here! :)

Welp, good news everyone!! Finally managed to get in contact, and have access! I'll make the channel / threads in a jiffy! :D

And to those thinking about it but haven't yet. . . COME ON IN, AND JOIN THE FUN! :3

IT IS JUNE 1ST, MY DUDES AND DUDETTES!! That means...this has officially started! :D Yay! ~ Excitement!! I'll be looking to make a Discord server for this today, and will post an invite to the CRAC server here for those who aren't there, but wish to participate and communicate via Discord. But your time starts now, and you have until October to get stuff in!! The earlier, the better!--but take your time (you've got plenty of it) to get your tracks done, get feedback on them, and send me those pre-mastered WAVs! I very much look forward to everyone's spooktacular contributions. ♡♡♡

Ah, fair enough. I understand the history of that now, and as a fellow writer, yeah...shit can take awhile to plot out and edit, especially if it's that long. I'll see how it goes, then. I might make it simple and like some weird opposite to what you do yearly. Call it a...'Halloween Haiku'. Or something equally catchy and short form. :P

Link seems to be hella broke.. D: Is this an original thing, or something from a source? I had put you down for the Baby Shark thing, so IDK if you changed your mind or not. xD Nah, no one is. xD Adrian and Audiomancer voiced they might do some artwork / cover stuff for this, but nothing says there can't be multiple (as in, art inserts + front & back covers). ;) So if you've got some grand, spooktacular plan, feel free! I'd love it to be pixel art, or at least, thematically uniform. :) If we've got a base idea for direction, that'd be cool. This year's theme is a bit of a 'free-for-all', but the only thing I think I've got a centered idea on is pumpkins. xD Having no game characters or funny/goofy scenes will help to separate this a bit from AOCC. Don't wanna mimic your ideas, or have it be a carbon copy but with "it's spooky" instead. I was also wondering how you'd feel about your yearly poem thing for AOCC being adopted by AOCH? I know that's pretty much tradition at this stage to do that, as you release the album for the songs for the 25th of December... Who's doing the poem? IDK. I can write a thematic poem, but was wondering how you felt about it? :D

Haha, nah, man, people can join in on this from now until, like...the second to last week in October. X'D It doesn't officially start until June 1st, but starting early is cool with me! It'd be an absolute honour to have you be a part of this. Should poke some of the AOCC regulars, as well, and Dyne! But seriously, I'm humbled and welcome you on-board. :) I'll update the first post with your claim shortly. ♡

Excellent! Well, feel free to work on it some more if you feel like (you have until the due date, which isn't until late October, to turn it in!) Otherwise, I just need it rendered to the specifics above, and a unique name for your remix. :) Can send it to me via Discord or by private message in the OCR forums > my profile page. :D It can be something that was published previously! :) One of mine I plan on doing is actually a 2-3 year old piece I first made for a NewGrounds Halloween contest, and I think that was back in 2022?? I'm revamping the thing from scratch, adding onto the melody and harmony and putting a new spice / hook to the piece, but it has been published before on NG. So I figure as long as the submitted tracks haven't been mixposted by OCR before, it's cool. :D But you can, however, submit it to the OCR Judges' Panel after subbing it for this album, or anywhere else! ♥ If it's a video game remix, I encourage it. But this album isn't restricted TO JUST VGM remixes. You can remix other sources from other media, and / or make your own original track. Hope that helps. :3

Up to you! If you feel like you can do more to work on them, by all means, either take the time to work on them more, or workshop them either here on the forums or via the OCR Discord server. :) Otherwise, if you feel they're ready to go, just send me: a WAV of your mix, in 44.1kHz, in Stereo, 16 or 24-bit, -6.0 dB, triangle dithered (if necessary). This is a pre-master, WITH NO HEAVY COMPRESSION OR A LIMITER ON THE MASTER BUS, except for any very soft compression and EQ, for warmth and tone and gluing the full track together. If that all sounds like gobbledygook, just sending me the thing at -6dB, unmastered, is cool. :D Can send it to me on here as an attachment or GDrive / Dropbox link through private messaging, or on Discord if you add me. There's some other submission criteria, but the TL;DR is -- as long as your mix doesn't have any weird glitches or artifacts that'll mess up mastering the track, and you give me the source name and game (or movie or whatever) you remixed it from, and give it a unique name (something that isn't the original name of the song), that's fine.

I'll be workshopping one of my AOCH submissions tonight for the Office Hours if that's going on. Saying so for the sake of transparency. Maybe the bit of showcasing will drum up some more interest in this project and promote it, and show what people can do (e.g. 'genre-melding' / bending) with a Halloween track! :) It's an original, too, so not a remix!! Express yourself and show the world what you can compose! So peeps, don't be afraid to workshop your WIPs whenever, if you want to! I encourage it and collaborations! :D

Come join the fun, if you'd like!

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