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Mmmmmmmm Belgian Hot Chocolate

2010-07-11T00:48:00.001-07:00

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I do not like coffee cups this big cause you have to freaking grab it with two hands.

2010-07-07T10:16:00.001-07:00

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Mega Man Zero 2 - Departure (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2010-04-13T13:44:00.001-07:00

Mega Man Zero 2 - Departure (Ffmusic Dj Mix) by Ffmusic Dj
Download now or listen on posterous

Mega Man Zero 2 - Departure (FFmusic Dj Mix).mp3 (9481 KB)

This was a song I worked on in 2006. I submitted it to OC Remix and it
got lost somewhere. I found it the other day and touched it up,
re-mastered it. It's old, it was never the greatest dance song ever
made but I enjoyed making it and I hope you guys enjoy it too.

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@PowerSmoothie Here is a simple example of making a synth from Hidden palace Future

2010-01-10T17:01:00.001-08:00

Click here to download:

sonicdemo.rns (92 KB)

I made a synth that sort of resembles this

Well attached is a reason file that sort of emulates the Synth that
starts in 1:26

It's very easy to make a synth like that now. That attachment took me
literally less than 5.

The original synth is Pro-53 VST; the delay is cubase's double delay.

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Animal Crossing - DJKK (FFMusic Dj Mix)

2009-12-29T10:46:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, I'll be switching over from mp3's to sound cloud very soon, seems tons of people seem to be making a lot of money using my links on their sites w/ commercials on them. Sound Cloud to the rescue!

Today I'll be posting a song from Animal Crossing. It was made for an animal crossing project but some people never finished the song they said they would do so it never got finished.

I'm releasing it again.

You can download the original wav even! Enjoy guys :)

Video Game Remixes: Final Fantasy VII - Off The Edge of Despair (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2009-07-09T13:13:00.000-07:00

Did I tell you? Back in 1999 I made this remix of Final Fantasy VII but never released it.

Wha? Why? I actually don't remember why. It's an OLD song, 10 years old. Damn, I made this when I was 14 years old! Good god... And I am surprised it sounds as good as it does. some people might say it sounds nothing like the original, but thats what I was going for I guess.

Man I miss playing Final Fantasy VII, it's arguably the best RPG ever made, but it's by far the best game I ever played. And I miss making dance songs. This is before I went into the whole trance thing.

Anyways, enjoy it for what it is.

Video Game Remixes: Final Fantasy VII - Cosmo Cannyon (FFmusic Dj Mix) (Falling Stars)

2009-07-08T15:01:00.001-07:00

This is a way old remix I did back in the day.

Download all you want. I'm kind of sad I didn't put it up.

Video Game Remixes: Crono Trigger - Chrono Corridor (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2009-07-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

A really fun game, I made this remix back in 2002 so sorry if it not up to par with today.

This song was featured in Square Dance. They don't sell those anymore so why not share this with you all.

Final Fantasy X - Isnt it Wonderful (FFMusic Dj Mix DEMO)

2009-06-28T04:17:00.001-07:00

It's no finished. This isn't the final arrangement either. I just wanted to share a huge improvement in sound quality. What do you you guys think?

Original Music: Horizon Beyond

2009-06-22T02:24:00.000-07:00

This is a couple of years old.

I don't remember anything about it. I just remember I mastered in 2008.

All made in Reason, artwork is by Chris Foss.

Enjoy.

2012 = Apocalypse Porn

2009-06-20T11:42:00.001-07:00

How awesome is this?!?

I don't think anything is actually going to happen in 2012. It's just a film, not a prediction.

Isn't it just an assumption that the world will end? What if it's the feeling of misery that will end in the world? What if death will be a non existence entity after 2012?

I heard some 2012 specialist say that after 2012, women will be the leaders.(wtf?) OOH NO! NOT WOMEN!

Watch Anime on Youtube for free

2009-06-18T02:24:00.001-07:00

Did you hear, Funmation is kicking some serious ass by putting up anime on youtube & hulu.

I was browsing through and started freaking out when I saw Ouran High School Host Club on youtube! How freaking awesome is that?!

I had to immediaetly find my favorite episode from the series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alz00ud_q_A

I just burst into laughter when I watch this episode. This anime isn't for everyone, but lord,
there are a lot of selections on youtube and hulu.

Personally, I feel this is the most appropriate step an anime distribution company can take, put it up on a streaming site and add commercials. This way you really are doing a fantastic job beating out some of the piracy. Personally, I much rather stream the episode than download it. It eats up my HD space. And whats the point of download some of these anime episodes when you are never going to watch more than 80% of them ever again?

If quality is the problem, it shouldn't be, Hulu and youtube both have really high quality streaming. Specifically HULU for streaming a full SDTV signal. it's rare to find HD anime streams though. I personally have a computer that chokes up when I run HD on it so I don't care if the show is in SD or HD quality.
Aside from that, this is kick ass.

