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Lords of Shadow was brilliant. I played God of War 3 sometime after finishing it and didn't think it was anywhere near as good as LoS; it annoyed me how people kept calling it a clone. This trailer is so awesome though and Oscar Araujo's music blows my mind, I'm just as excited about the soundtrack as I am the game. The E3 trailer for the first LoS had me really excited and I this just did that all over again. As Johnny 5 would say, need more input!

Seriously awesome work! Everybody get it NAOW neowneow

This used to be my alarm

Sound and composition are very unique. Not just by themselves but to people as well. Heck I used to know someone that thought they heard bells on the radio when actually it was a piano. The part about bringing a concept of a song is interesting because depending on who hears it you might get someone who's looking for a sound or looking for a melody. Like I had a job doing a techno kind of Touhou piece and made a bid with a concept I made pretty quickly with soundfonts and they loved it, when I completed the song with all the proper production they were blown away and actually tipped me. Another time I made a piece for someone with some SNES sounds to demonstrate what I wanted to do and they weren't particular too into it, then I did it up fully orchestrated and they were again blown away by it. So I'd say there's people who don't particularly mind what you write as long as it sounds amazing and there's people who are looking for particular writing despite the quality (although people sure do appreciate the quality). I wouldn't say technology hurts music it just makes many more paths and decisions. But I do think in some cases when you're composing a song or creating a melody you are doing it for the sound. Like if Inon Zur auditioned to do the music for Fallout 3 with concepts done on a piano it would not be as interesting at all until it was fleshed out with orchestra, that's what make it more special (although I cannot remember a single piece of music from that game). But if the developer's said "hey were really keen on there being a lot of piano but we want it to express the lonely and desolate atmosphere" then he probably would have gone about that decision with more creativity due to the limitation. I don't know why I picked Fallout 3 it's probably because I can't recall any of Inon Zur's music at all. Personally I think the best music comes from a place where you're not thinking of sounds or technology, but you know the feeling, the movement...you know what it is meant to do. There will always be more and more pressure as music evolves but I will always appreciate those that can forget about it and just make something real.

Shoot I was just about to vote, checked this out a while back on a kickstarter page or something. Congrats on the win though *thumps up*

That was the oldest version of that mix. I submitted and resubmitted new versions but there were mixed decisions between some of the arrangement and the production. I get the criticism now and could fix it up...maybe I should? I don't know. It's been a long time. The remixes in this soundtrack are too short and would not pass for a variety of reasons, they're also quite short. Thanks for checking it out!

Chrono Crisis Soundtrack - 328MB, 96 Tracks, 4 hours of music. Many years ago a small team of us were working on a fan sequel to Chrono Trigger which was sadly discontinued for several reasons between the team. We learned a lot from the process and it pushed us in new directions. Our new team is working on something else now but we have been keeping it in the dark for some time and do not intend to publicly address it officially until a later date. Chrono Crisis didn't manage to get far in terms of completion but a few of us had a lot of fun doing our parts. This soundtrack is not completed but I do not intend to add or work on it further. In retrospect it wasn't as well thought out as it should have been for its size and because of the setting and characters it probably doesn't sound much like the Chrono games. There are some Chrono remixes however. It has been sitting on my hard drive for a long time and I figured I'd upload it for anyone that is interested in hearing it. This was about 6 years ago so the quality is no where near my current standards but I think there's much to enjoy. Anyone interested in what happened with the project can find some information here: http://chrono.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Chrono_Crisis I'm sure if you google it you'll find out some more.

Listened to some of this the other day, been checking out the rest. I was really diggin' Devil's Spirit love the groove's and motifs in that. Above the city has a great mood too with classic zircon snyths. Very enjoyable album.

Hell yes I love me some Diddy Kong Racing, oh how I hate you WizPig you challenging bastard! Very cool use of samples they're blended in so awesome. Makes me think of Super Monkey Ball a little bit, extra funky! That was so much fun, smiley smiley face fun worthy of a download for sure.

