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What do you guys think about Ocremix?

LeplayaLeplaya
edited August 2011 in General Chat
I looked for a topic of this, but there was none to be found on here. Now I can assume that some of you are familiar with Ocremix if your not. Your going to have to look it up. I enjoy some of the songs that they released. In fact they even made a couple of remixes of the Monkey Island series.

Favorite songs from these guys anyone? I'll post mine after I do some thinking.

Comments

  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited August 2011
    Oh yeah, I've been following it for years!!

    I personally loved the Sonic and Knuckles album. I used to listen to that all the time.

    Some of the best remixes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpO50LDGfR4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gWbI0WxaHU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4vAL47g26o

    Albums tend to be the best stuff.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2011
    I think it is a website where people upload remixes of game soundtracks and music.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    Incredibly critical and biased judging system. They seem to only accept a certain kind of remix there. I preferred VGMix when it was alive. Looks like it'll never see the light of day again anymore, however. And you're right, the albums are the best stuff there.

    Now, Dwelling of Duels. There's a fun place.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Super awesome site. I have every album from there. Also, good singles.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    By the way I can't possibly be the only person tired of Final Fantasy remixes am I? I mean, I own just about every FF album ever put out, so I hear enough variations of these songs as it is (or have at some time in the past). Just not interested in another Departing Midgard theme.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited August 2011
    I love a lot of that stuff. That site has been amazing for years. I remember visiting it rather often once I had a computer that could handle mp3s smoothly.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    It should be noted that Capcom's remake of Street Fighter II made a deal with OCR to include remixes from the OCR remixers as the game's soundtrack. The album is released on OCR as Blood on the Asphalt.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Ooooh didn't know that. I have that one.
  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited August 2011
    There are some serious streaks of gold on the OCR site, but you also have to dig laboriously and wade through a lot of dirt, I'm sad to say. There are entire albums which ruin one after another of your favorite songs from games, and that makes it hard for me to keep digging. Mostly, it's a matter of decidedly not searching for individual games, but separating the good from the bad arrangers/composers and stick with the good work.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2011
    Vainamoinen wrote: »
    There are some serious streaks of gold on the OCR site, but you also have to dig laboriously and wade through a lot of dirt, I'm sad to say. There are entire albums which ruin one after another of your favorite songs from games, and that makes it hard for me to keep digging. Mostly, it's a matter of decidedly not searching for individual games, but separating the good from the bad arrangers/composers and stick with the good work.

    I agree.
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited August 2011
    Also:
    http://olremix.org/
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited August 2011
    Some tracks turn out to be very good. Other times they just make Zelda techno-rave remix bullshit.

    My personal faves are Sonic 3 & Knuckles album and the two Monkey Island remixes they made.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited August 2011
    Dark Side Of Phobos is awesome.
  • lombrelombre
    edited August 2011
    It's a big ol' mixed bag of crap and awesomeness, both nearly equal in amounts.
  • harrisonpinkharrisonpink Telltale Alumni
    edited August 2011
    I've been downloadng mp3s from OCRemix for oh, a decade now I guess? It's definitely hit or miss, but I tend to only download songs from video games I've played so I'm missing a large portion of stuff :p
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    My Albums from there (think this is the majority of releases)

    MYTH - The Xenogears Orchestral Album
    Bad Dudes Jingle All the Way; Chronotorious
    Blood on the Asphalt
    Sonata of the Damned
    Cave Story
    Chrono Symphonic
    DKC 2 - Serious Monkey Business
    Doom 2 - Delta Q
    Zelda - Essence of Lime
    Final Fantasy IV - Essence of Betrayal
    Heroes vs Villains
    Kong in Concert
    Link's Awakening - Threshold of a Dream
    Megaman - The Robot Museum
    Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
    Pokemon - The MissingNo Tracks
    Radical Dreamers - Thieves of Fate
    Relics of the Chozo
    Sonic 3 and Knuckles - Project Chaos
    Sonic 2 - Hedgehog Heaven
    The Dark Side of Phobos
    Xenogears - Humans + Gears
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    The only thing I was extremely disappointed about with Project Chaos was the Ice Cap remix which was just classical piano. Totally was wanting something epic out of that. I guess because everyone and their dog remixes Ice Cap that they thought going a different route would be the best idea. Well screw that! I don't care how well it was played! It was boring! And nothing on the Project Chaos album should have been boring! :p
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Yup but as a whole I thought that album was one of the best.

