Hump Day Music: Super Fighting Robot X

This post would have been up yesterday if I did not start playing the last two missions of Mass Effect 3.  Spent the majority of yesterday night plowing through the ending and experiencing all that was going on.  Enough about that, let us get on with this week's Hump Day Music.

For the past week, I have been listening to whole lot of OC ReMix's newest album, Mega Man X: Maverick Rising.  Just go to maverick.ocremix.org and you can download this free 62 track honouring the excellent music from the Mega Man X series.  Earlier this week, I finished listening to all 62 tracks and I have to say it was amazing.  While there are some tracks I prefer over others, they all had a unique take on a track from the Mega Man X series, which can be surprising for some.  Out of all 62 tracks, my favourite has to be the second track, a remix of Mega Man X3's opening stage called Super Fighting Robot X.  WillRock's remix is a much smoother more electronic take on the original music, but it still gets your blood pumping and mind psyched to kick some Maverick butt.  Listening to this track and all the others, just makes me want to pull out my copy of the Mega Man X Collection for PS2 and just play these classic platformers.  If you have not picked downloaded this amazing free album yet, you are definitely missing out.  Take a listen to the track I am sharing with you today and if you you like, I highly recommend downloading Maverick Rising.

OverClocked ReMix: Great Free Music at Your Fingertips

When I work on articles and other projects that I work on, I enjoy to listen to music.  It helps keep me focused on the task at hand and also relaxed to let my creative juices flow.  Over the weekend while writing blogs and other articles, I started searching through the web pages of a website known a OverClocked ReMix (OC ReMix for short) listening to all the free video game music I could.  I was first turned onto the greatness of OC ReMix by Tommy Tallarico and Victor Lucas, who featured the website on a segment of Electric Playground years ago.  I continue to go back to the website every once and a while to listen to the new remixes that the community of hundreds of remixers add on a regular basis.

OverClocked ReMix is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music by re-interpreting the songs we have all come to know and love through playing games with new technology and software.  OC ReMix offers thousands of fan-made video game music arrangements, information on game music and game music composers, resources for aspiring game composers and a forum for video game music fans to share their love of video game music.  Apart from thousands of single-tracks for video game music fans can enjoy, OC ReMix along with their hundreds of loyal ReMixers have gone onto produce over 50 albums for many gaming series known for their great music such as Mega Man, Metroid, Sonic, Street Fighter and Final Fantasy.  After an Associate Producer from Capcom USA listened to OC ReMix's Street Fighter tribute album, Blood on the Asphalt, the musicians of OC Remix were chosen to handle the soundtrack for Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.  It was first in the video game industry as the Street Fighter II Turbo HD was the first video game release to feature a soundtrack completely made by fans.

Instead of illegally downloading music through torrents, OverClocked ReMix offers video game music lovers like myself thousands upon thousands of re-interrupted pieces of video game music.  From Jazz Metal Gear Solid music to Heavy Metal Mega Man music, there is something for every gamer on ocremix.org.  So show your support by downloading the tracks and albums that pleases your ears or by buying some official OC ReMix merchandise or if you are looking to get into composing music for video games, even contributing some tracks of your own.  I hope you enjoyed this article and that I opened a few peoples' eyes as there is great legally free music out there, you just need to look.