PRC Final - The Last PRC Round (Free Round)

[Bundeslang]

The People's Remix Competition Final Round (PRC472)
PRCv20-13

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

 

This round is located at:

https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC472

 

Source: Free Round (Every source is allowed, including making originals)

This will be the last round of PRC. Since it's getting harder to get any songs in and I also lack time myself to be very active in it I decided to put it to an end. I don't feel anything for changing the setup of the contest or promoting it more. I'm happy that I kept it running this long. Many rounds got a good amount of songs and a voting stage but the last years it was hard to get any contributions. Still, PRC469 was the first round without an entry. I don't want this going with much rounds without entries, after 20 years it is good to end this contest. It's been a long time since I took over PRC from Rexy (after PRC130 back in October 2008, 15 years ago). The contest itself started back in late 2003. I want to thank everyone for this long, long time.

If someone really not wants to end PRC and wants to take over the organisation of PRC he/she is free to start season 21 next year. Send me a PM if you want this to happen.

 

Of course, PRC will not before there's a Final Round.

It's a Free Round. Feel free to remix whatever you like, also making an original mix is allowed. You can also submit multiple songs.

The remixing stage is the longest ever in the PRC history, over two months of time to make a good remix.

 

The deadline is Tuesday December 26th 2023 at 10:59 am ThaSauce time (18:00 UTC, 19:00 GMT), check the link https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC472 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. This is the longest remixing stage ever in PRC.

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 will be the last winner of a PRC round. No next round will happen so there's no need to pick a source for next round.

 

You can find the full rules list at this page as well.

 

GOOD LUCK!

 

PRC Home Page

 

Edited October 22, 2023 by Bundeslang

[Yami]

Wow, the last round. It's been an honor. If I remember I will be entering this one last time

[H36T]

One more for the road.

@TheVideoGamer @Wassup Thunder @The Vodoú Queen@Souperion

@APZX @HoboKa

Y'all down?

 

Edited October 22, 2023 by H36T

[The Vodoú Queen]

Back again to where it all began... :0

This is extremely sad to see, and I wish this year I could've dedicated more time to PRC and MnP.  However, Godspeed to everyone who was ever involved with either, and I still have fond memories of these even with my brief time doing them.

...But one more for old time's sake? *bro-fist* Hells yeah. Count me in.

[Unknown Pseudoartist]

Ugh, it saddens me a lot to see this now all of a sudden. Honestly I'm having a rough time in both personal and creative stuff and felt very discouraged for any music projects, to the point that I once considered to abandon and right now I'm having a similar internal debate about that.

So I'm sorry I weren't any active in more PRC compos even when that was exactly my intention. In the other hand, I totally understand the lack of motivation of organizers to keep this thing alive seeing the lack of participation. Every month I have that feeling that whatever music I'm doing at the moment could be my latest work, and it's a really annoying and frustrating way to keep doing stuff, and I bet that's very much how people organizing this feels like too.

Anyways I hope to have something done exclusively for PRC during these 2 months. Good or bad stuff or whatever, just to have some fun and contribute with something more.

[TheVideoGamer]

I can't say i'm surprised. MnP is suffering the same fate as PRC. I've set up a poll asking whether it should be on demand or not, and so far people are saying it should be. So similar to PRC, MnP will run it's course, and unlike PRC will transfer to a On Demand model.

Shame it has to go, it was a lot of fun. But it was especially fun when people were around sharing remixes, and providing fun critique, but alas it's just not the same as it used to be. 

I'll hold out for this one, and write a farewell song for this round. It's been fun working with you all. Just for the record, i'm not leaving, i'm just not gonna be doing this every month. My poll closes on the 31st October, so the real results will come then. Thanks for being such wonderful people, here's to the future!

Edited October 22, 2023 by TheVideoGamer

[TheVideoGamer]

3 hours ago, The Vodoú Queen said:

Back again to where it all began... :0

This is extremely sad to see, and I wish this year I could've dedicated more time to PRC and MnP.  However, Godspeed to everyone who was ever involved with either, and I still have fond memories of these even with my brief time doing them.

...But one more for old time's sake? *bro-fist* Hells yeah. Count me in.

It's a shame, but i suppose it can't be helped.

