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- link: artist/52648
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- link: artist/14778
  names:
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- link: artist/59702
  names:
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- link: artist/1216
  names:
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- link: artist/11724
  names:
    en: Nabeel Ansari
- link: artist/5480
  names:
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- link: artist/14846
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categories:
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category: Game
classification: Arrangement, Original Work
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  names:
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- link: artist/2743
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- link: artist/4796
  names:
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    ja: 喜多條敦志
- link: artist/1978
  names:
    en: Akitaka Tohyama
    ja: 遠山明孝
- link: artist/16451
  names:
    en: Richie Branson
- link: artist/16448
  names:
    en: Harrison Pretat
- link: artist/693
  names:
    en: Kenji Yamamoto
    ja: 山本健誌
- link: artist/2800
  names:
    en: Ryuichi Nitta
    ja: 新田竜一
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    en: Benjamin Briggs
- link: artist/394
  names:
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    ja: 辻横由佳
- link: artist/18027
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- link: artist/1566
  names:
    en: Daisuke Ishiwatari
    ja: 石渡太輔
- link: artist/893
  names:
    en: Hideyuki Fukasawa
    ja: 深澤秀行
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  name: Disc 1
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: CEO Champion (Main Theme of CEO 2015)
    track_length: '3:16'
  - names:
      English: The Last Kill (Killer Instinct)
    track_length: '4:10'
  - names:
      English: Kuro Yuki (Persona 4 Arena)
    track_length: '4:28'
  - names:
      English: Prodigious Blitz (Tekken Tag Tournament 2)
    track_length: '3:41'
  - names:
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    track_length: '2:35'
  - names:
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    track_length: '4:26'
  - names:
      English: '#unanimous #undisputed (Super Smash Bros. for Wii U)'
    track_length: '5:39'
  - names:
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    track_length: '4:38'
  - names:
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  - names:
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- link: artist/16461
  names:
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- link: artist/16451
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  edited_date: 2022-09-15T05:33
  fetched_date: 2026-01-11T15:26
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name: 'CEO 2015: Champion'
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notes: 'Artists:

  O_Super, Mag.Lo (1)

  Jeff Matthews (2)

  DarkeSword (3, 10, 12)

  DjjD (4)

  Richie Branson (5, 11)

  Flexstyle (6)

  zykO (7)

  Benjamin Briggs (8)

  Neblix (9)

  Nutritious (13)

  Ivan Hakštok, Sixto Sounds (14)

  CEO 2015: Champion

  Comments from album executive producer Alex Jebailey (CEOJebailey), director Shariq
  Ansari (DarkeSword), and ReMixers

  Album freely available at http://ceo.ocremix.org

  I''m extremely excited to have collaborated with OC ReMix on an album to represent
  one of my favorite genres: fighting games. Having local Florida artists and OC ReMix
  veterans create an album to represent this year''s CEO is an awesome treat for attendees
  and fans.

  - Alex Jebailey (CEOJebailey)

  I''m very excited and pleased to present CEO 2015: Champion, the latest in our series
  of fighting game community-focused albums. The FGC is one of the most passionate
  gaming communities out there; probably as passionate as OC ReMix is about video
  game music. I love getting involved with these big events year after year, gathering
  talented artists and giving the talented players a soundtrack to fight to. CEO 2015
  promises to be one of the biggest and best of those events yet, and I think that
  Champion is going to capture the drive and determination that everyone competing
  is going to bring to the table. I hope everyone out there enjoys it!

  - Shariq Ansari (DarkeSword)

  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  01. O_Super x Mag.Lo - Main Theme of CEO 2015 "CEO Champion"

  O_Super: Thank you to everyone for listening and keeping the fighting spirit of
  CEO alive!!

  This song is a culmination of many exciting experiences that were developed over
  the years of being apart of the FGC. And especially to the competitors, this song
  is for you!

  Mag.Lo: Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati Ducksauce
  Illuminati Ducksauce Illuminati

  Instagram: Mag.Lo

  02. Jeff Matthews - Killer Instinct "The Last Kill"

  Sources: "The Instinct" (Title), "Controlling Transmission" (Glacius), "K.I. Feeling"
  (Orchid), "Tooth & Claw" (Sabrewulf), "Trailblazer" (Cinder)

  Original Composers: Robin Beanland, Graeme Norgate

  Jeff Matthews: For this mix, I blended several songs from the original game. The
  intro is a 50/50 mix of Glacius''s theme and the chords from the opening title screen.
  The bassline that comes in after the breakbeat is Orchid''s music and the synths
  panned hard left n'' right are the title screen''s melody. This is followed by Sabrewulf''s
  theme, then Cinder''s. Blending all of this together wasn''t actually all that difficult,
  as most of the themes were in minor keys already; the only significant change was
  playing Cinder''s theme as 4/4 instead of 6/8.

