Gario Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Hi, Attached is a submission for OCR. I am Drew Etterle (SuprMelO) and my band mate is Scott Wells (BluuMonk) and together our band is Moiré Effect. We can be reached at and our website is http://moireeffectband.com . It looks like my user ID is 34268. Our submission is a remix of the UNATCO theme from the original Deus Ex and is titled "God from the Machine". The UNATCO music is a serene but mysterious song, perfect for investigating intrigue at the virtually unaccountable global police bureaucracy. We took melodies and progressions and found they served great for examining our behaviors and habits brought on by technology, and the ease of surrendering privacy to the system. The hard rock take added weight to the themes of surveillance and corporatism we were exploring in the song. [Spoilers for Deus EX ahead] A lot of Scott’s lyrics are lifted and modified from JC Denton’s encounter with the A.I. Morpheus late in the original game. Morpheus presents itself as a system that trawls the internet for people’s information and presents it back to them for their amusement. It seems benign, but it’s not difficult to imagine it as a much more sinister system. And why would we feel the need to create such a system? We actually cut a music video for the song using footage from various trailers for other Deus Ex games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_xI3Qs9kuk Here's the lyrics: My vision is augmented y’all Check your status again for the third time tonight Your face lit up with the pale blue light Hoping for connection or some validation Got you tripping & hallucinating phantom vibrations Eyes dried out but you continue to read Can’t miss out cause you hunger the feed The world keeps spinning behind the screen Lie awake in bed as you serve the machine Just let me in, come join your friends I’ll follow your path as you carry me near and far Just let me in, share without end And smile for me as I tell you who you are Keep up appearances, mask what you truly think Them cookies keeping tabs as you click the link The ones closest only see what you want them to see But you trusting Zuck Brin and Bezos implicitly The signal goes out and it’s passed around You say you’re putting out knowledge as it’s going down Stick it to them, ya heard fate favors the bold They’re saying thanks for the data as the swallow it whole Just let me in, come join your friends I want it all, everything that can be known Just let me in, share without end Hold me up and you’ll never feel alone Just let me in, come join your friends We’re watching and we’ll try to understand Just let me in, share without end Accept your judgement from my invisible hand… I never asked for this -------------------------------------------------- Thanks for taking a listen, Drew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gario Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 This has 'Linkin Park' written all over it, and I enjoyed every second of it. The rapping paired with the screamo, the quality guitar work against the simpler synths, and the thematic lyrics - it's quite the homage to one of my favorite games. It's unconventional, but it's really quite good. Different, but really cool. Not enough of this particular style on OCR - hopefully this will fill that space a bit. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindWanderer Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Oh, yeah! Agreed with Gario on all points. It's unconventional as a remix, sure, but as punk metal, it's true to form. My only crit is that the rapping is a little too clean, not quite a match for the rest of the space and genre. The title's a little bland, too, given the genre and the name of the game. Otherwise, I love this, and I hope it will inspire imitation. YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 The drumming at :11 didn't inspire too much confidence in terms of the texture getting properly filled in, but by :23, things were OK. Not a fan of the vocals at :40, which didn't have much flow, though the stuttering-type effects were fine. Chorus vocals were stronger here. On the production side, things got very cluttered at :23, and it pretty much stayed like that for the rest of the track any times things got dense, mostly during the choruses; if this could be cleaned/cleared up so that the part-writing behind the vocals didn't mud together so indistinctly, I'd be behind this. The arrangement's an easy pass, but one more pass to tighten up the mixing would solidify this. NO (resubmit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonAvenger Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I can hear what Larry's saying, but I don't think it's a dealbreaker here. It's close, though. Something to consider for next time. Solid arrangement here, nice work on that! YES (borderline) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_NutS Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 Very 2000s Nu-metal, this one. The rapping sections were pretty weak in my opinion, but the chorus was very strong. The arrangement and structure are pretty good here, this sounds like a single you would hear at the peak of the nu-metal popularity, though an expressive guitar solo is not something you often heard in the style, here it's a very nice inclusion. Even the lyrics are similar to the often sad/emotive themes and tropes in the genre. I see Larry shows some reservations with the production, and I do too. The dual arpeggios and different effects going on in some points make for a rather cluttered background. However, I think the mix as a whole is strong enough to go above the bar, even though it could have been cleaned up a bit.YES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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