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So, as many people are already aware, some people of questionable integrity have leaked the OST for Tron Legacy onto the internet. Even if you have not downloaded or listened to this music, you can get a good dose from things like the trailers, their website, and eventually the movie. The movie will hit theatres on December 17th. Everyone who has listened to the sound track knows it's filled with delicious low-fi and low-bit sounds.

However, as everyone knows, movie scores are always made up to appeal as widely as possible. Daft Punk has done a good job of making a movie score with low-fi sounds, but it sounds like a typically epic movie score. IE, said delicious electronic noises are not used nearly enough, giving way to Zimmer-esque orchestral stuff all the time. Also, movie scores are always made up of pieces far too short to be used for real listening, as they are meant to go with action. That said, we need some length to these remixes as well.

I therefore propose a compo. Make Tron Legacy chiptune remixes, or new songs made in that style as a tribute. You must only submit new or unreleased works, and they must be in either a module format or a high-bitrate MP3, at least 320 kbps. You must also agree to release your works under a creative commons licence. Also, I and possibly some others will be curating the tracks if we get alot of them, so tracks which do not fit our admittedly arbitrary quality ideals may be excluded.

Of course, usual chiptune compo rules will apply. Please make this chiptune in sound. You may use any real chiptune hardware, in any combination. You may also "fakebit." Sorry, but just using a Casio or LGPT and calling it chiptune will not suffice this time around. You must have a chip sound, and not merely use chip hardware/software. This is where the arbitrary curating will come in. It's OK, you know what to do.

I propose as an initial due date January 17th at midnight, one month from the release of the movie, which should give everyone ample time to get working even if they don't hear the soundtrack before the movie comes out. I will update this front post with an email address to which you can submit your songs sometime soon.

Lastly, in the way of disclaimer, keep in mind that this compo is for having fun and is entirely a fan tribute and is not affiliated or endorsed by Disney or anything of that sort. And all the stuff that's copyrighted or owned by Disney and/or Daft Punk belongs to them and CM.O is not affiliated in case Disney decides to get their undies in a bundle over some free publicity and a fun time. Since this is a fan tribute it should fall under fair use laws, I'm not responsible if you break those laws by, for example, stealing samples from the OST etc.

So, who's interested in participating? I'll also need an artist who'd like to help make art. Also I need ideas for names for this compo, just in case some lawyers get pissed and won't let us put the Tron Legacy name on it.

EDIT: woop! Movie comes out Friday! Also I got an email for y'all to send songs/gfx to: arf.at.svj (att) gmail.com