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Those beats+bass are wicked; makes me wanna get up and dance. Awesome gating and rolling kicks. I love how this sounds really old school with the SNES style strings around halfway through. Lots of old console sounding synths, but still a lot of great effects. Awesome. As much as I hate the phrase, I see this becoming an "instant classic" on OCR. YES~

This song really lacks a substantial bassline. I feel that with so much attention payed to the percussion work, a bassline that locks in with it would have really helped this piece. This mix sounds top-heavy to me; it really needs a stronger bass element. Sequencing is a little mechanical throughout the piece; it could do with some humanization. The arrangement is cool. The development of the themes is really nice; good highs and lows. I think this needs some work on the production end. NO, resub

Just gonna echo Larry here as I pretty much agree with his vote. I'm cheating! I was with you until the bassoon came in at :54. It had a really muffled, mechanical sound. Pizz strings and drumkit lent the whole piece a kind of clunky sound. Orchestral percussion would've been a better fit, I think, because your drumkit had no strong bass element to lock in with (in this case I mean something analogous to bass guitar). Arrangement is okay; the variation was nice, but I felt like the whole thing plodded too much. All of your melodic elements are really soft strings and winds, but there are parts of the composition that demand a stronger sound; 2:40 in particular stands out. There's no energy, no power there; I feel like that should be a big climactic moment, but I get nothing. Needs work. NO, resub

Awesome music.

Can we get a source breakdown on this? This doesn't sound anything like the original to me. :\ -- Production-wise I have no qualms. It's got a really great spacey-jazz sound. Synthwork is nice, guitar is nice, and there's a good balance. I'm going to tentatively vote NO. I really don't hear a strong connection to the source here at all. There are bits where DA starts singing which sound like the melody from the source, but then that melody deviates. The harmonic color of the chords has also changed completely. If someone played this song for me without telling me it was a Xenogears mix, I'd never be able to tell, and I listen to this particular source tune a lot.

This mix has a really great atmosphere. I love that pulsing beat and the bassline. A lot of the background writing is really subtle, which is nice because there's a good balance between all the different elements. I like how you carried over the overall mood of the source without making the whole thing sound like a sound upgrade/adaptation. The development of this piece with the rising and falling tension is great. I like it! YES

Thanks to the hard work of OCRE and TheOtaku, we've managed to tally up and verify all the results. Visit the Tournament page over at Challonge for the latest scores and next week's match-ups. A note about voting: there were about five people who didn't vote in every battle, so their votes were discounted. In addition, there were three people who voted twice, clearly by accident. Please make sure that when you're voting, you vote in every battle, and that you only vote once. Each battle ended up working out to 64 legit votes in total. Concerning the Revenge Bracket: I haven't decided how it's going to work out yet; all that I know right now is that match-ups WILL be scrambled before starting. The mixing stage for the Revenge Bracket is also going to alternate with the normal bracket, so if you lost this round, take a week to regroup and get ready. As for the winners, the match-ups are live, so feel free to start remixing! Round Two: FIGHT!

Making mistakes or not voting in this round does not preclude you from future voting. A big thanks to OCRE and TheOtaku, who are helping me with results verification and vote tallies.

In case anyone asks, yoozer was given special permission to complete his votes because of timezone issues.

Now that I've added my votes to each battle, voting is closed. I'll be tallying up the votes today. Remember, if you didn't vote in each of the 8 battles, your vote will not count. Since votes are publicly available, I'd appreciate it if someone else who is not a competitor could do an independent verification and also tally votes. Remember, don't count anyone who hasn't voted in all battles.

Oh man I love that bassline; it gets me groovin'. This is a great laid-back take on the source that still manages to have a lot of energy. Brass stabs are hot. Nice riffs on all the elements of the source in the solo sections. There might be a little to much reverb, but I guess it contributes to the spacey quality of the soundscape. Totally diggin' this. Great variation, great groove, great sound. Awesome. YES

This starts out as a pretty fun dance track that ends up losing steam about halfway through. I hear maybe two minutes worth of material looped over a five and a half minute track, which is fine for something in the club, but we're looking for more of a standalone piece here with more development. I'd like to see some more variation in the arrangement. Maybe try switching gears around the middle and break down the beat in some kind of halftime pulse; anything to break the monotony. Regardless, the take on the source is pretty nice, so you're on the right track there. It's got a sweet pulsing quality with lots of cool dreamy sounds like the softer synths and piano. I think there's something weird going on with your compression though; things start sounding squashed whenever the vocals come in. I think the other joojes are better qualified to address the more technical aspects of the production, so I'll leave it at that. NO, resub

The arrangement isn't too bad; I like the surf-rock sound. It's a fairly straight-forward genre-adaptation with some nice soloing. I think the real problem arises from the really saturated reverb. Without it, I think the mix would sound empty, but with it, the mix sounds hollow. There's a lot of empty space here and your elements get muddied up, especially the percussion. You should scale back on the reverb and go for a slightly cleaner sound. NO

At the request of Arek, this project's coordinator, Milkyway Wishes has been cancelled. Artists are free to release their work through any venue they wish, including--but not limited to--posting the releases in the Workshop forum or submitting them to OCR.

I'm finally able to play TF2 again. Who the hell are all these newbs?!

I'm not going to make voting anonymous. People should be voting based on the music, and if they aren't, they're in the minority. I trust the community enough to play fair.

One of the reasons I read DC. Spider-Man is one of the whiniest superheroes ever.

Just wanna quickly address something that's been coming up a lot on IRC. A lot of people are disappointed that they weren't able to compete this time around because they didn't know about it or they didn't have time or whatever. I want everyone to know that judging by the success of Round One of GRMRB, I'm definitely planning on running another tournament after this one is over. The next tournament will be the Grand Maverick Remix Battle, that is to say, it's going to focus on the Mega Man X series' bosses. As of now, I have not decided on the exact dates, and sign-ups are not open, so please don't start claiming Mavericks or anything like that. I want to give the GRMRB my full attention at the moment. I'll provide further details when we get there, so for now, please enjoy the current tournament, and make sure you go vote.

http://toucharcade.com/2010/01/12/sword-poker-a-fantastic-hybrid-of-poker-and-rpg/ Bought this game on my iPod yesterday. It's really fun and the poker-based battle system is really strategic. Great music too. There's a lite version you can try but the full version is going for like a dollar right now. Check it out.

Thanks to Kyle for the list and a mirror. Thanks Douliface for the mirror. Voting will end at Noon on Saturday. Eastern Standard Time.

You can and should vote for yourself! Have confidence!

voting is go GO GO!!! Check the first post for details.

I'm back from Kung Fu and I'm going to eat dinner. Uploading mixes now.

Alright guys, I got everyone's mixes, but I said you have until 9PM EST to get any fixes in so 9PM EST it is. I have kung fu class UNTIL 9PM and then I have to eat so files will be up for voting sometime tonight.