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Jimmy's not just a posted remixer either. He was a prominent staff member who contributed heavily to the site and the panel when he "worked" here. I know OCR gets accused of a lot of cliqueishness, which is something we generally just laugh at because it's so ridiculous, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're a former staff member of OCR who's contributed as much as Jimmy did, you can post about whatever projects you're working on and ask for as much cash as you want, regardless of whether you're visibly active or not. Also just as an aside, djpretzel, Larry, Nutrious, and I all hung out with Jimmy at PAX (Serious Pie!!!) and you've got to be kidding yourself if you think he just used us a stepping stone. He was there at our panel supporting us and he and DannyB both gave the site a great shout out at the 30 Years of VGM panel. He's definitely OCR-for-life. It honestly boggles my mind when OCR has to defend its staff and former staff against accusations of taking advantage of the community. Give me a break.

What's the discrepancy?

Yeah absolutely. That's the idea in doing this from the ground up with all new music. Lay down specific guidelines for BPM and stuff to keep things easy to mix together into a large set.

Um, what? OCR doesn't require that you have 50% original material for remixes. Where are you getting this?

The Scoreboard and Vote Tallies have been combined into one sheet. I still need to do tallies for block 3, but the scoreboard will automatically update itself as I do them. Remember everyone, one more week to work on your remixes for round 10.

Just remember. OC ReMix, not OCReMix.

Feel free to ask questions via Twitter earlier in the day if you can't watch live.

We're using Hangouts-on-Air and YouTube specifically because it's basically the most frictionless way for us to do this. We don't have to record anything, we don't have to do any kind of post production, and we don't have to set up any streaming software at all. We just sit down, setup the Hangout (which is what we use for our weekly OCR Staff meetings), and just start talking. Google Plus and YouTube take care of the rest. This is part of a small initiative to start leveraging our YouTube channel for more content than just OC ReMixes and album trailers. It's also very important for us as OCR Staff members to be able to do this stuff without it actually taking any extra effort where logistics are concerned. Hangouts-on-Air have essentially zero logistical issues. Also we did repeatedly mention that we were taking questions via Twitter, so all you have to do is tweet @ocremix and we'll see it. Larry and I both monitor OCR's Twitter account quite heavily. We'll try to mention it more often though that Twitter is the preferred method of sending us questions. Thanks for the comments!

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Hey guys. We're trying something new tonight. Me, Larry, Stevo, and Andrew (and possibly some other OCR staffers) are going to do a live OCR Hangout on Air tonight. It'll be a short little show and we'll be taking questions. You can tune in on OCR's YouTube channel. Updates Thanks everyone for tuning in to our first ever Talkback and sending in questions. We're going to try to do an episode every Saturday night with a rotating cast. Because we're using Hangouts on Air, all of the episodes will be immediately available on YouTube as soon as they finish, and will be linked below, so if you missed it because you actually have a social life on Friday nights, you can always check out the episode later! Are YOU an OC ReMixer? Nicole Adams asked whether ReMixers can appear on the show. Hell YES! If you wanna come onto the show and talk about what you're working on, games, music, pop culture, and take questions from fans, we definitely want you on! Just post in the thread that you wanna appear on the show, let us know if you have Saturday night 9PM Eastern free (subject to change) and we'll invite you on to be a part! Episodes

Sounds like Blast Hornet from MMX3. This is really good. Nice approach to the song, organ really adds a lot here. Feels organic. YES

Yeah I'm gonna side with the NOs. Drums are problematic and the track kind of plods and sort of stays the same dynamically throughout, except for that break in the middle where not much is going on. NO, resub

Tight stuff man.

Sounds great. If anyone else is interested in helping Flex out, or in contributing to this project, please post here.

Super Cartography Bros. is a community album concept that I have been thinking about for a couple of years now. The basic idea is trance, dance, and EDM remixes of map themes from the Super Mario Bros. series, mixed together to form a long continuous set of music appropriate for playing in a club. The album aims to arrange map themes specifically because they are shorter source tunes which would be interpreted and expanded into longer pieces of music that focus more on evolving textures in the soundscape rather than strong melodic statements. Like I said before, ideally this would be the kind of set that would be really great in a club to get people dancing. Essentially this would be the album you hide when people accuse OCR of being nothing but techno. xD I have a lot of projects of my own currently at OCR and don't have the time to organize an album like this, but at the same time, I've been sitting on this concept for ages and really want to see it come to fruition. So I'm putting out the call. I'm looking for someone to run this project. I'll act in an executive producer role (basically high level concept stuff), but I need a director to really take the reigns and do recruitment and organization. Specifically I'm looking for someone with experience in trance and EDM, preferably an artist themselves. Genre-restrictions on this album are going to be tight, so you need to know your stuff. The entire album will aim to have a very cohesive sound, so you'll need to be heavily involved with the artists making sure they're working within the album's concept. The timeline on this project is non-existent right now. There are no specific milestones I want to hit in terms of release, though I'd love to be able to debut the album at a MAGFest or something (obviously not this year). Anyone interested in taking the reigns should post here. EDIT (by Flexstyle): Director and co-directors assigned, work has STARTED on this project!

"Less than a week" That's hilarious.

Feels a little weird to listen to given how familiar I am with the source track; some of the harmonic changes are interesting. They all work though. This piece really comes together once that live violin hits. Really smooth stuff. I recommend we post this around the holidays. UES

Hey everyone, need to start filling this out. Apex is in January this year, MLK weekend. Let's get these tracks covered.

They didn't remove them yet. Getting removed in March, probably just before Reaper of Souls comes out.

Not in here, no. If you want to see if there's interest for a competition, post a thread in Community.

Pretty much every YouTube video of the "Ending Theme" includes a soundtrack medley of MM6's robot master themes. I ripped and uploaded the Credits Theme myself to avoid any confusion.

Is it possibly a remix of Palmtree Panic, Bad Future (US) version?

Nope. It won't. Because we (i.e. OCR staff) are already interested in pursuing other avenues of sale in addition to iTunes. It's just a matter of us working out the details. So complaining about it is just akin to yelling at fire to keep burning.

Round 9 music is up. A little bit of trivia: with the release of Round 9's mixes, we're up to about 6 and a half hours of music total for the WCRG!

Rules for the final round will go up tonight in a couple of hours.