Checked this out about a week ago and was happy to see Bolero of Fire hadn't been taken yet. I may very well audition for it I've had some great ideas for it.

Cheers Ben glad you approve! I'll be checking your album shortly.

Haha maybe the whole cover is a bit intense, I want to dabble more in art so I wholly welcome criticism and input. Thanks for the response guys I'm getting some great feedback

Indomitable Souls 'Only the strongest survive. Indomitable Souls is for the gamers that thrive on an epic song in the most adrenaline fueled challenges they are faced with. Orchestral and electronic music collide with chiptune for an action rollercoaster like no other! Inspired by many of my favourite soundtracks including Batman Arkham City, Castlevania, Final Fantasy and many more. This is my tribute to the music that blurs the line between being a controller and being a hero.' Been working on this since January and now it's finally ready to join music March. With a pay what you want option you can get it for free but if you like it enough, feel free to pass me something your way! If you think it's really good please pass it around to your friends or people you think would like it. Really hope you guys enjoy it I had a blast making it! Shnabubula has kindly done a piano arrangement for the album too based on one of the tracks which was really kind of him, check it out and obviously check his bandcamp too http://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/

CHRIIISSSSSS you future hinges on this fight! I had a look for some of the best quotes but I couldn't find them with bgm

Do you use SampleTank? I got that vibe in a few of the songs. The sound is great I like how it's very smooth but very fulfilling too. Very relaxing and pretty groovy at times.

Sorry for taking a while to get back to this. I think that I'm gonna take on Wesker, part of me wants to use voice clips and make the mix 7 minutes long...but we shall see

I voted, really cool mix!

I was thirsty and came to this album, now I have bladder problems! I love 'Liquid Metal'...I even prefer the vocal version! It's so fun. Reminds me of mixes I loved from here and vgmix years ago. Fish! 'Sweet Wet Nectar' sounds like a good old Sonic tune which I appreciate, love that nostalgic feeling. Good fun this, those 2 were my favourites. If I get the 40th post I'd tell you to do another one of these .

Oh it just doesn't say it on his profile or the judging process thread. My bad, didn't know you guys had ninja judges

Yknow Z I appreciate that you're responding to everyone like it is your duty but you're not a judge anymore. If you're just going to respond to the most negative part of my post of course it's going to look like drama. I'm glad you gave a YES to Espergirl, I've known that for a long time. I'm also sorry if I upset any chip artists by calling it a genre that was a bad call! You're gonna love FX4 btw

Being serious now. I do feel that this is a very clear and concise opinion on the state of expectations. To add on the comment of piano arrangements with simpler arrangements and less skill required to perform them, those are obviously viewed more artistically in how they speak to the listener. A fair few of them were even commented on in their reviews about the poor recording quality or slight hitches in performances - but were willing to let them slide because it was felt the remix was arranged well enough and deserved to be passed. That in itself does not entirely bother me but because it is thought of so artistically it seems pretty pretentious to deny those same artistic rights regarding chiptunes and more so by refusing or unwilling to understand the sometimes complex techniques that are needed to achieve even the basic skills and production techniques that make up what is so enjoyable about chiptunes, which personally I think it pretty artistic in itself. If you use reverb for an example it's a program, a shortcut, which evidently is achievable in the composition of chiptune. It's a very capable genre which only gets better with the skill of the writer and to deny its right as an acceptable form of submission is very much the middle finger to the hard work that goes into it.

Just for the record, reading this in a Christopher Walken voice is great.

God bless America

Lol yeah pretty much mate. In short chiptunes are awesome but ocremix doesn't want them, they dare you to try but they really should say they do not accept them because you get these long opinionated arguments (which are all fair to some respect) that just open the wound. But you can use it like a gimmick which yknow is a bit like saying a song made out of pitched farts is unacceptable but if your song sounds cool with a pitched fart that's made to sound like a tuba then that's ok as long as it sounds awesome. Actually you might have better luck with a choir of farts than a chiptune, that's a big might though

Was going to mention that but forgot the title, love that mix.