FAILED: D.H.T - Listen to your heart (HAP Mix)

2009-01-16T01:31:00.000-08:00

Hey guys, I think it's time I start to acknowledge that some song, I just won't ever be able to finish. I hate this. It's almost like this curse I have; I make a song, It's just great, I POST it on the internet, and suddenly, I lose interest, or something in my life happens, or I get writers block. When any of those things happen, I decide to take a break... and if I dont come back to finish the song, it was just not meant to be.

I think I should be sharing some of these unfinished songs with you guys. I'll post them... Hopefully that would give you an idea of what I had going and where I FAILED.

____________________

I am truly sorry, I tried, I really did. This song, I made about ... eeh, around 2005/2006, around the time DHT actually became popular. I was so into the song, It was easy to get into making this song. I stared on it and ... Oop ... as it turns out, 2005/2006 was one of the most difficult times of my life. I left everyone in Florida, went to LA with NO SUPPORT FROM PARENTS and ... it was just hard doing things by myself, with no support? I look back at those times now and I can not believe I made it this far.

This song was something I worked on because one of my friends from college loved the original. She actually let me stay at her place rent free in LA. The least I could have done was made her this song ahahaha.

What made this a true FAIL was, at the time, I was on the go, so everything was done on a Laptop, a laptop which later had it's audio 1/8 headphone jack broken (FYI don't buy a sony viao it's a terrible quality product). At that point the laptop became useless... and was later destroyed by my hands. Ooh yea, completely destroyed. I can not describe to you how liberating it is to destroy something that is taunting you for the longest time, as far as I'm concerned, that laptop was EVIL! ... erm ... I mean, I lost all my saves that were in that laptop. So I believe I will not be able to recreate the same song ever again.

So enjoy it for what it's worth.

(This song was made in cubase SX2, I used a Korg electribe SX to make the drum patterns in battery. Mostly everything is vengance vanguard.)

If you find all the files to this song, would you finish making this song? This was a hard trance song, I really wouldnt know where to begin if I picked it up now. The answer is no.

I update EVERY DAY!

2009-01-12T03:13:00.000-08:00

But not here, I have a twitter I use on a constant basis. It's mostly to keep in touch with friends, but I POST A LOT OF MUSIC ON TWITTER. It's mostly demos, tons of demos. Like right now, I remixed a song, the link is on my twitter

http://twitter.com/ffmusicdj

Sometimes I need help, sort of advice, I need people to maybe listen to a song and tell me what they think. If you are interested, follow me.

I do talk about a lot of personal stuff so keep that in mind.

I also have a facebook. Search for Haroon Piracha. I'm the only one living in LA.

Now this isn't to suggest that I wont post here anymore. I just make little tiny updates. Keep in touch.

Anyways, that is all.

Oceanlab - Satellite (Hap Mix)

2009-01-06T01:28:00.000-08:00

Another song I posted, i sware I remember posting!

This is one of those songs with original vocals! Used with permission! it's way different, and way original form the original? Hear more man!

This is a song I made about 2 years ago, it was actually inspired by a photo of ... well I think it was the earth, and a moon forming. I called the song "New Born Earth and Moon". Believe me, this was one heck of a picture.

Eventually, I got my hands on the Vox of Oceanlab's finest song. The vocals were clean cut and perfect. All I had to do was mix it, but to what? Aaah, this song! It somehow went perfect with my Earth song. I mixed in the vocals and before I knew it, I had a hit.

It's a great song, with great vocals; you would not be smart to miss this song!

BT - The Great Escape (HAP Mix)

2009-01-05T01:43:00.000-08:00

I sware, I posted this, This was posted! I remember doing this!

No matter. So people were asking where the great escape BT song is that I did a while ago.... It was originally a 3 minute song, A chillout version of BT's The great escape. It's now a full song, I eventually found time to make the song into a whole actual finished song. It should sound totally different from what the original sounds like. I changed the cords, wored out really well.

BT a really nice looking guy and all (seriously, they dont call him the "prince of dance music" cause of his skills :p ) but, he's WAYYYYY too obsessed with his kid. It's one thing to dedicate music to your friends or loved one, it's a completely different think to actually force people at your live preformance (who might I remind you didnt come) to view hours of video of your kid (walking, dancing, taking a poopie) at your concert. Seriously though, I come to a BT live to see BT, not BT's obsessions, and I'm never making a mistake of going to another one of his live again.

Thank you for Donating

2008-12-30T02:04:00.000-08:00

Thank you for taking the time to donate.

I LOVE YOU DUDES & DUDETTES

I really appreciate it!

I hope this helps in getting me on track.

If you would like me to remix your favorite video game tune, post your suggestions in a comment!

URU - Ages beyond Myst (FFmusic Dj mix)

2008-12-23T00:10:00.000-08:00

Weeee! A new song! Yay.

