Blake

steam ID : blizihizake or xxodiax@netscape.net

Here are some more things. Go jogging. Clear your mind. Being outside in a nice dewy morning really gets the creative juices flowing, and your surroundings can actually inspire some ideas. Sometimes being unorganizated can detract from ideas. Make it easier to get your ideas from your thoughts to your monitors. The better you're organized, the faster you can test ideas, and the more ideas you can whip out, the more likely you're going to come across a good one.

Reuben Kee has reached out and affected lots of us, myself as an example. Listening to his music heavily influenced my decision to make my own music, and I've since continued with music passionately. Hopefully it can be taken as a pleasant surprise that while his memory holds through direct social connections such as family, close friends and comrades- his influence in our online community will also be heavily felt and we will share remembrance of his name. Rest in peace Reuben.

RIP Reuben. I loved your music, and I know a lot of people did too.

Hell yeah! Orange Box for $24.99! Time to play some Portal.

wow I just looked it up on the wikipedia and I must say edited

Great northwest hiphop- Common Market and Blue Scholars. Please listen to these two groups. This thread made me sad a little. The fact that so many others jumped in with their contribution though makes me happy at the same time.

Here are some beats that are currently having vocals recorded for them. My friends are planning to perform to at least these at an open mic night at one of the dining centers in our school. http://blizihizake.googlepages.com/Hiphop4.mp3 http://blizihizake.googlepages.com/HipHop5.mp3 http://blizihizake.googlepages.com/Hiphop1.mp3

Does anybody know if the song that played in the mushroom kingdom ever plays again?

Found an awweeesome wallpaper. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hallion/1224116309/ It even comes in 1920 x 1200 : D

For those who aren't quite satisfied with Jay-Z or Kanye (they may sample, but I still find their beats enjoyable to listen to), listen to Common. He's an extremely amazing rapper- saw him live. His band is just extremely talented- a bunch of guys who love doing what they do. The best hip hop you'll really hear that doesn't sample. (If they do sample, it's from their own creation, or a light sample of maybe Martin Luther or something.)

This is actually a pretty sweet beat. I really like the string line. Btw, nigga took yo protools.

Haha wow, this sounds so much more polished than the first version I listened to. This really sounds awesome. Good luck.

Wow this is a pretty big improvement. Great stuff. I have a tiny gripe and it's the build up to 3:11. Try taking out the first note in the 3:11 section and replace it with the second one (so it's just one note), so it lets the listener know right away that that progression is being resolved. Because when I listened to the buildup to 3:11 and then 3:11 I was a tad bit confused about the progression, since your basses are playing a 2 then a 1. Just have it play a 1 for the first note and it could eliminate that confusion, and let the person focus on the resolve. Then just leave the rest to 3:45 the way it is. But some awesome piano riffs wouldn't hurt, especially if the riffs got gradually more complex and crazy, corresponding to the building tension 3:11-3:46. I'd recommend placing a higher string chord further back, maybe a 2nd and a 5th, four measures from 3:46, that just rips out from nowhere to really add to the buildup. That swell has the right idea at 3:45; try to prolong it from somewhere further back, and that combined with some piano love would just lead some to a sonic orgasm. The rest is great. I'm impressed at the improvement between the first version I listened to and this one. Nitpick: I think the piano is a little thin. But it doesn't really take anything away. Keep it up.

I really like that piano riff. It's hot stuff. I think your bass synth is too wet though, as the verb (or what sounds like verb) muds things up. But your higher end plucks are great. But that piano solo is niiice. I'd work on a little more drum variation. Try to be a tiny bit more liberal with the style you're using. Really digging the idea of the increasingly aggressive synth solo before the key change.

I have no doubt that if you go into #ocrwip on IRC, you can get some valuable criticism. Just explain your story. Personally I would try to contact Larry (Liontamer), because he really hunkers down and is an extremely good song reviewer. He is also a judge. I am positive that he can give you advice that can both keep you perfectly within the submission guidelines and accomplish your objective of making a really good song. I don't think it would be that big of a deal if you asked them to hold it in queue while you change things up, as that's what I did with a couple of my ReMixes.

Intro- The beginning string sample is extremely exposed because it's by itself. Nothing past this point really has to do with technical sound, cuz I'm listening on crappy headphones: Once more instruments start coming in, it gets a lot better. The ethnic drums add a crap load to the feel. The violin detaches are perfect. So far, up to 1:16, very high energy. The piano is a good add-on. Finally, the chord change I've been waiting for at 1:32. It sounds good. The bass and violin parts don't sound very connected in what they play. Try to carefully overlap the notes so everything sounds more legato. I know you're thinking "I don't really want legato in this type of mood", but it will add to the epic soaring feeling. If you add slow crests in the bass dynamics at this part between softs to highs and back again, it will really bring the soaring feeling out and make things sound a lot more connected. 1:55- Just realized I don't have any gripes with percussion yet. Good use of it. Once you get into the non-percussion breakdown, there is too much space between points of focus. Keep the listeners focus constantly moving from one thing to another before it gets too bored focusing on one thing. 2:55 does a good job of it, but that idea doesn't really expand. If you 1.break some parts off into rounds and move the round intervals closer and closer together, 2.combined with a much softer dynamic at somewhere before 3:00 with a roaring crescendo into 3:11, and 3. add a long timpani build, I bet people would appreciate that nice mini-climax before it goes back into the low intensity string detache section at 3:14 There is a lot of stuff going on, and it's awesome. I can feel your energy and hard work in this piece, but I think you can achieve a much better intensity of work-> intensity of output efficiency ratio with a lot more "exaggeration" of dynamics, if that's even possible. With this being a pretty linear but intense arrangement, it's easy to get worn out from the constant high dynamic. Give the listener a few more lows with more counterpoints, or harmonies- anything to keep the listener's focus and to maintain the intensity. This is just a baseline critique. Hopefully a few more people will pitch in with a lot of technical nitpicks to help you achieve the caliber of song you're looking for. Keep it up, because it's pretty good right now. I'm not sure about OCR standards. However, if you take take into consideration mine and others' future critiques it will be more than worthy of a spot on OCReMix. On the flip side, take this critique with a grain of salt. A lot of these things might actually affect your arrangement, and if you're happy with your arrangement and don't want to change anything, then don't. However, dynamics and such really do help a lot as far as intensity. Good luck and I'd love to see updates.

Woo chalk one up for three more OCR peeps. This is exciting.

Nother update: http://blizihizake.googlepages.com/terra4.mp3

Updated- about ten more seconds, and tweaked some things. Made some parts more interesting: http://blizihizake.googlepages.com/terra3.mp3

<3 <3 Thanks Can someone make me a sig too with this little guy: and this as a backdrop (you can make this any color to fit the color of the tiger): EDIT: I would like it to use this quote by JigginJonT- " If orchestral music were cancer, Blakey would be a combination of chemotherapy, radiation, and touched by an angel"

That's freakin sweet, but I have one request. Could you make my name "Blake"? Do you think you can change the wip font to like, Times New Roman?

ololol wtff

From ye olde sig shoppe which is dead I s'pose:

Can someone make me a wip sig for a remix involving Kingdom Hearts II and Chrono Cross? It's orchestral, called "Voyage" someone blend these two images together and use a classical/clean font. Very appreciated : D just want it to say like Work in Progress: Voyage arrangegd by Blake Perdue. whatever works. THXXx