DarkeSword Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Well, here it is, at long last. Kind of unbelievable that this is finally coming out. So why’d this thing take so long? What happened? Well, a lot happened, actually. I bought a house and moved out of my parents’ place. I started taking on more stuff at work. OCR got involved with the fighting game community and I started directing albums for tournaments. I started running my own remixing tournaments on OCR for series like Mega Man, and, speaking of Mega Man, I even worked with Capcom to direct OCR’s first commercial album. But with all this stuff going on, I also hit roadblocks creatively as a musician. I was still putting out tracks for the FGC albums, but I wanted my Mystic Knight track on this album to be something really great and bigger than what I’d done before. So I put things off until I could find time, and when I found time I couldn’t make it work creatively, and then I’d get busy again. Finally, it just got to be too much, and I said “I need to be able to tell people at MAGFest that it’s done.” So I sat down and, for a few nights in the week leading up to MAGFest, I pushed through all the creative roadblocks and finally got the track out. But of course, this album series is way more than my dumb track that took way too long to write. It’s filled with awesome music from a really talented bunch of guys. I’m grateful that they’ve been so patient with me, and I’m happy that you’re all going to finally hear their awesome arrangements. Now that WATER is finally out, we’re going to move on to putting together Volume III: FIRE. I’ve got big plans, and while it would be irresponsible of me to promise a release date, I will say that after everything I’ve learned about running all these albums over the years, things are going to move along at a better pace. Keep an eye out, and in the meantime, enjoy The Fabled Warriors: Volume II: WATER. Download it: http://ff5.ocremix.org Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Final_Fantasy_V_-_The_Fabled_Warriors_~II.WATER~.torrentListen on Soundcloud: Trailer: RiverSound, Jorito, Chernabogue and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chernabogue Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Congrats on the release, @DarkeSword and co! I will check the album later this week -- I'm pretty sure it will help focusing on my academic paper! ANd I hope the next mixtape will be... fire. Flexstyle and DarkeSword 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 The torrent download link in both the announcement and the above post is broken. The real link is http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Final_Fantasy_V_-_The_Fabled_Warriors_~II.WATER~.torrent album! Downloading now that I've found a real link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antique_Gamer Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Dude, first off, OST sounds great as always! Second congrats on the IRL stuff! Must be great being able to move out . What tourneys were you doing btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 24 minutes ago, Brandon Strader said: The torrent download link in both the announcement and the above post is broken. The real link is http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/Final_Fantasy_V_-_The_Fabled_Warriors_~II.WATER~.torrent album! Downloading now that I've found a real link That's djp's fault for whatever weird reason he had for not using an underscore for one spot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 For once it's not Larry's fault, amazing Seriously though, glad this is finally out. Excited for Fire (especially after that rundown Darke posted in the projects thread of what to kinda expect). One question though: Any idea when we can expect the rebranding of WIND to drop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 nice work everyone! the album sounds fantastic =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSkull Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Got it cataloged in MusicBrainz now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenixDown Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Loved the album, so glad to finally get to listen to it. So far, after my first time through the album, I'd say my favorite tracks are Lenna's Theme, Mystic Knight, and Summoner. All the tracks are great though, everyone did an awesome job with their music. And I love the new approach to the album art, the cover looks amazing, huge props to rnn for doing a great job with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WT_Neptune Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 Is there any place I can look at what the original tracks are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramify Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 This is an amazing album, hats off to all the collaborators and anyone who helped. Just a lot of really well produced and complex takes on some beautiful tracks. Looking forward to the other releases in this series for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 3 hours ago, WT_Neptune said: Is there any place I can look at what the original tracks are? The Director/Artist comment TXT file contains that, as well as the Comments field of each file. The VGMdb entry also has the sources listed, using official US iTunes release titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damned Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Aside from the good music, there's also dat art. Mm. Dat art. djpretzel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverSound Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Oh dear. The old, more-WiP-than-finished version of my song is so weak sauce in the trailer =D But what a privilege to have been a part of such an epic lineup of remixers. I'm like, a snot-faced greenhorn compared to these guys whose remixes I've been listening to since like 2007. Gotta do a review of the whole album soon but it'd be kinda weird to be the first one to do so as an artist