Indie Musician looking for OCR's to collaborate

[Shirleycakes]

(I should start this by saying this is an ORIGINAL project, not a remix. I stuck it in community because I didn't know where else to go. If there's a better place to post this please let me know - I'm a forum virgin)

I'm an Indie singer, guitarist and keyboardist who is starting a new project a little more geared toward my influences on the video game music side. I've been downloading remixes here for years and the other day when I was trolling craigslist for musicians I thought I'd be stupid not to see if anyone here is interested. There's silly amounts of talent with digital music floatng this domain, I'd be stoked if anyone would want to help out.

What I'm going for is something that is indie rock at heart, but definitely appeals to those of us who get chills when we hear our favorite game's theme song played on the piano by some guy on youtube who may or may not be dressed up as one of the characters.

I have some one-minute clips of the recent stuff I've been working on posted to a sort of "want ad" myspace account. It's soundtrack work that I wrote and arranged, but then added vocals and guitar to. Most questions should be answered here:

http://www.myspace.com/mmprizefighters

If you want a little more background on my guitar, singing and production I've got my old singer/songwriter myspace up at:

http://www.myspace.com/michaelshirley

My previous (and very defunct) band's websites has a few mp3 samples of stuff done last year; more guitar, singing and drum sequencing:

http://www.asuburbandisaster.com/mp3

The latter two projects are the tried and true guitar-rock things that I am trying to not so much abandon, but definitely evolve into something a little more refreshing. I wanted to cover a few DKC songs with my last band and they didn't even know what I was talking about. It's time for people who play instruments and play video games to come together.

I am located in the San Francisco area but geography isn't that important because the internet is so versatile. Look what The Postal Service did with snail-mail. Anything is possible.

So if you'e interested, reply, PM me or contact me via one of the MySpace accounts. Thanks for reading.

[Meteo Xavier]

Man, I hate to see someone take as much time to write up a detailed classified and get nothing.

I can tell you with pretty good confidence this likely will not work out for you. Most of the higher-up OCRemixers are pretty busy people and are rarely interested in working on projects unless they themselves started it, or its started by one of their close associates. Its kinda clique-ish (which, to their credit, is just kinda how it works in this field of entertainment).

Most of the guys who would get responses from would probably not be worth the time and energy anyway since their remixing and collaborative management skills are barely up to snuff in the first place.

I hope you get at least some of response, but the reality is you're probably better off putting your time and energy into something else.

[Shirleycakes]

Thanks for the advice - I definitely haven't put all my eggs in this basket but I figured it'd be stupid not to try.

I've actually gotten a few interesting responses which is incredible given how long this has been here.

So who knows, it may work it may not but it was definitely worth a shot and I thank you for even taking the time to read it and give your feedback. Cheers, man.

[Legion303]

I can tell you with pretty good confidence this likely will not work out for you. Most of the higher-up OCRemixers are pretty busy people and are rarely interested in working on projects unless they themselves started it, or its started by one of their close associates. Its kinda clique-ish (which, to their credit, is just kinda how it works in this field of entertainment).

Incorrect. I've seen many collabs between OC remixers and other people, some here and some elsewhere.

Michael, your music is great and reminds me of both Tool and Radiohead with more of a college feel. I added both your myspace accounts as friends. Sign me up for a collab. I play acoustic and electric guitar (20 years), computer synths (15 years?) and I "play" drums through a drum ROMpler (fxPansion BFD).

-steve

[prophetik music]

there's some really cool stuff here. i've been working on a lot of music that's going in this direction for a while. if you want to contact me on AIM or through a pm, i'd be interested. i'm a saxophonist, programmer, and composer, and i've got a LOT of tools at my disposal to make a good-sounding track. i'm currently mastering the EP of a band in my area, and i can send that along if you wanted a listen of what kind of stuff i can make, or i've got some files i'll send you to show you what i can do.