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Como algunos de ustedes sabran, internet se ha vuelto en una especie de enorme libreria en donde es posible encontrar casi de todo, cualquier tipo de contenido.

De entre tantos sitios, existe uno llamado ocremix.org (si te gustan los remixes de videojuegos, o su música, seguro ya te habras topado con él en algún punto), en el cual la misma comunidad incluso se une para crear remixes de series.

Los discos que ellos han lanzado en red son varios, sin embargo hoy he decidido empezar con el ultimo que ha visto la luz:

"Summoning of Spirits: An Arrangement of Music from Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia"

Como su nombre lo indica, es un tributo a dos episodios de la saga de "Tales of..." al igual que Motoi Sakuraba, compositor de la series (hasta donde recuerdo), como lo es en la mayoria de los casos, durante el trabajo de producción se busca que el disco posea una cierta coherencia en cuanto a estilos, calidad y orientación.

Summoning of Spirits es, en escencia una producción lenta, tranquila, es un disco al cual, si no le tienes paciencia ciertamente pasara desapercibido, puesto que varios de sus tracks tardan en 'empezar', o simplemente algunos hacen uso del piano, lo cual puede llevarte hacia -afuera-... si no eres un fan a muerte de la serie... en lo personal, me tomo trabajo tratar de escuchar todo el disco.

Por ejemplo, el primer track del disco The Unholy Wars (Fighting of the Spirit) por Sixto Sounds, Dhsu empieza bastante lentón con piano y luego tiene un giro interesante al cambiar a instrumentos electricos, incluso teniendo que bajarle el volumen a mano porque puede llegar a ser un poco escandaloso. Un inicio no malo, pero que puede espantar a los escuchas.

Una de las que quizá quieras evitar es Airborne (Aviators) por Dhsu, una pieza en solo piano, en lo personal el track no me invitaba a llegar al fin.

Horizon's Walk (Final Act) por Tepid, PriZm, Desert Nights (Desert Flower) por USA, My Secret Forest (Forest of the Treant) por Reuben Kee y Altar Perception (Search a Seal) por Monobrow, Protricity, AeroZ, injury lograron atrapar de alguna manera mis oidos, en especial Desert Nights, el cual es un giro interesanton a Desert Flower de Tales of Symphonia, claro, si no te importa escucharla en un estilo Disco de los 70s.

El disco abarca muchos estilos,así que bien si te gusta de todo un poco nosaldras deltodo decepcionado, ya que pasa por Jazz hasta Tecno y hasta algunas vocales.

Eso si, para su desgracia, hay pistas que aun suenan bastante amateurs, o instrumentos que parecen desentonados o fuera de lugar... detallitos que si a tu oido no le importa, se pueden pasar por alto.

Si es que te interesa este disco,lo vas a poder encontrar en esta dirección: http://tales.ocremix.org, este album es de coste gratuito y se puede descargar desde HTTP o via BitTorrent (Que, señores, es legal digan lo que digan los de la RIAA y asociados)

Eso si, recomiendo que despues de bajarlo, le coloquen los tags correctos con un software como el de http://musicbrainz.org, ya que, al menos, el tag de album esta incorrecto ( o puedan cambiarlo a mano: http://vgmdb.net/album/8756

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-- Datos --

5 Discos
Lanzamiento Digital
Fanmade / Doujin
Catálogo: OCRA-0013
Lanzamiento: 7 de Marzo de 2009

:: Compositores ::

Motoi Sakuraba (Japonés: 桜庭統 )
Shinji Tamura (Japonés: 田村信二 )
Takeshi Arai (Japonés: N/A )
Akio Shimizu (Japonés: 清水昭男 )
Ryota Furuya (Japonés: 古屋亮太 )

:: Arrangers ::
Sixto Sounds
Dhsu
Hemophiliac
Christian Pacaud
djpretzel
The Joker
TheDeath
The Prophet of Mephisto
Sir Nuts
USA
Kureejii Lea
Rexy
XMark
Hale-Bopp
PriZm
Nutritious
pu_freak
OverCoat
Tepid
Red Tailed Fox
Xaleph
Jazon Phantoms
Luiza
CarboHydroM
Monobrow
JustChris
Mythril Nazgul
Andy Jayne
Nick Tam
Master Hatchet
Paragon
Protricity
Reuben Kee
Silas

