Xaleph

I loved spike tv for this - playing the old versions of Indiana Jones within the last week was a nice 'prep' for this new film. This way we can see all the new wrinkles and gray patches the guy has =D. Seriously, Harrison Ford rocks, but dude is old.

I'm doing something on Anime Remix like this in the next release (goal is before June)... BUT... The mouse-over popup menu thingy that you're using is currently 'under' the fm play <object> tag. This is some code from AR that I used to fix this problem. It's real simple but it was a pain to find the solution online. <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> Oh, and of course you should add it to embed just for browser compatibility issues <embed ... wmode="transparent" ... /> This will allow divs with the proper index the availability to appear over this kind of object.

He always treated me with great respect. He was very sincere and talented with his music and apparently with his sports & modeling. I wish we had more great men like him. With regards to Anime Remix - we had some amazing feedback with regard from some of his submissions, and the quality and emotion in these tracks inspired many of us to push musically to achieve the same level of excellence. Truly a great musician with a big heart. My sincere prayers and condolences to his family and friends.

That just made my week - seriously, I'm like trippin' now.

Songs can now be downloaded (Votes sent to OverCoat)

Absolutely amazing entries so far. We really have some top quality mixes and only a few more hours before the end of the competition. I'll have a little bit of a grace period for late remixes (but don't push it). Good luck -xaleph

Yeah you can submit it to either soc or myself before the deadline. I certainly don't mind accepting them - I'll be putting them up on an ftp for soc and myself to consolidate the material before putting it up for votes.

Considering I'm partial to trance, heavy guitars, and industrial - it would be hard for me to rate the majority of these songs with anything less than a 9/10. I would have to say some of my favorite guitar heavy pieces are: 1.1) LuizA - Materia Junkie - Absolutely amazing guitar work and interpretation of the original song. I can honestly say that if I remixed this piece I would have done something along the exact same lines. Hit me up sometime if you want to collab. This is probably my favorite song on the album. Seriously fucking amazing. 1.2) norg, SnappleMan - Full Frontal Assault - Phenomenal guitar work. Basically if your guitars are live, you want them to be as perfect as possible. If your guitars are fake, you want them to be as random/lifelike as possible. Whatever you did - they sound absolutely amazing. 1.3) Sixto Sounds, zircon - Lunatic Moon - Very interesting arrangement. I love the concepts behind it and the synth/guitar work. You can definitely see the touch of zircon and the work of Sixto in here. The genres are played very well, I would only like to see a better transition between the heavy grunge (death/black metal grunge work) and the softer part around :50. That, and during the heavier parts the treble seems to take a bit of a hit. With all that said - I would love to see this thing live between the both of you at some concert. 2)Fishy - Omnislash - Love the guitar work. Listen to the solo around 1:30+. Seriously amazing work. 3) Darangen - Collision - Synth and Guitar work are pretty good. The drum sound engineering could use some cleaning up. The concepts are pretty good. This is one of those epic guitar songs that I would just love to hear some singing in. I hope you record a version with vocals in the future. I would have to say some of my favorite trance/techno pieces are: 1) bLiNd, Leifo - Fading Entity - This is my favorite trance song on the album. Laid back, yet it has a very driving beat. Again, the rhythm is very static, the break points vary up the static rhythm. Love the guitar work - very well placed and professionally mixed. Again - this is my favorite trance song on the album. 2) FFmusic Dj - Ahead On Our Rave - Happy Hardcore LOL? Not a big fan of the genre tbh, however he did use some really cutting edge samples for percussion, synth , and sound engineering work. Notice how the bass drum actually hits a high and low set of frequencies, very tight - the bass is slightly higher in frequency (at least on these headphones). Definitely on the cutting edge, even if it isn't a genre I particularly like. Rhythm is relatively dynamic (follows that thing I was saying earlier). I would say technically speaking this is the best trance song on the album - though not my favorite. 3) tefnek - motor crazycycle - What a unique take on the motorcycle song. This was one of those songs that I really wasn't looking forward to the remix of - because if taken pretty literally would be pretty boring. Pretty heavy techno if you're into that stuff. Definitely some great harmonic devices going on in this piece. The only thing that really drove me up the wall was the drumline. For most techno - especially progressive techno (which this is not) if you take out the synths, the drumline should be interesting enough to be it's own song. Though there are changes in the rhythm, I would say that the synths/pads really drive this piece. The sound engineering is professional (incredibly clean channels and perfect mastering). All in all, very creative piece and professionally mixed. The drumline thing I mentioned is ridiculously picky just because I listen to a crapload of trance/techno. 4) bLiNd - JENOVA Celestial - Great trance music. Awesome synths, lovely pads, great break, well mastered. Again, only gripe is the rhythm. I understand it's not progressive trance - but very very well done. Probably one of my favorites. I would have to say some of my favorite industrial pieces are: 1) sephfire, sgx - No Such Thing As the Promised Land - Sure there is! wait... Ok alright, this is probably my favorite industrial song on the album. Very dynamic - love the choice of drums/synths/fx etc. Very creepy - what else could you ask for? Maybe some equalizing that gives some of the channels the usage of the higher frequency ranges. 2) Tweek - Sephiroth's Wake - Clean, good mastering for the most part - interesting choices of synths (I think they make it almost happy). However that almost happy feeling is destroyed around 1:52. Great work on this piece. Xaleph - Son of Chaos - What I'm not allowed to like or review my own piece? Since the gauntlets are off with my own stuff here I go. The rhythm is a bit lackluster, the choirs clip in the beginning slightly, the ending is boring, and that synth solo is just kind of... thin and boring. Other than that it's one of my favorite pieces =P (and I still listen to it). Anyways those were my favorites - though mainly because of genre. Out of genre, Zircon/Pixie had a great piece, djpretzel/Vig with his clean sound engineering and guitar work (Tifa song couldn't have been easy to mix), and the Costa de Sol mix by RTF - that jazz is just awesome man. Great work guys .

