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OC ReMix
http://www.ocremix.org/
I'v been going to this site since early 2005 and love the work they all pour out, the quality is fantastic compared to less organized remix sites I've heard. I currently have ReMixes 0001-1250 (with some removed, I really wish I could get those) and a few dozen others on my hard drive. What's do you think of the site as a whole and what are your favorite remixes? My current favorite is Final_Fantasy_6_Enchanted_Esper, it's just got the epic feel to it. The length gives you plenty of time to enjoy the subdued music. |
Sega, practically every Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Streets of Rage, metal gear solid etc etc etc remix I love!!! (OK maybe not ALL) But goddamn I have atleast 100MB of those remixes. I love that site.
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I'm a big fan of the OverClocked ReMix; heck, I spend more time around there than I do here.
I posted a list of remixes back in an earlier version of this thread from before the wipe (that also included stuff from VGMix, currently down). I'm feeling lazy and don't really want to trudge through everything just for a favorites list that'll be pages long because I'm indecisive. Last.fm indicates that my most listened remix is Neo-Pacificist, so I'll just give that a mention. Don't forget the site projects, which contain many tracks that weren't actually posted to OCR: Relics of the Chozo (Super Metroid), Kong in Concert (Donkey Kong Country), Hedgehog Heaven (Sonic the Hedgehog 2), Rise of the Star (Kirby's Adventure), The Dark Side of Phobos (Doom), and Chrono Symphonic (Chrono Trigger). Quote:
There's going to be a whole batch of new removed tracks after OCR01500 is posted; the judges are going to go back and toss things that shouldn't have been posted in the first place for standards violations. Given the current rate of song posting, expect that in about seventeen years. :biggrin: |
I never was a big fan of the Remixin scene, to be honest. About 10% of the remixes I actually like in both OCRemix and VGMix. I find it a shame that the majority of VGM fans are VGM remix fans as well, it deters tide away from the originals.
Kong in Concert bored me to death, so I never understood why so many thought it was better than the originals. The only song I liked was Boiling Point. |
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whos ocremix, sum n00b? (BTW, even 2chan approves of us gaijin musicians.) |
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I love seeing what remixers can do with their own interpretation on tracks, especially with tracks I really enjoy (the opposite of what most people feel, as I've seen); as long as the remix doesn't suck, I'm perfectly happy with a new piece of music. There are only a few tracks I can point to and say I don't want to see them remixed, and that's really only because I'm deathly afraid that they'll be butchered. :( Remixes from soundtracks I haven't heard help me with VGMQ, too. :p Quote:
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I've been going to OCR longer than I've been coming here. Let's see, I started visiting OCR in late 2001, joined the OCR
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I never noticed the similarity until now. =O |
I think OC Remix is a great site, but of the over 1,200 or so remixes, I have only heard about 100-150 that I really like. A couple of them are the FFVI Terra in Black remix, as well as the Metal Gear May Cry remix. Also, it was great to see Jeremy Soule show his support for the site. His contribution, also a tribute to Uematsu's Terra/Tina track from FFVI, is simply godly.
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For a while, I listened to OCR material almost exclusively. Sometime ago, I discovered there was much better original music out there. I deleted my OCR collection and deleted the tracks from my Last.fm because it was really screwing up my neighbor recommendations; none of my neighbors listened to the new stuff I was listening to.
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Well I like the site, but I don't really visit it that often. I love the remixes of Jeremy Robson the best. I can't get enough of his orchestral arrangements. I love how he gives each piece a cinematic influence. My favs of his include Final Fantasy VII Philharmonic Suite and Kefka's Adagio. One of the things I find completely annoying with OCR is that NO ONE arranges Hamauzu's music. I plan to fix that however, and submit my People of the North orchestration, :D!
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OLR > OCR
Seriously. I actually lurk at OLR. Mabye in a few months I will actually have the guts to post there. |
OCRemix has produced some very catchy tunes, but you gotta weed out the medicore ones. My all-time favorite from there is tied between a Mega Man 2 song called "Bubble(wantstoget)funkedup, and a song titled "Jenova Trance" originating from FFVII.
