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Baron Soosdon and Pinkhair have created a World of Warcraft machinima from a script entitled “Busted” for the “Synergy” contest at WarcraftMovies.com. The challenge was to make the best machinima from either one of two pre-existing manuscripts. The movie, one of six entries and one of three tackling the “Busted” script is available in a pretty impressive 720p, so feel free to check it out.

I don’t know the first thing about World of Warcraft, but the movie features the excellent integration of several OC ReMixes and OCR album tracks, including Voices of the Lifestream and Chrono Symphonic from Pot Hocket, Sephfire, tefnek and Xaleph. Baron’s looking for support for the contest on his personal blog. There’s $300 in scrilla on the line, and the field is full of solid entries, so feel free to swing by WarcraftMovies.com and give Baron Soosdon and Pinkhair your support (since they clearly chose the best music, am I right)!

Just another great day in #ocrjudges. You can view the full post for our conversation a few minute ago on this Wisconsin Kia dealership commercial, featuring original track “Inferno” by zircon:

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Jon Titterington (known as JigginJonT on OC ReMix) toured around with Greg Laswell the past couple of months for Greg’s US tour, promoting his new album Three Flights from Alto Nido, out on Vanguard Records.

While in Atlanta for their performance at Variety Playhouse (a dual show with Ingrid Michaelson, which Jimmy “Big Giant Circles” Hinson and myself attended), Greg and bandmates Brandon Walters & Jon stopped by Decatur’s Paste Magazine to film a Live at Paste performance of “What a Day.” Jon’s featured on trumpet, so be sure to check it out!

Hey, I know we just recently sent out a mail on OC ReMix doing the soundtrack for Capcom’s Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. Thanks for checking out our E3 week feature about it on Ars Technica: http://digg.com/gaming_news/Fans_go_pro_how_OC_ReMix_put_its_stamp_on_Street_Fighter_II

I’m actually mailing because today, July 25th, is the birthday of OC ReMix founder David Lloyd, better known around these parts as djpretzel!!! He also recently got engaged to the lovely Anna, which was revealed on OCR just a couple of days ago!

To help celebrate, I’m asking you to take a few moments out of your day to wish djp a happy birthday! You can make his B-day a good one by doing any or all of the following things:

***Well, djp started it all, so throw some birthday greetings to djp right here: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17434

***Buy a copy of this month’s issue of Game Informer magazine (with Wolfenstein on the cover), which features an interview with djp about OC ReMix and spotlights the video game arrangement community: http://www.gameinformer.com/Magazine/

***Buy a T-shirt, hoodie or stickers from the OCR store and fly the colors: http://www.ocremix.org/store/
***Purchase ANYTHING at Amazon through OCR and have (a much-appreciated) 6% of the sale donated to help pay for our sizeable bandwidth at no extra cost: http://www.ocremix.org/amazon/

***Leave a Review for any OC ReMix on the site. Comments don’t have to be essays, but let djp, or any OC ReMixer, know how you felt about a ReMix you enjoyed. Any ReMix is fair game, and it’ll make their day: http://www.ocremix.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

***Complete your OCR collection by downloading the ReMixes you don’t have. The only mistake I ever made when I first found OCR in 2002 was to only download about 30 mixes just from games I knew. If that’s like you, you’re missing out on free GOLD: http://www.ocremix.org/torrents/

***Join OCR on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2210239078
***Become a fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/OverClocked-ReMix/7350358374
***Join OCR on MySpace: http://groups.myspace.com/ocremix

***Last, but not least, just encourage 10 friends to check out OC ReMix. OCR is what it is today, because people like you have been kind enough to spread the word on the site, the 100% free music we offer (1500+ tracks and counting), and the amazing creativity of the ReMixers who take time out to honor video game music. Anyone who likes games, game music or just awesome free music should swing by and see what we’re about, so tell everyone you can!

THANK YOU as always for supporting OverClocked ReMix, downloading the music, and being a part of the OCR community. We appreciate it! And happy birthday, Pretz!

Larry “Liontamer” Oji
Head Submissions Evaluator, OverClocked ReMix
Creator, VG Frequency
Staff, VGMdb
www.ocremix.org
www.vgfrequency.com
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Shael Riley says, “BUY THE SHIRT!” The banner below isn’t the logo that’s on it. Swing by The Grammar Club’s site to check out the sexy new design the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix musicians are pushing from their store, for $18 plus S&H. Silhouettes of women never go wrong. You add an arcade cabinet next to her and clearly you’ll need a clean change of boxers:

Hey!

