Links

Affiliates

Using our referral links below when purchasing from our affiliates helps cover the site's bandwidth costs and support some excellent partners in the process.

• Dreamhost - Excellent shared and dedicated web hosting with generous bandwidth
• eStarland.com - Games, consoles, anime merchandise, and more, with international shipping
• Mad-Gear LLC - Our convention partners provide you not only with OCR gear, they specialize a deep selection of new and used import games
• LiquidWeb - OverClocked ReMix's primary web hosting provider; great dedicated hosting
• VG Frequency - Larry "Liontamer" Oji's former Atlanta radio show, reborn as OC ReMix's official blog covering the video game arrangement scene.
• Zzounds.com - Music hardware & software with excellent prices & fast shipping

Game Music

Game Music Arrangement Community

• AMIGAremix - A newer site dedicated to remixes of tunes from the Commodore Amiga platform.
• Arrange Stream - Your (Japanese-language) guide to the loose confederation that is Japan's doujin VGM arrangement scene.
• Dwelling of Duels - The popular monthly live performance arrangement competition.
• OverLooked ReMiX - OLR is the comedic offshoot and bastard stepcousin of OCR.
• Remix.Kwed.Org - The definitive guide to C64 MP3 remakes showcases SID remixes.
• Remix64 - The informational hub and gathering point of the Commodore arrangement scene.
• Remix:ThaSauce - R:TS has a relaxed quality control system in the attempt to showcase more music.
• VGMix - VGMix is part of a community of amateur musicians who write arrangements of video game music.
• VgPiano - A pianist's dream, VgPiano is newer hub focused on arranging in the 88 keys.

Albums

• Blood on the Asphalt - A Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo ReMix collaboration with an urban flavor.
• Chrono Symphonic - Designed to be the orchestrated soundtrack for the long-desired Chrono Trigger movie.
• Hedgehog Heaven - A Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrangement project featuring developing artists.
• Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country's memorable soundtrack is diversely handled here, and generally regarded as OCR's most creatively successful album project.
• Project Chaos - Inspired by the game with LOCK-ON TECHNOLOGY™ (and possibly Michael Jackson), Sonic 3 & Knuckles was rearranged in a variety of styles.
• ReCapitated - Focusing on one the most memorable pieces of VGM ever created, Sonic the Hedgehog 3's IceCap Zone, resulting in an album of biblical proportions.
• Relics of the Chozo - The album project that started it all, a Super Metroid Musical Collaboration.
• Repercussions of Fowl Lamentation - RoFL is a humorous upgrade to the hallowed soundtrack of Duck Hunt.
• Rise of the Star - An upbeat collection of arrangements from the classic SNES platformer, Kirby's Adventure.
• The Dark Side of Phobos - A decidedly dark interpretation of the legendary PC title DooM.
• Voices of the Lifestream - OC ReMix's largest community album to date, this 4-disc, 3 1/2 hour album features ReMixers giving it their all in tribute to Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy VII score.

Non-OCR Albums

• Bound Together - Several areas of the community contributed to this EarthBound tribute.
• Cave Story Remix Project - An album dedicated to the homebrew sensation Cave Story, and praised by game creator Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya.
• The American Album - Mazedude's tribute honors the often-overlooked American video game composers.

Bands / Performers

• Eminence - Based in Australia, this nearly 60-person orchestra aims to spread the orchestra to a wider audience, arranging the music of video games, anime and pop culture.
• Game Over - Fantastic Swedish metal video game cover band - did the great Punch-Out!! ReMix hosted here. Cool.
• Minibosses - One of the very first game cover bands, with a rock emphasis and some energetic material.
• NESkimos - Fun and irreverent video game cover band.
• Neskvartetten - Literally Sweden's NES quartet, they specialize in giving Zelda's music the jazzy treatment.
• PLAY! A Video Game Symphony - From the same team that brought Final Fantasy: Dear Friends to the United States, PLAY's concerts expand the format to a broader selection of game music.
• Project X - The collaborative effort of two musical robots to record new versions of the classic soundtracks of Mega Man 2 and Mega Man 3.
• Select Start - This Florida-based sextet offers something different with their classical repertoire.
• temp sound solutions - shawn phase has tons of great rock covers from classic games, with new material constantly in the works.
• The Advantage - "8 BIT nintendo band - serious dudes that rock with good nintentions".
• Video Game Pianist - One of the first pianists to gain recognition and respect for performing video game music on the piano.
• Video Games Live - Tommy Tallarico & Jack Wall's ambitious world concert tour aiming to bring VGM to the masses, including many international locations never before visited by a VGM concert.
• Xoc - Performing with almost any instrument or object within reach, Xoc first gained notice with his Super Mario World cover album.

Labels

• C64Audio - C64Audio works with original composers and fan arrangers for its catalog of Commodore arrangement albums.
• KFSS Studios - Project Majestic Mix featuring great, professional-quality arrangements of Uematsu / Squaresoft music (by some familiar faces, too)
• OneUp Studios - OneUp was started in 2002 to arrange video game music with a new flavor and then license and sell those arrangements on CD.

