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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by CHz

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).


For the most part... nah, you don't really wish you could get those. Quality issues and so forth. But there are definitely some good tracks lodged in there, so check http://www.lggaming.com/user/xerol/escape/OCReMoved/ for all of them.

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:

Thanks a lot for the links, for now I'll be redownloading all the newer OC ReMixes I like and try to keep my OCR collection intact until numbe 1500 rolls around.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Toma

I just asked . I honestly wasn't expecting to be accepted for that very reason, I lurk much more than I post and don't know many members. At any rate, I'm not complaining.

So if you are a judge, then how soon can we be expecting OCR01500 to roll around? Right now OCR01460ish has came out, meaning there shouldn't be too much more of a wait time.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Free.User

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.

I agree on the naming system, it makes most song titles unreadable on my CD/Mp3 player, which only displays the first 7 charcters of a filename. Most of the mp3s sound fine though, even those that dip below 128kbps, it's not like most songs take advantage of what 128kbps leaves out (frequencies above 16kHz, many of the OC ReMixes tend to lean on bass more than treble).

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Originally Posted by Free.User

Yeah, but I notice a lot of cymbal distortion below 128kbps... :sick:

Well, since some OC ReMixes dip to 22050Hz, so it could be worse. Plus what could you expect from some mp3s which were encoded from before LAME 3.90? Xing @ 128kbps guarentees very low quality (some even go to lower bitrates, due to the fact that they need to stay under 6MB, I've seen 44100Hz mp3s go as low as 90kbps).

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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Originally Posted by dbh

Yeah, OCRemix is great. I've always been a fan of their FFVI remixes myself.

-dbh

Maybe you could elaborate some more, what do you think of the sit as a whole and what specific songs are your favorites?

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...

How ya doing, buddy?