[TheVideoGamer]

1 hour ago, Unknown Pseudoartist said:

Ugh, it saddens me a lot to see this now all of a sudden. Honestly I'm having a rough time in both personal and creative stuff and felt very discouraged for any music projects, to the point that I once considered to abandon and right now I'm having a similar internal debate about that.

So I'm sorry I weren't any active in more PRC compos even when that was exactly my intention. In the other hand, I totally understand the lack of motivation of organizers to keep this thing alive seeing the lack of participation. Every month I have that feeling that whatever music I'm doing at the moment could be my latest work, and it's a really annoying and frustrating way to keep doing stuff, and I bet that's very much how people organizing this feels like too.

Anyways I hope to have something done exclusively for PRC during these 2 months. Good or bad stuff or whatever, just to have some fun and contribute with something more.

It is unfortunate, but i guess this is how it was meant to be. I'm grateful to see the old gang back together, for one last compo. 

[The Vodoú Queen]

49 minutes ago, TheVideoGamer said:

I can't say i'm surprised. MnP is suffering the same fate as PRC. I've set up a poll asking whether it should be on demand or not, and so far people are saying it should be. So similar to PRC, MnP will run it's course, and unlike PRC will transfer to a On Demand model.

Shame it has to go, it was a lot of fun. But it was especially fun when people were around sharing remixes, and providing fun critique, but alas it's just not the same as it used to be. 

I'll hold out for this one, and write a farewell song for this round. It's been fun working with you all. Just for the record, i'm not leaving, i'm just not gonna be doing this every month. My poll closes on the 31st October, so the real results will come then. Thanks for being such wonderful people, here's to the future!

FWIW, if something like this happens for MnP, I'll be there, VG. Plan was to probably redo the very first PRC remix I've ever done, kinda demo my journey in the music making process since those years ago.

Would be so happy to do it for MnP as well!!! Still remember both first rounds so fondly... ♡ And I still have the project files to boot!

[TheVideoGamer]

44 minutes ago, The Vodoú Queen said:

FWIW, if something like this happens for MnP, I'll be there, VG. Plan was to probably redo the very first PRC remix I've ever done, kinda demo my journey in the music making process since those years ago.

Would be so happy to do it for MnP as well!!! Still remember both first rounds so fondly... ♡ And I still have the project files to boot!

Of course i will be setting up the round if there's a bare minimum of 3 or more, because i want people to be active, but yeah, this might be the future.

Glad you still have the drive for music, and it would be fun to remake your first remix, so that sounds like fun. 

[Bundeslang]

Updated the first post.

The main reason to quit is that I don't want this contest to end up with many rounds without entries. As written in the first post, PRC469 was the first real round when that happened. With my quick songs for both PRC469 and PRC471 these rounds still didn't end without a song. And of course I don't let this one end without a song as well.

Nowadays people don't find their way to the forums and I don't feel anything to actively promote this on Social Media or somewhere else. PRC should stay PRC, after 20 years it is also a good moment to end it. After this I will still keep an eye on these forums.

Let's make this round a good last one.

[Eino Keskitalo]

Sad to see PRC go, but fully understandable. PRC has had a great run! PRC was a big thing for me when it comes to OCR and my music making in general. Many of my OCR posts are PRC entries, and there are still more coming.

[Jorito]

Sad to see it end, but surprised it was around for so long. I checked, I even got 3 mixposts out of my contributions to PRC!

If I don't forget I'll try to whip up an entry for the last round and give it a proper goodbye

 

[Sir_NutS]

Hi @Bundeslang.  First, I want to sincerely thank you for keeping PRC going for as long as you did.  PRC was a huge part of my development as an artist in the early days of OCR along other older competitions like IMC and I made a lot of collabs and friends in these competitions.  I am no longer making music, nor I am around online much but when I saw the email about this PRC being the last I had to jump in to salute and thank you and the oher artists.

I would say the absolute best part of being part of the community by far were PRC and other compos.  The constraints of the competitions I felt really helped me break out of some walls, and some of the remixes I made here both as sir_nuts and as showroom dummy made the jump to the front page.
Again thank you and all of those who participated over the years.  Hope you are doing great and wish you nothing but the absolute best in the future.

Edited October 22, 2023 by Sir_NutS

[colorado weeks]

i never got the chance to do PRC due to scheduling conflicts, but i'll try and make this last one!

