Red Shadow

For Geoff. 1966-2024

i love that classic tracker programs still work on modern systems

Happy 30th birthday Earthworm Jim! I was invited to a groovy little celebration album called "Earworm Jam" to honor the occasion; here's my contribution (which I'll be submitting to OCR), and there's a link in the description to the full album if you want to check it out!
 

you already helped a bit i think...i started something a few days ago after writing&reading on here.
it's not super duper but was enough to make me quite happy. was so starved for getting a groove going before!!

ha, that's cool redshadow. i haven't been using soundcloud for a while. i'll get back to you when i have anything new and noteworthy, because i love the idea of my music being blasted to some random ppl in the states.
but it's gotta be something new. my music from 2018ish was really just about coping with the strange new reality. i can do much better...but it's gotta happen!!
i gotta get out of this strange anti-creative loop. for reals.

definitely. over-analytical and just plain traumatized by all the crap that happened in those years.
i have tried some pure cbd early on in 2019, when the voices situation was still pretty new. it's not really for me.
i tried some weed a few weeks ago, and it was good for letting the fingers, like, just fall on the keyboard and see what they do. but it's a thing i better only do once a month or so. my history with cannabis is iffy.
 
anything meditative is the way to go. biggest change for me has been doing regular cold showers. whenever i feel like not quite myself, cold water shock is good for gaining some presence. big fan of wim hof, and what he's saying about the vagus nerve and stuff. if i'm not wrong, that nerve can be connected to hearing voices, and becoming acquainted with the sensation of the cold can help you gain back some control.

Hey btw a scant 8 of the tracks on your soundcloud account aren't available for download. any interest in rectifying that so I can blast them in my car to the chagrin of any pedestrian?

He certainly seems like the kinda person who would be down for a little clowning around on the side.

My only regret is not buying the clown van for $2999.99 when it was still up for sale...

i can kinda see that cbd assertion, as i was at my most creative when i was a pothead in my late teens, and it was a time when access was limited to low quality stuff that was mostly comprised of cannabinoids other than thc and full of stems and seeds
the few times i've had the opportunity to try the high octane stuff that is legal in most states, i kinda lose any ambition and just go with the flow of whatever is happening around me

This is some of the best music I've heard in at least a decade. Seriously.

yeah, it's a similar sound. but without any real compositional meat.
he showed me this back then. it's a good mockup thing, but doesn't really do justice to starcraft.
i was thinking about finding and posting it, actually. so thanks, shadow!
shna is a genius, but this one is just a little creative project of his from a looong time ago, and it neither captures the energy of the sound of the OST, nor is it quite there compositionally. 
it's still very fucking good. illustrates what i was getting at perfectly. like, my mockup would be much worse
 
i guess my emphasis is: the starcraft ost is really really good. like, much better than a lot of good albums. my opinion.
ok, part of my appreciation of the OST is that i think we are embroiled in a global war about what is human these days, and the terran themes have become emblematic to me. they're a symbol to me.
i just cannot deny that. 
that's why i have listened to them for so many times.
 
it's definitely grounded in the awesomeness of the compository amazingnesss though.
ha
 
seriously, starcraft
 
what a good story!!!! terrans all the way!
ZERG MUST DIE!!!!
 

Tommy got a special gift this christmas. When he rubbed his new lamp he unleashed the ultimate power in the universe....the Game Genie! All of a sudden Tommy's consoles were able to make all kinds of new sounds never before thought possible, even allowing his different systems to sing together in unison. Tommy felt like he was ready to conquer the world. But first, to prove his worth, Tommy needed to face off against his genie in the ultimate showdown.
http://ubiktune.org/releases/ubi030-shnabubula-game-genie
http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/game-genie

1) It was pretty much given that you shouldn't go to UnMod while at work/school/whatever. Anything seen there is pretty much your own fault.
2) Awesome sig, RS.

the bass on the first one sure is great. the slapping, plus all the pedal fx use to make it sound like a completely faithful upgrade. 
i've been listening to terran 1-3 for so long when i go out with headphones. must've clocked in over 100 times in the last year.
i like everything about the OG tracks. my appreciation for the arrangement and mixing kept growing. i mean i love the tunes, but i love their sound equally by now.
completely sweet spot between BGM and rocking for me. not obtrusive, but as rockin as can be if you try progrock with that kind of midlate 90's soundset.
i think the holy grail for SC terran remixes would be to pay equal amounts of homage to both the tunage and the peculiar prog/BGM makeshift mix, without copying too hard.
and the megamix idea by BattleCake seems good to me. Terran 1-3 are totally a single progrock suite. but it has to be intervowen and stuff. could be pretty conservative, could be completely insane, because between the 3 tracks you have just sooo many motifs to work with. you can generate hundreds of completely unique mixes from the terran 1-3 idea pool.
yeah that's just my idea. not starting work on it anytime soon i think, because...well i need more chopz and/or luck. but maybe i can start saving some patches that sound starcrafty, and making some bullshit music with them. yeah, starcraftian mockup. crappy alternate universe OST version. sounds great in theory.
has anyone here tried their hand at sounding kinda like the SC Terran mixes? i think it should be fun.