    the FFIV one can burn in hell as far as I'm concerned though.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    Heh. I was asked if I wanted to do a remix on the FF4 album but I declined because I don't know the games that well. Thought it would be safer in more knowledgeable hands...guess not.

    Also, a whole bunch of fans recently got together for Metroid's 25th anniversary and recorded a 2-disc remix album in celebration. It's not on OCR but was rather put together by Shinesparkers, but a lot of the big names from OCR are there like Mazedude and even Stemage of Metroid Metal made an entry. It kicks Relics of the Chozo's behind in oh so many ways.

    Harmony of a Hunter (Video Preview)

    M25_PosterExpended_SM.jpg
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    That one is on the "New Albums" list on OCR. They don't have a link, had to go to the site to get it. It's one of three new ones I got today but haven't had a chance to listen to it. Looks awesome!
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    Heh. I was asked if I wanted to do a remix on the FF4 album but I declined because I don't know the games that well. Thought it would be safer in more knowledgeable hands...guess not.

    Also, a whole bunch of fans recently got together for Metroid's 25th anniversary and recorded a 2-disc remix album in celebration. It's not on OCR but was rather put together by Shinesparkers, but a lot of the big names from OCR are there like Mazedude and even Stemage of Metroid Metal made an entry. It kicks Relics of the Chozo's behind in oh so many ways.

    Harmony of a Hunter (Video Preview)

    From watching that video I've come to realize that, among others, I'm a big fan of DarkeSword's work: Harmony of a Hunter @ 2m07s

    I mean, I've already favorited this Zelda:Wind Waker remix of his: Ancient Hero


    EDIT: Okay, I've downloaded Links Awakening - Threshold of a Dream, and it's pretty good so far. Granted, I haven't listened to all of it yet. One of my favorite ingame Zelda tracks is Tal Tal Heights from Link's Awakening, so it would follow that one of the first tracks on Threshold of a Dream that I would listen to is Climb My Mountain, This High and I love it.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    I've never understood why everyone loved Tal Tal Heights so much. I mean, it's not bad, but it's not incredible either. Yet it gets so much love. *shrug*
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    From watching that video I've come to realize that, among others, I'm a big fan of DarkeSword's work: Harmony of a Hunter @ 2m07s

    I mean, I've already favorited this Zelda:Wind Waker remix of his: Ancient Hero


    EDIT: Okay, I've downloaded Links Awakening - Threshold of a Dream, and it's pretty good so far. Granted, I haven't listened to all of it yet. One of my favorite ingame Zelda tracks is Tal Tal Heights from Link's Awakening, so it would follow that one of the first tracks on Threshold of a Dream that I would listen to is Climb My Mountain, This High and I love it.

    Threshold of a Dream is one of the best albums they've released. So awesome! And melancholy at times.
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    I've never understood why everyone loved Tal Tal Heights so much. I mean, it's not bad, but it's not incredible either. Yet it gets so much love. *shrug*

    I think it just has an adventuresome sound that translates well. Gets your blood going. Or did for any young'un.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Just started listening to Harmony of a Hunter.

    Whoah.

    I haven't heard the Metroid intro song in a looooong time. It reminded me of something I couldn't quite put my finger on. I've wondered for a long time what it was about the new Metroid games that just didn't feel right, and I have two words for it now: Dread, and Space.

    The intro song combines both. It has that fantastic, otherworldly feeling. It's a space song. I can't define what that means but it has that adrift feeling... that lost in the cosmos, an infinitesimally small component of a large and hostile universe. It is grace and beauty wrapped with inevitable fear, because death can be close by. Which is summed up in the Metroid.