  The orchestration is meant to be a representation of each character. Sabrewulf is
  a count = strings, Cinder = fiery-sounding synths, Orchid is a spy = 007-ish bass
  synth, etc. The overall mood I was aiming for was simply to accompany any epic fight
  sequence. The fight on top of the truck in Matrix Reloaded comes to mind. Another
  way of looking at it is each character theme is like each fighter showing up to
  the tournament in a montage (ex. Anchorman fight scene with all the different news
  teams) and then they all battle each other at the 3:21 mark.

  This is the first remix I ever made with a hard deadline. While it brought on limitations,
  a lot of them were actually helpful. Less time to make decisions = focusing on the
  big picture. I was less concerned with LFOs and reverb pre-delays and instead tried
  to focus on creating energy, dynamics, etc., all that stuff you need for a good
  fight.

  Thanks for the opportunity.

  03. DarkeSword - Persona 4 Arena "Kuro Yuki"

  Source: ''''Princess Amagi-ya"

  Original Composer: Atsushi Kitajoh

  DarkeSword: Yukiko is my favorite character in Persona 4 and my main in Persona
  4 Arena. I really love her theme in P4A and figured, "Why not remix it?" I used
  some koto for that Japanese feel and then basically just did a straightforward dance
  remix. Old-school DarkeSword fans, however, will recognize the vamp that plays at
  the end during the fadeout. ;)

  04. DjjD - Tekken Tag Tournament 2 "Prodigious Blitz"

  Source: "Tekken Tag Tournament Piano Intro -Massive Mix-"

  Original Composer: Akitaka Tohyama

  DjjD: 80+ hrs, 3 days without sleep, a mess of stems, and 2 pots of coffee = this
  remix. I do believe up until this point I''d never worked on anything as much as
  I did this. Cinematic drums, melodic strings, a plethora of electronic synths...
  there is a ton in this mix. The hardest part was getting it all to fit, for which
  I still don''t know if it does. Cheers.

  05. Richie Branson - Tekken Theme of CEO 2015 "Iron Fist"

  Richie Branson: I''m undefeated on the Tekken Tag Tournament machine at the movie
  theater down the street. I was that cheap opponent that would spam kick with Eddy
  Gordo, lol.

  06. Flexstyle - Divekick "It''s Okay, I Still Made Money"

  Source: "JEO"

  Original Composer: Harrison Pretat

  DarkeSword: If we''re doing a Divekick remix for CEO, it''s gotta be a remix of
  the theme of Jefailey, the character inspired by CEO''s real-life organizer, Alex
  Jebailey. Mike brings his classic club sound to the theme, with a bouncey four-on-the-floor
  track. Chorused piano is a great touch that keep things from getting too in-your-face,
  but there''s still plenty of wubby sounds go around. Excellent.

  Flexstyle: Fans of the source game will recognize the title of this song as the
  signature line of the character Jefailey, the parody parallel to CEO owner Alex
  Jebailey. Also, the source tune in question was, of course, the JEO stage in Divekick.
  Such a tie-in was too much to pass up. Past that, the song is a fairly standard
  dancefloor-fillin'', head-noddin'', foot-tappin'' sort of dance tune -- get down
  and get funky, y''all!

  07. zykO - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U "#unanimous #undisputed"

  Sources: ''''Minor Circuit" (from Punch-Out!!), "Tower of Lahja ~ Heart of the Fortress"
  (Ninja Gaiden II)

  Original Composers: Kenji Yamamoto, Ryuichi Nitta

  zykO: I knew fairly immediately what I wanted to do when I was first approached
  with the project. I had always been a fan of the original Mike Tyson''s Punch-Out!!
  theme and long desired to experiment with it; the modern SSBB and Punch-Out!! Wii
  mixes of it were surprisingly good as they were both surprisingly similar to what
  I had envisioned for a Punch-Out!! mix if I ever were to make one.

  My memories of the original game are exclusively from the late 80s/early 90s and
  I wanted to convey that in the track. The first inclination was to go full-on upright,
  straightforward guitars/bass/drums hard rock, but that soon changed as I was becoming
  more and more enticed by taking a more Vince DiCola synth rock Rocky approach. That
  vision transformed yet again around the time I started recording, when I particularly
  noted Journey''s "Separate Ways" ("love will find you") out at pizza one evening
  and set out to indirectly pay tribute to both. As a result, the track''s identity
  shifted again as I softened it up a bit with a more heavy-handed melodic emphasis
  and prog rock approach.

  Admittedly, I unabashedly went full-original in the second half of the track, slightly
  shifting tempo and rolling with it (though adhering, at points, to the original
  chord progression). I naturally did not stop myself from the inertia of where the
  composition was headed since it still felt like a rollicking good 80s boxer flick
  theme.

  The track is performed live in its entirety and recorded in my studio in West Sacramento.