VGRemix is another place to find remixes, although I've only been there a few times. Maybe I'll submit a remix to OC and see what they say. |
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Anyway, thanks. |
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That's the only Hamauzu track I know of, though. I'm sure you can find rejected mixes of some of his other works in the decisions forum, but many of the tracks in there are rejected for good cause. :( |
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I first discovered that site before joining GFF, so it took up most of my time back then. Some of my early favorites were remixes by Dale North, I believe. I haven't had an opportunity to listen to the other remixes besides those from Final Fantasy and Xenogears.
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Don't worry, we're a decent crowd. And OCR is a pretty cool place too. I've enjoyed listening to some of their mixes from time to time, but the standards kinda kill it for me. Looking at their Judges' Decisions page and sometimes seeing entire pages of nothing but rejections (all of them unanimous, WTF?) I wonder how bad these really are. Professionalism is nice, but these are amateur artists we're dealing with. Of course, I know that there are a ton of submissions so it's necessary to be strict, but it's just depressing to read some of these comments sometimes. |
I, too, discovered this site long before I came here. However, I'm more a fan of remixers' work themselves than actual remixes (if that makes any sense). For instance, like Quinn Fox and McVaffe, I pretty much follow all their stuff (especially Quinn Fox).
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VGMix takes the opposite approach; there's no panel asserting quality control (although there's definitely a system in place... it's just much more permissive), resulting in a place where artists can get their music out at the expense of listeners having to wade through more songs. They're just different philosophies, and both have their proponents and detractors. And of course you have OLR. :megaman: |
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I have only ~1000, it's time to update my oc remixes. my favorite remix is Zelda: Link's Awakening, (1993) 'Braving Tal Tal Heights' by Disco Dan Sounds very cool. |
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And CHz, no judge actually -left-, since they were all the same person. |
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Also, http://olremix.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2911. |
I know, but it's still funny.
And that's the topic I WTF'd to when they changed the title. |
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I listen to OCR some, but little when compared to originals. That's mostly because a lot of remixes I hear, I don't think are as good as the original. The ones I do have, however, come pretty close on that regard. Or perhaps they put a bit of a different spin on the original that makes the remix kind of original in and of itself and I like the sound of it, things like that.
The 'Icecapped' OC Remix from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 by McVaffe, or 'Far Away Memories' from Chrono Trigger by Neil Benjamin, or 'Electric Fields' from Seiken Densetsu III by Khalal are among my favorites. |
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Judging by the current rate of song posting, I'd estimate sometime midsummer... late June or early July. |
Just in case it wasn't explained clearly, OverLooked remix is a site where the emphasis is... well, you kind of have to go there and see it, but if OCR is the Olympics, then OLR would be the Special Olympics.
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Ahahahahaha! Best analogy ever.
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Glad to see no 'graah, crappy drumloop techno' replies. I suppose some might get the impression from first glance (choosing from all mixes 2000 through 2006), but the stuff that comes though today is guaranteed to be good, and if you have a wide variety of tastes, you'll like pretty much everything.
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I like OC ReMix, not everthing there is great, but I do have a decent amount of remixes that I keep on my winamp playlist, mostly from games I have played before. As for favorite remixes, I like alot of mixes by Scott Peeples, and most of the Chrono Trigger mixes are good, nothing too bad for that game.
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The site has produced some wonderful stuff, but some total crap as well, as might be expected with any sort of fan art. I think the earlier states figure of 10% is just about right for me.
The problem is largely one of genre and tools. Most of the remixers have access to fairly basic synthesizers and limited production libraries, so most of the resulting tracks tend to have a techno sound. And techno is very, very easy to do wrong, or at least easy to do in a manner displeasing to me. When I browse OCR, I'm looking for songs that are much like the originals, but with higher quality sound, like arranged pieces. Soule's sole contribution fits in that category, but there are precios few others, mostly piano themes. As a result, my favorite OCR pieces tend to be from the NES era, from which techno is a step *up*: Mega Man, mostly. The Mega Man remixes by Injury are stupendous, and they have the distinction of being IPOD'D. |
I've been a fan of OCR for a long time. it's a shame about what I heard happened between the staff and Protricity, he was definitely one of the best remixers there in my opinion. Made some of the best Donkey Kong Country/2 remixes I've ever heard. They have some really good Sonic remixes there as well. They've even OCR'd a few rap remixes as well. Great stuff
Favorite remixers: Protricity, Vigilante, analoq, Jivemaster, Beatdrop, Mythril Nazgul, Flik, Rayza, Sir Nuts, bLiNd, Dale North, Wintermute, Darangen, zircon, etc. |
I s'pose this has been said before, but I think OCR's remixes are either pure shit or pure bliss. I love "When all Hope has Faded", "Green Amnesia" and "Sector7 Hath Wrought the Angel", just to name a few. I hate, however, the naming scheme OCR imposes, and the fact that many of the tracks are encoded at 128kbps. There should be a rule that says all submissions must be > 160kbps.
