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Yep, we got both emails. I'm not sure why you didn't get the auto-confirmation email, but yeah the emails are there.

I'm wondering if you guys have gotten my submission email yet? I submitted it on 8/12/2014 with the subject "Unknown Alias - Submission", but after 3 days I didn't get an auto-confirm email. I tried sending it again yesterday, but still no email in my inbox or junk. I sent both my emails to submissions@ocremix.org. Did I do something wrong at all? So sorry for the inconvenience or confusion.
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Are Kantai Collection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection) remixes allowed here? Kantai Collection is a super popular browser game about WW2 era Japanese battleships personified as cute girls. It's pretty unknown in the west, but in Japan it's literally the biggest thing since Touhou. Here is a gameplay video:

And the music is catchy too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDVn0pg2EY

I asked the judges about it at Otakon, and they said probably yes, but weren't sure. I was wondering if a free to play browser game still counts.

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Are Kantai Collection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection) remixes allowed here? Kantai Collection is a super popular browser game about WW2 era Japanese battleships personified as cute girls. It's pretty unknown in the west, but in Japan it's literally the biggest thing since Touhou. Here is a gameplay video:
And the music is catchy too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDVn0pg2EY

I asked the judges about it at Otakon, and they said probably yes, but weren't sure. I was wondering if a free to play browser game still counts.

My, Yamamoto, you have some pretty ample main guns there....I've never seen a girl with more than two batteries though....

sorry, just HAD TO, I had a question too but when that came up...ahem, sorry.

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I can see Mechanical Salvation on the "recently rejected" list, but where can I find the decision?

Jivemaster will add some comments to his vote. Soon-ish.

My remix "Into the Sandstorm" appears in the "To be Posted - Project Mixes" queue but, as far as I know, it has never been part of that project! (I actually sent it to Fishy once and he didn't accept it for the album :-()

I'm guessing that's a mistake!

No, I ran it by Fishy after it passed and asked if the resubbed version was album-worthy, and we agreed it was. You have a spot on the FF9 album with the track if you'd like it. :-) Send a WAV to Fishy and/or me, if you'd like to be on.

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What's the album tag OCRI stand for? I only see one album with that tag, and it's the second of that catalog classification

Independent, i.e. independently developed w/o much OCR input, but submitted as an OCR album. It's a loose classification, but one meant to be to faster to prep and release for us internally. :-)

http://ocremix.org/album/54/audio-engineering-a-tribute-to-cid

http://ocremix.org/album/57/futebol-arte-world-cup-tribute-ep

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Hypothetical album time. I was messing around with different album ideas in my head, and I have one in notepad from on my hard drive (Marble Madness), when I started thinking of something Darkesword said he'd like to do. Take all the short map themes in the Mario series and turn them into extended trance mixes, kind of like this song from Daniel Kandi:

I had in mind SMB3. 8 worlds, 8 tracks, but long trance journeys like the song above, or this one:

I might start working on the concept and submit a formal proposal for it based on the response here.

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Hypothetical album time. I was messing around with different album ideas in my head, and I have one in notepad from on my hard drive (Marble Madness), when I started thinking of something Darkesword said he'd like to do. Take all the short map themes in the Mario series and turn them into extended trance mixes, kind of like this song from Daniel Kandi:

I had in mind SMB3. 8 worlds, 8 tracks, but long trance journeys like the song above, or this one:

I might start working on the concept and submit a formal proposal for it based on the response here.

Yeah I already got Flexstyle to run this. It's Super Cartography Bros. and it's already seeing a lot of progress.

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Idle question, since we just hit 3K remixes, and I noticed that some of the staff picks from The AV Club's interview were a bit lo-fi: Of the first 1000 ReMixes, about how many would you estimate would pass the panel if they were submitted today?

My word isn't gospel, but a decent clip of 'em would still pass today. If I have free time, I'll try to give a rough answer sometime in January.

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Realistically I'd think not many... I mean, I see all the time stuff getting rejected for very small production or structural issues. That's all sub-1000 mixes were. But maybe that's just my opinion. :-P

Definitely would love to see OCR shout out some newer mixes when they do these articles.

No offense intended to sub1000 mixes, it was a different time. :tomatoface: Here's my favorite sub1000s

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00690

http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00814

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http://www.avclub.com/article/staff-and-artists-overclocked-remix-make-us-list-t-212621

Of the 25 mentioned...

OCR00001-1000: 6 mixes

OCR01001-2000: 7 mixes

OCR02000-3000: 12 mixes

:tomatoface:

That's a fair point and you're not wrong at all :-P It's just different opinions on "newer" mixes.. 2500 was posted in 2012, so by tomorrow that'll be a few years old. :-P

There were 7 choices that were past 2500 out of 25... :-P

Still it's not a huge deal, the choices are representative of individuals and what they dig or are familiar with -- Chimpazilla picked 3 that were all post-2500 so nearly half of all the post-2500 choices.

It's not my place to say WHAT people should pick of course. But if you guys had picked for each person choosing, say, 1 old mix, 1 mid-age mix and 1 modern mix to represent OCR and its evolution over the years that would have been cool and maybe a little more balanced

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It's not my place to say WHAT people should pick of course. But if you guys had picked for each person choosing, say, 1 old mix, 1 mid-age mix and 1 modern mix to represent OCR and its evolution over the years that would have been cool and maybe a little more balanced

So you're pointing out a perceived lack of "newer" mixes represented in that piece, even though a "balanced" distribution of post-OCR02500 mixes would have meant only 4 of them chosen, not the 7 in the actual article? :lol:

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