Episode 72 - Final Interpretation II

Since 1999, OverClocked ReMix (https://ocremix.org/) has been a part of the video game music community. It began as a showcase of game music from fans, and it’s grown into a library with years of history and game remixes. The community began releasing themed albums full of songs in 2003, and several of those albums have covered various Final Fantasy games. This is the second of two episodes featuring those albums, and this one focuses on the OCRemix albums for the PlayStation era Final Fantasy games.

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.

All the various musicians, remixers, and arrangers on these OCRemix albums. Links to their websites are below.

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You can hear my latest appearance on CRT Soundsystem at  https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/2854437/, where I talk all about the soundtracks for the Street Fighter Alpha games with hosts Tom and Reese for a few hours.

If you liked these remixes, and want more awesome songs like these, here are links for the projects and artists featured on this episode. Some artists appear more than once; for those artists, only the first entry includes their links. All songs were originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

OverClocked Remix (https://ocremix.org/) - All songs featured today are pulled from this website and this community. OCRemix is also home to dozens of other VGM arrangement albums and thousands of tracks.

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream credits:

The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/1/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream

The show opened with “Serenity”, from VGM arrangement legend Mustin. His website is https://mustinenterprises.com/, and he’s got so many links that each one gets a sub-point.