25 years....

[Jedimichael]

I just randomly was thinking that OCremix was started in December, and checking online, see that it says December 11, 1999.  For me right now, thats an hour and half away.

Myself finding this awesome place in 2003.  Not knowing how to make music, but as a lover of listening to it, I don't post much....but, I didn't see anywhere on here it being mentioned about the 25th anniversary.  (maybe I just missed it)

So anyways....

Just wishing this place a HUGE HAPPY 25TH BIRTHDAY.

And of course a huge thanks to everyone who has contributed and kept this place alive for so long.

Heres to 25 more years....

[100_PERCENT ROEMER]

[BardicKnowledge]

Just a head's up, most of the community is on the Discord server these days, and on the off chance either of you aren't there, hop on over! There's a hangout for the anniversary starting around 8:00 PM. (I'll be on an hour later after I get children to bed, which is something I cannot imagine typing back in 2003-2004, haha. :p)

https://discord.gg/ocremix?event=1316531137803194460

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Hear hear! Here's to 25 more!

[yangfeili]

The oldest files currently on my computer which have jumped from hard drive to hard drive over the years are mp3s from this site which show a "Date Modified" of November 21, 2000. Based on the fact they all share a 9:03 PM timestamp though, I suspect that they're actually slightly older than that and the date got modified as they were being copied from one location to another or something.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

My circle of friends consists almost entirely of people I know through OCReMix

[Bundeslang]

A huge milestone. Congrats to everyone who is involved with this.

[Argle]

That's pretty incredible it's been a quarter century already.  I remember kinda finding OCR by accident.  It was... "wow, people take well known game music, and, like, put their own spin on it?  That's amazing!"

[Mazedude]

I remember when a friend first asked me to remix a theme from Chrono Trigger that he liked. My first impulse was "nah man, c'mon, I write original music." Then I listened to the theme. I liked it. So I thought well, maybe this one time I'll remix this theme, ya know, for my friend. Then partway through development of that track I had this thought "hey I wonder if anyone else wants or listens to video game remixes, let me see what's out there..." and via Jake Kaufman actually I found out about OCRemix. I submitted my Chrono Trigger track, and whaddaya know... people liked it. So my brain started to go to what other video game themes did I really like that could use a little love. And then there was a Blaster Master submission. Then Final Fantasy IV. And then.......... it's a pretty long list at this point. :) Along the journey I've met several game composers in person, I've honored them by remixing tracks that they specifically requested, I've landed gigs doing original music for games... it's a bit trippy actually, I've played Guitar Hero with Gerard K. Marino, I've swam in Tommy Tallarico's pool, and I'm friends with the head honchos at Trilobyte Games (The 7th Guest). All thanks to what DJP set in motion and I happened to top into a long, long time ago. What a ride.

[Jedimichael]

I've been listening to video game music for a LONG time.  Most everyone thought I was nuts.  With games like the Streets of Rage games, back in the 90s, I would take a tape recorder, put it up to my little 13" tv, and record off the speaker.  Even adding pillows around it to help muffle outside sounds. Then lower the volume on the tv for the fade out, and pause the recording.  Then the next track.

I did that for a ton of games.

Then, once I got into video recording and editing years later, I would hook up the inputs from each system and record it directly to the camera I have.  A Sony TRV-900, recording on to mini DV tapes.  Still got it.  From there, hook up the camera via firewire and record it all into Avid.  Render out to a wav file and import into Soundforge, and edit it from there.

Around early 2003, I wanted to record the SNES Star Fox soundtrack, but with no sound test, I was out of luck.  Didn't have internet at the time, but when visiting my parents on vacation, since they had internet, I decided to see about the Star Fox soundtrack....but, I ended up finding OCremix instead....and changed everything.

I realized, I already had some music from the site, but had just gotten it off Napster around 2000- 2002ish.  Sadly, a lot of the tracks on Napster and similar sties didn't have the correct info for artist and such.

Probably one of the first remixes I had, from Napster, was the Chrono trigger mix, "Winds of Time", which I now know is by Rimco.

Also, not long after all this, I found SNES spc files, which were even better quality than all my direct recordings.  So I spent even more time using Winamp to convert songs to wavs, and again edit in Soundforge.  Eventually getting the NES and Sega files as well.

So even though I have no musical talent to make music, I've sure spent thousands of hours recording and mixing all this game music for personal use.  From CD, to ipods, to now using an MP3 player.

I now have 2142 tracks from games, and know it could be a lot more still.  And then of course all the remixes from here.

 

House is now filled with artwork from games.  A lot of Chrono Trigger, as thats one of my favorites.  Also Final Fantasy 6, and working on a new piece that will go up by the logo, which I made earlier this year.

 

Thanks for anyone that actually read all that.  Just like to share all the nerdy stuff with any other nerds out there.