PRC358 - Gotta Catch the Victory (Pokemon Colosseum)

[Bundeslang]

The People's Remix Competition 358
PRCv14-20

Hello everyone and Welcome to the People's Remix Competition!

Welcome to PRC358. In PRC356 two remixers managed to get the first place. Both Arcana and Flurry of Flames got first place. Only Flurry of Flames submitted a source for this round, so this round will have, as usual, one source. 

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For my choice for the next PRC is the Pyrite Town theme from Pokemon Colosseum. There isn't a lot to this song I feel like people can put their own personality on it that others might not expect.

I'm having trouble inputting any midi of this in this message so the link to get this is on http://www.ninsheetmusic.org/browse/series/Pokemon

just Ctrl+F and type in Pokemon Colosseum and its one the themes below. I'm sorry for burdening you with this.

 

Source: Pokemon Colosseum - Pyrite Town (GameCube)

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Source Information

ThaSauce link: Click here to submit

To submit a song at the compo page you can use the ThaSauce page. If you use this, an account is required. If you don't want to use ThaSauce, please upload the song somewhere else and post a download link in this thread. I recommend Soundcloud, don't forget to allow downloads to enable me to upload the song at ThaSauce. I will keep using ThaSauce as the place where all songs are located.

If you want to use ThaSauce, the following steps should be done.

• Click the ThaSauce Link.
• Click the 'You are not logged in' button in the upper right.
• Click on 'register' (at the bottom).
• Read the terms and click 'I agree to these terms'. If you don't agree with them, upload the song somewhere else and post a download link as mentioned above (by doing that, you allow me to upload the song at ThaSauce.
• Continue the process by filling in your information.
• You will get a question to confirm that you're not a robot. Here are some possible answers:

1. Name a compo: PRC
2. Who organizes One Hour Compo: Starla
3. Name a ThaSauce subdomain: compo.thasauce.net
4. Who created Mega Mans: Capcom

A confirmation mail will be send. There might be some issues with it (meaning that you don't get it), if that is the case, upload the song somewhere else as described above.

Once registered, login with your username and password, go to the mentioned page and submit the song. If you want submit two or more songs you can create multiple ThaSauce accounts or upload the song somewhere else and post the download link.

After uploading your song, please check if your song plays and can be downloaded and played without problems. Only upload MP3 files.

 

PRC instructions

• The deadline is Friday October 6^th 2017 at 7:59 pm ThaSauce time (15:00 UTC, 16:00 GMT), check the ThaSauce page for the exact time left. Make sure that the song is uploaded to ThaSauce or that there’s a download link posted in this thread. 45 Hour extension.
• You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that if you use ThaSauce, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix if you use ThaSauce. Of course you can also upload it somewhere else and put a download link in this thread.
• Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted in this thread.
• Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score.
• The winner of this round may select the source for PRC360.
• The winner of PRC356 who picked this source, Flurry of Flames, can only participate by submitting a Bonus Mix. His vote is doubled in the voting stage. Arcana can enter, but if he doesn't enter but does vote, his vote is doubled.
• You can find the full rules list at this page as well.

 

GOOD LUCK!

 

PRC ThaSauce Home Page!

 

[Bundeslang]

Extended with 45 hours. A little shorter as the usual 2 days otherwise I can't post the start of the voting on time.

@Flurry of Flames don't forget to pick the source for round 359.

[Bundeslang]

Welcome to the voting stage 

The mixing stage is over. This round has 2 songs. The following people compete against each other: 

Kat

Shid0

(if you want a different color, let me know by replying or sending me a PM).

 

To vote, do the following:

·       Visit the stated ThaSauce Page and listen to all the entries.

·       Scroll to the form at the bottom of the screen or click PM.

·       Fill in the entries from first to third in the ThaSauce form or fill in your top 3.

·       State a reasoning for it.

·       Participants are encouraged to vote and leave feedback. However, they may not vote for themselve, they get a free first place if they vote, so it might help. They should leave the third box empty. Non participants are encouraged to vote to decide the winner and leave comments. 

·       Flurry of Flames has a vote that counts twice.

·       Always look in this thread to find out who's the winner of the round after the voting stage instead of only looking at ThaSauce for the results. Especially since some people might vote by sending me a PM.