[Souperion]

Even if I've fallen off from them in recent times, I've good memories of remix compos and even produced some material I still look back on fondly. One more swan song, then!

[Wassup Thunder]

*Staggering out of foggy internet cave with undone tie and pizza-stained-shirt* I'm in for the last hurrah! Composing for PRC was a great experience and I really appreciate the community for making little events like this, it was great to mingle with other artists, so thanks to Bundeslang and everyone else involved with running this!

[AxLR]

Can't say I've been very active, life going on, kids, work and stuff like that so I couldn't have enough time for this.
But I'm quite glad I could participate a little to those rounds.

I'm in. Down for a last one.
Strap in guys. I'll make multiple entries I think.

It's been fun making music here. It'll be a last goodbye for me too, my everyday duties take me way too much time to continue making music so I need to step down and this feels like the perfect way to end this.

[H36T]

We're getting the band back together 

[Esperado]

damnnnnn the last round?! this compo taught me so much about music making. i never even ended up being a posted remixer but this compo was a great one. kudos to you for keeping it going so long. Its been a long time, but i finally have ableton again and ill try to get a real gem in for this 

Edited October 23, 2023 by Esperado

[TheVideoGamer]

I feel like that the notion of PRC ending, has brought upon a massive reunion of both new and old participants which makes me both sad and happy. Let's hope the final round goes off with a bang.

Edited October 27, 2023 by TheVideoGamer

[AxLR]

Btw, I'll enter this round with my alias, BRKPNT.
Submitted one real quick. Not the last one I'll post

[Sadorf]

On 10/22/2023 at 1:08 PM, Sir_NutS said:

I am no longer making music

what?

Damn..

I think that one of the reasons for prc ending really has to do with the weird/complicated songs people choose. Waaaay back a lot of the source songs were a lot more simple, catchy and just easier for newcomers to try out mixing for the first time. Every month i pop in to see what the source is, and it is always just something i dont like, or something so new that no beginner is going to show up and think they can do something with it. I dunno, i really liked when ORC was around, mixing each others original music was a lot more fun to me. 

I'm not sure how to really explain it better right now. this is just my opinion

Since it really is the last one, and a free round at that, i'll try to make something.

 

[APZX]

@H36T

Sad day

But I'm down. I've got an older remix that I'll put up and I'll see about doing another.

[HoboKa]

On 10/22/2023 at 5:58 AM, TheVideoGamer said:

I can't say i'm surprised. MnP is suffering the same fate as PRC. I've set up a poll asking whether it should be on demand or not, and so far people are saying it should be. So similar to PRC, MnP will run it's course, and unlike PRC will transfer to a On Demand model.

Shame it has to go, it was a lot of fun. But it was especially fun when people were around sharing remixes, and providing fun critique, but alas it's just not the same as it used to be. 

I'll hold out for this one, and write a farewell song for this round. It's been fun working with you all. Just for the record, i'm not leaving, i'm just not gonna be doing this every month. My poll closes on the 31st October, so the real results will come then. Thanks for being such wonderful people, here's to the future!

(EDIT...I hit enter too soon LOL)

Sounds fair. Sucks it has to be this way, but the compo scene was definitely in a downturn since probably as far back as 2014, though there were some definite upticks here and there. I'll defer to your decision with MnP, TVG.

As for PRC, it has been a wild ride and some seriously good times and kick-ass remixes. Thanks for being such an awesome host @Bundeslang

(EDIT 2) I'd like to add that you were very patient with the more difficult participants (myself included, at times). You've shown nothing but class and aimed to keep the experience a positive one, despite the BS that came your way from time to time lol. You are a true gentleman and scholar Bundeslang. Pardon the 2nd edit, I am having a hard time gathering my thoughts and overcoming my anxiety all at once lol.

On 10/21/2023 at 8:43 PM, H36T said:

One more for the road.

@TheVideoGamer @Wassup Thunder @The Vodoú Queen@Souperion

@APZX @HoboKa

Y'all down?

 

I was planning on just coasting along and doing nothing for the rest of the year, but that will have to change, considering the situation... I'd be remiss not to add an entry. Hopefully Bundeslang will be joining in for the fun too!

Edited November 2, 2023 by HoboKa