It's worth the wait guys - just hang tight ^^

I have to head out from work, but yeah - that's about right. Obviously ocremix did something that provided protection and explanation through the law. I need to know what that is/was. Zircon suggested that ocremix may have registered as an official non-profit. I wonder if this is what gives ocremix the protection. In which case I'll do the same for AR.

I agree with you - obviously this guy does not. Even the MPA disagrees with that. http://www.mpa.org/copyright_resource_center/copying

I was hoping to get some help from DJP or from some of the judges or remixers in the community. While uploading information from animeremix.org to last.fm - I ran into a slight issue while uploading Shael Riley's Chipmunk's remix. He's already registered as a "popular artist" and they're suggesting that both him and myself do not have rights to the song he arranged - they are suggesting that we need to get the consent of the original artist. How did ocremix get around this in order to put stuff up on last.fm? I was looking at section 107 of the copyright laws (fair use doctrine), I'm not a lawyer but I understand a good portion of it. Now last.fm is in England if I remember correctly - but since the original music was in America (in this case) I'd imagine that it would fall under American copyright laws. So do I need to come up with a terms of use and that other jazz that ocremix came up with to suggest ownership of these remixes? Do you guys have a lawyer working with you to help resolve these issues? What do I need to do in order to resolve this? Also feel free to give me a call about this if you have my number - it's very important to me that this doesn't become something it's not.

A while back I had done a lot of research on the kind of midi controlling hardware (keyboard) that I wanted to use. My situation was a little different though, I use a laptop to do a lot of my "doodles" and then use my main system for more professional mastering (and audio recording etc etc). So I wanted something that made it easy for me to travel, and still compose good music. I ended up finding a great solution, and I got it for a great price off of ebay (practically new) with a lot of it's accessories (backpack and other parts). On zzounds (as zircon used in his post) you can find the sources here: Backpack $69.95 M-Audio Oxygen 8 v2 $119.00 Now I got mine a while back, and it's the previous version of Oxygen 8 (whose setup I liked quite a bit, larger mod wheels and pitch bend wheel). It has 25 keys, mod/pitch wheels, it has some nice knobs you can determine through your software what you want them to control, it has a midi channel selector, and buttons to change your octave set. The new version has quite a few more options, but the older model certainly do what I bought it for. It's great, you don't need to use a power cable or anything, just connect the usb cable and it's automatically powered. I use this on business trips, family trips, in the car if I'm not driving, on planes, and many times at home because it's easier to set up than getting all my gear connected (and then having to put it away when I'm done). It's space efficient and simple. I'm not saying it's a must have, but I would highly recommend it for software composition.

