The Orichalcon

Not a game music remix, so I'm putting it here. Made it for Madness Day and just for fun. A remix of the music in Madness Consternation. The Orichalcon - Cheshyre Madness (Perturbation Mix)

I had a quick run through the tracklist. I found the following tracks memorable, with the bolded ones the ones that I found myself humming or singing in my head a lot. Royal City of Rabanastre Boss Battle Lowtown Rabanastre Dalmascan Westersand Nalbina Fortress Nalbina Underground Prison Theme of the Empire Chocobo FFXII Version Esper Battle Jahara, Land of the Garif Eruyt Village Clash on the Big Bridge Time of Rest White Room Sochen Cave Palace A Moment's Rest Neighbourhood of Water The Cerobi Steppe A Land of Memories The Feywood Ashe's Theme To the Summit The Esper Battle music in particular was absolutely outstanding. Best track on the album by far. So dramatic and cinematic.

I'm a fan of the album. There are lots of throwaway tracks, but plenty of really good ones too. It's purely the FFXII OST responsible for placing Hitoshi Sakimoto second on my last.fm Top Artists list.

Terrific work. Jill's voice is so beautiful. Andy: Solidly impressed with the way this one sounded. Ethereal is the word that comes to mind. The bass is powerful, but mellow. Like something you'd hear in a Massive Attack song.

Yep, that's Map30.

You're very welcome to have a crack at that track. I like your style of mixing and nobody's on that one at the moment.

September 2007 update DQD is nearing completion. The majority of the tracks have been completed, with the rest being worked on. A few are remaining open so we're still welcoming new mixers. We'll be waiting until the FF7 project has been released before considering a release date for DQD. Plus we'd like to make sure that everything is taken care of properly, instead of releasing prematurely. We've waited this long, might as well do it right! Potential new mixers: As there are only a few tracks left, we're looking to fill them as soon as possible. If you're interested in an open track, just start a WIP and send it to me. If it sounds like what I'm after, I'll get you to finish it and add you to the list.

I'd like to hear a WIP if possible, Jack. Can you email an mp3 to my email address? I'd also recommend contacting either Evilhorde, phoenixdk or Sixto for guitar, since they appear to be the best available guitarists likely to respond.

Very cool stuff. I've registered. Loving the music. You going to release this stuff for separate download?

Like I said, I can't remember how I beat him. I do know I was expecting him to be super difficult, but his HP just went down so damn fast, it was an easy battle. I didn't read any guides, I can't even remember if he used darkja. Maybe I got lucky and he didn't hit me with anything like that? I remember him putting up the paling, but I switched my attack gambits to the strongest magic I had immediately and he went down fast. I did have most of the strongest weapons by that point, and I was level 99 all around. But keep in mind that a good gambit set-up can overcome pretty much anything an enemy throws at you. Arise, Faith and Curaja going consistantly, especially in a short battle, keeps everyone going.

Track 05 "DOOM" is now available for mixing, as DJR has switched to and almost completed a remix of Track 07.

I can't remember how I beat him. I just remember mashing him down really fast with my three strong male leads.

Zodiark... hard? I beat that thing in like 40 seconds.

This is one of those remixes that sounds like it's pretty newbish, but is produced really well. For the dullness of the sounds that you've used, you've actually used them really well. The source was pretty cool, for a LoZ piece. I like what you've done with it, I can hear the changes you've made, they sound quite obvious to me. We're having thunderstorms outside while I'm listening to this, which is mixing with the mood of the song pretty awesomely. Just thought I'd mention that. Anyway. I'm going with BGC on this one. YES

Reverb on the beats? Sounds awful. The mix is pretty much just a rip of the source with a rather beginnerish attempt at Trance-ifying it. I dunno why this was posted to the panel. Positive feedback so you can improve I suppose? Don't use reverb on all the drums/percussion, especially in trance. Make sure the sound is clean. Above anything else, actually remix the source. NO OVERRIDE

Consider that my fault. Since the remix is more closely based on Boco's theme from FF5, I put my foot down to get it moved there. Besides, Final Fantasy 5 doesn't have enough remix love. Where you're lost under the tidal wave of Final Fantasy 7 remixage, you're free to swim around in the shallow pools of Final Fantasy 5.

