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  1. On 1/2/2018 at 1:31 PM, jmr said:

    @Liontamer & @Rexy:-D:-D:-D! Glad you're both coming this year!

    ...aaaaand I didn't see either of you at all.  Curse of having responsibilities at MAGFest, I guess. Glad I was able to at least see and chat with some of you folk, even if it was just a "hi, gotta run!" type thing. 

    Thanks to everyone that came out to see Marshall Art on Saturday. For those that missed it, we played both "But You're Still Hungry" and an updated, chippy post rock version of "Meteorites and Rabbits" - it was fun to revisit my first ever ocremix after almost a full decade. The MAGFest media guys (including @Cyril the Wolf who was on stream audio duties during our set) did a killer job of documenting our show... flubs and all. Being an international band that only gets to rehearse together in the few days at MAGFest is super fun, y'all should try it some time. ;)

     

  2. I'm going!

    Marshall Art is performing on the main stage this year - we're doing an all-VGM set with a load of new material and some refreshed versions of our older covers (including two posted here on OCR ;)). We've also got a guest drummer, keyboardist, and second guitarist for this show. It's gonna be a fun set! We're up on Saturday at 5pm.

  3. We've been working on and hinting at this for months, now it's finally available!

    10" VINYL: https://theyetee.com/collections/all/products/timeline
    DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: https://marshallart.bandcamp.com/album/timeline-ep?label=3683409508&campaign=ocr&utm_source=ocr

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    Back in 2016, Marshall Art was invited to play the chipspace stage at MAGFest. For that show, we invited our friend and past collaborator Cory Johnson to join us (partially as an excuse to finally see and hear some of his music played live.) We collaboratively re-arranged some vgm covers from our back catalogs for NES and two guitars, and crafted a new cover specifically for that show. 
    A year later, it seemed an aweful shame to just let these arrangements sit unreleased. So, this spring we polished them up, recorded new parts, and with the help of our new friends at The Yetee had them pressed to 10" vinyl. It's been a long process getting these ready, but we're happy to finally have them available and very proud of the end product!

    Endless thanks to Michael for the mastering; Ami for the live photo; Mike, Marc, and Drew at The Yetee; and Sebastian at Materia Collective for making this release happen!

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    Let chiptune progressive rock duo Marshall Art and post-rock guru Cory Johnson take you on a remarkable journey through time with this video game arrangement EP. 

    The Timeline EP features music from the Legend of Zelda series, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and Undertale. Born out of a live collaboration at MAGFest 2016, these four songs have been rearranged, combining authentic NES hardware and effects-laden electric guitar to form chiptune rock epics unlike anything else out there!

    SIDE A:
    Fairy Fountain [from The Legend of Zelda]
    But You’re Still Hungry [“Ruined World” from Chrono Trigger]
    SIDE B:
    Towns 1 (Hello World) [“Onett” from Earthbound]
    MGLV: The Easiest Enemy [“Megalovania” from Undertale]

    10” black with colored splatter vinyl (45 RPM) with full color label and jacket. Album artwork by Drew Wise and photography by Ami Moregore.

  4. On 3/18/2017 at 5:36 PM, CarlosR said:

    NotSo Fatso       http://www.slickproductions.org/notsofatso.php (officil By Disch)   http://drag.wootest.net/notso/ (fork By Drag) (new links for update)

    Unless there's some reason for it not to be included, Rainwarrior's updated NSFplay is pretty much the go-to reference for accurate NSF playback. The winamp plugin (in_yansf.dll) is included with the standalone player download. http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nsfplay/
    It hasn't been updated in a while but it's open source and Brad is still maintaining it - he's busy working on his NES game, though.

    On a related note, http://ocremix.org/artist/4477/brad-smith's homepage should probably be updated to http://rainwarrior.ca/. :)

  5. On 1/9/2017 at 3:10 PM, zykO said:

    guys, i didn't have nearly enough ocremix in my magfest this time around

     

    guess i have to go again next year

    I know the feeling. I spoke with Level99 at the DoD party, and briefly encountered Rama and Starla as they were leaving, but that's about it. :(

    I'm really bummed I missed seeing DetectiveTuesday playing with the OneUps (although I happened to catch part of the soundcheck earlier in the day by pure luck) and missed every single time DrumUltimA performed (like, how is that even possible? he played like 16 thousand shows with different people!). Price you pay for staffing at MAGFest I guess.

    In better news, the DoD listening party/panel and web stream went smoother than it ever has, and each and every MAG Underground performance is up on youtube, so I guess my work paid off. :D

  6. On 12/1/2016 at 10:59 AM, DetectiveTuesday said:

    I'll be performing with The OneUps this time. Swing on by if you want!

    SWEET. Looking forward to seeing you play!