 

You have until THIS Monday, October 9th 9:59 AM ThaSauce time (17:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT) to vote (note: 1 hour shorter as usual).

If you vote by PM make sure that your top 3 (or top 2 for participants) is clear. I prefer something like this:

(To)

Bundeslang (if you follow the link you won’t have to add my name).

 

(Subject)

PRC ### Vote

 

(Message):

1: (remixer A )

2: (remixer B )

3: (remixer C )

 

(reasoning)

 

I will post the feedback given in the PM’s and the votes in this thread. The winner may choose the source tune for PRC359.

 

Check the ThaSauce Page to vote or click here to send a PM.

@Flurry of Flames there's still time to pick a source for PRC359. It will start probably on sunday.

[Flurry of Flames]

Thought the due date was monday for some reason. Welp

 

 

[Bundeslang]

Results time.

Shid0 got 9 points, and gets the last place wooden spoon.

And the winner of PRC358 is Kat with 12 points.

Kat congratulations. You may pick a source for PRC360. Send the source to me (with a MID/MP3 file, otherwise send a second source with a MID file) by PM, other options are PM me @ ThaSauce or by e-mailing to bambombim@gmail.com (I prefer a PM @Ocremix). Send your source as fast as you can, but before this Monday (16 October 2017), 10:59 AM ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT).

You may select any source for any game, but not a source with an OverClocked remix or a source which has been used in PRC before. An overview of the past PRC's can be found in the following links:

http://sites.google.com/site/bambombim/prc

http://bambombim.googlepages.com/PRCRemixList.doc (also downloadable via the link above).

 

 

Check the ThaSauce Page for the results and votes.

 

 

Vote by Flurry Of Flames:

PRC 358 Vote

1. Kat

2. Shid0

This is the hardest vote I ever had to do for PRC. Both of these remixer did one crucial key factor of jazz incredibly well, and that is improvising.  Kat was more bombastic in her arrangement with more instrumentation, more contrast in dynamics and going for a fuller and wider soundscape with emphasis on reverb. The voice was a nice touch, and although sometimes I thought the voice didn't know what vowel which made the tone somewhat fuzzy and not focused such as at the start of the second playthrough. I thought the voice really came into its own was when she was on a pure oo vowel and the high notes when it was on a "ah" vowel especially at the end as it really made it sound so effortless and really fit in well to what was going on with the rest of the instrumentation. The celeste (what I think it is?) also was a great addition at the end emphasizing the melody and getting more high range to better fill out the end as the source track in particular can be bottom heavy if not careful. Overall, Kat did an amazing job with the remix with a full sound and ingenuity in the soundscape or atmosphere.

Now with Shid0's, where Kat went with a big amount of instrumentation and a wide atmospheric sound, I feel what what Shid0 did well was everything in the remix played well and accentuated with each other. In the second half when improvising takes place, the bass, piano, and percussion work and fill out each other so well with piano taking the lead, and the bass and percussion filling in the rest of the ensemble. The piano improv was my favorite part of this track, and I would've liked if the saxophone got a bit more love on the second half on the track, or some more time to provide countermelody as the piano improv was my favorite, I feel like there is more that can be done in that area. One other aspect that I feel like that could have more use in this remix is a sense of direction in terms of contrast of dynamics or resolution at the end ot the track. At the end, I think having the sax or another instrument come back in and give a greater sense of resolution and contrast from what happened before with the piano improv, and slowly fade to the snaps would be something to look into for future remixes.

Again this is merely my opinion and I'm still trying to figure out a lot of stuff in my remixes so my advice could be wrong or not well versed. I had a lovely time listening to your remixes on repeat, and can't wait to meet you in future competitions.  

[Shid0]

Hello, thanks a lot for the feedback !

This piece was fun and interesting to mess around with, and definetely quite different from what i'm used to do though i wish I spent more time on the mixing side of things. But as usual I have this bad habbit of stopping short from finishing it up 100% (thank god I don't do this in every single area of my life... oh wait !).

Jokes aside, thanks for the critiques, it's always nice to know what people think of your work and it's even better when someone takes a liking to it

PS: My vote to Kat since i forgot to vote myself. Love the atmosphere and sound you went with, even tho i'm not really fond of the vocals (but that's just my opinion)