OverClocked ReMix – Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community
If you have spent a portion of your life playing video games you have come to love (and to hate) certain portions of the music associated with those games. If you are as old as I am, it may been a couple of decades or more since you have heard the music from some of the games you used to play for hours.
Now fast forward to today, you probably have to work, whether it be school work, or office type stuff and as you work you probably have the chace, or the need, to listen to music while you work. Enter Overclocked remix. Many dedicated fanboys have taken some of those classic themes and music from games and remixed them. It is like a walk down memory lane if you played that game, but it is also new, fresh and compellingly upbeat (for the most part). It keeps me going while I work and read and even when I surf. Because they have very little, if any, lyrical content there is no distraction in listening to them if you are also working on other projects.
So what are you waiting for, get over there and check it out!
Next post: some thoughts on this intersection of games and music and culture.
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Hopefully you don’t dislike arrangements with vocals/lyrics outside of a working environment.
Of course, we always have more great music waiting in the wings to be posted, submitted by really talented artists. I hope you keep an eye on OCR to see what we’ve got going on in the future.
BTW, in case you weren’t aware, we have an OGG-based radio webstream run from Sweden by a great friend of the site’s, Marco “ravon” Alanen, called Ormgas.com (http://oc.ormgas.com). You can check it out 24/7, especially to sample OC ReMixes from games that you may otherwise not check out on account of being unfamiliar with them. There are hundreds of great ReMixes from games you may have no nostalgic ties to, so I hope you’re not afraid to check those out and find some hidden gems.
Thanks for being a fan and spreading the good word, Aaron! On behalf of djpretzel and OCR, we genuinely appreciate it.
Larry “Liontamer” Oji
Head Submissions Evaluator, OverClocked ReMix
http://www.ocremix.org
Vocals are great, especially in the car and other places, but for work, and especially when writing (which I do a lot) vocals can be VERY distracting.
As for games I’ve never played, yes I’ve listened to some of those tracks too, and I like them for the most part, but there is a heavy nostalgia influence in some of those tracks that is well, I’ll get to that in my next post.