[The Death of Tonehammer - 50% off some libraries]

It makes me sad that I have already bought most of their stuff. Though the majority those buys were on other sales, this one is much bigger. Oh well, I guess I can still pick up Alien Drum and Cylindrum at a super cheap price.

By the way, Plucked Piano is terrific. I think it was worth the full price.

[Spelunker title theme]

No love for a fresh new Vurez track guys? For shame I really dig this, the instrument really toes the line between sounding like a retro piano sample and something very plucked/ethnic. Is this the Tonehammer plucked piano patch by any chance?

Like this a lot man!

Thanks, and indeed it is the Tonehammer plucked piano. Good guess!

[Spelunker title theme]

Finished a haunting little arrangement of the Spelunker title theme. I thought about possibly submitting it here, however it's probably too close to the source and I don't want to change anything (arrangement wise). I like it just the way it is.

[Mega Man 9: Back in Blue - History]

Just an FYI - I'll probably send in a new mix for my track. Looking back, it's a little too muddy.

[YouTube - OC ReMix Albums]

Haha, wow. Never noticed. Nevermind then.

[YouTube - OC ReMix Albums]

Yeah, I suppose it could all be done on the main channel. You could just have the album tracks divided up into playlists. Maybe come up with a separate video template for album tracks - one that incorporates the album art.

[YouTube - OC ReMix Albums]

I was just thinking about the possibility of having an official OC ReMix sister channel on YouTube that would be dedicated to album releases. What do you think?

Someone's going to upload the albums anyway, but sometimes when it's just a random listener, they don't put any links or credits in the description box. I suppose it could be up to the album coordinator to create a youtube channel for their particular album. However, if you put all the albums on one channel, the channel would get more views which would in turn make it more visible in YouTube searches. The albums could then feed off each other's popularity. Just a thought.

[OCR02166 - Ninja Gaiden "The Night of Lukifell"]

Thanks everyone. I made a little music video for this like I did with Melancholy Dreams. Nothing big, but it's got some nostalgia factor going for it and the gameplay footage has been edited for somewhat of a movie feel. Here's the link:

Also, a plug for my Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vurez/133402213369552

[OCR02115 - Super Mario Bros. 2 "Melancholy Dreams"]

Hey nice to see this finally got posted Glad to see people are enjoying it.

To anyone interested, I made a little music video for this. Here's the link:

[ASK A JUDGE: While we're busy NOT voting - your questions, we want 'em]

I personally think it's kind of cool to have some surprise in terms of what gets posted.

I can agree with that. As long as you guys have a decent way to keep track of them, I suppose it's not a problem.

[ASK A JUDGE: While we're busy NOT voting - your questions, we want 'em]

Here's one I've been wondering for quite some time. Is there any particular reason direct posts aren't listed anywhere? I'm sure you guys get lots of emails from people wondering what happened to their mix (I know I have done it myself a few times in the past). One would figure DPs would be listed in their own section in the Judging Process thread, or at least in the "to be posted" section.

[Reviews for an Artists Catalog - ReMixer: Children of the Monkey Machine]

Hey, I'm up next!

I've been following this thread for quite some time. It's been interesting. Just an FYI - if you're interested in my full catalog (including non-OCR remixes), they can all be found here:

http://www.vurez.com/arrangements.htm

[IW lead devs fired, bigass lawsuit against Activision]

I still find this whole thing amusingly ironic considering Activision's origins, even though it's not really the same Activision.

[Super Mario Bros 2]

hope to see some of these on the site

Same here

[Two tracks - Ninja Gaiden and Tecmo Bowl]

These two tracks conclude my latest batch of remixes. These were originally old tracks I had made (but never released), that I had polished up somewhat recently.

Ninja Gaiden - "The Night of Lukifell":

http://www.vurez.com/tracks/arrangements/Vurez_-_The_Night_of_Lukifell.mp3

Tecmo Bowl - "Touchdown Hoedown":

http://www.vurez.com/tracks/arrangements/Vurez_-_Touchdown_Hoedown.mp3

If you missed the other 4 tracks you can get them all here:

http://www.vurez.com/arrangements.htm

[Kid Icarus - Sky Palace]

Uploaded an arrangement of the Sky Palace theme from Kid Icarus to my site. Here's the link:

http://www.vurez.com/tracks/arrangements/Vurez_-_Palace_in_the_Dark_Sky.mp3

[Super Mario Bros 2]

This was originally an old arrangement that I had previously never released as it was lacking in certain areas. A while back I revamped it with improved samples and mixing techniques. Now here it is available for the first time. Melancholy Dreams - an arrangement of the underworld theme from Super Mario Bros 2.

It has some similarities to McVaffe's Underground Riddims, and I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't an inspiration for making this track. I wanted to try a mix of the underworld theme using Indian instruments and I think they work fairly well for this piece.

Here's the link:

http://www.vurez.com/tracks/arrangements/Vurez_-_Melancholy_Dreams.mp3

This was originally going to be released on an album of unreleased NES arrangements, but there was a change of plan and I'm just going to release 6 tracks individually. As of this post, 3 were posted on my website. The others will be available later in the week.

http://www.vurez.com/

[The Legend of Kage]

Thanks. Yeah, I have no plans on releasing this one here, however I did submit a few of the others.

I'll probably upload another one tonight.

[The Legend of Kage]

I was working on an album consisting of an assortment of unreleased tracks I had worked on during my early remixing years. They all had issues that kept me from releasing them, however I went back and polished them up a bit not too long ago. Since some of the tracks weren't "fixable", I've decided to just go ahead and omit a few and release each track individually. There will be six total and the first one is an ethnic Asian style track from The Legend of Kage. It's a medley that consists of most of the soundtrack.

Here it is:

http://www.vurez.com/tracks/arrangements/Vurez_-_Beware_of_Ninjas.mp3

[Vurez does Tetris (Korobeiniki)]

wow man, sounds great. You say this is all sequenced? What programs are you using to create this? That's some amazing sounds you got there. It practically sounds like you liquored up a bunch of russian musicians and had them play this for you!

Very nice!

Haha, yeah that was the original plan - I managed to get the liquor but I wasn't able to find any russian musicians so I ended up using Cubase, Kontakt instruments (like Chris Hein, String Essentials, Retro Flute, etc.), and various other VSTs.

[Vurez does Tetris (Korobeiniki)]

Hey thanks. Actually, believe it or not, this track is all sequenced.

[Vurez does Tetris (Korobeiniki)]

After a very long hiatus, I've finally released another track - "The Peddler's Legacy". It's an arrangement of Korobeiniki aka Music A from Tetris. Here's a link to the video on my YouTube channel:

You can also download it off of my website here http://www.vurez.com/arrangements.htm

[Mega Man 9: Back in Blue - History]

Sounds like I'm really going to need to boost the volume of my track!

[Girlfriends, rings, engagements, and concessions]

Hey, congratulations Blad.

[Country Music]

Thank you, why this isn't at OCRemix?

I never submitted them. I felt the mixing quality was probably too low for OCRemix standards. I'm missing some of the assets so remastering them would be quite a bit of work and I have other things to work on.