    On 8/11/2016 at 4:25 PM, jmr said:

    I'll *most likely* be going. 

    So yeah, I'm going now! Won't be performing or doing visuals officially this year, but I may try to cook up a short chip set I can play at the chipspace or something like that... :)

  7. So hey, Undertale is a year old. Not too early for a MASSIVE TRIBUTE ALBUM, is it?  Doug Perry (you may know him around these parts as DrumUltimA) and the Materia Collective organized this tribute album with nearly 100 arrangements of the game's soundtrack. I'm on the album with Marshall Art, and there are at least a handful of other posted OCReMixers on here, so I think it's kosher to have a thread in the community forum, right?

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    Materia Collective is proud to announce its latest album: FALLEN: An Undertale Tribute, a sprawling collection of nearly 100 remixes of Toby Fox’s acclaimed Undertale score, for release on Thursday, September 15. The album not only brings together a massive group of musicians to celebrate Fox’s indie hit, but incorporates original artwork from a range of artists to add a noteworthy visual component to the album.

    FALLEN is divided into seven separate discs with tracks carefully selected and categorized by theme. Each disc represents one of the seven souls of Undertale and comes with a complete set of original artwork by one of seven artists. The visual and musical style of each disc is determined by the corresponding soul’s trait, from Patience to Justice - and, of course, Determination.

    This is not the first time the Materia has worked with Undertale. Earlier this year, Materia Publishing debuted as a new branch of Materia when it released Toby Fox’s score on iTunes, which promptly charted on the billboards; more recently, Materia Publishing collaborated with iam8bit and Toby Fox to release a limited edition vinyl for Undertale collectors.

    FALLEN has been in the works since early this year, before the release of Materia’s second album, SUCCESSOR. Album director Doug Perry chose to head this project due to the popularity of Undertale among the musicians of Materia, and while it started off as Materia’s third major project, the sheer scope of the album resulted in an eight-month working period for participating musicians to ensure the highest possible quality, and will be released as Materia Collective’s seventh remix album.

    http://www.materiacollective.com/music/fallen-undertale-tribute/
    https://materiacollective.bandcamp.com/album/fallen-an-undertale-tribute
    https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/fallen-an-undertale-tribute/id1152673403?ls=1&uo=8&at=1l3v4op
    https://loudr.fm/release/fallen-an-undertale-tribute/S7RFW


     

  8. I saw this thread was bumped so I re-listened to this remix again recently. It's always been one of my favorites on the site, and I feel like some of the original material I've done with Marshall Art might owe itself to the noisy, abrasive sound and chaotic drums of this remix.

    I kind of want to do my own version of this source at some point, but then I listen to this and realize how hard it'd be to make something I like more than this. 

  9. I agree with what k-wix said, advertisements on youtube feel more directly attached to the music than the website ads. The website ads are seen when you are browsing the site, reading the write ups, etc, and it gives the (correct?) impression that the ad revenue goes toward maintaining the website and paying for the costs associated with hosting and delivering the content.  The moment I see an ad on music on when browsing youtube (where, apart from the time it takes to generate and upload the video (from what I understand that's a fairly automated process) there is no direct cost to OCR), it gives me the impression that the channel is making a profit off of the content. If individual artists and viewers are getting the impression that youtube ads are linked to making a profit off of the content, I wonder how the Big N, Squeenix, etc, would perceive it.

    Without this turning into an argument about fair use (since that's not the point of this thread), is there any precedent for a monetized youtube channel with 100% of it's content being derived from other copyrighted works?  (EDIT: Question retracted, there are OBVIOUS cases that I should have been able to think of. Chalk it up to a brain fart. :P)

     

  10. I see your point, and agree with what you say about the adaptable definition of chiptune. My thinking was that chiptune (regardless of whether or not it's produced by an actual sound chip, or a tracked sequence of samples) is inherently digital. I don't think you'd find anyone who'd disagree with that. The video examples you linked are entirely analog. The composition is made by drawing shapes on paper and photographing them on a film strip, and the playback is done using a standard film projector (a beam of light shines through the film which exposes a variable amount of light to a photodetector, which is connected to an amplifier). There's no hard limitation to the complexity of sound that could be reproduced in this method and technology, in theory one (with a lot of patience and time) could draw out the exact images needed to reproduce, say, a perfect recreation of a human voice or an orchestra.  

    In short, if chiptune is a duck, I'd argue that those graphical sound compositions are a whole 'nother species of bird.  Maybe a swan. :-P

    I don't like using "chiptune" as a genre name either. It's more of a tool set or instrument than it is it's own style of music. But I will concede that if you were to look at what is typically classified in the genre of "chiptune", then those compositions would indeed fit right in. I don't hear too many people calling the swaths of moog synthesizer records released in the 60's and 70's "chiptune" albums, though. 