  08. Benjamin Briggs - Super Smash Bros. Theme of CEO 2015 "FALCON PUNCH"

  09. Neblix - Super Smash Bros. Melee "Together, We Fly"

  Source: "Fire Emblem" (from Fire Emblem)

  Original Composer: Yuka Tsujiyoko

  Neblix: This one was a doozie! I was asked by Shariq to do a mix for CEO 2015, the
  fighting game tournament in June, down in Florida. My track record with Apex has
  been pretty great so far, so I stepped into the ring, because fighting games have
  fun music.

  I went Smash Bros. Melee because I was getting a little exhausted from three consecutive
  Street Fighter IV remixes. I chose the Fire Emblem track "Together, We Ride!", the
  one everyone loves. It''s so full of energy and the minor-key, energy-pumping, high-tempo
  melodic goodness that we''ve come to love about older game music. Whenever I played
  Melee, I tried to get this song to play in the Hyrule stage. It was my favorite
  track of the game, and it conjured such furious excitement when unlocking the Fire
  Emblem characters.

  I went with a high-tempo hard rock approach with some elements of ska and slid into
  more acoustic rock blended with orchestra. The vision was to preserve the feelings
  from the source tune, which was initially high-energy fighting followed by a triumphant
  march of sorts, then back into the fray. Big shoutout to OA and zircon for helping
  examine my production! Everything in the mix is 100% artificial, and I take pride
  in my growing ability to use virtual instruments effectively.

  I took my time with this mix, on and off, for about two weeks. It''s a song people
  really love, done in a style I think people will appreciate as enhancing the original,
  so I really wanted to get it as tight as possible. Between the time of finishing
  it and doing this write-up, I can already spot production flaws here and there,
  but that''s fine. I''ll just come smashing with better mixes later on. :)

  10. DarkeSword - Mortal Kombat "Fatalistic"

  Source: "Techno Syndrome"

  Original Composer: Oliver Adams

  DarkeSword: I wrote this mix in like an hour! Due to a mixup, this was a last minute
  addition to the album. This was a totally different way of writing a remix for me.
  I ended up digging into a lot of my loop libraries to put this together, doing a
  combination of loops for textures and some from-scratch sequencing. Turned out pretty
  good, I think!

  11. Richie Branson - Mortal Kombat Theme of CEO 2015 "Finish Him"

  Richie Branson: At 7 years old, I performed my first-ever fatality as Scorpion.

  12. DarkeSword - Guilty Gear X "U JELLY?!"

  Source: "Blue Water Blue Sky <May''s Theme>"

  Original Composer: Daisuke Ishiwatari

  DarkeSword: May''s theme is really upbeat and saccharine, so I decided to just amp
  that up with a really sugary track. Not much to say here; aside from swapping the
  verse and chorus melodies, I took a pretty straightforward approach to this. Oh
  yeah, the title is a reference to May being part of the Jellyfish Pirates. :)

  13. Nutritious - Ultra Street Fighter IV "Dash Cancel"

  Source: "Theme of Decapre"

  Original Composer: Hideyuki Fukasawa

  DarkeSword: This remix of Decapre''s theme is probably one of Justin''s best pieces
  yet. High-energy with great, crunchy guitars (what up, Shreddage?), and a big aggressive
  synth sound. Really captures the soundscape of the Street Fighter IV soundtrack
  too! You could drop this right into the game and no one would be the wiser. Fantastic
  work!

  Nutritious: Ever since first seeing DarkeSword''s recruitment posts for the Apex
  album projects, I''d wanted to join up and do a mix. Unfortunately, real life tended
  to get in the way of that each time. However, when he posted to recruit for a similar
  album for the CEO tournament, I decided not to let this chance slip by as well.

  As most producers/remixers can attest to, when beginning a new track, the end result
  very rarely ends up sounding like what you''d originally envisioned. I''ve been
  listening to a new artist named Fox Stevenson, and was attempting to emulate a style
  similar to one of his mixes called "Throwdown" (Rob Gasser remix, actually). The
  idea was for a half-time, heavy electronic take on the Decapre theme from USF4.
  Unfortunately (or fortunately?), I wasn''t quite able to get it sounding how I wanted
  it to. Eventually, it evolved into a sort-of rock D''n''B track, with the same heavy
  low-end presence I was trying for in the first place. I really wanted something
  high energy for the album and I feel I accomplished it here. In my opinion, I feel
  that it is one of my best tracks to date.

  14. Ivan Hakštok, Sixto Sounds - Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 "What''s Your Poison?"

  Source: "Character Select Screen for UMVC3"

  Original Composer: Hideyuki Fukasawa

  Ivan Hakštok: I signed up for the album after more than half of it was claimed.
  I listened to the remaining soundtracks and found UMVC3 to have a few songs that
  fit my style. I originally wanted to claim Vergil''s theme, but since that one''s
  originally from Devil May Cry 3, I didn''t know if it would be a good choice for
  this album, so I went with the "Character Select" theme. Along the way, I picked
  up Sixto to do the lead guitars on the remix. I finished the arrangement in a day
  and then waited a month for him to record his stuff, but I think it was worth waiting.
  :)'
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