:: Performers ::
Sixto Sounds
Christian Pacaud
Fishy
XMark
Hale-Bopp
PriZm
pu_freak
Tepid
The Prophet of Mephisto
Anthony Lofton
Luiza
CarboHydroM
USA
Andy Jayne
Nick Tam
Master Hatchet
Paragon
AeroZ
Injury
Rexy
Reuben Kee
Silas
poolgirl

Yesterday I was introduced to http://recordedamigagames.org/ ,which will without a doubt provide many delightful hours of entertainment next summer. In addition to http://www.amigaremix.com/ that is. They recorders also have youtube versions at http://www.youtube.com/user/cubex55 for a quick taste.

The site itself contains play-throughs of many classic Commodore Amiga games with memorable music intact. I've heard remixes like Lost Patrol In The Air Mix OC ReMix by Makke and lots of excellent work by Hazel (Bruce Lee (Fists Of Fury), anyone?). Of course there's Project X remixed by the man himself, Allister Brimble - and lots of interesting intensive remixes (like Green Beret) by X-formZ. You don't want to miss Asian Legends by Reyn Ouwehand either. Credits go also to Chris Hülsbeck for perfecting a lot of the TFMX 7-channel sound on the Amiga, in tracks like Turrican and R-Type. Press Play on Tape has brought nice modern influence to remixing Commodore songs as well, with a "Comic Bakery Larger Than Pop Remix" music video in youtube.

For a bit of live playing, you might also want to check Reyn's version of Green beret in youtube (using a bunch of instruments and a looping sequencer).

Thanks go to djpretzel for making scene music flourish with remixes again. Also SLAY radio has been a hotspot for new remixes, and Nectarine radio - a veteran in keeping the spirit alive. Kohina has been keeping the pureness of sound intact, which is refreshing every now and then.

Their groups are (post would work with just one group directly linked):
http://www.last.fm/group/SLAY+Radio
http://www.last.fm/group/Nectarine
http://www.last.fm/group/Kohina

Here are some of my initial thoughts about Voices of the Lifestream. This game music rearrangement/remix album totals 4 CDs worth of material, and the originals are from Final Fantasy 7.

I have given it a few listen-throughs as background music and a few pieces have caught my attention and got more focused listens. So it's got some gems. The album is also nicely segued, so a lot of transitions between the tracks have musical quality in themselves and add to the whole. And the overall quality is good. Often I feel many rearrangements are overproduced - I like more visceral takes. Comparing to - in my opinion - rather limp Chrono Symphonic, this collection sounds fresh.

I've only played FF7 a little so the music isn't particularly nostalgic for me, although Nobuo Uematsu (the original composer of much of Final Fantasy music through the series) is always a favourite. I do recall thinking that PS1 sounded worse than Super Nintendo when it came to Nobuo's music. So I guess from that point of view FF7 is great source material for reinterpretation.

I particularly like:

* djpretzel's and Vigilante's Short Skirts (Tifa's Theme) - mellow nujazz treatment of (apparently) a really tasty original melody. I've liked djpretzel's stuff before and really should listen to more of his tracks.

* Mustin - Serenity (Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY VII) - again a somewhat nu/acidjazzy track, with atmospheric pianos, tasty rhythm guitar licks and excellent development of the music through different moods and tensions/releases. I'm intrigued by the track partly because the original theme itself is a more tense variation of the "Prelude" theme of the whole series. A guitar figure towards the end reminiscent of Mansun's Legacy is also a plus.

* Shnabubula - Stone Eyes (The Great Warrior) and pot hocket's Daydreaming Again (Words Drowned by Fireworks) make up a rather pleasant segue: first an emotive solo piano track, then a peaceful acoustic guitar duo piece.

* JigginJonT - Hydrophone Breakdown (Secret of the Deep Sea). I'm not sure if I like the wailing on the cymbals here, but the track has good loud-peaceful dynamics and the source piece (again, apparently) has some really engaging chord changes. This is mainly an electric piano piece - seems there's a lot of piano in these tracks that I enjoy..