Actually, some people already have this song. Most never knew I made a Myst remix.

This was one of those impulses things. I just heard the song and I immediaetly started to compose. a week or two later, I made this.

This was all on cubase SX 1 or 2, I don't remember, whatever was out around 2004. Yea, this is an old song. I used VST's on it that I dont even remember what they were, I dont have access to them anymore. So much has changed since I last worked on this song. The original file is unretrivable. This is all I have left. Actually, I got this song from a friend who downloaded it from VGmix 2 (when the site worked). So this is the last copy I have of the song.

Enjoy.

Good lord, what a mess...

2008-12-21T23:57:00.000-08:00

I realize whats happening, you guys are coming over to my site looking for my stuff and are not having luck. and the best thing I can tell you is, I'm on it. I'll start posting songs as soon as I find songs.

These last couple of years, I have had to deal with a lot of crap, mostly just drama, tons of it. There are a lot of subjects surrounding this drama; jealousy, envy, pride. Ooh boy, and then a lot of problems are just money issues. I am deep in debt. I don't know what to do. Well, actually, I do know what to do, SELL STUFF. But, no one is buying, I tried to sell my SH201 a couple of days ago, no one bought it. Same thing with my TV.

Either way, I have a plan, I am hoping this plan falls through and I get to give you guys what you want. More good music.

Twitter Update

2008-04-23T14:47:00.000-07:00

Hey you guys, just wanted to come up and say that I have updated the front page to have twitter.

This is a very odd thing and I'm gonna see how it plays out with my site. If you wanna know what I am up to, you will through twitter.

A couple of other updates, I'm planning on making a full 50 minutes CD to be released soon. I'm gonna start working on music starting soon and out of all the songs, maybe one of them will be a remix. The rest are all gonna be original songs.

I think I'm beyond expanding, the boat to expand to Original music is about to pass me and I don't wanna miss this opportunity.

I haven't decided what theme the CD will have but I'm thinking of using similar instrument to produce my music.

I always have a music pallet that I base all my music off of. Majority of my sound FX, my snares and drum beats are old. I'm not planning to get new stuff, I'm gonna stick with the old stuff in hopes I make something rich from the pallet of sounds.

Thats it for now.

Utada Hikaru - Passion ~after the battle~ (FFmusic Dj Bootleg Mix)

2008-03-05T01:04:00.000-08:00

I worked really hard on this remix.
It's dedicated to a butt load of fans who love Hikki. I love this woman, she is absolutely wonderful.

Her music is magic and it's no surprise that when you listen to her stuff, it gives you chills. Wow, what a wonderful performance, you would say. You are not alone, I have felt it so many times when I watch this clip.
It was about time I dedicated a song to her. What better song then the song from Kingdom Hearts. Most may hate Kingdom hearts but I'm telling ya you're missing out. The song was just one of the pluses.

Anyways, It took me a couple of months to get this finished. I'm happy with it.

I hope you guys like it as much as I do.

Final Fantasy VII - Under the Ocean (PO! & FFmusic Dj Mix)

2007-10-14T22:31:00.000-07:00

This is one track I had loads of fun doing because of Me and PO. This track... It was simple, it was easy, and I enjoyed working on this piece with PO

I started with strings and the main melody, I knew that I would need beats of some sort to make this song work, so I asked PO To help me out on that. He also helped me with some of the strings and the main melody that you can hear in the song. The song had atmosphere, but he added a whole bit of flavor to the song, now it sounds more relaxing and soothing. All sound effects were done by me; and one more thing �.

If you listen closely to the waves, you can hear a weapon, I mean, you can hear the FFVII hmm... Its Emerald weapon form Final Fantasy 7! :p

Thanks PO! for your help.

Harmonic Sky

2007-10-14T22:26:00.000-07:00

A chillout song...

It started with just a melody you hear in the beginning, and before you know it, I added strings, a very beautiful harp, and some nice relaxing beats that would make anyone wanna go to sleep. It's one of my first "chillout" songs that really feels like "chillout".

Now I really miss making music.

FFmusic DJ - Bisfark

2007-10-14T22:12:00.000-07:00

This was one of those songs I made for fun.

Back in 2005. 2005 right? Ooh god, I don't remember.

But hey, the vocals I hear are from song I have never heard of, any idea where the vocals are from? I just used then from sample library.

I miss making original music, after listening to this song. Shut up! I know, I'll make more.

Final Fantasy VII - Main Theme (FFmusic Dj)

2007-10-14T21:45:00.001-07:00

Finally, who can forget the best of the best games EVEA! Another one of my favorite games, favorite songs. Final Fantasy VII, if you haven't played the game, you either truthfully believe that FFVI is better or you lived in a cave. Play this game if you get a chance. In the mean time, while you play the game, you'll come across the Main Theme of the game.

