OC ReMix Discovery

[TMF128]

How did you find out about this website?

I actually got a friend request from them on Youtube (probably because they were advertising.)

I checked out some of the remixes, and liked them a lot. I didn't join the site until about 5 months after I found out about them though.

[Melbu Frahma]

How did you find out about this website?

I actually got a friend request from them on Youtube (probably because they were advertising.)

I checked out some of the remixes, and liked them a lot. I didn't join the site until about 5 months after I found out about them though.

God, I'm not even sure anymore... it's been years, although - similarly to you - I didn't join until a month and a half ago.

Mmm... wait, I think it's coming back to me. I think I did a Google search for "Tifa's Theme," that took me to the VotL website, where I was mightily impressed by the music and one or two of the music videos on there. I followed the link on back to OCRemix from there, if I recall right.

[Gollgagh]

some dude I knew in boy scouts eight years ago

no idea how he found it though since he doesn't (and probably never did) hang around here

[MaxFrost]

For me, it was tracking down where a Disco Dan track came from (I think it was "Magnet Man goes West"). It was originally untagged, but by searching for the title, I found my way here back in 2004-5.

[Mirby]

Well, in my never-ending quest for free video game soundtracks, I ended up here a few times... didn't like it then. But then I got into the Black Mages. Rockin' remixes of FF tracks, it was awesome. I found my way back here in late 2007... right around the time VotL came out, actually. I had just gotten my computer and downloaded that right away. A little later, I joined the forums. And I've been loving it here ever since!

That, and it's good for my career.

[Lemonectric]

I'm trying to remember coming here, but I'm not sure my conscious brain had fully developed yet. I was, what, 12?

My earliest memory of a video game remix is Dr. Fruitcake's Wicked Windmill. I'm pretty sure I found stuff on my own, googling for video game music remixes or something.

[SoulinEther]

searching for bloody tears with google 4 years ago took me to ap's Bloody Tears Inspired remix - it might have been one of the first results too. I was trying to figure out how to play it on piano and I hadn't heard it in a while, and I was looking for a cover. Found out the remix wasn't a cover and went back to the google results to get what i was looking for... but a few days later I decided I liked the remix and looked for it again - and I haven't left since.

[Adun The Untouchable]

I was searching for Sonic music on Napster back when it was new. Feels like forever ago... back when cd burners were like 8x and 56k internet/modems were still big.

[Mirby]

DJP FOUNDED THIS PLACE! See what I did there? He found it by founding it.

Bad joke, I know, but I couldn't resist.

[Fishy]

My friend told me about it and told me I should show my music here, so I did.

Oddly he's not interested in the site at all these days, I'm the one forcing him to get stuff now.

[Kidd Cabbage]

I dunno. I think I heard about it on the shizz like five years back. I hated it and thought all the songs I heard were trash and left. lewl

[Crulex]

I read about it in a magazine (Gameinformers, I think) and thought "this place sounds cool. Game remixes? Awesome, let's see what this DJP bloke has to offer" and I looked it up.

[MechaFone]

I first found this place looking for video game music downloads in the second half of 2001. I didn't know it, but this place was just getting off the ground at that time. I live and breathe music (since it's all I ever do, listen to music) so I stuck around the place and watched all the awesome music come into being. I was there when McVaffe threw in his music under three (was it three?) different guises, and I too was floored when he revealed all three were him.

Still, I didn't join the forums until about three years ago, back in 2007.

[Kidd Cabbage]

I breathe music, too, since it's in the air. You can't even see it. It's a Miracle.

[OutSpoken]

I vaguely recall doing a Google search for Super Metroid music in early 2006 and I ran into this. I was hooked pretty quickly, but I stayed within the range of video games I knew personally. I started blogging about OCR in mid 2006, but I never really opened my eyes to the entire community along with all the music until around the time I got a forum profile in fall of 2007.

[XiaoXiaoNeo]

I was searching for Sega Genesis music, specifically Sonic, and I found DjP's "Love Hurts". I LOVED it (still do), and began exploring other remixes/remixers. That was quite a few years ago... maybe 2003 or 2004?

[JH Sounds]

I discovered OCR years back when I was searching for remixes of the Diamond Dust Zone theme from Sonic 3D Blast (Genesis). Funnily enough, I ended up choosing this as the source tune for one of the PRC rounds, since no remixes of the tune were posted on OCR at the time.

[Bahamut]

I found OCR back in 2001 or 2002, I forget exactly although I want to say 2001 around August/September, when searching Audiogalaxy for vgm, and found some stuff that all had OCReMix in its filename. Interestingly, I wasn't all that impressed with many of the songs I found back then through incidental search results, even Terra in Black, but it came up often enough for me to check the URL that was in the ID3v1/2 tags and I found some songs that I did like, although it was more hit or miss then than now.

The site hosted free music, it's hard to hate on a website doing that, especially when bandwidth was much more of a premium back then!

I breathe music, too, since it's in the air. You can't even see it. It's a Miracle.

I see what you did there

[DjjD]

I think the first time I was on OCRemix was when I heard about it in 2001. I was constantly looking for video game music, just because it was a fun thing to do. I heard a few songs but even with that, I didn't join until a year ago just because I felt I couldn't contribute anything. I still have always appreciated this site...and free music, it speaks for itself.

[Binjovi]

It was early 2000. I had been hooked on video game midis for a while. Somehow, I stumbled upon a dance mix of the Mario theme, which, come to think of it, was probably my first mp3. I was totally digging the idea of creating a new song out of an old song, and the quality of it as well. After searching around, I stumbled upon a little, orange website called OverClocked ReMix. Needless to say, I liked what I heard, and I've been hangin' around ever since.

[The Coop]

Came across the website in very early 2002, not long after I found VGMix. Popped in and out for a few months before I decided to join in May of that year. Been here ever since.

[Zombie]

It was in highschool, probably 2005. I actually saw someone mention it in the pulse section in Nintendo Power. I had been looking for videogame music, so i checked this site out and instantly fell in love with some of the remixes. Wintermute - Lullaby Proximitus was the first mix I listened too... still love it.

[OverCoat]

I found K. Praslowicz's Shadow remix on Napster back in 2001, and followed the link in the ID3 tags. Been stuck here ever since

[LuketheXjesse]

I completely forget how I found this website.

Not kidding.

[Harmonious Dissonance]

My mother. I shit you not she randomly found this site and told me about it.