Amazing musician, MAGFest music director, and constant supporter of everything video game music (including this here site), Dominic Cerquetti, or the more friendly Dom as he is known around these parts, was recently featured in the Media Molecule blog. The blog for the creators of the PS3 game LittleBigPlanet.

He was featured in one of their blog posts thanks to Dom’s awesome
keyboard work on a track from LittleBigPlanet. You can watch the
impressive video below, and if you dig it be sure to check out Dom’s Live Videogame Music Show every other Tuesday, in where he takes live requests for any and all video game songs!

Hello all!

I’m working on a little flash shmup (oh and sidenote: that ad you see on OCR this month is another one of my games. Feel free to click and buy) and I’m doing what a lot of the big-boys in the Industry do: collect lots of data and redesign accordingly.

So I have a working build and an online survey ready. For those of you
who are interested, I’d love it if you played around with the build for
a bit, then answer the very brief survey. It would help me immensely,
and plus, you get to be part of the Game’s Industry… tacitly!

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Here is the working build (give it a few seconds)

http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/Changeling6.html

And here is the online survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s…ZEFB8pXg_3d_3d

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Oh, and for those of you interested, here are some screens and mockups!

http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/mood4.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/hud1a.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/hud2.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/enemy2.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/enemy3.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/enemy5.jpg
http://www.thewingless.com/allegiance/enemy6.jpg

THANKS!!

I am very happy to announce volume 3 in a monthly series of 5 song “mixtapes” from GM4A. The series is called Hey! Listen! and asks you to do just that! Check out the first mixtape page
for info about how this mixtape series works. We are bringing you an
extra heavy dose of VG rock on this album from the likes of Chile based
ThePlasmas as well as East Coast rockers Rare Candy! Not only that, but
we have a great laid back VG remix from all around nerd musician sli,
and some great nerdcore hip hop from hiphopmcdougal. We top it all off
with a beautiful closing song from NES Rock newcomers I Fight Dragons.
All this is wonderfully labeled with artwork by good friend Leo
Camacho. Well don’t just sit there, dig in!

Track listing and artwork:
1. ThePlasmas – SuperMario
myspace.com/theplasmasvgm

2. hiphopmcdougal – Venomous Vapors
myspace.com/hiphopmcdougal

3. sli – Wobbly Rings
carbonpunk.com/music/sli

4. Rare Candy – Chrono Trigger – Undersea Palace / Schala’s Theme / The Day the World Revived
myspace.com/rarecandyband

5. I Fight Dragons – With You
ifightdragons.com

Album Artwork by Leo Camacho
jipjive.deviantart.com

About the artwork:
The
artwork is a remixed version of an art piece titled “The Unusual
Suspects.” The artwork was created last minute by Leo Camacho (who will
be next months artist as well), so huge thanks to him on putting
something great together on only a few days notice! Sadly we had our
original artist have to drop off the project due to family affairs, but
best of luck to her, and hope to have her on a future album!

Thanks:
Thanks
again to everyone who checks out this album! Thank you for taking an
interest in brand new and amazing music! Thank you to all the bands and
artists kind enough to contribute their hard work for the mixtape!
Thanks again to Hotdog Storm for hosting duties! Also thanks to any
other sites, artists, blogs, or just regular folks who spread the word
about these mixtapes!

Yesterday, Game Informer posted an article on the Pilotwings franchise,
trying to entice Nintendo to produce a Wii generation version. At the
very end, they mention the style of music which should be included in a
new rendition of the series, highlighting OCR’s very own (and only
Pilotwings mix) Midnight Altitude.

Congrats for the exposure, jcd!

Here’s a link to the article.

About a year ago I had the pleasure of running across Nicole Adam’s
music via myspace and was immediately amazed by the music she had
there. I soon asked her if she would like to contribute a track to the
2nd GM4A anniversary compilation Welcome to World 2. She was kind enough to agree and submitted the song Permutation
for the album, and I was of course blown away by how well it was all
done. Another thing I was amazed by was that she worked with Starla AKA
injury of OCReMix fame who provided her amazing voice and handled lyric
duties on the song verses. Together they created a sweeping arrangement
of the Donkey Kong Country song Fear Factory which has been the
highlight of the album for many people.

Flash forward a few months and now the song Permutation is featured on OCReMix
and has been getting some great reviews. Due to the slightly momentous
event I decided to shoot some questions to Nicole Adams to discuss what
it is like to have her first song on OCR, and also Injury, who has
returned to OCR with this song after a lengthy hiatus. I also took this
opportunity to ask them about their music influences, upcoming projects
and more. Check out the interview below, then be sure to check out Nicole Adams music myspace and check out Injury over at her new website!

Holy shit! I just hosted the second teams-of-two three-hour pop song
writing party/contest, and the results were absolutely impressive. I
encourage you to check these three songs out.

DJ Projekt Zero as Team Super Sloppy Double Dare – Shael’s Going to Fuck Me Up the Ass With No Lube and It’s Going to Hurt

You
have to hand it to DJ Projekt Zero, whose partner petered out halfway
through the contest, leaving him with half the time and half the
manpower to finish his song. Zero drew titular inspiration from a
threat made following his partner’s forfeiture midway through the
contest, regarding what would happen were he to not finish his track.