Someone had to make a trance remix out of it. I know there has been a BUtT load of remixes in the past for this song but, it's the main theme man, come on. GET WITH IT!

This took me months to complete. Months. I actually made it a straight up, trance. But it was just so boring. I ended up making a chilled out version of the song. And it worked, I don't know how... but it just sounded sweet.

Take a listen yourself.

Einhander - Dawn (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2007-10-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

This is one of my FAVORITE songs I had to ever make (other than any FFVII stuff). I love Einhander, It's possibly one of the best shooters I have ever played in my life. And by shooters, I mean shoot em up (not halo, or first person, it's old skool man).

After I finished the song, I had a interesting person listen to it, it was the composer of the Einhander soundtrack! True story.

A copy of this song was sent to Kenichiro Fukui, I believe, and from what I hear, he loved it. The people at Cocoe biz were nice enough to send him a copy and even send me a reply back from him.

Man, that was some sort of satisfaction for me. This mix just sounded awesome, it felt bigger and beeeeefy.

Mind you, it's a progressive trance man, PROGRESSIVE TRANCE, thats why it's long dude, (get with the times yo!) and enjoy.

Star Ocean 2 - Rena's Theme (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2007-10-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

Another song from 2004.

Have you played Star Ocean 2? Amazing game. One of my favorites. I never finished it. (what? it was too long!) But I did play long enough to finish the first disk. So I had a chance to listen to a lot of Star Ocean. I played through the first disk twice, making differnet choices the second time around. Loved it.

One of the main characters was Rena and she deserved to have her theme remixes. And then I said...

"Hello 'Rena's theme', let me introduce you to trance..."
And out popped my remix of the song. :)

Xenogears - Dream Egg (FFmusic Dj Mix)

2007-10-14T20:59:00.000-07:00

As much as most of you would like to think that I did NOTHING in 2004. I did do stuff, I just didn't release to it for download.

Xenogears. I made two versions of this song, one was a dance mix I believe. This one is a straight up trance song.

Enough of me talking. just download the song, and be sure to comment up!

Delerium - Silence (Mix 2)

2007-10-14T20:47:00.000-07:00

I don't know whats wrong with me, why don't I just make one song, and be done with it? I cant! It's like, against the rules. I am bipolar like CRAZY! WOOOO!

So, I am sure I didn't release this song. Tis a Delerium song. remixes sooo many times. even I mixed it once, but I remixed it again.

I didn't like how the first Delerium mix was done, I don't think I made that clear, not that I had the first mix but, I made sure this sounded way different form the first mix I did. It has new drums, new bass line. It's not so hard-trance, as it is, just, trance.

Enjoy it for what it's worth.

Download (right click to save)

Recovery

2007-10-14T20:18:00.000-07:00

I dont know why I like this song so much, I just do. It's different, I want to finish this, I mean, not finish it but make it longer, a club mix or something. Something spin able. Recovery was misspelled when I saved it as a track I am not spelling what I spelled. Then again, it was never about the name. I just had fun making this song. I haven't had fun like that in years. And to make things better, it was a original song. I really fell back in 2005-2006 time period, so I felt that this was a pick up.

I give to you, Recovery. released my, not me, but Reunion. Thanks for hosting Reunion.

Download (right click to save)

Runny Mornings

2007-10-14T19:52:00.000-07:00

This is a song made in 2003. Long time ago, when I was 18.

I loved hard trance, so this was one of those hard trance songs I made.

I know, very, generic. But man I like listening to it from time to time. I don't remember why SGX was involved in this but man, if you listen to the song, SGX's name comes up a lot.

Download (right click to save)

Final Fantasy VI + Luckey Star = ZOMG?...

2007-10-09T09:34:00.000-07:00

OOh man ... talk about freaking crazy. This is why I didn't wanna get into the anime lucky Star. This is by far one of the craziest things I have ever seen.

Basically, they took the intro to Lucky Star and gave it a Final Fantasy VI approach.

I dont know where they got the vocals from but damn, it's a good remix of both Final Fantasy and Lucky Star.

PSP Slim doesn't work on Standard TV

2007-10-06T23:46:00.000-07:00

Why isn't this on every blog? Posted in bold letters?

If I knew, I wouldn't have spent so much money buying a new PSP.

First thing I did after I bought the PSP was, I bought a Component AV cable for the PSP-2000

My Tv has those component plugs so I thought my TV could do progressive scan.

Anyways, I come home, rip apart my PSP slim, it's everything people were saying it was, it's slim, it's smaller, it's soooooooooooo light. Amazing.

I put in a UMD movie and start watching and I start giggling. Ooh man am I gonna have fun with this. I connect it to my Tv and start watching the movie. it looks great BTW for a UMD quality movie.

Screw UMD's I wanted to play games and I put in Parappa the Rapper ...

*sighs*
I get this sign....

What is this???!