Game Music Composers

• Game Music Composers @ OCR - Our sortable list of game composers, with links where available.
• Rocketbaby - The Video Game and Anime Music Journal - good interviews.

Game Music Emulation (NSF, SPC, etc.)

Please see Chipamp's links page, featuring chiptune news, players, archives and radio/podcasts.

• Chipamp - OC ReMix's official Winamp plugin bundle supporting game music formats (NSF, SPC, PSF, SID, VGM, etc.)

Game Music in MIDI Format

• Videogame Music Archive (VGMusic) - Video Game MIDI music from NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Genesis, Master System, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Turbo-Grafx 16, and more!

Game Music Industry / Organizations

• Gamasutra - "The Art & Business of Making Games", Gamasutra's resources cover all aspects of the gaming industry.
• Game Audio Network Guild - The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) is a non-profit organization established to educate the masses in regards to interactive audio.
• MAGFest - The Music and Games Festival is THE yearly destination for VGM cover bands, as well as artists & fans of the US-based VGM arrangement scene.
• MobyGames - The world's most comprehensive gaming database project.
• Music 4 Games - News, interviews, and info regarding the game music industry.
• VGMdb - The ultimate resource for information on video game music albums, both physical and digital.

Game Music Radio Stations

Radio Stations that Play OC ReMixes

• VGDJ: The Official OverClocked ReMix Podcast - OC ReMix, podcast style, with hosts pixietricks and zircon - snippets of various tunes, reviews, and much more.
• ocremix at ormgas.com - Streaming OC ReMixes 24/7, it's the official spot for OC ReMix radio, including rebroadcasts of radio show VG Frequency.
• 'ZRN: 'Zone Radio Network - An Internet radio network with various video game genres
• WARC 90.3 FM - Allegheny College's Music Listening Alternative
• WRUW-FM 91.1 - Cleveland's Most Eclectic Radio Station
• The Super Koopa Troopa Show - VGM meets NPR with this informative podcast.
• The Remixatorium - Who knows what you'll hear with DarkRadish's personal selections.
• Nitro Game Injection - Much like it sounds, this internet radio show focuses on rock and metal.

ReMixing

• Harmony Central - The biggest, oldest, best online resource for musicians - awesome.
• K-v-R - The definitive site supporting open standard audio plugins (VST, DXi, AU, etc.)

Music Equipment/Software Manufacturer Websites

Access, Alesis, Cakewalk, Casio, Clavia (Nord), E-MU / Ensoniq, Emagic, Fender, Image-Line (FruityLoops), Kawai, Korg, Kurzweil, Lexicon, M-Audio, Mackie, MOTU, Native Instruments, Propellerhead Software, rgc:audio, Roland, Shure, Steinberg, Tascam, Yamaha

Music Theory, History & Terminology

• 120 Years of Electronic Music - Some but not all of the major milestones in electronic musical instrument development.
• Electronic Music Primer - A cool shockwave presentation at the U of Oregon that sums up some basic synthesis concepts nicely.
• Gary Ewers Easy Music Theory - For free, this really ain't bad. Classes, quizzes, answer sheets.
• Jazclass - An online class of sorts, covering basic notation and theory to more advanced topics.
• MIDI and Music Synthesis - Harmony Central tutorial - I wholeheartedly recommend reading this - twice - and saving a local copy.
• RANE Professional Audio Reference - Exhaustive list of audio terms and definitions.

Music-Making Magazines

Electronic Musician, Future Music, Keyboard, Mix, Sound on Sound

Music-Making Software

Buzz

• Buzzmachines.com - The best all-around site for Buzz, and the homepage as well.
• DMOZ Entry for Buzz - Great, organized, annotated Buzz links.

Cubase

• Cubase.com - Not the official site, but has good forums.
• Steinberg's Official Cubase Forums - Highly moderated but still very useful.

FruityLoops

• FruityLoops Homepage - FruityLoops homepage - best place to start.

Reason

• Reason Homepage - Reason homepage.
• ReasonFreaks - Excellent site with many resources, files, and interactive features.
• ReasonStation - Forums, tutorials, refills and more.

Trackers

• DMOZ entry for MOD Software - Open directory list of good links on MODs / tracking in general.
• MAZ Sound - One of the oldest and best sites on trackers, with tons of links, downloads, and information.
• United Trackers - Non-profit organization of musicians supporting the Internet (MOD) music scene - site has good scene news and resources.

Samples & Patches

Samples in Audio / WAV Format

• Analoguesamples.com - Slow server, but TONS of great samples in an organized database.
• Loopasonic - Great site, though requires registration.
• MusicMachines: Samples - Loads of high-quality vintage analog synth samples.
• Sample Arena - Nice, simple site with a variety of sounds.
• Samplenet - Variety of good samples, including bpm-specific loops.

Samples in Soundfont Format

• Bovbjergs Free Piano Instruments - Amazing and FREE large piano samples.
• Hammersound - Huge, mirrored archive of free, high-quality soundfonts.
• Zophar's Game Soundfonts - Soundfonts that use instruments from actual games.