September’s Most Upvoted Covers

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Here are the top 5 most upvoted on our VGCover /Reddit during September 2017.

  • 1st) Dr. Pez – VGM with Tempo of Time: An Ocarina of Time Medley from TLoZ: Ocarina of Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2nd) Orchestral Fantasy with Gnat Attack from Mario Paint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 3rd) Team Friesen FTW with One Winged Angel Piano Collection from Final Fantasy VII

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 4th) Mklachu with Let the Battles Begin! Otamatone Cover from Final Fantasy VII

 

 

 

 

  • 5th) Toxodentrail, Sega Scourge, TeraCMusic, insaneintherainmusic, and AHmusic with Sonic Boom Animate Cover from Sonic CD

 

Crash Bandicoot – The N.Sane Jam [EP]

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I have the pleasure to introduce you to our 3rd EP (mini-album): The N.Sane Jam!
This EP is a tribute to the musics from the original trilogy of the Crash Bandicoot games and also Crash Team Racing.

All of those games’ OST were composed by Josh Mancell who also composed the PS2 classic games: Jack & Daxter =)

You can download our album for free by clicking on this picture =>

The N. Sane Jam [Cointzz]
Or directly with this link: http://bit.ly/2jl77pC

This EP feature 11 tracks, 1 from CB1, 4 from CB2, 4 from CB3 and 2 from CTR.
The Album is almost 40 minutes and has a nice variety of music styles going from EDM to metal including surf rock or ethnic music.

The Crash Bandicoot Series is maybe the number one platformer series from the Playstation 1 era. The 1st game was released in 1996 by Naughty Dog.
The original trilogy was recently put on the spotlights thanks to the PS4 remake of the games called “The N. Sane Trilogy”.

The artwork was made by Cointzz

Full Album:

 

If you want to follow our future projects or even join them as a musician here are some nice places for you:
– Pixel Mixers Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/VGCovers/
– Pixel Mixers Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PixelMixers/
– Pixel Mixers Twitter https://twitter.com/Pixel_Mixers
– Pixel Mixers Discord https://discord.gg/2YmK66G

Finally here is a poll to pick your 2 or 3 favourite tracks form this EP 😀
http://www.strawpoll.me/13901990
Hope you’ll like our work on Final Fantasy II OST!

August’s Most Upvoted Covers

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Here are the top 5 most upvoted on our VGCover /Reddit during August 2017.

  • 1st) Toxodentrail with Song of Healing & Lost Woods from TLoZ: Majora’s Mask

 

  • 2nd) Eric L. with Corridors of Time from Chrono Trigger

 

  • 3rd) Mklachu with Western Land from Mario Party 2

 

  • 4th) PeyCa (ft. Ian Martyn, Kirian & Psamathes) with Moonstruck Blossom from Kirby Triple Delux

 

  • 5th) VGMusic Explorers with Cornelia Castle from Final Fantasy I

Pixel Mixers August Cover Contest Results

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A small but high in quality contest for sure!
We got some new people like Medllix or JohnStacy who both delivered great music!

The theme of this contest was “Ending and Credit Theme“.
For once the audio and video ranking results are significantly different.

With the current top 3 of both audio and video championship not participating, it allows some of the underdogs to catch up and get closer to the final podium!

September theme is “Mini-Games“, you can participate here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VGCovers/comments/6xcwck/event_september_2017_pixel_mixers_vgm_cover/?st=j71srzg2&sh=d0bf4719

And now the results to August!

  • AUDIO 1st place : Team Frisen
  • AUDIO 2nd place : Medllix
  • AUDIO 3rd place : Orchestral Fantasy
  • VIDEO 1st place : JohnStacy
  • VIDEO 2nd place : Tyler Jenkins
  • VIDEO 3rd place : Styrofoam Shotgun

Pixel Mixers 2017 Cover Championship: http://bit.ly/2017PixelMixersChampionship
Thanks a lot and congratulations to all the participants, and see you next month!

METROID – HUNTRESS [ALBUM]

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Hey good people, i have the pleasure to present you the result of the hard work weput in the Metroid Album! Once again i’m thanking you guys for participating to those projects :smile: I really hope you’ll enjoy this album, i can’t wait to know what you think about it ^^
Feel free to share this album anywhere you can as much as you can!

Huntress focuses exclusively on the classic Metroid titles, giving us the possibility to make a Metroid Prime album in the future.

