Spooktober 2: Electric Boogaloo (MnP136)
Outline
As you may know, October time means it's Halloween! So it's time to do another one of our Halloween special rounds! This time it's gonna be different from last time, and it's gonna be one hell of a show. Let's see what we have in store!
Ok so in this round you will be tasked in making something Spooky! This can be in the form of anything, provided it fits the theme of Halloween. This might be:
- Remixing a Video Game source based on the themes and ideas of Halloween.
- Remixing a song or track from an artist that is based on the themes and ideas of Halloween
- Imagine you are creating an original composition based on a commission for a Halloween type game/film or T.V Show.
- Transforming a piece of music, into something fitting for the Halloween season.
- Your own Spooky Video Game OST for Halloween.
- An original piece of music that is based on the themes and ideas of Halloween.
Any track from any genre, in any length is accepted. I just need to recognise it as a Halloween themed composition/remix/OST etc....
With that being said, i'm afraid there will be submissions i won't be accepting:
- A piece of music based of a word that you might associate with Halloween, but is not scary in itself. For example: Candy is something you eat on Halloween. However you can also eat it at Christmas time, Easter and any other time of the day. That's not really considered scary.
- A piece of music that mentions Halloween in passing. It must be the main focus of your submission.
- Any music irrelevant to the round.
- Music that sounds scary, but bares no relation to the themes and ideas of Halloween. Basically i must be able to identify that this is a Halloween themed composition/remix.
These rules are there to ensure that this is a Halloween based round, and not a random Free Round, if you catch my drift. Halloween encompasses many ideas and traditions, so you will definately not be short on musical ideas.
Conditions in regards to submitting:
- You can upload to 3 entries maximum. If you are creating an OST, only 1 entry is allowed.
- None of the rules in regards to source/remix selection apply here, since it's a Halloween round, however the standard uploading rules for ThaSauce (20mb size, MP3 etc...) remain as normal.
- This round and any other free rounds bares no relation to any of the sister compo's and/or it's affiliates (Such as PRC)
And that's it really. I'm here for any questions you may have, and i'm willing to guide you into opening up your own creative ideas for this round. There will never be a limitation of the music you can make that is based off the wonderful traditions of Halloween. Good luck guys, and remember to have fun!
Note: If you are remixing a VGM source or an piece of music from an artist, it would be very helpful to write down the Game and the Source you are remixing. Likewise the same for the Artist and the Song.
The winner of this round, join's the winner of the last round for a Double Dose off in Round 137.
Deadline: 31st October @ 1PM
Closing Date: 2nd November @ 1PM
Vote Ends: 9th November @ 1PM
MnP ARCHIVE - made by Trism 
Rules
MISSION STATEMENT
The goal of Compo: MnP is to promote that "meat and potatoes" conservative approach to remixing: this includes the mood and composition of source tunes. It is up to the remixer to create their own personalization, or to simply give it a sound upgrade. Moreover, the compo is a great opportunity to hone your remixing skills and give video game music the respect that is due. SOME reinterpretation is recommended, but not required.
MnP Instructions/Guidelines
Rules for Picking a Source:
- All video game sources are limited to the 6th generation of video game consoles and earlier. This was due to community consensus, where people preferred to remix more retro games, than newer games. 6th generation includes: GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and Dreamcast.
- I'm now restricting big name franchises (Such as Zelda and Mega-Man) to one source per year. This is to encourage more obscure games, that not many people will know about to be picked.
- Make sure you provide me both a video and a MIDI of the source in question.
Guidelines:
- Modifying the Source is fine, so long as it doesn't sound completely separate from its original intent.
- If you're gonna do a genre change, at least make sure the original aspect of the source is not lost.
- Tempo changes are fine, as long as it's not a big change. I'm talking like, going from 80bpm to 140bpm.
- Submissions must be at a maximum of 20mb (keeping in step with ThaSauce's file size max), and submitted as a MP3 file.
- Only 1 entry per participant. Previous winner cannot participate but can submit a BONUS entry.
- Try to avoid making quality-based comments on submissions until after the Round is concluded. It is to avoid a Bias in Votes.
MISC/TIPS
- When picking a source tune, make sure it has a MIDI to make people's lives easier.
- In-game sound FX are permitted, so long as they don't comprise the whole track (i.e. replacing entire MIDI tracks with just sfx)
Entries (6)
How often have you turned through the night. Each turn of your body turns a new page in your dream. The doors to the Dreamworld make no sense and the rooms even less. You can't find your footing though there is something beautiful to it all, something deep, maybe even precious . As the night grows old however things become more...blurry and muffled. Tainted with confusion, your dreams twist and bend. They rot into a vile, distorted mess.
The nightmares begin.
Black pages form forbidden origami. It's impossible to comprehend. The energy. The pounding. The flesh. The smell. Nothing makes sense. It all comes apart the body the mind the soul it all makes sense nothing makes sense everything is nothing and nothing is everything nothing everything nothing everything nothing everything nothing all everything is nothing to everything nothing I am nothing everything I am no yes no yes no I
Good morning, did you sleep well?
Source is Suikoden 2's Gothic Neclord with a minor bonus entrance of a certain movie theme at the very end.
To that end I tried for a bit of a Pystrance interpretation of it. It didn't turn out too Psytrancey, but it sure is a fun source at any rate. For the Halloweeny aspect what I tried for here was more of a whimsically halloweeny approach. So, it is a little over the top with the organ and some of the other sound selections.
This is 3 of the 4 main dungeon themes. Expect the 4th later, if my secret friends of super-power note-to-ear transcription can gimme a hand. And HUGE props to Souperion for helping me out with "The Wizard Plots" (Dungeon 1). Enjoy!!
Arrangement of Ikana Castle, From Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
I've had a midi of this lying around for a while, waiting for a chance to give this piece a spin. The castle in game has long since fallen to undeath, its kingdom deteriorated and still. I wanted to capture some militant grandeur while mainly clinging to the grim, haunting nightmare of the undead halls. The piece is named for the undead king's gift to Link after being bested by him in battle: "I grant to you a soldier who has no heart. One who will not falter in the darkness."
I went for the last option, which is an original piece of music based on the themes an ideas of Halloween. I went for a long one, because i wanted to have it pan out like a full journey. We have an intro with Dialogue and Music from The Shining (A Classic horror movie), before we shift straight into orchestral chops combined with hard hitting beats. It's like Fast Techno mixed with orchestrations. I also through in a few screams for good measure. This last for around 3 minute, going through different samples of an Alan Silvestri OST. It's 1 second samples being cycled through whilst other changes happen.
When we reach the final impact, we move onto the 2nd part, which is a deep pad followed by some soft bell melodies and slow fading pad chords. The goal with this, is unnerving ambience, as if the killer is dead and things are "Supposedly" normal. This lasts for 3 minutes also. This part also contains some of the orchestral drums from earlier (But in a much quieter volume for dynamics), as well as some evil laughing.
The last part of the piece is the return of the pounding orchestral parts and drums (But more brief this time, in just under 2 minutes), followed by one last build-up into a final string/pad section. The bells return but they go through octave modulations, as well as a new pad made from a sample, that fades in and out whilst going through some reverb.
All in all long description, but necessary to explain everything. The piece is quite scary and meant to represent someone trying to kill you. Hope you get something out of this, enjoy!
Light remix of Super Mario's fortress theme, a bit faster and with more trebles. Not much to say about it .