These links seem to break when posting, so I'll stick them here in the end.

http://ff7.ocremix.org - Voices of the Lifestream" href="http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Various+Artists/http%253A%252F%252Fff7.ocremix.org%2B-%2BVoices%2Bof%2Bthe%2BLifestream" class="bbcode_album">http://ff7.ocremix.org - Voices of the Lifestream

http://chrono.ocremix.org" href="http://www.lastfm.com.br/music/Various+Artists/Chrono%2BSymphonic%2B-%2Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fchrono.ocremix.org" class="bbcode_album">Chrono Symphonic - http://chrono.ocremix.org nofollow=yes

I've been constantly finding extremely well made video game music remix's on OCRemix.org. Check them out! THE best game music resource on the web ;) Thx djpretzel! Among the remixer guru's are three artists I believe are the best I've heard so far are McVaffe, Kaijin, and kLuTz. Check out their music on OC. Truly worth listening to!

-amegslife

The script lists the users top 20 overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, then delete's any repeated artists.

The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremely unvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one.

Make your own at http://keef.metfabonline.com/?page=lastfm_test1.

1: They Might Be Giants
2: Cake
3: Barenaked Ladies
4: Weezer
5: Ben Folds Five
6: The Beatles
7: The Flaming Lips
8: Beck
9: Talking Heads
10: "Weird Al" Yankovic
11: Tenacious D
12: Bloodhound Gang
13: South Park
14: Smash Mouth
15: Monty Python
16: Foo Fighters
17: 植松伸夫
18: 光田康典
19: The Black Mages
20: 下村陽子
21: 菅野よう子
22: 松枝賀子 & 江口貴勅
23: 崎元仁
24: 梶浦由記
25: 浜渦正志
26: Povel Ramel
27: Robert Broberg
28: Galenskaparna & After Shave
29: Martin Ljung
30: Lill-Babs
31: Cornelis Vreeswijk
32: Hasse & Tage
33: Monica Zetterlund
34: Olle Adolphson
35: Magnus Uggla
36: Lars Winnerbäck
37: Ebba Grön
38: Imperiet
39: Thåström
40: Jakob Hellman
41: Broder Daniel
42: Lisa Miskovsky
43: Marit Bergman
44: Rally
45: "Weird Al" Yankovic
46: Eläkeläiset
47: Björn Rosenström
48: Gyllene Tider
49: Eddie Meduza
50: Onkel Kånkel
51: Eddie Medusa
52: The Kristet Utseende
53: Ronny & Ragge
54: Ultima Thule
55: Joddla med Siv
56: Michael B. Tretow
57: Matz Stefanz med Lailaz
58: Just D
59: Adolphson & Falk
60: Triad
61: Hannah Morris
62: Timbuktu
63: The Latin Kings
64: Tom Lehrer
65: Moxy Früvous
66: Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
67: Jonathan Coulton
68: The Bonzo Dog Band
69: The Simpsons
70: Voltaire
71: Theme Songs
72: John Williams
73: The Muppets
74: Richard Cheese
75: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
76: Frank Sinatra
77: William Shatner
78: さねよしいさ子
79: 富田麻帆
80: ベ・ユミ
81: 近江知永
82: 濱田理恵
83: マリアリア
84: 練馬大根ブラザーズ
85: 白石涼子
86: 伊藤真澄
87: djpretzel
88: McVaffe
89: AmIEvil
90: Mazedude
91: Scott Peeples
92: Zeratul
93: NoppZ
94: mp
95: Children of the Monkey Machine
96: Fred Åkerström
97: Björn Afzelius
98: Mikael Wiehe
99: Laleh
100: Bo Kaspers Orkester
101: Stefan Sundström
102: Anna Ternheim
103: 桜庭統
104: 岩垂徳行
105: 菊田裕樹
106: Stefan Demert
107: Fjodor
108: Finn Zetterholm
109: Magnus & Brasse
110: Jonas Almquist
111: Lars Demian
112: Leonard Cohen
113: Tom Waits
114: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
115: Bob Dylan
116: David Bowie
117: The Velvet Underground
118: Lou Reed
119: Johnny Cash
120: Neil Young
121: The Whitlams
122: Powderfinger
123: Something for Kate
124: Machine Gun Fellatio
125: Regurgitator
126: Eskimo Joe
127: Grinspoon
128: Little Birdy
129: Alex Lloyd
130: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
131: Cherry Poppin' Daddies
132: The Brian Setzer Orchestra
133: Royal Crown Revue
134: Squirrel Nut Zippers
135: Indigo Swing
136: Stray Cats
137: Brian Setzer