Ok, so I have to have the TV in progressive? Well I have Component Av cables, no problem ...

I switch to Progressive, and this is what happens....
*sighs*

What the HELL!?!?!?

I had to switch back immediately and I tried countless other games thinking maybe one of them will not output progressive but interlaced. Nope.

I don't know what to say. TURNS OUT, You can not play games on your TV UNLESS you have an HD tv with Progressive scan, Otherwise, you can use it to watch movies or listen to music on your TV. Why would anyone buy a PSP just to watch movies and listen to music on their TV? Maybe one can put demos of their work on the PSP and show it proudly on a TV to clients when going to game conventions, but that not why Sony made this output feature.

I much rather be playing some of these games on a TV instead of the PSP screen. but it has to be a HD TV that supports progressive scan? isn't that pushing it a little? How many people actually have TV's like this? Wrong question, how many people can actually buy a TV like this? If you do have HD-TV, seriously, congratulations, thats awesome, you dont have to worry about this.

But not every PSP fan is gonna have a freaking HD TV with Progressive scan.

I don't know what to do now ... I feel a little cheated. None of the gaming blogs I know of mentioned anything about the PSP slim not supporting standard TV's or I wouldn't have actually purchased a PSP slim until I had a TV to connect it to.

Shame!

In the mean time,

know of a way I can connect this PSP to my computer screen? What connectors would I need? I have a DVI computer screen, thats all I know about my computer screen. Any suggestions?

Please tell me this is some sort of a joke and that I can use a d-terminal AV cable to output in progressive scan ....

Heavenly Stars - EP

2007-10-02T05:32:00.000-07:00

Yup, I got the whole album right here for you.

Genki Rockets did a good job at making the original.

And honestly? I think some of the songs are alright; but not as good as the original.
I'm actually really surprised. Listen to the songs yourself! I'll be reviewing these songs tonight.

Also if you are interested in listening to this album while browsing the internet, firefox user can do so. Click on the link below, it will ask you to bookmark, bookmark away, and open the bookmark and firefox will automatically open the side bar with the songs from Heavenly Stars - EP loaded in it.
Listen to Heavenly Stars - EP on your Firefox sidebar

My Lumines 2 Remix

2007-10-01T09:01:00.000-07:00

It's not done yet, I don't have any solid DAW to work on so I'm kind of stranded.

My software on Mac crashes so I can't use it. But it was originally made on my Mac using Pro tools and Reason.

I wanna switch to Cubase and Reason, but I still have a problem of arranging the piece. Making music has become harder and harder. It has, as I make more high quality music, my standard is lifting. Plus there is a lot of competition out there now.

I usually rise to challenges such as other competitors but with the lack of a DAW, I dont know what to do. It's like that inspiration juice has run dry and my motivation has be drained by software that crashes and hardware that can't handle more than 1 or 2 instruments running at one time.

I think I'm in need of a stand alone DAW, Hardware and software that don't work on a PC or a Mac.

That or I have to wait to buy a new PC

Otherwise, this Lumines 2 mix would be done!

Download

Listen in on it. It's nowhere near finished but man does it sound sweeeeet.

Modified the site

2007-09-27T23:47:00.000-07:00

Major changes, here and there, have been added. Can't move around "my ass", I just couldn't sit here and wait for this little bitch ( my web designer) to show up. The bitch bailed on me. That son of a .... stole my money! She did a half-assed job. I had to fix practically everything that mattered, like navigation?

Ugh, I even told her I'd pay her if she would fix the small things, but no, she just didn't respond to any of my messages. The bitch bailed. D:

Here are the major changes to the site.

Posts are now linked; who would think that this is such an important thing? fuck I got soo annoyed I couldn't click on my own posts. How can you possibly link my posts to others sites? You cant if I don't provide you with the link! So now every post should have a link.

Home button at the end of the page. I don't know why this was important but you much rather have a home button than a "scroll back up manually you whore" button.

Lables lables lables! I love mis spelling!! I added labels to the main page. Their are not that many labels posted as of yet but, just hang in there, I'll be adding more and more random lables :p.

Navigation bar!!! WOOT! Now you can stop bitching about where the music is, gosh! I'll be adding more random stuff there.

"DOWNLOAD IS RIGHT HERE!!!" It's linked to my FF7 remix. I figured I start adding some sort of symbol to help you all track down downloads. This seriously better being an end to "where is all the music" whine.

Comments are now hard coded to the posts and they do not use a third party software. I'm happy about this one. I don't know what the hell she (my web designer) was thinking but she should have been slapped for adding that crappy commenting system. I don't care how messy it looks now, to have posts display like they do right now, I like Blogger posts more than the crap we had going with commercials and ad's. I like having more control.

Thats about it.