djpretzel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antique_Gamer Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 22 minutes ago, RiverSound said: Oh dear. The old, more-WiP-than-finished version of my song is so weak sauce in the trailer =D But what a privilege to have been a part of such an epic lineup of remixers. I'm like, a snot-faced greenhorn compared to these guys whose remixes I've been listening to since like 2007. Gotta do a review of the whole album soon but it'd be kinda weird to be the first one to do so as an artist Good luck. I have no idea how to remix or what to use so I can't help ya out anyway there. :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necrox Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 This is a pretty strong album, overall more so than the first IMO. Lots of interesting styles and creativity here; it feels like the artists all really made the source(s) their own. RiverSound, your track reminds of an idea I once had to use that tune as a ballad in an indoor drumline show. It sounds great; the last 90 seconds are really interesting. Once again, Darkesword makes a great conclusion. djpretzel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverSound Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 On 5/1/2016 at 1:07 AM, Necrox said: This is a pretty strong album, overall more so than the first IMO. Lots of interesting styles and creativity here; it feels like the artists all really made the source(s) their own. RiverSound, your track reminds of an idea I once had to use that tune as a ballad in an indoor drumline show. It sounds great; the last 90 seconds are really interesting. Once again, Darkesword makes a great conclusion. Thanks for the compliment, it means a lot to me as the only non-posted remixer on the album. I hope the last section was positively interesting! Its inclusion was more of a passion thing for me, an attempt at making the song more memorable&unique... I've found that some of my favorite remixes(jade catacombs, the quick and the blue.. off the top of my head) incorporate totally unexpected&original sections in addition to rearranged source material so my best hope is that at least some people might enjoy my song in a similar vein. Here's hoping that ocr still accepts songs like that, and it isn't keeping my mix from getting posted. Necrox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 i'd be surprised if original content keeps the mix out, as long as the majority of the remix was not original content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antique_Gamer Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 1 hour ago, prophetik music said: i'd be surprised if original content keeps the mix out, as long as the majority of the remix was not original content. Speaking of which... What is it that keeps this kind of stuff away from copyright issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timaeus222 Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 1 hour ago, Antique_Gamer said: Speaking of which... What is it that keeps this kind of stuff away from copyright issues? I don't know if this was a misunderstanding, but prophetik is simply talking about having too much original content that it doesn't resemble the source tune anymore, and thus is too original of an arrangement to be a video game remix. That would make it harder to get video-game-music-related copyright issues, not easier. But I would say that NOT selling the remixes (and probably the attribution to the original artists as well) is one of the main things that helps these kinds of albums not upset copyright holders. Antique_Gamer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Well also an agreement that OCR has with SE in regards to this album specifically also is part of the "not upsetting copyright holders" thing too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkeSword Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 We don't have an agreement with Square Enix in regards to this album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirby Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Ah. Okay. I thought that applied to all future SE-related projects lol Anyways, this album is great and I'm even more hyped for FIRE now. djpretzel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Strader Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Finally got around to listening to the album, ironically after it was added to SoundCloud (and tweeted about) rather than from the torrent download. My song is most definitely the weakest of the bunch, and I'm not saying that to be humble, it's a reality I have to live with, so very thankful to have been allowed to be included on here. Not going to list any favorites, but I liked every song and I think it was very well done and worth the wait. I realize some of the mixes may be old, which is even more impressive that they have held up so well. In fact it is nice to hear the sound certain people used to have, such as halc or sixto, before innovating with new styles and elements in the future. Rather than feeling dejected by the quality, I embrace the diversity and quality amongst remixers, as it is the most beautiful and important aspect of the OCR community and OCR itself. The collaborative spirit and nature of the site will always be the most special part of having been here. A solid piece of the whole. As a fun side-note about my song, I doubled the voice at the end with my own falsetto, which I couldn't do today due to voice damage. I don't guess you can make it out too much though. nitrozsz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necrox Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 16 hours ago, Brandon Strader said: My song is most definitely the weakest of the bunch, and I'm not saying that to be humble, it's a reality I have to live with Really? It's one of my favorites. BTW the old "Water" album sounds pretty neat out of speakers. Now I have to go convince my suitemates this is for meditation or something. Brandon Strader 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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