Shael Riley and Jiggin Jon T as Team Taking a Year Off to Travel – Pros and Cons

Just
like I said I would be, after wearing the producer hat last time, I’m
in the lyricist/vocalist role on this collaboration with JJT, who
produced an excellent instrumental. When I produced Injury, I wrote a
melody for her to write words to, but Jon just gave me a chord
structure, leaving me to write the melody too; that was cool, because
it gave me some wiggle room with my lyrics. Drawing inspiration from a
conversation I had with treacerbullet earlier in the day, I decided to write a song in-character, taking a tip from the Randy Newman school of songwriting.

Injury, Sgt Rama, and Suzumebachi as Team Bisquick – Percent Caret Open Parenthesis

These
motherfuckers. Not only did they cheat, by secretly adding Doug “Sgt.
Rama” Arely to their team, but they parodied Snow Love and Sludge, the
undisputed worst song off of my first solo album. Fuck you,
cocksuckers. You are not invited to my contests anymore.

Actually, they did a really good job. Starla’s T-pain’d vox are stunningly hooky.

So
I have hastily tossed together a quick mix of love songs for all the
nerds and your significant others to enjoy! And I hope you do. If you
decide to play this for them, definitely let me know how that went in
the comments!Also, since I don’t really have permission to be
releasing these tracks I will only be having this compilation available
until the end of February, so grab the songs while you can! Most of the
songs on this mix are free and in higher quality from each respective
artist, so definitely check out each artists website!

Download
ZIP File | RAR File

Track listing
1. My GF is… by Dual Core from the album Lost Reality – dualcoremusic.com
2. Erica by Joel Tetreault
3. Necrophilianomenon by ZeaLouS1 from the album Assimilation Process: Complete – zealous1.com
4. At The Arcade by Dan Plus Add from the album Matters of Great Importance – danplusadd.co.uk
5. Take My Hand, Take My Heart by Lumine Hall from This Album Stinks – myspace.com/luminehallmusic
6. Less Than Three by Shael Riley – shaelriley.com
7. Tecmo Bowl (in the style of T Rex) by XOC from the in progress album VGMITSO – xocmusic.com
8. Orange Crush by hiphopmcdougal from the EP Time Circuits On – myspace.com/hiphopmcdougal
9. I Love My Computer by Colon:P – myspace.com/colonpmusic
10. Aqua Soul (Robot Love) by Random from the album Mega Ran – megaran.com
11. Laura’s Lullaby by Elfonso from the album Tako wa chikyu o suku – myspace.com/elfonsomusic
12. Bits and Pieces by Shael Riley from the album Toybox – shaelriley.com
13. Splash Woman (produced by Samik) by Random from the album Mega Ran 9 – megaran.com
14. Butterfly Kisses by The Depreciation Guild from the album In Her Gentle Jaws – inhergentlejaws.com
15. Rapgirl by MC Lars from the album The Graduate – mclars.com/
16. I Can’t Run To You Fast Enough by Pixelh8 from the album The Boy With the Digital Heart – pixelh8.co.uk

Artwork
The artwork for the album is originally by Steffo from My Parent’s Favorite Music.
myspace.com/myparentsfavoritemusic

I am very happy to announce volume 1 in a series of 5 song “mixtapes” from GM4A. The series is called Hey! Listen!
and asks you to do just that! The goal of these mixtapes is to
introduce you to bands, musicians, and artists who you may have never
discovered otherwise. These are amazing folks who deserve recognition
and I hope to help them out with that the best I can from this humble
corner of the internet. Each volume will include five bands as well as
an up and coming artist providing the cover art. Our first collection
includes songs from seal of quality, Chiptots, Lumine Hall, Alex
Atchley, and Tanuki Suit Riot, and the amazing cover is brought to us
by Sasha Palacio.

Track listing and artwork:
1. seal of quality – woodman + bubbleman
myspace.com/sealofquality

2. Lumine Hall – Take My Heart, Take My Hand
myspace.com/luminehallmusic

3. Chiptots – Galleno
myspace.com/chiptots

4. Alex Atchley – Escape Pod
aae.hotdogstorm.com

5. Tanuki Suit Riot – Mega Man Master Spark Mandrill
myspace.com/tanukisuitriot

Album Artwork by Sasha Palacio
sashapalacio.com
Sasha Palacio’s DeviantArt

About the artwork:
The woman on the cover is named Haiku, Sasha gives this story about her
“Haiku’s
Story: Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Haiku is a High School senior,
gamer, anime fan, and artist. Her Father is a wealthy art collector and
once famous Artist himself before his stroke. Her Mother is a beautiful
Poet and had named Haiku after the beautiful Japanese form of poetry.
Haiku’s name held beauty, strength, and deep meaning. Haiku does have a
deeper meaning, little does she know, she’s the reincarnation of the
famous High Priestess that guards the gates to Heaven.”

Thanks:
Thank
you to everyone who downloads this album, I hope it gets you to find
out more about these fantastic musicians and our amazing album cover
artist. Thanks to my friends who gave me feedback on the album. Thanks
to Alex Atchley for hosting the album on Hotdog Storm. And of course
thanks to everyone who contributed to this first mixtape, and look out
for volume 2 coming soon!

Coming Spring 2009 Sony Creative Software will be releasing a loop
and sample library called, “8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey”. The
library covers Apple II, Commodore 64 (6581r4 & 8580), NES,
Gameboy, and the Atari 2600. Each system library has everything from
drums, bass and synth to special effects!Both ComputeHer and I have
demos built into the collection too. The sound library works with ACID,
Ableton Live, Cubase, Garage Band, Logic, Soundtrack, and more!

Thank you again for all your support!
PS-I didnt have any say on the cover artwork    

Submitted by naughtyboy