What I'm still working on is trying to find a way to go back to older posts. Blogger doesn't seem to have some sort of way but I'm sure there is a way. I just gotta research it more. It seems that I need to update to the new blogger but I cant. This web designer that got me stuck on classic blogger really punched me in the fact before she ran away. Almost all of the features I added today are all available on the new blogger. If she (my web designer) had just used the new blogger ... well I wouldn't be posting about this. I would be posting new music, but nooooo. My time is being eaten up by this. This site must be fixed. If you know of anyone, anyone who may know anything about html or bloggers, please ask them to assist me.

Also, if your site is related to music and you want me to add you to my "awesome sites" list, just post here. I'll link you up depending on if I like you or not :p I want that list to be growing too if you know what I mean.

Final Fantasy 7 - Ahead on our Rave

2007-09-26T23:48:00.001-07:00

So you thought I didn't make anything new huh? Well, You're wrong. Dead wrong. I did make new stuff man, I made a new final fantasy remix in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII.

http://ff7.ocremix.org/

If you haven't heard of it, go there now, a lot of my good friends remixed songs from the game. I remixed Ahead on our way for the project.

For the first time, I made a happy hardcore song. full 180 bpm.

Download (right click to save)

Ooh I should make a stepmania edit for you guys. Gotta put that on my 'to do' list man, cant miss stepmania for the world.

Lumines Remixes

2007-09-26T00:42:00.000-07:00

You have seen the music video right?

OK, Wonderful EEH?

No? Come on! Some of my friends at work are hesitant about this game but I say it's killer! I give you 3 valid reasons.

First off, building off from the first game it gets rid of elements from the first game and improves up on everything form the controls, the look to just the feel of moving blocks in Lumines. It's like they re-did everything.

Second off, Lumines 2 had tons of new feature (if you wanna call them that); I mean, choosing a difficulty wasn't an option in the first game. Then there is the music editor. Ooh man, now there is some fun fun stuff. I remixed soo many final fantasy songs in that editor. It's just so easy to use. I wish I could use my own samples XD then I'd be set.

Third? The video above? Yea, as gay as you think that was, thats not gay, so shut up before I punch you. If it was a guy skating with a shower of sprinkles of coming out of the back of the roller skates, then yea, that is wildly gay. But this was a good song, catchy melody, and look! It got remixed!

Heavenly Stars (Count Down Remix)(right click to download)

Thats not all it has, It has a lot more music videos, spanning from the bad artists like Gwen Stefani (cause shes b-a-n-a-n-a-s ) to good artists like The Chemical Brothers So I'm totally in love with this game. I recommend anyone who is a puzzle manic, music enthusiast, to play this game. Much better than Puzzle Quest.

Make sure you play the tutorials. If you pick up the first copy of Lumines, make sure you watch the demo video that plays on the start menu, this will give you an idea on how to play the damn game. I know on the first game you didn't have much of a hint on how to build blocks and how to play the game correctly. People went in not knowing what to expect. At least Lumines 2 has a really detailed tutorial, shows you all sorts of little neat tricks on how to build blocks and how music is implemented into the game.

Amazing game once youy get down to it. A giant kiss to Tetsuya Mizuguchi (I don't care if he's a man)for creating this great game. What are you waiting for??? GO out and play the game NOW!

Who knows, maybe I got exclusive vocal tracks for Heavenly Stars and might be in the mits of mixing it .... You think I'm kidding? Huh, just watch!

New Instruments, New Music

2007-08-25T07:43:00.000-07:00

I know what you are thinking, This guy hasn't made anything in a while. well I have a perfectly good explanation for this.

First off, my main program, cubase, was not available to me a couple of months ago. I just had the LE version and that wasn't functioning too well on ...
Second, My mac. Yes, I was punished for having a mac instead of a PC. I should be. Anyone who thinks Macs are a more stable machine than PC to make Music on should be burned.
Third, My favorite VST, Vanguard, was limiting. I could, at best, only run, ONE VST at a time. ONE! THATS IT! WHAT THE HELL!??

I'm going back to hardware. At least I know I have 16 dedicated channels.

I bought me this

JP-8080

and a PC, so I'm a make me some music :p

a HUGE update!

2007-08-17T01:27:00.000-07:00

Well... the site looks different huh? :) hahaha

How do you guys like it? better huh? I hope so, cause this is what you'll be looking at for a long time :p until I get bored at it.

First off I would like to say that I have been successfully working as a sound designer at High Impact games.

They made Ratchet and Clank for the PSP. It's so amazing. I'm working with the best bunch of people. Out of all the places I worked at. THQ, Vivendi Games, EA, Activision, this is the best place to be for me. You know why?

It's simple.

I work for a Sony First Party Developer. I couldn't ask for a better job. Seriously. I couldn't ask for a better job.

I'm a sound designer for a Sony First Party ... hahaha it has such a ring to it XD.

I cant say what I'm working on. I can't say when I'll be able to tell you guys what I'm working on but I'll be able to tell you soon, like in two weeks.

