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Blackout in Protest of SOPA by Light_of_Aether

On January 18th, Metroid Reorchestrated will be shut down in protest of SOPA from 8am until 8pm. During this time, all website content will be inaccessible. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the future of the internet is at stake.

Christmas 2011 Update by Light_of_Aether

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We have several things to discuss in this update.

First and foremost is the Metroid album. It seems I bit off more than I could chew when I said that we would have it done by the end of 2011. At the time it seemed like a perfectly reasonable amount of time, but then school started and consumed most of my time. I was able to make some progress on Kraid’s Lair (and you can listen to that progress below), however.

Including Kraid’s Lair, there are four songs left to be reorchestrated: Kraid’s Lair, Mother Brain, Norfair, and Ridley. After those songs are done, we still need to make sure every song meets the same level of quality. I can tell you right now that Escape, Entrance, and Brinstar will all need to be remastered. I could give another predicted completion date, but we may not meet that one either. So I’m just going to say that it’s done when it’s done. Don’t lose hope, though. We will still be releasing the songs as they are finished. Kraid’s Lair should be finished soon.

Secondly, you may have noticed a “Stop Censorship” box covering the Metroid Reorchestrated Logo. Don’t worry, MREO hasn’t been censored by the Stop Online Piracy Act…yet. This bill is still in committee in the House of Representatives and in its current form gives corporations the power to take down any website that allegedly infringes on their copyright. For example, I could post a cover of me singing U2′s “New Year’s Day” on Youtube and then Youtube could be taken down. If you live in the States and love the internet, please send your Congressman a letter expressing your concern about this bill. For more information, please click here.

Thirdly, the Work-in-Progress Archive now has its own page! You can get to it by either going to the archive page and then clicking on the link there or you can click here.

Fourthly, we are now on Google+! There is a Google+ button to the right that will take you to our page.

Finally, here is my Christmas present to you: all the WIP of Kraid’s Lair to date. I wish I had an actual song to release today, but alas, my reorchestration PC is being repaired (needs new thermal paste on CPU and GPU) and I won’t have it back until Wednesday at the earliest.

October Update by Light_of_Aether

Hey guys and gals! We do not have a new song for you today, mainly due to college midterms. The vast river of reorchestration quickly became a small stream since the beginning of the semester. The Metroid album may still meet its predicted completion date (end of 2011), but don’t be surprised if it slips into 2012.

When I’ve had time, I’ve been working on a couple of personal projects. One of those projects is creating a realistic and believable orchestral render of a song from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. I came across the song on Zelda Reorchestrated’s forums. Here’s a link to what I have done so far: My Reorchestrations. It will be near the bottom of the page.

I’m also working on an orchestral remix of the “Calm 3″ music from Minecraft. I’m hoping to eventually submit this remix to OverClocked ReMix. Here’s the current version:

Speaking of OverClocked ReMix, I’m doing a radio show featuring music from OCReMix for my school’s radio station every Saturday from 10pm to 12am Eastern Time. To listen online, click the button in the top-right corner that says “Listen”. A .pls (playlist) file will be downloaded to your computer and can be opened with iTunes, VLC player, Winamp, foobar2000, or MediaMonkey.

I was playing around with Reaper’s (the program I use to reorchestrate) surround sound plugin a couple days ago and made a 5.1 surround sound version of my unfinished version of the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption title theme. To get the full surround sound effect, you need surround sound speakers or headphones.

 
For comparison, here is the non-5.1 version:

Cheers,
Light_of_Aether

Work-in-Progress Archive by Light_of_Aether

Hey guys! From now on, when possible, we will be releasing our works-in-progress (wip) after we release the final version of a song. The purpose of the archive is to show how our songs have evolved over the course of the reorchestration process.

To start off the archive are the wip of Item Room and Ending Redux V2. All the wip for each song are in a .zip file as well as the final version (click the links to download). We’ll set up a dedicated page for the archive as soon as we can.

Cheers,
Light_of_Aether

Upgrade – Metroid by Light_of_Aether

Here is the Upgrade theme from Metroid. Four songs to go!

Upgrade (Metroid)

Harmony of a Hunter/Crystal Flash by Light_of_Aether

Shinesparkers recently released Harmony of a Hunter, an album celebrating Metroid’s 25th anniversary. It is absolutely fantastic! If you haven’t already, go check it out now! My favorite pieces are “Path of Ruin” by Darkesword, “Lone Star” by Pyro Paper Planes, “Frozen Utopia” by Mesmonium, and “What’s Past is Prologue” by Theophany. A preview of the album is below.

Theophany, along with contributing two tracks to Harmony of a Hunter, released his own anniversary album titled Crystal Flash. This ethereal, haunting Metroid album is a tribute to Avien, an Overclocked ReMix artist who passed away in 2004.

We have a forum dedicated to MREO over at the NSider2 forums. If you have any questions or want to discuss anything MREO, you can do it there (as well as here on our comments or on our facebook page).

25th Anniversary Update by Light_of_Aether

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Metroid!  In celebration, we are releasing four songs: Environmental Tension from Metroid Fusion, Item Room/Bridge from Metroid, Tourian from Metroid, and Ending Redux Version 2 from Metroid. Enjoy!

Environmental Tension

Item Room/Bridge

Tourian

Ending Redux Version 2

We have a new staff member: Nyte Hisagi! He is joining the MREO Team as Reorchestrator and Online Activities Director.

A while ago we asked the fans which direction we should go musically. The majority of them answered: “Finish the Metroid album”.

And so we shall.

The album will most likely be completed by the end of this year. There are five songs left to be reorchestrated: Ridley, Kraid, Mother Brain, Norfair, and the Get Item theme. We will release each of these songs as soon as they are finished. Once those five are finished, we may remaster some songs so the album is as consistent as possible.

Here is one last tidbit of information regarding the Metroid album: we will be producing a high-quality physical CD of the album, most likely priced at the cost of production. More details to come.

Music Coming August 6 by Light_of_Aether

We currently have four pieces slated for a very special day (here’s a hint), but we may have more. We are also working on a frequently asked questions section so if you have any questions that you think others might have, please post them in the comments.

Commenting is now back online! by Light_of_Aether

We are using the Disqus commenting system now, so you will be able to login and comment with your Facebook, Google, Twitter, Disqus, etc. accounts. It’s about time, right?

We asked a question on our Facebook page last night and since our commenting system is working now, everyone can answer it.  Here it is:

What would you like to see us do?

• Finish the Metroid album
• Continue reorchestrating songs randomly
• Work on Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission

Please take a moment and answer this question; your feedback will determine MREO’s creative direction. If you want us to do something that is not one of the above answers, let us know in the comments. The comments button is at the bottom-left of the post.

Also, tell us what you think of our new sound libraries.

June Update by Light_of_Aether

Here is the first MREO song to use the new sample libraries:

Get Item Theme Redux from Metroid Prime.

Get Item Theme Redux

To help get you stoked for our Crateria Surface Redux, here is Floyd Race from Jet Force Gemini. If you’re interested in hearing some of my other non-Metroid reorchestrations, click here.

Floyd Race