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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 :
 

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 :
 

Welcome to the voting stage
The mixing stage is over. This round has 13 songs and 2 bonus mixes by HoboKa. The following people compete against each other:
AxLR
Trism
Bundeslang (3 songs)
TheVodouQueen (3 songs)
TheVideoGamer
Wassup Thunder and Souperion (collaboration)
Evktalo
Silverpool64
Brainstar
 
A great number of songs, probably the most in my PRC host carreer, but the biggest round is still PRC26 (Mega Man 7 - Shade Man)
 
To vote, do the following:
Visit http://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC419 and listen to all the entries (the length of the songs together is 1 hour 22 minutes and 29 seconds) .
Scroll to the form at the bottom of the screen or click PM.
Fill in the entries from first to third in the ThaSauce form or fill in your top 3. It is allowed to vote for multiple songs by the same remixer (so it's allowed to vote 3x Bundeslang or TheVodouQueen or a combination. It's not allowed to vote for HoboKa's bonus mixes.
State a reasoning for it.
Participants are encouraged to vote and leave feedback. However, they may not vote for themselve, They get a 3 point bonus for all the songs (so it's very interesting to vote.
Always look in this thread to find out who's the winner of the round after the voting stage instead of only looking at ThaSauce for the results.
 
You have until Monday January 18th 2021 10:59 AM ThaSauce time (11:00 UTC, 12:00 GMT) to vote. This is longer as normal to give everyone time to listen to all the songs.
If you vote by PM make sure that your top 3 is clear. I prefer something like this:
(To)
(Subject)
PRC ### Vote
(Message):
1: (remixer A )
2: (remixer B )
3: (remixer C )
 
(reasoning)
 
I will post the feedback given in the PM’s and the votes in this thread. The winner may choose the source tune for PRC421 (TheVideoGamer also picks a source for this round as winner of PRC418, I didn't recieve the source yet (was originally for PRC420) so I just let it be a source for PRC421 as well instead of PRC420). I'll start PRC420 now with the source picked by Souperion.

15 submissions! Jesus Christ!
That's a lot of submissions.....

Uploaded the song as a bonus.
 
I updated the discription.
 

I has submitted an entry! Happy New Year, everyone!

BONUS 2...if you got time to add it in last minute @Bundeslang.  So @evktalo*, might wanna make that 13 entries, though both of mine are bonuses.
"My remix of the Mini Boss theme in Secret of Evermore, almost complete.  Has some cool ideas, lacks that final polish, but hey, that's my usual remix these days."
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mbzjp6ij7ja5mda/secret_of_evermore_mini_boss_remix_verA7.mp3/file
 

@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. ♥

Submitted! 12 entries so far, not bad!

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

There will be a lot of choice words to say about my entrant.....
Can't wait until it's over lol.

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...

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...

So I mulled over this little back and forth and I gotta be the stuffy rule-meister and say, save the qualitative comments until after voting period.  Something like this might make people think TheVideoGamer's entry isn't viable.  Let your votes make that call.   >_> Bruh!!  For DINNER.

ENTRY IN! Cutting it a bit closer to the deadline than I like, but editting and stuff with a collaborator took a bit. Souperion and I are now in.

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

I know i was joking haha....

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.

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:

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

It's a free round dude, do what the hell you want lol.

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.

Heya!
I'll let this be my first time joining in on the PRC fun.
Think I'll stick to VG remixes, but put a unique spin on whatever themes / sources I use. Will be my first time conglomerating songs together across a series of games to make 1 song.
Hope it works out. >_<

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