Till then, I have music to make. Seriously. I'm behind.

Currently I got something going for a OCR project. I'll be linking that stuff. Over Clocked remixes .... hmmm... I missed them. I'll be going back.

I'll also be releasing some originals. Now that I have a sound design job, I can finally focus on these little things :) ain't live swell?! gee golly!:) ... I'll be quiet now :)

One last thing I forgot to tell you.

Thank you for everything, thank you for staying by my site and supporting me in tough times. I owe some of you one.

Nice....

2007-08-16T21:53:00.001-07:00

THANK YOU EJAY!

These are some pictures ...

2007-08-02T11:32:00.000-07:00

These are some pictures I'm gonna base my new template on! Watch out!

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The new place where I work

2007-05-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

It wont last much long. I like it though, the place where I work is amazing

Neversoft

They are currently making Guitar hero 3 and though I dont play the game often, I am loving it. I wish I could say more about the game but unfortunetly I am still under contract and signed a NDA which forbids me talk about the goodies we have here at Neversoft.

Maybe they will release some info on Guitar Hero 3? I don't know but lets hope so ... so I can breath easy. I hate keeping secrets and friends who know me best know this well. But this is for my company, my job XD that I'm so happy over. The last thing I would do is release info on the game my company is working on.

For me, my dream of working as a sound designer is so come true, I can't be happier. Like I said, it's only short lived, I will be out of a job soon cause this is only an internship. But every day I have been giving my 100% and people who I work with noticed or once again have thought that I am just sucking up and have a brown nose, they dont matter.

I am happy. I feel joyful. So joyful, it can be seen in my work, I am happy! I am happy!

Sorry SORRY!

2007-05-17T11:25:00.000-07:00

So I went ahead and I'm gonna start adding new features to the site. I'm gonna try to strip the whole site and make something cool, new fresh, poppin... I'm kidding :p But I will try to make something better than what you see.

I worked on new songs, yea, but I lost instrest before I could call it a song. I'll be honest, with the lack of time, I'm trying to come up with new stuff. In other news, I got a new job, I dont work with the evil corp EA anymore so WOOT. I work with activision as a SOUND DESIGNER! XD

I got my dream job, it's only temp but guess what I'm working on? XD Aaargh, Ok, so the company I specifically work for is Neversoft. The games neversoft makes is Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero 3.... and let me tell ya, everyone is in the Guitar Hero vibe. This game is gonna rock. As for me, I'm happy dude. Maybe this will inspire me to make music? :) Lets hope so.

Ooh and if you just noticed, I got a nice little flash player, this is what I'm listening to at work so enjoy it all you can :)

You know how it is you guys ...

2007-01-22T07:36:00.000-08:00

I still feel the need to apologise ... sorry.

I have not updated in a while, sorry.

Um ... just busy I guess, bored and thinking ... All not goo reasons to post something, at least something...

Look LOOK!

ffmusicdj.com

Just a test site for now but thinking of making the switch sometime next month.
I'm having little issues here and there managing the site so wish me luck... I might just keep this site, who knows.

Anyways. Just wanted to let everyone know I'm alive and well.

New Debate....

2007-01-04T02:58:00.000-08:00

Well I was gonna updated everything all over again .. but then I saw this website...

It gives me more options ....

http://www.squarespace.com/

Or, if you guys totally rock, maybe someone can recommend to me a server that I can use word press on.

Or should I keep using blogger?

Is this ok?

Joe Cam - Cant Let Go (Hap Mix)

2007-01-04T01:37:00.000-08:00

Vocals are from Joe Cam, Everything else, is by me. Thanks you Joe for the vocals. This was one of the most complicates songs I had worked on, Bcause the vocals had pops and clicks that I had to get rid of.

This song is very generic. Very fun to listen to.
I definetly want you all to listen to this song.

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Happy New Year!

2007-01-02T06:37:00.000-08:00

I hope you all are having a good new year. I got two ffx mixes for you coming up soon and a couple of other great stuff.

Look forward to it :)

Ocean labs - Satellite (Hap Electro Mix)

2006-12-27T00:06:00.000-08:00

This is a very cool song you guys, before the new years comes, I wanna share this song with you.

I used one sine wave to make the whole song . here is a picture of what a sine wave looks like ...

See? it's just one block of wave.

This was actually a competition at school. I won :p

Everyone made a techno song because, well what else can you make with one sine wave? Techno, trance, all of the above.

I knew people would be making this crap all over the place and I needed something different.

Heheh This is where I recycled the Ocean labs Satellites vocals again and Woo! I got myself a hit. But it's how I arranged the song that totally hit the spot.

