Final Fantasy VII remixes
I grabbed the torrent this weekend for the entire Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, the latest OCRemix community game music project. I’ve only gotten through CD2, but it is a phenomenal album so far. Far surpassing Chrono Symphonic, which I found to be fairly dull and repetitive. But this FF7 music kicks and punches, and is great background music to keep me motivated while I’m sludging through some fairly mundane tasks hopped up on Alka Seltzer cold and sinus.
I’ve really enjoyed some of the earlier albums OCRemix has put together, such as the Street Fighter II compilation, Blood on the Asphalt and the Sonic 3 and Knuckles Project Chaos. I haven’t listened to the rest, mainly because I only download the albums to games I’ve actually played or am personally familiar with. The exception is that I have to admit I haven’t downloaded the Super Metroid album yet. The reason for that is because I’ve listened to enough Super Metroid music on OCRemix, I’m not really hungry for more.
Not sure yet what the next project will be, but here’s hoping it’s something as grand as FF7. Hopefully it isn’t just FF8.
My awesome family at Mahoney State Park this past summer. From L to R: me; my oldest son, Caleb; baby Harlyn peeking out from behind mommy's shoulder; my wife, Amanda; my son Alex.
Thanks a lot for the comments on the Voices of the Lifestream, Nate! Glad you’ve checked out some of our other albums as well.
Apologies if you already know about it, but if you ever want to get a taste of OC ReMixes from other games that you may not be familiar with, our official radio webstream, Ormgas.com plays every OC ReMix on regular rotation. With the exception of downloading our torrents of mixes 1-1600, Ormgas is the best way to check out WAY too much freee video game music with very little effort.
Back when OCR was in the 600s, I used to work the same way, just checking ReMixes from games I knew, and I ended up with about 30 (I didn’t own too many games
). Then I checked them ALL out thanks to a friend and got hooked.
In any case, thanks so much for your positive comments, it definitely means a lot to me, and I’m sure all of the people who help make OCR happen, staff and artists!
Larry “Liontamer” Oji
Head Submissions Evaluator, OverClocked ReMix
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