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My recommendations are

Ailsean Akira Yamaoka AmIEvil Capcom Sound Team Dale North DarkeSword FFmusic Dj final fantasy x Harry Gregson-Williams John Williams Konami Konami Kukeiha Club Mazedude McVaffe Michiru Yamane Mustin Namco Sound Team Nintendo Nobuo Uematsu, Aki Kuroda Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi RIKKI Scott Peeples See-Saw Tsuyoshi Sekito Tsuyoshi Sekito, Kenichiro Fukui djpretzel mp なるけみちこ 下村陽子 久石譲 仲野順也 伊藤賢治 佐藤天平 和田薫 増田俊郎 大島ミチル 大谷幸 岩垂徳行 岩崎琢 日比野則彦 桜庭統 梶浦由記 浜渦正志 白鳥英美子 菅野よう子 菊田裕樹 谷岡久美 近藤浩治 鷺巣詩郎

Helo aquí, completamente inutil...

1: 植松伸夫
2: 光田康典
3: The Black Mages
4: 下村陽子
5: 菅野よう子
6: 松枝賀子 & 江口貴勅
7: 崎元仁
8: 梶浦由記
9: 浜渦正志
10: The Beatles
11: Bob Dylan
12: Radiohead
13: The Rolling Stones
14: Led Zeppelin
15: Pink Floyd
16: David Bowie
17: John Lennon
18: The Who
19: Gabriela Robin
20: The Seatbelts
21: 坂本真綾
22: ORIGA
23: Steve Conte
24: the pillows
25: 近藤浩治
26: Nintendo
27: Kenta Nagata
28: 桜庭統
29: Capcom Sound Team
30: djpretzel
31: Mai Yamane
32: 山根麻衣
33: Tsuneo Imahori
34: Café Tacuba
35: Soda Stereo
36: Caifanes
37: Fobia
38: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
39: Aterciopelados
40: Enanitos Verdes
41: Babasónicos
42: Julieta Venegas
43: 田中しのぶ
44: 峰岸透
45: Kazumi Totaka
46: 若井淑
47: Ryoji Yoshitomi
48: 戸高一生
49: Akito Nakatsuka
50: 岩垂徳行
51: 菊田裕樹
52: 和田薫
53: 伊藤賢治
54: Fernando Delgadillo
55: Alejandro Filio
56: Edgar Oceransky
57: Mexicanto
58: Intocable
59: Silvio Rodriguez
60: Benny Ibarra
61: La Cuca
62: [unknown]
63: Red Hot Chili Peppers
64: System of a Down
65: Coldplay
66: Green Day
67: Nirvana
68: Gorillaz
69: Madonna
70: Black Eyed Peas
71: Les Luthiers
72: Fito Páez
73: Todo x 2 Pesos
74: Los Toreros Muertos
75: Charly García
76: 31 Minutos
77: Joan Manuel Serrat
78: Luis Pescetti
79: Luis Eduardo Aute
80: Chava Flores
81: Soundtrack
82: Hans Zimmer
83: John Williams
84: Howard Shore
85: Ennio Morricone
86: Yann Tiersen
87: Danny Elfman
88: Theme Songs
89: Nancy Sinatra
90: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
91: Ludwig van Beethoven
92: Johann Sebastian Bach
93: Antonio Vivaldi
94: Frédéric Chopin
95: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
96: Georg Friedrich Händel
97: Franz Schubert
98: Johannes Brahms
99: nintendo ost
100: Wind Waker
101: Koji Kondo
102: Toru Minegishi
103: Alan Menken
104: beauty and the beast
105: Andrew Lloyd Webber
106: Jonathan Larson
107: James Horner
108: Julie Andrews
109: Lea Salonga
110: Daft Punk
111: The Chemical Brothers
112: Basement Jaxx
113: Fatboy Slim
114: The Prodigy
115: Air
116: Moby
117: 任天堂
118: McVaffe
119: SEGA

from http://keef.co.nr/?page=lastfm_test1

The script lists the users top 20 overall artists and lists the 8 most similar artists to each one, then delete's any repeated artists.

