#ocremix

a million years ago on overclocked remix, someone posted a really lovely piano arrangement of a piece from the original Fire Emblem game

and it sounded so epic to my adolescent ear that i dove into the forums to beg the arranger to send me the sheet music so i could learn to play it

they DID have the sheet music, and sent it my way, and i still have the janky little .tiff files today

tragically, i never learned to play more than a few pages of the piece. it gets... REALLY tricky near the end...

but when i was googling the other day, i found out (1) i'm not the only one who asked the guy for the sheet music, (2) there is ONE MAD LAD out there who DID learn the entire piece and performed it for their senior-year-of-high-school recital

the entire comment section there is incredibly heartwarming. here is an excerpt:

OCR04922: Xenoblade Chronicles X: Forest in the Night - minusworld, Cyril the Wolf, Roland N. Laracuente Martínez, Unfocused in IA, Xander Plute

[N木ig木ht木L (Noctilum)]

from OverClocked ReMix; originally a sumbission for Dwelling of Duels, titled "That's my purse! I don't know you!". more by the artists linked below.

song credits:

minusworld - arrangement, production, guitars, VSTs

Xander Plute - flute

Roland N. Laracuente Martínez - bass guitar

Cyril the Wolf - lead vocals

Wistful Heart - Jorito feat. JohnStacy and Lauren the Flute

FF8 remix album? FF8 remix album!

"Final Fantasy VIII: Seeds of Pandora" is now available for free download.

It's an absolute honor to be part of the very diverse and talented cast of people that contributed to this amazing album, and it's an even greater honor they let me open the second disc with my take on "Cactus Jack".

I reworked the song into a national anthem for Galbadia — with stadium atmosphere, vocals, and everything — and that was a ton of fun. Cyril the Wolf contributed the announcer at the beginning ... and that's it pretty much. 😊