Phase 1: Record properly Phase 2: Submit to OCR Phase 3: ???? Phase 4: Profit! Seriously, loved it. Make more, make remixes.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that the intro to the piece serves to build up to the source usage. ie: I'm not voting on whether the remix uses the source in XX% of the mix, but rather how it's used when it makes an appearance. I think Siamey's done a decent enough job of utilising the source from the points that he used it. Unlike some of his past mixes where even when the source made an appearance, it was either liberally used, or it was sampled directly. My vote stands. Others can reject it if they feel it's not enough to warrant a pass.

Trance. NO OVERRIDE ok, I like it. The intro is fuck-long as usual. But at least this time the parts of the mix that are actually to do with the source pay close attention to the arrangement. I'd hope for a little more rearrangement when it comes down to it. I think Siamey needs to stop wasting his time trying to remix stuff for OCR. I dunno what it's like elsewhere in the world, but in Perth, from about 10PM-6AM, all night radio stations are dedicated to playing this kind of music without any breaks in between. Siamey could dedicate his life to generating this sort of music for that scene. Could you imagine a 3 hour long trance sessions consisting of just Final Fantasy themes one after the other? It sounds like a nightmare to me, but you could totally see that being played on the radio and just having people chill out to it. The important thing is that I think it could work. With this track. I would've liked to have seen a lot more rearrangement. But for once, I'm going to uber-kind and I'm going to give Siamey the benefit of the doubt here. I think there's just enough to pass this. But I'm also strongly recommending that Siamey stops submitting these kinds of mixes to OCR. It's not fair on him that we keep interfering with his style of mixing, and it's not fair on us to have to reject good material like this due to our standards. YES

I'd be quite pleased to see someone do Opening to Hell in the style of NIN's Eraser. Some good hard industrial drumming would go well with that. Jack: Glad to hear you're still on board.

For Delta-Q-Delta, the doom 2 remixing project. I've had a few people offer to do it, but they all eventually lose interest and stop replying to my check-up emails. The project is nearly completed and we desperately need someone to make us a website to meet our requirements. If you're good with web-design and art, and you think you can work reasonably fast to get this done for us, reply here or send me a PM/email with some references so I can tell you're not bullshitting. I normally wouldn't ask publicly like this, but I'm getting desperate. The site would require a secure way of posting news updates, bios for the mixers, links to the tracks and mirrors. Specific site design and logo ideas would be supplied to anyone who shows interest.

For those interested, the tracks I've received have been mastered, rendered and finalised for the album, except for those neighbouring unfinished tracks. Once I've received DJRedlight, Zircon/Pixie and Djpretzel's finished pieces I'll call that an end to the mixing stage even if the last few tracks haven't been finished. Want to get this project out the door without resorting to accepting low-quality material as filler. It's likely the album will be one CD this time around.

I went through most of the game without using any licence points except for when I needed to learn a certain spell or equip a particular item. So once I realised that you could boost your skills on the licence board, I was well towards the end of the game. Never ran out of points and never had a problem with the game while I wasn't using them. So the complaint against the licence board doesn't really sit with me.

I'm pretty sure most of them know and don't care. Doom is such a popular game that all it's done is give them a shitload of free publicity. I know I personally started listening to a lot of these bands purely because of Doom, so they owe their share of revenue to Prince.

Back when we were deciding what tracks from Dark Side of Phobos were elligable to be added to the site, I emailed Romero about the whole thing. Might as well share it with you guys here since it's relevant to the music production for Doom: I'm assuming this set of UNxx midi's is that original set that Prince gave him.