Yeah man, feel free to submit this to http://www.animeremix.org - there are plenty of people who would appreciate this piece ^^

>.< please put up a working link

Psy and goa trance have a very specific set of rules that make it what it is. For the longest time, I thought some of my earlier stuff was psy or goa - in reality it was industrial trance or industrial techno. I would certainly call this industrial trance/techno. With that said, I think your stuff is pretty cool - certainly mastering will come with time of practice, I would say first focus on composition and ideas. Keep coming up with what Prophecy and GLL call "doodles" - basically just songs that aren't particularly anything in particular, but just a bunch of neat ideas. That's how you really get better. Take an idea and go with it. I think it's really neat to see someone start off with the same genres that I did (your stuff sounds uncannily like my first pieces =X). As far as goa and psy, check out Infected Mushroom's earlier stuff as well as Astral Projection. If you want to hear some of the more modern psytrance, Misted Muppets is definitely pure psytrance (they don't really deviate from the norm) if you want to hear the actual genre in it's pure form. Astral Projection is considered "Dawn" psytrance (or morning psytrance) and Infected Mushroom would be considered "Dusk" psytrance (or night psytrance). Misted Muppets would definitely fall under night psytrance as an fyi. The reason DJs call them with this genre, is that in psytrance clubs - it's when they play the music. Anyways check out the artists I've mentioned - they really give a great foundation for psytrance. Generally you'll find psytrance is around 140-150 bpm, there is psy chillout which is incredibly slow ambient style psychedelic music (same synths and pads - just very slow) and psychedelic which is pretty slow (100-135 bpm, sometimes slower). As far as critiquing the music you've proposed, Suspended could use more percussive work - if you take all musical components out of the song except the percussion, is it something that you could still produce as a song? If not, try adding more variations to really produce that song. It'll make it much more dynamic and exciting. The bassline really needs some action - try listening to other psytrance songs to understand how the bass is a part of the song. Generally psytrance (or goa) uses something called sidechain compression. Check that phrase out on google sometime - there are some nice tutorials out there. Anyways - concept is there, you need to refine what you've created, especially with the percussion and bass. These items will really drive your song and your melodic/harmonic devices will fall into place.

Ryan8bit has always been very serious about his production - and the better you get the more you realized your previous stuff sucked (trust me, I'm not too proud of some of the songs I wrote a while back). It also makes you concerned about your new stuff, because it's hard to make a "perfect" piece in terms of production. There will always be something you don't like about your piece - especially if you're a very talented artist. This is why it's hard for anyone to convince him that his stuff is good enough. (btw - he's a great guy to work with) I realize this is very off topic BUT: We have some songs that will be coming out hopefully soon. We've re-established communication (for like a year of solitude) and we may start on some new mixes. As mentioned before, 3 pieces that we've produced that have never been on ocremix will be submitted before mid fall. As far as the judges go - you know how I feel. They're doing work that will always be controversial, they put their reputation on the spot every time they judge on a piece as their comments are put into the judge thread, they have to let the musician who put their whole heart into it that they didn't make the snuff (which is so hard to do), multiply this process by like 100 songs a month, and it just really is discouraging after all their hard work to get a thread that publicly disagrees with their decision. IMO it's a free site, lead by people who vote for free, to provide quality free songs, so that you don't spend your own free time trying to find quality free remixes. The fact that they do so much work for us is just awesome. And also, not only do the judges on ocr do the work, the judges on ocr do a great job at it - keep up the good work.

I can submit my songs to ocremix - I'm sorry the project didn't work out.

If you do post in animeremix.org - feel free to post in spanish, Eko can translate as she's had over 8 years in spanish (6 from middle school-highschool and 2 in college).

Yep I have a kid too

not according to the expansion site they call it a hero class. http://worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/

Wow that's pretty sweet guys!

http://www.animeremix.org/competitions/Simpsons_Tribute/download.php?song=xaleph_simpsons.mp3 I was thinking of remixing it to sound something like this. I'm hoping to actually see this movie this Saturday. Not sure if I'll bring my son though. I love that Green Day mix btw - thought it was pulled off pretty well (though I wish they made something a little more creative).

Anime Remix is actually having a tribute contest to the Simpsons. I'm thinking of doing a trip hop theme (maybe even adding some vocals).

Yeah my stuff tends to be pretty dark, but the overall mix will jump around between various genres. You could write it in just about any genre you want.