The Vodoú Queen

Me three. And now my brain is uber mush. Song's real complex and full as it is, let alone adding stuff to it. xD

Congrats Thunder, and great compositions from everyone else who participated. Looking forward to 421 and 422!

Love this song. Left a comment on the Cloud. ♥

@Wassup Thunder HM! Sorry I had to think on this one. When I was thinking of something for Halcyon Hare, TBPH, the thing I was thinking of was the Primal fight against Tsukuyomi in FFXIV. Long story short, crazy lady turns into a big bunny-eared goddess that uses the power of moonlight and darkness to kill you, mostly with her pipe, fans, and two long katana blades. It's a real fun fight. But converting that to a Maverick--if I could've--I'd figure the received weapons for X & Zero would be along those lines. Maybe a ray beam for X (that can bounce around the area), and the charged up shot releases a dark cloud that can homing beam things on the screen. Zero's would probably be a split Z-saber where he charges forward with two moonlight blades, and his charged would be a 360 degree spin of blades after the charge forward. xD Guess it'd also fit cause the small ray-bunny enemies that appear in some MMX games use their ears to shoot beams at you, so kind of makes sense if the big boss Maverick akin to them absorbs moonlight (or maybe even sunlight) to do attacks with. Unsure if the Maverick would be more kunoichi or samurai in style, but it'd be a cool thing to draw I'd figure.

My vote's in.

@TheVideoGamer Dude... Damn you've got good tastes. IDK if this is just freakin' coincidence or a beautiful freak accident, but I'm already excited to try these together. Somehow the choices are damn-near perfect, and operatic too? Yass, love it. ♥

@anachromium Man, if I could, I would--but it's been so many years since I've touched acoustic guitar or flute I would probably fail pretty hard on it without substantial practice. Kinda wish I never sold my old band flute TBH. Acoustic guitar also needs new strings. @TheVideoGamer Woot. \o/ I mean mine's pretty experimental, but I thank you specifically for the inspiration. ♥

Phew. Mine's in. ...With 20 minutes to spare. xD

...3 hrs left... ... *sweats profusely*

Best of luck to you, hon. Just take it easy for a bit, eh? ♥

Same here. Trying out a new subset genre of sorts (haven't tried it yet.) Hope it comes out decent. D:

Hey there. TYSM for the congrats guys, but TBH, it's all of you who should get the biggest congrats. Those were some damned good songs, and I really did have a terrible time picking and choosing amongst the lot. No one song, to me, was "bad", even if a WIP / old project. So congrats all around. @Dextastic TY for the deeper bit of criticism on Catamitus. I'll take it into account with the rest and possibly do a remaster or fidget with it before publishing it fully. @HoboKa It's no problem at all. Was my sincerest pleasure to try to give everyone in-depth critique! Hope they're at least useful... I noticed some questions came up about my work, two of which I'll try to address here: None of the songs, even Halcyon Hare Stage were done using anything but BandLab and whatever SFX, EQ, VSTs, loops and samples are available on there. XD There were no live recordings or using other devices to meld sounds together--hope that doesn't burst anyone's bubble. D: But my deepest TYs for thinking the songs were good enough to sound live recorded! Still think I need better kit to make the sounds less issue-riddled where they do (like some of the clipping or out-of-syncness some of you pointed out,) but perhaps when I get some money I'll move onto a 'real' DAW like FL Studio, see where that takes me. They were all different songs. The one that one was MMX6's Rainy Turtloid (Inami Temple) Stage. Halcyon Hare was an original song I made, just to have the sound aesthetic like a Mega Man X game, and Catamitus was the remix of the Castlevania song 'Aquarius'. Hope that cleared up any confusion. Again, thanks so much for the critiques and the thumbs up. The positive vibes made me blush and the constructive criticisms were super good and thought-provoking. I'll try to take them onboard in future projects. And I'll try to pick something real good for the next PRC! :3

Welp, my vote is in now. Took nearly 4 hrs worth of study, thought and a lot of re-reading to make sure I wasn't stumbling over my own train, but it's all there. Sorry if it's lengthy, but I wanted to give credit where credit was due. ♥

BTW, This is some additionals to my blurb for my Aquarius remix song, if anyone wants to know and is informative as food for thought. Not necessary to look at for voting, just thought it might be helpful and interesting to know :