Go to our website and buy our T-shirts.

www.thegrammarclub.com

Shirts are there. I fucking swear.

If you go to our website and buy our T-shirts, we will use the money you spend on our T-shirts to buy more T-shirts, and sell them on our website.

Do it.

Now.

-S

Let’s plug the C64 Orchestra touring around Europe, representing the SID:

The C64 Orchestra will perform a special gig at the 3daysON festival on Saturday the 30th of August. Other gigs at this night will be by Michael Fakesch (Funkstorung) and Lefties Soul Connection.

It’s gonna be a great night! Tickets and info at www.3dayson.nl

DCT’s original netlabel Urbanizm Music has just come out with a new look courtesy of Joshua Morse. Urbanizm’s got some great hip-hop and R&B acts from around OC ReMix, VGMix and OneUp Studios, so check it out.

Check out The Mega’s latest T-shirt design, “Death Does Wear Blue” and pick it up from their storefront. $15 plus S&H to rock it. The band made their pitch via MySpace bulleting:

Check ‘em out… this time they’re available in black, as well as a limited number in lapis blue and heather grey w/black rings. Impress your friends! They probably have no clue how badass the man in blue really is.

All of our shirts are printed on American Apparel tees, the best T-shirts in all of the land.

They are soft, don’t fade in the wash, and they fit like a mother’s warm embrace! Support the Megas’ east coast tour by picking one up today!

Cool stuff from Greg “Audix” Michalec and Brian “Tweek” Arnold, as they just released a music video of their OC ReMix collaboration, Mario Kart 64 “Day’s End”. Audix kept it brief on the OC ReMix forums:

Just finished up a “music video” of sorts of this track, featuring clips of me and Tweek playing parts on guitar and keyboard, Mario Kart shortcuts, and FL Studio playthrough footage.

Check out the sweet powerslide up the ramp at 2:02. Did that on the first take. ;)

Nice work compiling the footage, with a great combinations of features. You get your nostalgia fix via the Mario Kart 64 footage, along with a nice look at the guts of the mix in the sequencer (arranging the work of Kenta Nagata), and performance shots of both ReMixers. Fun stuff, and nice to see these two go the extra mile.

Grant Kirkhope announced today via MySpace that he’s leaving Rare, his workplace of the past 13 years:

Well everyone…..it’s a very sad time, I have to tell you all that I’ve resigned from Rare. This Friday (18th) will be my last day at the company. Recording the stuff in Prague with Robin for Banjo has been my last task before I leave.

Needless to say my time at Rare has been the most amazing and rewarding experience imaginable and I’m going to miss not being there.

Nearly 13 years ago now, Rare gave a long haired metal fan a chance that no-one else would and I am forever in their debt.

I’ve worked with some fantastically talented people and it’s their creativity that has spurred me on to write and create the stuff I have………I really can’t put it into words.

I wish the company and people there all the luck in the world!

Grant.

I actually just left him a MySpace message a few days ago for his birthday; one thing I mentioned was how excellent the first Viva Piñata soundtrack was. I’d express sadness at these current events, but the circumstances haven’t been publicized. And as far as I’m aware, Kirkhope can write his own ticket as far as his career is concerned, which is great. So, following the initial rough patch of feelings after leaving a long-time employer like Rare, I’m excited at what he has the potential to do now.

Of course, I’m looking forward to the eventual release of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts on the Xbox 360 to hear his final work with Rare. Best of luck to Grant as we see what the future holds for him!

Great stuff from Chris of Square Enix Music Online, lining up the first English-language interview on the upcoming Chris Hülsbeck concert series tribute, Symphonic Shades. Producer Thomas Böcker spoke at length about what led to the concert’s creation, working with a host of top industry talent like Arnie Roth and Yuzo Koshiro, as well as what to expect, including nearly all-new orchestral arrangements from Jonne Valtonen and the upcoming CD complementing the concert.

Böcker also went into detail on why there won’t be a sixth Symphonic Game Music Concert at Leipzig’s Games Convention, certainly of interest to fans of what was seemingly an institution at GC until recently. A great job and a very thorough read courtesy of Chris and SEMO, check it out.