Recently OCReMix and 8-bit Weapon contacted me with news of a remix contest for folks in the VG Remix and Arrangement community! Check out the full thread about the contest at this OCR thread or read the info below from 8-bit Weapon themselves.
We're teaming up with Overclocked Remix AND Nokia to hook up the artist who can do the best job of remixing and interpreting our Reset Generation Soundtrack! The Reset Generation soundtrack was composed using primarily a Commodore 64 and a Nintendo NES. There are 21 Tracks to remix and there are midi files available for each track!Besides getting their ReMix posted to OCR as our first N-Gage mix, we have delivered an amazing phone hookup courtesy of Nokia.
WHAT CAN I WIN?!? (Winning collaborators will be responsible for divvying up their prizes)
1st place!
* The Nokia N81 phone (a US$399 value) w/ 8GB memory and Reset Generation installed!
* An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
* A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
* Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!
* Your choice of 1 more prize out of the OCR prize pool below!* Cakewalk SONAR 7 Producer Edition (NFR)
* Sony ACID Pro 6 (NFR)
* Sony Sound Forge 9 (NFR)
* Novation V-Station Virtual Instrument
* SONiVOX Playa Hip-Hop Virtual Instrument
* A bundle of loops by M-Audio
* Project Gotham Racing (Microsoft, Xbox 360)
* Unreal Anthology (Midway, Windows)2nd place!
* An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
* A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
* Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!
* A limited physical edition of OC ReMix's Final Fantasy VII album, Voices of the Lifestream!3rd place!
* An 8 Bit Weapon t-shirt, to show your chiptune love!
* A signed limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest EP, Electric High, in a real 5.25" floppy disk!
* Your choice of an OCR t-shirt along with a pair of OCR stickers, so you can fly the colors!If you want to win a badass free Nokia N81 phone, the limited edition of 8 Bit Weapon's latest album signed, some fashionable gear and MOAR, you've gotta get crackin' on your ReMix! Let's get it on!
You have from now until the middle of July to complete as many entries as you want. But once we hit 11:59PM EST on Friday, July 10th, 2009, we're done accepting contest entries! All contest entries need to be emailed to admin@ocremix.org, subject "Nokia & 8 Bit Weapon!" Be sure to mention who was involved & what songs are being ReMixed!
Official Remix Contest Page:
http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23912