NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

So I think with this song FF6 is officially my most remixed game. The title is “Phantom Snake” because I arranged the song in the style of a James Bond or Metal Gear Solid secret agent man sneaking espionage type dealie. Solid Snake is the main character from many of the MGS games.

NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

I’m a closet Pokemon fan. I own a Game Boy Color, and all I have for it is Pokemon games. Seriously. I got all 151 Pokemon on my Red cartridge…and then the save file mysteriously got erased. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…

NOTES: So SnappleMan challenged me in DoD for June 2010, right? Well, I needed an epic, extraordinarily ambitious arrangement to ensure a victory. I’ve been wanting to arrange Dancing Mad for quite a long time, because pretty much all of the arrangements I’ve heard don’t deviate away from the source enough. Not that it’s a bad thing, but I always felt that there was so much that could be done with the church organ solo sections.

The other thing is that I’ve always wanted to do a One-Winged Angel arrangement. I did one a while back and I posted it here, but time has passed and I realized it blows and really had nothing special about it (straight Advent Children version cover? C’MAAAWWWNNN!!!!). The other problem was that by itself, I had NO original ideas on how to arrange the song. Between the Advent Children and OCR’s Voices of the Lifestream “Black-Winged Metamorphosis” versions, I couldn’t do anything with it. But as I was arranging this I had the idea to slip some One-Winged Angel sections in here, and it worked great! If I remember right, One-Winged Angel was actually a leftover from FF6 anyway. The styles meshed very well, so that’s great. I’m a little disappointed that I couldn’t slip in more of One-Winged Angel into the remix, but that’s alright. Anything that’s missing is in the first parts of the song, and Dancing Mad has a ridiculously epic opening statement as it is. Plus, the cheesy anvil’d, bass drop’d half time breakdown is just too sweet as the first OWA statement.

Also in the song are several references to certain prog bands that you may or may know. If you know who they are, then that’s an easter egg you can laugh at and enjoy. If you don’t recognize them all, then stop being a damn noob and get edumacated on your prog rock!

By the way, this song does have lyrics, and I know they’re hardly decipherable. The way Symphonic Choirs was made makes it very difficult to cut through the thick horrible mass of noise in this song.

SnappleMan, Going Down (x2)

Don’t let your pubic fat
Get in the way

You’re fucked (x4)

SnappleMan is fat and greek
He masturbates with feta cheese
He thinks he can win DoD
But he will never beat me

He’s crazy
Fat and lazy
Pussied out
Last time around

SnappleMan, Going Down (x2)

He does not know what he got into
Thinking his only threat was that Jew
I think that the time has come to pass
To open up this can of whoop-ass
He thinks he can win this fight using wank
Unaware how much he’s gonna get spanked

You’re fucked, you are fucked (x3)
You’re fucked, fucked fucked fucked fucked!

SnappleMan is fat and greek, masturbates with feta cheese (x8)
(He is crazy, fat and lazy) (x4)

NOTES: Yes, this is a straight cover of SnappleMan’s “Dead Batteries” remix from the OCR Project Chaos album. Early in June 2010, SnappleMan challenged me to a DoD duel. Since he backed out the previous February (SnappleMann/Paragon is an Asshole (part 1)) he decided he had unfinished business to attend.

Well, so did I.

That’s how Prancing Dad and this song came about. This song however, is the result of me killing time a couple days before the deadline. I made this straight cover to add to the mockery, hence the name. Plus, I’ve been wanting to do live bass on that song for a while now, but I figured why not do it myself?

NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

TONY IS DOING HIP HOP!? WHAT IS HAPPENING!? DID SOMEONE DIVIDE BY ZERO!? Well, it’s kinda hip hop. Hip hop was the original intention, but since it was instrumental it turned out being more funk than anything, but Will Smith could totally rap over this song if he wanted to….*cough* *cough*…uh…yeah…

NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

Do you like T-Square? I know I do. This song totally SCREAMED T-Square when I first heard it, so I did the arrangement in T-Square fashion. Not proud of the fake sax or lead guitars, I’ll fix them later.

NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

One of my best attempts at a Punchfest song. I did this because the source has the absolute phattest bassline ever written. This Punchfest track also inspired me to do a full Toejam & Earl album which will (hopefully) be released next MAGfest. This track isn’t the original Punchfest version, I’ve worked on it a lot and the last thing left is redoing the guitars. For the original Punchfest version go HERE. The intro clip is of supremely funky bass player Sekou Bunch going nuts over his new bass.