    This take on it is good.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    My favourite tracks so far are Solitude, MQ2 (Metroid 2 Queen Battle), Metroid Medley (the chiptune one), and Parasite X. And that's only the ones I can remember. So many are good. Those stand out the most to me, though.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    I dig Solitude. For the most part I'm digging the more majestic numbers on there... sort of sweeping songs.

    Kraid's Campfire Ballad rocked my world en route to the bar.
  • FriarFriar
    edited August 2011
    It's been what, 10 years since I last visited there, and burned my own Zelda albums? I'm guessing it's changed a lot since then.
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited August 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    The only thing I was extremely disappointed about with Project Chaos was the Ice Cap remix which was just classical piano. Totally was wanting something epic out of that. :p

    It's my second most favorite in the whole thing. It was pretty epic, if a little too fast and hasty for a piano solo -but I guess it would be pretty BORING if it was like another piano solo because it's videogames I guess. Much more epic than some rave upbeat techno shizmissile, which is like the majority of OCRemix's music library, if you ask me.

    The one track made me extremely dissappointed was the one for Final Boss. Its intro is like... "get'em glowsticks ready and hit the beerbong". Whatever. It's a much more kickass theme than that.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    I wasn't asking for a rave upbeat techno shizmissile version. There's enough versions of that particular song in that style on OCR let alone other songs. But the piano was just...not what I was expecting. I mean, I dig the talent and appreciate it but piano-only music has always bored me.

    Also, they did Lava Reef in the exact same style.

    Another great song on Harmony of a Hunter is "Into the Green World".
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    Into the Green World is definitely awesome.

    Oh and about piano... I played it for 25 years so I'm always a sucker for it :)
  • FalancaFalanca
    edited August 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    I wasn't asking for a rave upbeat techno shizmissile version. There's enough versions of that particular song in that style on OCR let alone other songs. But the piano was just...not what I was expecting. I mean, I dig the talent and appreciate it but piano-only music has always bored me.

    I wasn't truly referring to what you claim you wanted to see. It was more like a nod to all the people commenting below such remixes with generally positive responses.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    Sadly true.

    I think the most underwhelming track on Harmony of a Hunter so far is the remix of NES Brinstar. It's predictable and sonuds just ilke everything else. Still decent, but could have been better. Got to represent everything I guess. NES Brinstar isn't my favourite theme anyway. And at least we have the far better remix of Tallon Overworld 1 from Prime.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    "Caves of Brinstar" (Brinstar, Metroid) is a track I heard 15 seconds of and immediately passed by.
  • Chyron8472Chyron8472
    edited August 2011
    I thought it was okay when the track got into the actual game music. The rest of the time I was bored. It takes a minute and a half for the song to lead into the actual Brinstar theme.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    One thing I've enjoyed about Harmony of a Hunter is that they've made Metroid Prime (I, II and III) songs listenable to me. There were always tracks I enjoyed but the songs were usually too synthy. Now I enjoy them much more. Path of Ruin is a great example of this.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2011
    I liked quite a few tracks from the Primes. Mostly from the first one. The second had some good tunes, the third had very few. These remixes really brought the best of them out, though.

    And yeah, Caves of Brinstar was what I was referring to earlier. Not the greatest track ever. I was actually more intrigued by the intro and let-down once the actual song came in. It's just really predictable.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    I liked quite a few tracks from the Primes. Mostly from the first one. The second had some good tunes, the third had very few. These remixes really brought the best of them out, though.

    And yeah, Caves of Brinstar was what I was referring to earlier. Not the greatest track ever. I was actually more intrigued by the intro and let-down once the actual song came in. It's just really predictable.

    On a technical level I appreciated them I suppose. The songs always just had that midi touch that I am not a fan of. Although off the top of my head, the title screen from Prime I, Chozo Ruins, Parasite Queen, Tallon Overworld, Phendrana Drifts, Crashed Frigate, Underwater Core all come to mind, Samus vs Metroid Prime all come to mind as songs I enjoyed.
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