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VV3 flood? ;D

I've used this as an example of game music studies often as a speaker and organizer of panels, and I want to kick off this forum's discussion by putting this question to everyone.
 
First, listen to what in my opinion is the most "towny" theme of any piece of game music:  Ragnarok Online's "Theme to Prontera." 
 
I have suggested to music scholars and friends alike that I could play this piece of music for just about anyone with any amount of gaming experience and they'd know it's a town theme from some kind of Japanese RPG.  My questions to you all:  Why is this the case?  Is there something quintessential about this particular piece of music, or would it work with, say, the Lufia II town theme just as easily?  There's a lot of tonic going on, but imo there's more to it than that, and I'd love to pin some specific characteristics onto various jRPG town themes to help connect them.
 
You could replace "town" with "battle," "field," etc. and it still mostly works -- the rest of the Ragnarok Online soundtrack continues to conform to this notion of musical location quite nicely.
 
Other related questions to consider:  Can we identify a piece of game music as "from a jRPG" more generally, and if so, what elements do those tracks share?  Is it important to consider that first word in the jRPG acronym -- Japanese -- more strongly than the rest of this post has done?  
 
I'd love to hear some thoughts!

I liked the mixfloods. I'm biased. There wasn't enough Kirby material in the submission's box to do a 5-mix flood, but at the least, we posted a Kirby arrangement by Jorito shortly after Iwata-san's passing.
I generally pick the floods to fit what's already approved and available, but if we had enough in the hopper, I'd enjoy a modern game flood (basically Xbox 360/PS3 and newer).
The most important thing is keeping the categories reasonably broad, e.g. high-level genre, obscure games (NOT just from 1 platform), a generation, indie games, a popular company. Keep in mind, a lot of the theme suggestions in the thread are just way too restrictive. We generally do 5-mix groups, though you saw we had a couple of 2-mix pairs also. Always a fun, albeit challenging month.

That's hard to believe, since I saw your initial Maverick selection:
1) Crystal Snail
2) Crystal Snail
3) Crystal Snail
4) Crystal Snail
5) Crystal Snail

In my case, I never played any MMX game (nor Megaman for that matter), so I didn't have any real connection with these Mavericks. I started out with Gravity Beetle as 'okay, I can work with this' and that hasn't changed that much I guess, since I still find the first half of the track a bit weird and still like the second part
Anyway, good stuff, looking forward to the tracks for the final round!

The most important thing I learned in this compo is how to get ideas down fast and that I should never spend a ton of time tweaking minor things before writing the entire song structure.

Round 9 music is up. Voting thread tomorrow. Sleepy now.
 
http://darkesword.com/compos/sfrg/Sigma%20Fortress%20Remix%20Gauntlet%20-%20Round%209%20(Sigma%20Stage%202%20%5BX3%5D).zip

That's hard to believe, since I saw your initial Maverick selection:
1) Crystal Snail
2) Crystal Snail
3) Crystal Snail
4) Crystal Snail
5) Crystal Snail

In my case, I never played any MMX game (nor Megaman for that matter), so I didn't have any real connection with these Mavericks. I started out with Gravity Beetle as 'okay, I can work with this' and that hasn't changed that much I guess, since I still find the first half of the track a bit weird and still like the second part
Anyway, good stuff, looking forward to the tracks for the final round!

I walked out of this compo liking Crystal Snail more than when I entered this compo. I love that proggy groove so much. 

Yeah, it was fun. I couldn't really pay much attention to it in the last 3 round set sadly because work and other stuff, but I really enjoyed the other weeks. Plenty of awesome tracks and rickrolls.

Very cool rendition of a classic MSX game song I grew up with (this might have actually been the very first game I owned!). IIRC I actually picked this source for PRC, great to see it posted!
I've heard a number of remixes of this source, but never one in this genre. Love me some psytrance, and combined with a cool source track and a dose of nostalgia, what's not to like?
Next mission: getting more MSX tracks on OCR!

I can't speak for anyone else, but while it was a very entertaining and creative run where we got to rickroll the rest of you for 9 weeks (high five to my Maverick Astley bros!), I'm also pretty beat and wouldn't mind a break. And a big shout out to Darkesword for again hosting a cool compo
 
Now all that's left is to vote for the last round, wonder how my team did in the rankings and polish up my songs and submit them before I start remixing some other tracks!

