Links

Affiliates

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• Dreamhost - Excellent shared and dedicated web hosting with generous bandwidth
• eStarland.com - Games, consoles, anime merchandise, and more, with international shipping
• LiquidWeb - OverClocked ReMix's primary web hosting provider; great dedicated hosting
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 American Album - Mazedude's album honors the often-overlooked American video game composers.
• The Dark Side of Phobos - A decidedly dark interpretation of the legendary PC title DooM.

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.
• 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 flavour 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, Gameboy, 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 - Formerly the Mid-Atlantic Gaming Festival, the Music and Games Festival is a yearly destination for VGM cover bands and their fans.
• MobyGames - The world's most comprehensive gaming database project.
• Music 4 Games - News, interviews, and info regarding the game music industry.

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.
• VG Frequency - VG Frequency featured the artists of OverClocked ReMix and VGMix, which are the two most popular internet spots where musicians apply their talents to reinterpreting video game music in tons of different musical styles.
• '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.