From the arrangement album CONTRA 4: ROCKED ‘N’ LOADED. SERIOUSLY, IF YOU HAVEN’T BOUGHT THIS YET THEN THERE’S SOMETHING SEVERELY WRONG WITH YOU!

NOTES: After 2 freakin’ bullshit-filled, bad luck-ridden years, Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded has been released! From 11 of the most metal people in the remixing community, we have delivered only the most manly metal album ever created. With music from BrainCells, Chris Dlugosz, Christian Pacaud, Danimal Cannon, Marc-Andre Gingras, norg, Norrin_Radd, Prince of Darkness, Snappleman, Travis Moberg and the game’s very own composer, virt, the album has 13 tracks of face-melting, testicular-fortitude improving crotch rock.

…and here’s a track! My arrangement of the Base level in pure metal form. We’ve also released norg’s track “Balls of Steel” at the album’s main website. So GO HERE to check it out AND BUY IF YOU HAVEN’T YOU JERK.

From the OCR project DKC2: SERIOUS MONKEY BUSINESS.

NOTES: OverClocked Remix released it’s 17th album a couple weeks ago. DKC2: Serious Monkey Business has been in the works for about 2.5 years and is the best OCR album since Project Chaos. Many people think it’s the best one yet. I’m happy to be just a small part of it.

My song, “This Chase is Haunted” (play of words off of the video game band “This Place is Haunted”) is a relatively simpler arrangement style as compared to my other arrangements. I actually seemed to have a little bit more difficulty arranging the source because it was pretty much the same motif over and over, so I had to add a lot of original stuff (and a Lamb of God reference) to push the song just barely past the 3 minute mark. It’s short and sweet I suppose, and we can’t have 7+ minute epics all the time!

As a funny sidenote, ever since I got on DKC2, projected deadlines and release dates have always been within a week or two of Contra 4: Rocked ‘n’ Loaded’s dates and deadlines. So SnappleMan and I kept trying to plan around this, but it always came back to bite us.

Song formerly known as “SnappleMann is an Asshole (part 1)”

NOTES: So uh…this song…yeah…Let me give you a little backstory.

Early February I decided I wanted to participate in the Dwelling of Duels of that month, the theme was Sports Games. I talked to Snappleman about it, and we decided to collaborate. We brainstormed several ideas but never settled on anything. Finally, Snappleman gets the idea that he and I should have an epic DoD battle, where he would cover the NBA on NBC theme, and I would do the NFL on Fox theme. Both are in video games. So we start trash-talking and I get pumped up. Snappleman sends me a link to the NHL on ESPN theme, which is likewise as epic and he tells me that he was going to add it to his song. Not about to let him one-up me, I added the MLB on Fox theme. The battle was ON!

…but Snappleman flaked out a day later and told me he wouldn’t do his song. I kept on trucking, because I was hoping that he would make the song 3 days before deadline (which he always does, mind you), but if he didn’t then I still had a cool song to enter. But time apparently was not on my side in February, and I found myself scrambling hardcore to finish up the track, and I was in Super-Punchfest mode the day of deadline to get tangible material in to compete. The shred section was meant to fill length and really didn’t add much musical content.

But, apparently I had another dilemma. Those sports themes were not created for video games, and there’s been a constant debate and grey area over at DoD about such songs. Not to mention, there was no section created on the DoD page to address music of this manner, but I was way too far in, I submitted, and prayed that Paragon would understand, and I threatened to kick his ass if he disqualified me.

So he did.

This is why Paragon is now the asshole. Without negotiation, my track was demoted to Alternate and taken out of competition. It was originally named “SnappleMann is an Asshole (part 1)” obviously because of aforementioned reasons, but also because this track is more of a beta track and I will develop it into the original vision I had for it. It’s not NEARLY the song I want it to be. Plus, it’s a parody of a couple of Snappleman’s song names: “Manning Up (part 1)” and “Where No Mann Has Gone Before (part 1)”

So just be wary. You might think this arrangement rocks, you might think it sucks, but do know there’s a LOT more to come and I guarantee it will give you chest hair and increase your testicular fortitude when you hear the final version.