I can't speak for anyone else, but while it was a very entertaining and creative run where we got to rickroll the rest of you for 9 weeks (high five to my Maverick Astley bros!), I'm also pretty beat and wouldn't mind a break. And a big shout out to Darkesword for again hosting a cool compo
 
Now all that's left is to vote for the last round, wonder how my team did in the rankings and polish up my songs and submit them before I start remixing some other tracks!

Alas.
 
Music will go up tonight, scoring will be updated this week.
 
No bonus 10th round this year. I think people are tuckered out. Thanks for remixing, everyone!

Or you'll get TUBED
Srsly though, stellar mixes this week folks. I'm loving this compo! 

I did! Subtly and elegantly done, just how Maverick Astley (rick)rolls

I would like the following things to appear on my official record:
 
This has been the most stressful week of the year at work. This has been the most stressful past few months at work. I've moved apartments in the last month. I hate the gauntlet theme this week. I hate my maverick theme. I have had a few drinks tonight.  
Needless to say, I will be working nonstop on my song til the early morning tonight, and most of my waking hours tomorrow. Dammit I will not let these things come between me and my compo entry!

Semantics, schmemantics, if you just say "grow" in stead of "grow up" I think there would be less misunderstanding.
 
Having said that, have fun on your travel learning more cool stuff. Orchestral music is only one of the great things on your path

Hyped for the release! This might actually be the first album release with tracks from me. It's gonna be the first official OCR album release for me!
 
't Was an entertaining ride, thanks for having me

Semantics, schmemantics, if you just say "grow" in stead of "grow up" I think there would be less misunderstanding.
 
Having said that, have fun on your travel learning more cool stuff. Orchestral music is only one of the great things on your path

We're posting lyrics already? Ok.  
 
For analysis purposes here are the lyrics to my remix for this week.  
 
Lyric 1: eeeEEyyyYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Lyric 2:
 
eeYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!
 
Lyric 3: EyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyAAAAAAAAAHHHH...
 
 
Lyric 4: aarrrreeeEEyYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
Fun Fact: In Japanese it sorta sounds like "No"  In German it sorta sounds like "Yes". 
 
 
 

"Never Gonna Give You Up" is definitely growing on me.  It's a catchy little tune, and I found myself getting a little smile when it came up in "You Know the Game".  I'm finding myself looking forward to it more than to some of the Mega Man X themes.  I'll be sad to see it go.

Lyrics:
 
 
verse 1:
 
I'm back in the lab while I brew a new gab with this lyrical jab, concocting a dab of this and that shit that's so fat that the rest will sound flat while they look at just how many addicts we make every day.  They can't keep away it's like crack or cocaine. Am I really okay or am I insane but my drug is this music it eases my pain. I'd take a syringe and shoot straight to my veins, but unfortunately I can't get it quickly enough so just hit me.  Bear with me I'm sickly from listening day in and day out to music I can't get to leave. So is it just me,  or did we hijack this whole compo spontaneously? But seriously, these myths we create will be legendary. It's scary just how far we've come in these weeks, becoming so viral we spread to the streets, with just a few beats from the myth lab.   Chorus:   Rock Hard Mandrills,  Bringing it down, Rock your body, To our hard sound,   Verse 2:   We go triple bard when our mixes bombard, straight from the yard they call us rock hard, we're the man drills, we got mad skills. Bringing dope ass tunes from the streets to the hills so listen to the sound, while we bring the house down, we don't mess around our lyrics are profound, when this whole thing is over who you think will get crowned? cause it's not gonna be just anybody Well let me see, who else could it be who, maverick ashtley? They do the same thing  what, every single week? Comeon don't get hurt but the Rick roll, it gets old. I never wanna lie, just let truth be told. We won't let you down watch our legend unfold You don't have to cry man up and be bold, so lemme say goodbye you punks just got trolled.   Verse 3:   Will Rock here with another clean rap The Rock Hard Mandrills don't give a crap As we make musical songs on OC Remix with lots and lots of really really cool tricks We've got Ghetto Lee Lewis on the keys And I rock shredding my guitar with ease Jason Covenant brings the big epic choirs And all of us together.........????   Man, Will really lost it at the end.  The guy has some anger issues I guess.  

Yeah you should probably know thats not me...

Will, "flyers", "liars", and "suppliers" are a few examples of words that rhyme with "choirs", FYI

Music is up. Worked a bit on scores today. Will work more this week to get up to date.