  11. 10 hours ago, lazygecko said:

    Chiptunes were invented in 1930s Soviet Russia.

    As cool sounding as those videos are, they're not chiptune. Calling them chiptune is like calling a horse and buggy the first automobile.

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    Today is Marshall Art's fifth anniversary of being a band! To commemorate this, we've gathered up all of the covers we've recorded in the past five years and collected them into a single album. If you've ever wanted to hear Ecco The Dolphin music arranged like a Pink Floyd song (with chiptunes), or Chrono Trigger with elements of Deftones (and chiptunes) thrown in, then we've got the album for you.

    Bandcamp: https://marshallart.bandcamp.com/album/gallery (pay what you want!)
    Loudr: http://www.loudr.fm/release/gallery/sC8xq
    iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/gallery/id1127919212
    Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gallery-Marshall-Art/dp/B01HIDV6TA/
    Google: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Marshall_Art_Gallery?id=B2rpezvyhnt4uqdztqcck267dfy
    Stream the album on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/3SpBNgs8MrkycLSm306nFb |

    Tracklist: 

     


    Side A:
    1. Eccos (feat. Alexander Liss) [Ecco The Dolphin] 07:48
    2. But You're Still Hungry [Chrono Trigger] 05:56
    3. MGLV: The Easiest Enemy (feat. Cory Johnson) [Undertale] 05:45
    4. My Monkey Drives A Maserati [DKC3] 05:16
    5. Party at Lab 16 (feat. Friends of Marshall Art) [Chrono Trigger] 07:20
     
    Side B:
    6. Polygon Sun [Chromelodeon] 04:01
    7. Ready for Prime Time, Bitch [Nightmare on Elm Street] 08:00
    8. The Whale [Electric Light Orchestra] 05:11
    9. Crusade [Siberiade] 04:21
    10. Triangular (feat. Bucky, Live at 8static Festival 2015) [Chromelodeon] 06:51
    11. Fighting Human’s Way [Mouryou Senki Madara] 01:00
    12. Battle Theme 1 [Shura No Mon] 01:51
    13. the Guide of travellers along the roads of this world and along that leading to the next [Chrono Trigger] 00:28

    We've also made a short run of cassette tapes! Each of the 25 copies is individually dubbed onto a different color cassette. The tapes are hand-stamped using custom laser cut wood stamps. The j-cards are all hand painted in color schemes and patterns inspired by the songs on the album.  The tapes are housed in orange and black swirl/splatter painted cases.
    This item is as unique and hand-made as I could reasonably make it, save for hand winding the tapes myself.  These will be for sale via our Bandcamp page at noon eastern time.

    Cassette photos:

     


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  13. Bumping this because THE ALBUM IS OUT!  
    http://chroniclesoftime.net/
     

    The team behind 2013's acclaimed Secret of Mana tribute album, Spectrum of Mana, is excited to release their highly-anticipated tribute to Chrono Trigger titled Chronicles of Time. The 75-track album marks an unprecedented collaboration between over 200 artists who expertly re-imagine the beloved SNES-era RPG soundtrack originally composed by Yasunori Mitsuda. Chronicles of Time also includes a collection of over 50 pieces of artwork depicting the game's most memorable scenes and characters.
     

    This album is FULLY LICENSED.  Get it on Loudr or iTunes! (Spotify and other stores coming soon!)

  14. http://j-m-r.net/album/skywave-effect-anniversary-edition
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    For Skywave Effect's fifth anniversary, I've spruced it up with a new mix and master. As an added bonus, I've gathered all of the old demos, sketches, and alternate versions from around that time. Plus, this deluxe edition includes some awesome remixes from AutoReMi-PK, Temp Sound Solutions, and streifig. 27 tracks, over 70 minutes of music, and it's FREE.

  15. Leftover merch from our "Putin and Poutine Tour 2015" is now up for sale on bandcamp. We're down to single digit quantities of both our shirts and cassette tapes, so if you want one now's the time! We have shirts in sizes S, L, XL, 2XL, 4XL.

    https://marshallart.bandcamp.com/merch
     


    When I saw the title of this thread and who was posting it, I wasn't sure if you would mention this one. I'm reeeaaally hoping I can make RAGFest for Saturday. The Lord Machino crew is rad so that whole party sounds like it's going to be a total blast(unfortunately I'm missing the "Swelling of Jewels" listening party which is sure to be epic/hilarious). If I'm around we will grab some beers for sure  :D

    RAGFest was an amazing time, wasn't it? Glad you made it out in the end, and thanks for catching our show. Was it you who challenged me to the sri racha shot? After our performance my memory gets a little hazy...  :razz:

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