The idea is to see how varied your taste is, a score of 9 is extremely unvaried while 160 represents an extremely varied one.

My result: 149 artists

Wouldn't it be better to use tags instead of similar artists?

1: Green Day
2: blink-182
3: Red Hot Chili Peppers
4: The Offspring
5: Foo Fighters
6: Nirvana
7: Weezer
8: Linkin Park
9: Sum 41
10: The Beatles
11: Bob Dylan
12: Radiohead
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15: Pink Floyd
16: David Bowie
17: John Lennon
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19: The Bluetones
20: Shed Seven
21: The Charlatans
22: Dodgy
23: Ocean Colour Scene
24: The Seahorses
25: Cast
26: Mansun
27: Supergrass
28: Elliott Smith
29: Sufjan Stevens
30: The Shins
31: Iron & Wine
32: Bright Eyes
33: Belle and Sebastian
34: The Decemberists
35: Neutral Milk Hotel
36: The Arcade Fire
37: The Planet Smashers
38: Big D and the Kids Table
39: Mustard Plug
40: The Toasters
41: MU330
42: Streetlight Manifesto
43: Catch 22
44: Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
45: The Aquabats
46: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
47: A Man Called Adam
48: Brian Eno
49: Philip Glass
50: Afterlife
51: Lemon Jelly
52: Air
53: The Orb
54: Boards of Canada
55: Carpenters
56: ABBA
57: Bee Gees
58: Elton John
59: Dionne Warwick
60: Olivia Newton-John
61: Carly Simon
62: The Beach Boys
63: Barry Manilow
64: Nikakoi
65: Funkstörung
66: Nobukazu Takemura
67: Polygon Window
68: erast
69: Nikakoi - Sestrichka
70: Apparat
71: Fizzarum
72: Cordclub
73: Nice Little Penguins
74: Thomas Helmig
75: Kim Larsen
76: Ray Dee Ohh
77: Tøsedrengene
78: TV-2
79: Danseorkestret
80: Back to Back
81: Danser med drenge
82: Billy Joel
83: Eagles
84: Queen
85: Simon & Garfunkel
86: Eric Clapton
87: Journey
88: Counting Crows
89: 近藤浩治
90: Nintendo
91: 植松伸夫
92: Kenta Nagata
93: 光田康典
94: 下村陽子
95: 桜庭統
96: Capcom Sound Team
97: djpretzel
98: Super Furry Animals
99: The Flaming Lips
100: Doves
101: Pavement
102: Grandaddy
103: The Beta Band
104: Mr. Scruff
105: Groove Armada
106: Zero 7
107: Röyksopp
108: Nightmares on Wax
109: The Chemical Brothers
110: Simon & Garfunkel
111: Yann Tiersen
112: Mogwai
113: Jon Brion
114: Clint Mansell
115: Ludwig van Beethoven
116: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
117: Danny Elfman
118: Explosions in the Sky
119: Orbital
120: The Future Sound of London
121: Underworld
122: Autechre
123: Aphex Twin
124: Leftfield
125: Plaid
126: British Sea Power
127: The Futureheads
128: Interpol
129: The Go! Team
130: Art Brut
131: Broken Social Scene
132: Bread
133: America
134: Seals & Crofts
135: Chicago
136: Dan Fogelberg
137: Jim Croce
138: Four Tet
139: Squarepusher
140: DJ Shadow
141: Sigur Rós
142: Prefuse 73
143: Johann Sebastian Bach
144: Antonio Vivaldi
145: Georg Friedrich Händel
146: Frédéric Chopin
147: Johannes Brahms
148: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
149: Franz Schubert