Profpatsch

After reading through all these articles, forum posts and particularly your critique on AndrewClocksinPK’s newest song, I’m not too sure anymore if I’d make the list as far as my background in production goes, since I haven’t yet done anything I found worth releasing to the broader public. Nonetheless, I think I possess the ability to judge the objective quality of a piece, though, and, maybe even more valuable, I don’t have a “favourite” genre and pretty much listen to anything that is well done and differs from the rest (you know, that little thing that makes a track special, that thing that makes you go: “Wow”, e.g. a sudden unexpected harmony, a darn good synthie, an unconventional instrument, basically anything that shows the talent and creativity of the producer/writer/artist). One can make oneself a picture of it quite clearly when looking at my last.fm favourites which (mostly) consist only of top-notch tracks (though I sometimes trade in production value if the rest fits, see “Foozogz—Love Bloom” for example, which has terrible muddy mixing even at the second try, or pretty much all of Awkward Marina’s stuff, in which the lyrics partly even clip but has lots and lots of charm otherwise). http://www.last.fm/user/Profpatsch/library/loved?sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&page=1 I guess I simply have to write up some critiques and let you decide afterwards. If production background and released tracks are absolutely mandatory, I’m pretty sure I’ll have something to show sometime soon (as in: a few months). If that still wouldn’t suffice I’d be happy to help in any way possible to make this a (working!) reality soon (as in 2–3 months).

Ohhh dear, here we go again. First off: You noticed the problem with today’s brony music sites. You already got some tracks on OCRemix. You have the resources. I’m absolutely sure that number exists in the fandom. Maybe not as good as on OCR, but good enough to raise the current content by several dozen levels. Yep, a lot of Tomb’s or MandoPony’s stuff wouldn’t pass for sure if we started the project, but that’s kind of the goal: Get away from the current situation preferring known artist and showcase real talent. (Not that these guys don’t have talent, quite the opposite, but some of their stuff simply isn’t up to par.) That’s not a problem. If there is something we definitely aren’t short of in a community consisting mostly of male nerds ( ), it is web hosting. Let me tell you a little story of a guy who would never have considered having the “resources” but simply started and watched what happened: Roughly ten months ago he read a very good fanfic and asked himself why there was no real book of it considering the all around quality of the work. So he set up a pledge saying: “I am going to buy a print of the book if one hundred people do the same to reduce printing costs”. Today he’s backed by a three-man team of highly motivated bronies, a twenty-ish team of proof-readers, three artists and the author that together have produced a fully professional layouted hardcover of said story, set up a homepage and a publishing group and are nearing printing and shipping with the last illustrations floating in. And yes, I am that guy and I still have no idea how all of this happened. Ah, and the project is here in case you are curious: http://www.equestriapublications.org But what I got out of this: If you want things to be done, start yourself. People will jump on the train once it starts moving (maybe grab one or two people to help pushing ). Don’t feel too intimidated about your goals, if you set them reasonably they will most likely be exceeded many times (don’t forget to adjust them when they are reached). For this particular example don’t set them to be “a brony OCRemix” or you will fail. But rather something the likes of “Get a jury of three to five judges and one or two technicians together and start collecting the best originals and remixes of the last two years.” sounds more reasonable and doable. Core team. Without it, the project is most likely to fail. Three to five people, less is not a team, more is democracy and democracy is bad for productivity (yes it is). Regular meetings. Even if not much happens over the week, you can be sure that on meeting day stuff will be done. Not the best way to handle it, but people are doing it for free so you can’t expect them put your project above their personal lifes. I’ve got a lot more but I want this list to be meaningful. I’d be more than happy to help. Edit: Nothing? Come on, you can do it. I actually like the idea very much and when listening to music the last days always thought: Would I include it into the list? Is it objectively good/well done? It’s a lot of fun.

You are absolutely right. But you know what the great thing about this community is? If you don’t like something, you can start and improve it by yourself and if it’s good enough, there WILL be people jumping on the train before you can even blink (most of the times even if it’s not that good, see post above ). That’s why aside from EQD, today there is Derpyhoovesnews, too, and even some other sites. You are right, EQD maybe is too big to be changed drastically (basically it’s still a three-or-four-man-project with lots of people hanging around and by that quite unflexible) but it’s not the lynch pin of the fandom anymore. I’d go as far and say that if Sethisto and his team disappeared today the fandom would still flourish all the same. If you want to start something the likes of OCRemix, hit me up, I’d love to help (I even think I have what it takes to be in the jury, but that’s for others to decide).