@Bundeslang The blurb for my Halcyon Hare Stage seems to have disappeared from the PRC submission...? O.o; Guess it kind of went a bit funky cause they all seem to be under my name now, solely, without 1 or 2 behind them. In case it messed up somehow I'll just post it here rather than re-submit the song: This is a bit of a showcase piece to go along with 'The Rain Won't Stop the Beat'. Aesthetically, it is practically a sister-tune to it (insofar as a more Eastern / Japanese beat). But practically in every other way, it's far different, in tone and tempo. It's like...the Yin to Rainy Turtloid's groovy Yang. Since we could turn in up to 3 songs, I decided to post this one too, as a kind of hmm, "celebration" of sorts of me coming out of my proverbial shell again and striding out for new horizons with my artistic stuff. This is actually the 3rd song I've ever produced, after a remix of Metal Gear Solid 3's 'Snake Eater' and NieR's 'Song of the Ancients', and it is my first ever original song. I try to be real proud of it, considering I had 0 clue about anything to do with DAWs, loops, VSTs, LFOs, SFXs, samples, midis, etc, and literally jumped into the deep-end of the pool with no life preserver. I just went on the internet, spun a wheel with which MM series I should do and the 'type of stage' (is the Robot Master a fire-type, or water-type, etc), got pinned with MMX & Wood/Forest Maverick, and here we are. It's also the first of a series of things I was going to do in my spare time, sort of 'What Ifs...' scenarios where if I made a song for a game / franchise, how would it go? So to go along with the kinda weird Mega Man (X / Zero) theme, I present this. Welcome to the Stage of Halcyon Hare - Buried Angkor Wat. Hope you enjoy. ♥

And my final entry is done. Was really hard to do, and frustrating--but it's in. D:

It's viable. I approve of it. Sorry. Like I said I was mostly kidding, with the exception being I really do look forward to listening to the full thing...

Wasn't meaning it in a bad way. xD Just very impressive. ♥

JEEZ... Wow that's going well and above AND beyond the call of duty, Gamer! Wait full OSTs count? That's like over 3 songs. >_> Bruh! Still tho, can't wait to listen to it since I like Jet Set Radio's aesthetic. :3

Yeah you know what fuck it let's do it. As soon as it hits 24 hrs left on the PRC imma make a Castlevania remix. Won't be the one I promised but I promised one nonetheless. I can handle remixing ONE midi at least. XD

Might upload a 3rd. Maybe do a challenge to make a complete song in 24 hrs. XD

I think a lot of truth rings in that. Who we are, what we are, and how we grew up will affect us with everything we do, not just songwriting. I know it affects the way I write fiction and draw, for example. And Thunder's analogy is real good as well. I think, indeed, we just have to keep making cakes. To add to that metaphor, basically, when you start out producing music (especially I'd figure the first year or two), it's gonna be like baking a cake at 10 years old. It's gonna be messy. It's gonna look like absolute shit. Hell, it might not even be edible!--however, as you do it, you'll start to figure out things in your head. Being able to measure the condensed milk, butter and eggs without necessarily needing a measuring cup. Getting the timing right for it baking in the oven perhaps without a timer going. Instinct will take over. Innovation with throwing different chocolates or fruits or nuts into the mixture, or in making different kinds of cake, be it a gingerbread cake or a black forest gateau. You just get better as it goes along, and you find your 'niche' in the kind of cake you like. Ya know, it's actually nice to see someone else grow up with the same sort of influences around here as well, atop of classical-trained singing. I wish I took up chorus as well in school (as I can sing but am not professionally trained, in the same instance I can play keyboard but I taught myself for the most part.) But yeah, having that very Black American background of gospel, rap, hip-hop and R&B under ones belt is extremely distinctive. I'd guess that's why when people pick up on certain songs, it's just there, and you can't really hide that. But as a caveat to what you're saying, there's absolutely nothing wrong with meshing genres together. You mention Nobuo Uematsu. He does it all the time (FFVII & VIII are prime examples of the mesh of rock n' roll, heavy metal and orchestra). Groups like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra with their Christmas / winter albums do it. The bands Apocalyptica, Florence & the Machine and 2Cellos do it. It can very well be a niche you can fill, and as far as I know, very few people have filled it. Like, I can imagine myself being so spontaneously crazy as to make a full album that's very Black gospel-choir orientated, but with heavy industrial techno / psytrance behind it. That's just how split my personality is. I guess it's something to think about, and maybe roll with the punches on. :3 Take your strengths (and what some may deem weaknesses), and show 'em who's boss. I said something similar to my friend @HoboKa in a PM, and it's an adage I try to now place on myself when faced with heavy scrutiny and criticism. And TBF, the biggest critic and scrutinizer is myself. :/ I think a lot of us are, by measure of this forum topic and replies alone.

Nevermind I managed a way around it and finally was able to sign out and login under a different user name to do it. xD

@Bundeslang Welp, I can't log out of Compoverse to try Gamer's suggestion. . . And, unfortunately, I am not a huge fan of having my songs be downloadable in public on the Internet (even though I am aware there's plenty of workarounds people can do to that.) Unsure what to do? I have a 2nd song I'd like to post up but it's got a blurb for it and Compoverse isn't playing nicely it seems.

Also, here's the examples of how somehow, even with different genres, my drum & bass are pretty much stylistically similar: Hardcore / Techno: Orchestral / Electronic: ACTUAL Lo-Fi / Hip-Hop: New Age / Jazz (the one that seems to have been poorly executed): There's more in my SoundCloud of various stuff I've done so far, but yeah. . . It all seems to carry the same undertones, and everybody keeps describing every song as such. D: