Commodore Remix

Took a bit of time out of my exam schedule to dequeue files that were submitted to RKO before the upload feature had to be disabled (got countless amounts of aborted uploads, no thanks that that "Internal Server Error" thingy) ... so here's a some tunes for you all to enjoy.

Also, I have added some very-quick-very-ugly highlighting to the news section in the vague hope that it'll stop people e-mailing me about how to upload... And if it doesn't work I can always not bother replying without damage to my karma. =)

Thanx for that Jan - great to see RKO getting back on its feet again.

Good luck with your studies and exams dude.

RKO is currently:

"Internal Server Error"

Works fine for me

I kept getting that. Try refreshing the page, it worked for me.

Kenz wrote:Thanx for that Jan - great to see RKO getting back on its feet again.

Good luck with your studies and exams dude.

FULL ACK!!!

Thanks a lot, Jan!!!

And don't forget to relax from time to time! I'm almost through with my "exams" here and it drives me almost NUTS! (Orwhattheheckitscalledinenglishgoddammitnowineedsomebooze)

Downloaded 6 newly released remixes.. then.. Internal Server Error.

Ive had the internal error thing, but as soon as it comes up I just reclick on a mix and it downloads fine

This Internal Error Thingie keeps popping up at (sparse) irregular intervals. Like a hickup. Having a retry always helped. Just beforehand the server responded sluggishly, then: Internal Error, then: Retry & there is the right page. Uhm.

btw can you maybe clarify this?

don't ... mix a SID with a song you didn't create, no matter how well you think tunes fit each other (New Orders "Confusion" + Last Ninja = Bad Idea(tm)).

I'm just not sure if it means with an original song, that is the song itself, or a song you didn't create, that is any song or your own cover of it.

Or to be more specific: I have that mix of the great giana theme with a cover of jarre's oxygene 8, but it's not the original oxygene 8 of course. Is this against the rules of submission?

thanks

Take the given example: some time ago somebody submitted a remix to RKO which was basically Last Ninja combined with the main loop out of New Order's <i>Confusion</i> (Pump Panel Reconstruction Remix, best known from the blood-bath scene of Blade).

In this particular case, the "remixer" was even impudent enough to steal the Last Ninja part from Instant Remedy!

I guess PPOT's Comic Bakery boyband remix walks the borderline, since it uses samples of well-known boyband tunes, but in a very very creative way and adding loads of own input to it; thus making it valid.

About your remix, I think it's the way you employ the Oxygene cover in your remix. Do you only use loops and sounds from it to make your remix sound Jarre'esque, or do you employ the full Oxygene theme?

- Markus

PS: Jan, correct me if I wrote something wrong, please.

you could ofcourse always upload the track to your own webspace (if you have some) and let the remix64 visitors give you an opinion!

Do you only use loops and sounds from it to make your remix sound Jarre'esque, or do you employ the full Oxygene theme?

no, it's a cover, so it's a remake of Oxygene as much as it's a remake of the Giana Sisters song.

I'm just asking if that rule is about using samples (which I didn't) or the scores (which I did).

you could ofcourse always upload the track to your own webspace (if you have some) and let the remix64 visitors give you an opinion!

I did, in this forum, but it's better if the song at RKO, since it's kinda made for that

LMan / Remix64 wrote:Take the given example: some time ago somebody submitted a remix to RKO which was basically Last Ninja combined with the main loop out of New Order's <i>Confusion</i> (Pump Panel Reconstruction Remix, best known from the blood-bath scene of Blade).

In this particular case, the "remixer" was even impudent enough to steal the Last Ninja part from Instant Remedy!

I guess PPOT's Comic Bakery boyband remix walks the borderline, since it uses samples of well-known boyband tunes, but in a very very creative way and adding loads of own input to it; thus making it valid.

About your remix, I think it's the way you employ the Oxygene cover in your remix. Do you only use loops and sounds from it to make your remix sound Jarre'esque, or do you employ the full Oxygene theme?

PS: Jan, correct me if I wrote something wrong, please.

Nopes, that pretty much hits the proverbial nail right on the head.

@Gol: As you put it, your tune is just as much Oxygene as it's Giana Sisters. In which case I'd rather leave it off RKO. For the record I don't see anything wrong with creative use of samples (as per PPoT) or cloning Jarres sound (exhibit A: the entire "Sidologie" album).

Hope this clears up things.

Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:@Gol: As you put it, your tune is just as much Oxygene as it's Giana Sisters. In which case I'd rather leave it off RKO. For the record I don't see anything wrong with creative use of samples (as per PPoT) or cloning Jarres sound (exhibit A: the entire "Sidologie" album).

Yes yes, but it's Gol and he is my GOD so you should allow this one to be released on RKO! But only if he uploads me the zipped looped package

Seriously though - there is enough of Giana Sisters in there to make this an awesome remix - it's no worse than say Mahoney's - Rhaa Lovel II or Sanxion