I grabbed the torrent this weekend for the entire Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, the latest OCRemix community game music project. I’ve only gotten through CD2, but it is a phenomenal album so far. Far surpassing Chrono Symphonic, which I found to be fairly dull and repetitive. But this FF7 music kicks and punches, and is great background music to keep me motivated while I’m sludging through some fairly mundane tasks hopped up on Alka Seltzer cold and sinus.

I’ve really enjoyed some of the earlier albums OCRemix has put together, such as the Street Fighter II compilation, Blood on the Asphalt and the Sonic 3 and Knuckles Project Chaos. I haven’t listened to the rest, mainly because I only download the albums to games I’ve actually played or am personally familiar with. The exception is that I have to admit I haven’t downloaded the Super Metroid album yet. The reason for that is because I’ve listened to enough Super Metroid music on OCRemix, I’m not really hungry for more.

Not sure yet what the next project will be, but here’s hoping it’s something as grand as FF7. Hopefully it isn’t just FF8.