Even though I didn’t do anything too special for it, the people in my life made yesterday again the best birthday ever. On top of that, OC ReMix posted the track Avaris and myself did for the Xenogears project last year! What a present!
Avaris, Level 99 – Quickening
It’s always wonderful working with Shaun, and for two reasons: one, he always knows exactly what to do, and two, he’s a very hard-headed friend. This is why we mesh very well during collaborations, constantly fighting between happy & uplifting (which is usually my perspective of how songs should be) and sad & depressing (Shaun has a literal distaste for happy music). The result ends up being a mixture of both.
For this song, the most remarkable thing was how quickly it came together. I had listened to some Xenogears songs from time to time previously, the majority of my Mitsuda experience coming from Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger, but actually never heard either “Small of Two Pieces” or “Faraway Promise” until talking with Shaun on the phone that day. He was literally bouncing the waves to mp3s for the Humans + Gears project and said it was a shame no one has done Faraway Promise. He sent me a link to the original song and I said simply “so how do we get it on there”. We decided to challenge ourselves to push out one more song on the album before release, and within 24 hours, we had made the majority of what was Quickening. A few weeks later, the project came out. The project itself is really really good, so definitely check it out.
Again, really good birthday, and a nice track. Oh, and I’m submitting a song to OCR today.
*waves at the song*
See you in the judge’s queue!
~Stevo
Wow, I had the fullest of intentions to update this as often as possible. Sorry guys. Here’s all what’s been going on lately:
Otakon was amazing, and the OCAD crew got great footage of the OCR and OCAD panels. Check the OCAD site for more updates on that as editing gets started.
New track posted on ReMix:thasauce. It was a collab I did with Gario for a Battletoads & Double Dragon song. It’s called Rocket Slam! Enjoy:
http://remix.thasauce.net/song/RTS0254/
Been working steadily on the remake of my old Dire Dire Docks remix. You can check the progress of it on the OCR WIP thread:
http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30350
Got some secret stuff going on with a new project that’s getting underway. Major development wont begin for quite a few months but it’s shaping up to be pretty killer.
Other things going on in the background but I will find time to do a more proper update and decorate my site a little bit more.
Oh, and I turn 25 this Thursday. Quarter-of-a-century-old. I think I will eat falafel and a cupcake that evening 
Alright, so two things went on in the last few weeks.
1) It was NiGHTS’s 14th birthday last Monday, so in honor of that, I threw together a little video to put over one of the final tracks for the NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming project and released it online. It’s also in a video for the NiD15.com campaign. Anyways, here’s the video:
NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming Teaser Track (OC ReMix Album)
Also, you can download the track here:
Level 99 – Twin Seeds Flyby
This is all definitely old-ish news but I gotta use this blog for something!
2) I finished a remix of a track from Rad Racer 2 for the NES. The song has been subbed to both remix:thasauce and OCR and will go through the motions there, but in the mean-time you can download it here (you candid folks, you!). It’s of the track Gum Ball Crash, and the remix is called Fire in the Tires:
Level 99 – Rad Racer 2 – Fire in the Tires
It’s a lot closer to a cover than my other stuff, because I love the source tune so much. I did make some original parts and think I variated it enough to keep it from being a cover. Enjoy!