Get this, hip hop R&B whatever you wanna call it, I changed the key, then started to make instruments that are more natural. Though I fell far from the goal of making more natural tone samples. I made a hihat, snare, clap, and a nice drum sound. All made form my old drum machine (I miss my drum machine). Anyways after an enormous use of modulation, bit crushers, etc etc ... I never finished the song, it was suppose to be a small demo, not a full song.

So anyways, no one in class has ever heard or thought of making something out of the sine wave! I don't know what to say, I'm happy, I accomplished something no other human in that class had. It's a 10 year old class with a new class coming in every month ... thats a lot of people, no one thought of this idea?

Well, anyways, enough of me rambling, just enjoy the song for what it's worth.

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Oops...

2006-12-25T22:26:00.001-08:00

*sighs*

Is my luck that bad?

Everything is gone :( GONE! Aargh! I wont give up! I'm gonna re-post everything I had!

This stinks.

Contact Me

2006-06-20T17:40:00.000-07:00

If you would like to contact me here are some options:

Utada Hikaru - Passion - After the Battle - Live (KH2)

2006-05-10T19:15:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm allowing you to download the original song from my site, can't take this site down.

Enjoy the song.

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Delerium - Silence (Hap Mix)

2006-01-19T15:10:00.000-08:00

One of those very old songs I worked on.

I don't even remember when I worked on this song honestly, this song has been erased form my mind. Just download it!

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Final Fantasy 6 - Relm (Hap Mix)

2006-01-18T14:35:00.000-08:00

One of the most complicates songs I have ever made in my life!

This song was originally, a piece of crap, I spent like a couple of days working on it and it was a smooth techno remix. The main melody was terrible, I mean ... wow, I remember I let people hear the demo of it and people were like " wtf?" Eventually I started to realize that the chords I used in this song don’t really go with the main melody of Relm.

One day I bought a drum machine, a sampler and all that changed. Suddenly, my song was slower, with a lot more groove. The drum samples were amazing. And the bass was a lot more vibrant, the bass moved up and down a lot. Suddenly, the song started to work with the chords I gave to it. But the final decent into completion, the main melody was changed into a melody that transformed itself from a pad to a 16 bar metronome. Easy release rate really made this main melody shine.

To top it off, I added a piano, adds a real nice touch if you ask me.

To top it off, I added samples from the drum machine, rhythmic vocal samples to really give it another twist. And something no one may know, the fx on the vocals can not be done on a computer, they were made live on the drum machine. The vocals are form the vocal version of Relm! Try to listen to the song and see if you can hear the vocals!

Enjoy you guys.

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Final Fantasy 6 - Celces Dance(Hap Mix)

2006-01-17T19:40:00.000-08:00

Do some people still remember this? This is like an old ass mix I made like waaaaay back when. Fresh and sexy looking, right form the mastering stage!
I just went ahead and re-mastered it. It sounds warmer now.

Everything else is eq'ed correctly. Nothing more I could do, this is like the ONLY copy I have of it so there was like this noise in the background, eeh, I couldn't fix it, it's there but I guess it's just staying.

Anyways, Wow, this is a really groovin song. I really like this, I really do.

And I really worked hard on this song and I hope you can hear it.

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Breath of Fire - Sad Melody (Hap Mix)

2006-01-16T22:15:00.000-08:00

Aah, oldies, made 3 years back at least; this was a very old song I made using all reason. The concepts were simple, and yet strong, make a trance song using nothing but the main melody.

I started with the piano melody in the beginning, and started a real nice and cool hard drum base. After a while, I thought the main melody was weak, so I decided to change the piano into synth. But then they sounds horrible with the piano melody, so I got lazy and made a pattern on the matrix as a controller to control the volume of the synth and that�s what gave the feel of the synth in patterns being playing on a keyboard but really it's the original piano melody that I recorded playing all along. You�ll get a little shot of the synth playing without the controller in the end of the song.

After I was finished with the song, I decided that enough was enough, and I was finished with the song, but that I still need something keep this song in tact with a classic origin. This is where I decided to bring back the piano and play the melody I played before. So now you have the main melody on the piano, and a synth, and it sounded really good.

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Xenogears - Dream Egg (Dance Mix)

2006-01-16T18:33:00.000-08:00

Isn't that great? One of my favorite game in the world, well, one of them! Anyways, you guys remember this mix? It's another Old Classic, Dream Egg (Dance Mix) Man I love Florida Dance. That stuff totally roxors! I was working on the Project Majestic Mix Album, and I decided that I should make a dance mix with the great trance melody I made for this song. I was listening to a lot of Florida Dance mixes, man, Florida Dance mixes totally rock. If you ever get a chance, go to Miami, the club scene there is hot.

Anyways, This song is one of my favorite. I like how the soundtrack of Xenogears is smooth and very flowing and sensual, kind of like some dance/trance tracks that are out there.

A lot of people told me that the tune brings back old classical NES memories for some reason. If you like it, thanks, if you don’t, I hope my next song will be something you might look forward to.

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