[Thousand Pancake]

I've often thought of OCRemix as a place for remixes by JRPG fanatics, for JRPG fanatics. Their voting board and musician pool doesn't have enough people who prefer not-JRPGs.

[Metal Man88]

Vrantheo, on 26 September 2013 - 06:21 AM, said:

Metal Man88, on 25 September 2013 - 09:38 PM, said:

It's OC Remix. They generally do this sort of thing. Ask them about the rap and they'll tell you emphatically how 'awesome' it is.

I liked remixes once, before they roboticized it into all crummy techno mixes and nerds awkwardly singing weird cheesy lyrics.

Idklol. Beside OCR the remix scene still has diverse enough communities and genres as I personally observed. We can just dig for the good ones, like, recently, the BTS/ATS soundtrack?

They basically own the scene, making sure that there aren't really any good remixes as they 'set the standard' that many less saavy people see.

As such, I basically don't listen to remixes anymore, because they made sure 90% of them are terrible.

Also, BTS/ATS is mostly its own thing--not a remix.

[Vrantheo]

Dr. Corndog, on 26 September 2013 - 05:46 PM, said:

But relating to the SCD album, I wouldn't count on there being many songs with lyrics. Really, though, I think what I'd rather have than a remix is a CD full of extended versions of the original soundtrack's songs.

SEGA already has this, although poorly done.

[Ritz]

I like it. It's nice.

[Eric Wright]

As if you could ever improve upon perfection.

[Metal Man88]

Don't forget, they did a pretty good job remixing stuff in Sonic Gems/Sonic Generations too.

[David The Lurker]

Hey remember that time they already made a remix album of the Japanese music that was done by the same people who did the original music and it was super awesome

yeah I remember that

...so why hasn't Sega released a version of the Japanese soundtrack that features the properly-looped versions of the tracks in the 2011 version, along with the Remix CD and those two random tracks that were in Gems Collection that were originally on obscure Japanese-only soundtrack releases?

[sonicblur]

Album is out:
http://soniccd.ocremix.org/

I don't have any comments on it yet since I've only listened to part of it, but if you've listened to other OCR albums you know what to expect already regarding variation.

[GeneHF]

Yep. Typical OCR garbage. Stick to trying to DJ five-year-old birthday party, guys. Someone's gotta mix those Kids Bop tracks for the little jimmies.

If you all want to listen to better mixes, soundcloud's the place to be. OCR's been a massive circle jerk otherwise for years.

I still remember the time they kept hassling Howard Drossin over Lava Reef and he did a double shut down on them. Dumbasses deserved it.

[roxahris]

Yikes. Another OCRemix album. They'd be better off putting their, uh, "talents" to use composing original music. But then I guess they'd have nothing to lure unsuspecting listeners to the site with.

[.Luke]

I really wanted to like this album, but the few tracks I selectively downloaded from this one did nothing for me. I can't say they were bad, but they didn't do much to set themselves apart from the original songs, like a remix should. (Bottled Choir, a remix of LoZ's Fairy Fountain, is a beautiful example of a remix.) They are the exact same songs revisited with different instruments; no serious experimenting or personality of their own whatsoever.

It's really sad, my ears never felt so bored while listening to a remix before. I think I'd rather go back to headdesking getting SoundCloud songs to download or record, than bother with OCRemix in the future. They used to do some amazing things, but now that's slowly becoming more rare to see an outstanding remix crop up on there, which kills the whole point of the site to me.

[Shockwave]

I've only listened to a handful of tracks so far, but nothing has really stood out to me. There isn't anything really bad, it's just pretty average. Just makes me wish more that OCR could release something as good as Project Chaos again.

Although, from what I have heard, I would probably choose to listen to this over OCR's Sonic 1 album.

[Faseeh]

Can't say much as I've only heard snippets but honestly, it's here and there. Stand out tracks would be Kruai's Collision Choas, Funk Fiction's Special Stage, Andy's Tidal Tempest for now.

[sonicblur]

There are a few tracks I liked, most of those are on Disc 3.
Worst track is probably the rock version of Sonic Boom on disc 2. It's similar to Crush 40's version of Sonic Boom, but instead featuring someone who can't sing so he has to shout half the time.

[Sonicandtails]

Favorite track easily is Schizophrenic.

Some very good glitch hop in that there track.

Spoiler

in b4 someone thinks it's american dubstep

Edit:
I'm actually really enjoying this album. There's nothing immediately wrong with it by any means beyond personal taste. Mixing is solid and consistent, it flows well, lyrics are kept to a minimum and fit the genre they're placed in, and it dabbles in many genres successfully.

This post has been edited by Sonicandtails: 26 November 2013 - 09:28 PM