Also, if you have some free time this weekend and live in the Baltimore area, I’ll be attending Otakon starting tomorrow through Sunday. Otakon is one of the biggest anime conventions in the country, but it also has a lot of video game and music elements these days. I’ll be part of an OC ReMix panel on Saturday from 6-8pm. We’ve done 4 of these panels before and it’s always a blast, so come check us out!

The reviews are just starting to trickle in, but so far reception of the game and its audio has been outstanding! One reviewer said the new music is “beautiful”, and another praised it as “alarmingly good.” We really put a lot of time into the music, staying true to the spirit of the original MIDIs while breathing life into the production and arrangement by using modern samples and live instrumentation.

Whether you’re a casual gamer or diehard fan of the original game, I’m sure you will enjoy MI2:SE and all it has to offer. If you already have it, post here and let me know what you think!

* Mega Man 9 – High Pressure System
* Mega Man 9 – Daft Drafts
* Mega Man 9 – Tornado Man Goes Clubbing
* Mega Man 9 – Charge My Shot Up
* Final Fantasy 6 – Desertion
* Team Fortress 2 – Electrodispenser
* Super Street Fighter IV – Time to Oil Up

Enjoy!

The style of the mix is psytrance with lots of Middle Eastern and other world instruments, inspired by artists like Infected Mushroom and Juno Reactor. My wife even contributed some Middle Eastern-style vocals! I had a ton of fun creating this one, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the response; Capcom-Unity. OC ReMix and Shoryuken both posted it, and the original composer for SSF4 himself commented (via Twitter): “Holly Sxxt! This mix is enough to be paid much! gonna be embbed on my blog!”

So, if oily Turkish psytrance is your thing, check it out on YouTube below!

Download the MP3!

In case you don’t want to download the linked MP3 above, here’s a YouTube embed of the track! Feel free to leave a comment here or at the OC ReMix page!

(Also, sorry to anyone expecting yet another cheesy TF2 voice clip remix. It was only funny the first 1,000 times, and Inspector Bonk was the pinnacle.)

The panel I spoke on was about OC ReMix; our recent accomplishments, what we’re working on now, and where the site is headed. We had a live name-that-tune competition and a Q&A session afterward where I got to meet some old friends and fans. The day before the panel, myself and three other site staffers threw together a band and played a few songs at the “Jamspace” mini concert venue, hosted by MAGfest, another East coast convention I highly recommend.

Check out some pics of the event below!

Performing “Still Alive” from Portal with Deia Vengen (DragonAvenger), Amy Hsieh (diotrans), Jesse Taub (Vigilante) and a pickup drummer who was absolutely excellent. We also played Dr. Wily Stage 1 from Mega Man 2.

Myself and a number of other OCR site staffers getting interviewed for Machinima.com!

The OCR panel, from left to right: Larry Oji (Liontamer), diotrans, Vinnie Prahbu (Palpable, sitting), Vigilante, me, David Lloyd (djpretzel, in back), DragonAvenger, José Felix (José the Bronx Rican) and Wesley Cho (Bahamut.) We joked around that if something happened to the convention center, basically all of the OCR staff would be gone. :P

Enjoying some games of Smash Brothers for the Nintendo 64 several blocks from the convention at the TEP fraternity near MIT and Berklee (of which Vigilante is a member.)

“Charge My Shot Up” was a fun experiment because it samples extensively from previous entries in the GRMRB contest (about 10, to be exact.) I’ve been dying to try this type of old-school sampling technique mixed with lots of pitch-shifting, chopping and processing ever since I watched Jim Pavloff’s YouTube videos on creating Prodigy songs in Ableton Live. So, while it’s a bit dirtier than my normal fare, it’s pretty unique and was a blast to create. Enjoy!

In addition to the contest, I’ve also been working on a number of other projects (and enjoying a new PlayStation 3.) A few updates on these endeavors:

* There’s a new Zebra 2 video up at the Tutorials page, covering basic patch design.
* My guitar sample library (Shreddage) is almost done and will be released on Feb. 14th.
* There’s a new downtempo CD in the works. Expect some freebies here shortly.

Basically, each contestant picks a robot master’s theme from just about any ‘classic’ Mega Man game (not MMX.) They then face off against other contestants by creating remixes that incorporate both robot master themes. I chose Tornado Man from the new classic Mega Man 9, and was faced off against Stone Man from MM5.

The result of that clash is my remix, High Pressure System. I won my battle (the public voted more for me than my opposition) and I’m now moving on to Round 2, versus Cold Man Wish me luck, and enjoy the music!