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You might not be aware, but there's a 6 MB file size limit on submissions, so longer songs have to have a lower bitrate. You would also not be the first person to complain about the limit if you choose to do so. |
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Yeah, but I notice a lot of cymbal distortion below 128kbps... :sick:
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I sent them a remix of mine once but they didn't accept it :( Their standards are pretty high, I guess. Best remix on ocremix.org would be Jeremy Soule's (!) FF6 Squaresoft Variation remix.
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Well I say it's about time the maximum filesize be upped to 12MB. Don't you agree?
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I think that would encourage people to submit those all-too-common "megamedleys" with lots of songs but nothing in the way of actual arrangement value. And the judges still have to sit through all 10 minutes of it before making a decision. :(
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Well, that's what the judges are there for!
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I've had my fair share of Fun with OCR, the worst of that being the rather bad stint during the delays with Sonic 2's remix project, "Hedgehog Heaven".
Now, (as long as it's not anything to do wiht UK Anime stuffs) I'm not a flamer by defualt, but...yea, not one of my proudest moments. Yeah, my fave OCR...hum...I always liked that remix of Sonic 3's ending, Tight Finalé(# 530) |
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I agree, sometimes the judges take a long time to post a new mix. I swear I waited for over a month while the "Mario Paint - Intense Color" remix sat in the "Yes" column. By the way Dhsu, you are a really good pianist, I really enjoyed your remixes on there. |
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If you really want more mixes posted, tell him to hitting the bar all the time. :( |
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My mistake. I was being too general. I would place the time taken being how long he usually writes out his personal review for the individual mix page itself. |
Yeah, currently djp would be considered the bottleneck, since he has to personally go through each submission e-mail, make a preliminary decision on whether to send it to the panel or not, and then do a personal review for each mix that's passed. Although this isn't to say the judges haven't held up the line from time to time. :P
They're constantly trying to streamline the process, though. Hopefully the queue will be eliminated entirely at some point. And thanks for the kind words, Synthesis. :) |
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Actually, I didn't like that Hamauzu arrangement at all. After listening to that, I have more confidence, :P. I really hope they accept my submission, though. |
Unless you performed it yourself, it's unlikely. Aside from being an extraordinary sequencer, live recordings are pretty much a prerequisite for piano arrangements.
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My arrangement for People of the North is an orchestral arrangement, so I don't think I will get the opportunity to get it performed :(. However, I have heard many synthesized orchestrations there...
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Hm...personally, I think the bar for orchestral arrangements is even higher than the one for piano. Not only does the arrangement have to be good, they're also very picky about production (sample quality, panning, mastering, etc.)
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I see. That is quite a lot of factors. I only hope that I meet those requirements. I will find out soon enough :).
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Can't say I've heard of the site, but I'll give it a look one day.
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I enjoy the occasional visit to this site to check out the remixes from classic games, mostly snes era games such as FFVI & Chrono Trigger. That said, the remixes seem to have only about a 50% chance of being "really good" in my mind, I see the remixes mostly as a way to to see how other prople imagined the songs, what changes they might have visualized, etc. The recent "Chrono Symphonic" CT album takes the idea of the remixes to the next level by creating an entire album... for an ost that never had a symphonic album, this is a very cool thing indeed.
The only thing I don't like about ocremix is the way they spell the word remix... there's no need to capitalize the M... just bugs me for some reason. |
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Liontamer, I was a bit out of the loop when this all happened, but I heard that something went down between the staff and Protricity. Some people say he left, others say he got banned. Would you mind elaborating on the situation? This question is also open to anyone with information as well. Thanks. |
no doubt, that is an awesome organization
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All that, and I've never actually seen this website. I should REALLY stop by there. |
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I see. I don't mean to delve but, what was it that made them both hate each other? So djp fired him from the staff just because he didn't like him or did Prot do something to permit a firing? |
Prot did a LOT of things that should've gotten him fired, but djp didn't act on it until he pushed him over the edge in on IRC.