This is probably most relevant to the Unmod folks, so I guess I'll put it here. I've archived the Off-Topic forum, as the forums themselves have been pretty sleepy as a discussion space over the past few years; most of the forum activity happens in the Workshop sections. I don't feel like we particularly need a separate space for something as nebulous as "off-topic" anymore, so it's been moved to a read-only state.

Honestly, I think the phase out comment and the unexplained retroactive banning is what set off the ticker for the UnMod deletion turning into the craziness it was. When it happened, there was already a ton of bad blood.
Like I've said before, I can understand the staff's perspective on most of this, but I still want to point out that many of the people that "lashed out" were the ones that felt grossly misunderstood... A lot of people were grouped and stereotyped. When you do that to hundreds of people that use a forum every day and have formed a tight-knit community after years and years, and they are mostly 15-25 year olds with nothing but time on their hands (heeeee OCR demographic) They are gonna group together and lash out at whoever is responsible... And believe me, there were a few individuals that pretty much thrust themselves out into the spotlight when it was about to happen, pretty much just "asking for it" and then becoming dismayed when everyone was angry at them. I was just surprised that they were so surprised... What do you expect?
I mean, what did I do to anyone before it happened? I am a nice person, and I still felt like I was being punished for something I didn't do, and noses were turned upwards at me. Maybe that's the story all around for everyone involved. I got worked up and angry about it as much as anyone else did. It left a bitter taste in the mouths of a lot of people. I'm just glad people are good-natured enough to eventually let things go, I hope. I mean in the grand scheme of things, it's not important, but then again, what is, especially on the internet? This place? This community of OCR? Well that's what UnMod was too. You latch on to what you care about.
To Darke, I've said this before but I do feel bad that dudes like you and Smoke had to sit there and handle all that stuff while the people that deleted it were out playing, but I just as you shut it off and watched kung fu movies, it was the right thing to do, and even if it was a mess, it wasn't like cleaning up toxic waste. Not sweating stuff like this is what makes life easier, and I think it everyone had just not taken it all so seriously from the beginning, none of this crap would have happened
It's over though, and everyone's cool now that will be cool, and I'm glad that I can just say what I want again in a place where I've spent way too much time :J. You all cool dudes.

Actually, I'm attracted to men and women for the simple reason that some of them are attractive.
I don't need no definition of my type, and all that bs. I find someone attractive, I am attracted, I try to get closer to that person. Sometimes its physical, sometimes its psychological, sometimes its intellectual, but in all cases it has the commonality that it is attractive to me.
I don't quite expect you to understand that, because apparently you need reasons to be attracted to someone beyond that person being attractive.

parts of that terran 3 cover give me Infected Mushroom vibes

Thanks again, Deathtank. Just discovered Pete and Bas and this PKJ freestyle which is sooo good.
 
 

Been getting really into KNOWER lately.
 
 

Wow, look at all these familiar faces showing up out of nowhere! Goes to show how much this website has been on everyone's thoughts over the years.
DJP, I've always enjoyed reading your long write-ups for each ReMix. They really show that you care about people's contributions to this place. You have always been very thoughtful. So, thanks not only for your hard work, but also for being so passionate in the process. Hopefully, as a listener and ReMixer, I was able to reciprocate well enough.
Joined a little late in the site's history. But glad I was able to experience a slice of OCR before YouTube and social media were a thing. Fond memories of waking up early in the morning to check for new posted ReMixes. I'd listen to everything that was on the front page. Not just from games I knew.
Oh, OCReMix... you'll always have a special place in my heart ❤️

y'all, the drum work in this gave me some infected mushroom vibes, and the vocals just carried that right along to a proper conclusion. suffice to say: i dig it. very well done

Another former unmod denizen chiming in to say thanks for the memories. Wild to think that a video game remix website has led me to form lasting and meaningful friendships
 
The music had always been enjoyable too. Enjoy the time away man!