OC ReMix Releases Final Fantasy 4 Tribute Album 52
quintin3265 writes "Today Overclocked ReMix released its latest free fan tribute album, Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption. The 46-track album is described by the project's coordinators as a 'narrative' set 'to recreate the story of Final Fantasy 4.' 36 artists contributed in a variety of genres, from classical to techno. This album is the latest of several free entirely fan-created albums produced by Overclocked ReMix, which recently composed the professional soundtrack for Super Street Fighter II HD Turbo Remix. Individual tracks can be downloaded from the website, or you can grab the torrent."
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This is awesome news (Score:4, Informative)
I've been listening to it myself. I had to download the torrent from Legit Torrents [legittorrents.info] as bt.ocremix.org was down when I tried to grab it.
Unfortunately bt.ocremix.org is also the tracker so establishing the swarm was difficult, but it did happen and download rate was good from there. I'd recommend using a client that enables you to pick-and-choose what you want to download as the vast majority of the download is composed of lossless FLAC recordings. If you like FLAC you're not going to want 423 MB of MP3, if you aren't an audiophile you aren't going to want the 3GB or so (IIRC) of FLAC files. The download is only 423 MB if you want everything but the FLACs.
I've only listened once so far so I have no definite impressions, but it's hard not to take note of Act 1-15 Fighting for Tomorrow which includes a choir, of all things...
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I myself will be acquiring this album on the back of a whale as we fly to the moon.
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The whole thing is 1.68GB and the flac files come in at 1.26GB. Still big, but not 3GB big.
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The whole thing is 1.68GB and the flac files come in at 1.26GB. Still big, but not 3GB big.
Meh, when it gets larger than about 1 CD's size or so it becomes "I'll download it overnight" big, and I can't be bothered to remember the numbers from there. ;)
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I think it's interesting that you posted a link to LegitTorrents. Considering that these are copyrighted works that have been covered by others without permission of the copyright holder, it's entirely feasible that the copyright holder could cry foul and would have enough legal grounding to bring a case before the courts. Even the use of the trademarked name "Final Fantasy IV" without permission in identifying the original source material from the which the OCRemix derivative works were based could be co
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"I think it's interesting that you posted a link to LegitTorrents. Considering that these are copyrighted works that have been covered by others without permission of the copyright holder, it's entirely feasible that the copyright holder could cry foul and would have enough legal grounding to bring a case before the courts"
OCRemix has been around for 10 years, if somebody was going to cry foul they would have done so by now.
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I gave it a listen, but I wasn't impressed. Some tracks were even horrible.
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Dear Dr. Impossible,
The ignorance you display is not your taste in music, it's your lack of social skills combined along with despite the fact that you keep pissing people off so much that you have to keep making a new account to escape your reputation, you still prefer to blame everyone else for your shit.
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Your first post wasn't modded troll for no reason.
It was modded troll because it was a trollish post. Hint: A discussion isn't two people going "Yes!" "No!".
It wasn't the fact that you disliked the music, it was the fact that all you chose to share was "I dislike the music". That pisses people off. You come off like those twats who claim anything popular is crap and any one popular 'sold out'. We don't care what your opinion is, if you are going to share it with us, give us a reason to care, like the very u
Torrent allready slashdotted (Score:3, Informative)
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The first song is amazing.
Great job (Score:2)
Hm, (Score:3, Insightful)
Download/preview options, misc. (Score:5, Informative)
Our torrent tracker is indeed experiencing some load issues but we're working on getting the MP3s up in a single zip mediaupload/rapidshare fashion shortly, and individual MP3s are of course available at the site. The full torrent does include FLAC.
If running the site for almost ten years has told me one thing, it's that you can't please all the people all the time, but from a genre perspective at least this album features electronica, rock, orchestral, jazz, and much more. If Final Fantasy isn't your thing, please do check out the rest of our albums [ocremix.org] and individual mixes [ocremix.org]!
And, as a random side note, I administer/develop the site, it's LAMP, and I use Eclipse/PDT for all development and the Oxygen XML editor plugin for XSLT, which drives the frontend templating outside the wiki and forums. You know, just in case any one was wondering...
Mod parent up (Score:2)
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I've always wondered why you've used XSLT. Having used it at work (with Visual Studio), I can't stand it; I guess it didn't help that we were using especially horrid XML coming from the federal government's weather.gov web services.
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Yeah, if your only exposure with it was on a fed contract, I can see why it might not seem like the bee's knees, but imo it's very underappreciated in the OSS community and a far better technical solution.
I just wish XSLT 2.0 was more widely supported...
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Actually, I presently work with a state government, and as such, they wanted to go with weather.gov rather than a commercial service.
It looks like the senior developers never did push the new version to production [state.mi.us], as the weather stuff is still broken there.
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I'm glad to see that someone likes templating and frameworks for application development. I constantly receive criticism from people who say that I should write things from the ground up in PHP, instead of using symfony/Propel. It's easy to say that there will be "performance improvements," but the sites using ground-up PHP seem to never get finished because too much developer time is sucked down the drain reinventing the wheel.
Speed Gamers doing Final Fantasy Marathon (Score:3, Interesting)
Biggest problem: Too long (Score:2, Informative)
I actually didn't listen to this album until after submitting it here.
The high point of this album is "Fallen Dragoon" (2-12). This song features what appears to be a live solo, and while my background as a violinist might make me partial to this track more than the metal-oriented tracks, it was performed beautifully. The vibrato and modulation in this piece are of professional caliber, and that part of the piece may be the second best remix the community has ever produced. (The best was a recently submitte
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Thanks for the detailed review; no mod points today so I'm commenting instead. I can't wait to get this. I wasn't too thrilled with Voices of the Lifestream, but FFIV is my favorite of the series (currently in the final dungeon on the DS version, something like my 5th play-through), so I think this is right up my alley.
I'm far from being a qualified music critic - indeed, I hardly listen to music at all - but have you ever heard one of OCRemix's early FFIV tracks named The Sky was Never a Limit [ocremix.org] by goat?
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