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I figured as much. A lot of people said he was very arrogant. Mind being a little more specific on the offenses? |
hey guys, have you checked www.olremix.org? What's the differences with ocremix? And furthermore, why there are lot of remixes with goofy titles?
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since you guys have been on that site for so long, can you give me recommendations to good remixes? in particular, highly rhythmic, tribal drums in particular.
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Download the Chrono Symphonic. If you're Yasunori Mitsuda fan, you must not miss them!
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oh, i got the chrono symphonic already through some bittorent link. I'm looking for something else.
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Hmm let's see... I think you could try some of my favorite remixed tracks:
-Smooth Alexander (FFVI, Quinn Fox) -Through the Dark (Chrono Trigger, DarkeSword) -Lavos vs Jenova (FFVII, abg) -Endless Ocean (FFX, Besaid Island Remix by String Theory) Maybe these I could recommend for now.:) |
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My current favourite is this one. I love this remix <3 |
I didn't really enjoy Chrono Symphonic at all, imo. But I did like Kong in Concert.
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Besides, VGMix is for the stuff that isn't accepted at OCR :biggrin: |
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Although I suppose the only thing worse that making it onto OLR is being thrice rejected. |
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Allright, thanks. I've been meaning to really find out what exactly happened. |
If you want to get a good sampling of OCR without having to commit major bandwidth or HDD space (or for those who can't choose what to listen to, then this site provides a great streaming radio version of OCR.
It helped me dicover great OCR songs I'd never have come across with my normal listening habits. |
go to http://vgmix.com for some protricity love.
i used to like oc remix a lot more than i do now... they're ok, but i just don't bother to visit the forums as much as i used to. also, when submitting songs, it sucks to have the auto-rejection email, even if your song is clearly better than songs that were judged (with NOs, but whatever). if you have a recognizable name but a shitty song there, it has more of a chance. |
Yeah, OCRemix is great. I've always been a fan of their FFVI remixes myself.
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Right now Sonic The Hedgehog- Cryptic Marble is playing on oc@ormgas, which is one of my favorite techno takes on a 16bit title. There's three types of OCR techno, the okay ones, great ones, and the there's FFMusicDJ... |
Who is not to be confused with DistantJ. :)
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Whew, I wish some there were any Rockman EXE remix at that site. It's bit ironic most of VGM remix sites dominated by Square-Enix franchises.:(
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OCR is usally a good address for the adventurous VGM conniseur. Their larger projects had some hits (i.e. Dark Side Of Phobos) and some misses (Chrono Symphonic was pretty dissapointing).
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what happens in OCremix.org? has it turned into commercial must-pay site? when I went to download a track, they demand me to sign up. duh.:(
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Hahahahaha! Everything should be fine now. April Fool's Day holdover.
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Whaa?! April fool huh... Gotta check them out later then. whew, I'm relieved.:D
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I've been a big fan of OCR for a long time. Coming in contact with Ailsean's Terra In Black is what got me enjoying electric guitar on a wider scale. I never really appreciated it before that. After taking a two-year hiatus from the internet, I fell way behind in new releases and such, though, so I haven't the foggiest what the good recent stuff is. I've got a bunch of people I've historically liked a lot, but a chunk of them only do stuff with vgmix if at all nowadays. I've also found that the Dwelling of Duels music is quite exciting. A bit of a higher enjoyment percentage from me. I figure I like about 10% of OCR's stuff, about 5% of vgmix's stuff, and about 30% of the DoD stuff.
I used to be pretty good friends with FFmusicDJ. He made four or five remixes on my suggestion. I'll have to get in contact with him again - I haven't talked to him in ages. (also, just to echo the Dhsu loving, your stuff is fantastic!) |
yeah, dhsu is pretty good
though i have to wonder about this liontamer fellow |
Oh my god, just today I download a lot of jazzy arrangements from OCRremix... they leave me speechless!!! esp. Joshua Morse, po!'s Dan's Ice Cream Truck... I just can't believe it... they are so talented, those arrangers!!
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