You can download our album for free by clicking on this picture =>

Huntress

Or directly with this link: http://bit.ly/2w1RjOf

Full Album:

 

We do not own any of those songs, they were composed by:
– Hirokazu Tanaka (Metroid)
– Ryoji Yoshitomi (Metroid II)
– Kenji Yamamoto (super Metroid)
– Minako Hamano (Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion)
– Akira Fujiwara (Metroid Fusion)

This album has 30 songs from the classic 2D Metroid games and is 1h35 long.
This is clearly our darkest album with a lot of great atmospheric tracks with a lot of electro and rock/metal songs to fit the oppressing feeling of the Metroid OST.

And here is the poll to know what your favourite tracks are 😀

http://www.strawpoll.me/13695181

July’s Most Upvoted Covers

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Here are the top 5 most upvoted on our VGCover /Reddit during July 2017.

1st: mklachu’s Otamatone and Mr Knocky Cover of Gobi’s Valley from Banjo-Kazooie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbEpOxA9VAM

2nd: Ro Panuganti’s Metal cover of Metroid Prime’s Main Theme

3rd: Psamathes and Kain White’s Acoustic/Vocal cover of Nightingale’s Eyes from Dragon Age: Inquisition

4th: Hashel and Mark Autumn’s 70’s style cover of Auron’s Theme from Final Fantasy X

5th: subversiveasset’s Sax Story Cover of Death from FEZ

 

BACKUP – A TRIBUTE TO MS-DOS [ALBUM]

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BACKUP is a tribute album to various MS-DOS games and it was co-produced by Masha Lepire, Hashel, Pixel Mixers and Thennecan.

It features 14 tracks with a total length of 45:35, 17 musicians and arrangements from games like Doom, Ultima IV, Skyroads, Colonel’s Bequest, etc.

You can download our album for free by clicking on this picture =>

Album Art

Or directly with this link: http://bit.ly/2uBQ8CZ

Album art by: https://www.facebook.com/ChyingArt/

Full Album:

 

This album suffered quite a number of transformations since its conception, but we’re proud of the result and we thank deeply everyone involved:

And also the project management team:

Finally, remember to check the Pixel Mixers social media for updates and amazing music:

– Pixel Mixers Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/VGCovers/
– Pixel Mixers Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PixelMixers/
– Pixel Mixers Twitter https://twitter.com/Pixel_Mixers
– Pixel Mixers Discord https://discord.gg/2YmK66G

Final Fantasy II – The Roses of Rebellion [EP]

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It’s time to release our 2nd Mini-Album, this one is called “The Roses of Rebellion“.
It is a tribute album to the Final Fantasy II musics, composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

With 12 tracks by 15 musicians, the album is 36 minutes long and features various music styles such as rock, metal, folk, acoustic, classical or even spaghetti western!

You can download our album for free by clicking on this picture =>

The Roses of Rebellion

Or directly with this link: http://bit.ly/2rV7yGq

Final Fantasy II may be one of the least loved of the series, both about it’s gameplay or music, it still have some wonderful pieces of music such as the Main Theme, the town Theme or the really famous Chocobo Theme !
We tried to give justice to those melodies that we all really love.

Full Album here:

 

The artwork was made by Petru: http://upetru.tumblr.com/

The Pixel Mixers community plan on making at least one album or mini album for each main FF game (from 1 to 15), if you want to follow those projects or even join them as a musician are are some nice places for you:
– Pixel Mixers Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/VGCovers/
– Pixel Mixers Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PixelMixers/
– Pixel Mixers Twitter https://twitter.com/Pixel_Mixers
– Pixel Mixers Discord https://discord.gg/2YmK66G

Finally here is a poll to pick your 2 or 3 favourite tracks form this EP 😀
http://www.strawpoll.me/13241103
Hope you’ll like our work on Final Fantasy II OST!

May’s Most Upvoted Covers

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Here are the top 5 most upvoted on our VGCover /Reddit during May 2017.

  • 1st: VictorTheGuitarNerd’s Metal Cover of Tal Tal Heights from Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
    This track also features on our Zelda Album: Hylian Downfall

  • 2nd: Psycosulu’s Electronic Cover of Turned into a Rabbit from Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and also features on Hylian Downfall 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8P2gA31mBA

  • 3rd: Lord Bif Music’s Folk Cover of Empress of Fire from Dragon Age Inquisition

  • 4th: Kain White’s Acoustic cover of Lost Woods from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

  • 5th: Hashel’s Acoustic/Rock Cover of Turks Theme from Final Fantasy VII 

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lzz4kduTOw