And you're surprised some people have made joking comments
Um, I don't know which comments YOU read, but I didn't read many jokes. I read insults. I'm not sure how "you are a tool" or "egocentric drivel" or "get over yourself" can be construed as jokes.
Some of them may have overreacted slightly and came off as too rude, but I think they were just poking fun at how your post came off sounding, which was kind of arrogant to be honest even if it wasn't your intention. As far as the "you are a tool" comment, I'm not sure how that post couldn't have come off as a joke. I really didn't see it as them trying to be mean as much as make fun of how you came off sounding. But then so much is lost in translation over the internet. I just know that if I said that in person in response to your posts I would mean for it to come off as being pretty tongue in cheek.

You can't please everyone with your music, so as long as you're proud of it that is the only thing that matters.
On that we can agree. That's WHY I didn't provide links (well, amongst other reasons) . . . because I'm NOT here to get people's opinions. Had I provided links it would have been pages of "yay, good job!" and "new age is lameorama" and such. I'm not interested in that. I wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process of releasing.

My apologies to everyone if it came off as bragging or as if I wanted a thread all about me and people congratulating me for releasing stuff or whatever . . . nothing could be farther from the truth. I just wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process and emotion of releasing music.
I fully understand your intention with the thread, but why can't we have both? You've had other people ask for the music and congratulate you on releasing something, while partaking in the topic at hand so I don't see where the problem is. Especially when you consider that some people aren't musicians but may come into the thread being interested in hearing not only what you released but what other members have out there. I fail to see why you think you can't share your music and have the discussion you want, or why you are so surprised that people could be interested in hearing your EP as soon as you mention you released one.

Nobody thought you were bragging or wanted a thread just to congratulate you (or if they did they certainly know that's not the case now). People just want to genuinely check out your stuff and support you, which is precisely the opposite of wanting to make fun of your music.


Anyway, as for the topic you wanted to discuss, I was only ever involved in a small way with the creation and release of an album at OCReMix. It wasn't officially released as an OCR project (since it wasn't) but remixer bLiNd was quite ill at the time (about a year and a half ago) and the idea was started to make an album of remixes based on Super Metroid, his favourite game, as sort of a get well present. Despite having about a month before submissions had to be in, I had about a week before I left town for a month long course so I busted my ass to hammer out my first remix I'd ever done in a much smaller amount of time than I usually take for a song. I tend to write bits at a time and tweek and agonize and revise over a few weeks at least, so I won't say it's my best work ever, but I think it was pretty good for being done so fast, while learning to use a new DAW and working outside of my comfort zone. I'll always be proud to be a part of that album just because of the intention behind it and because bLiNd is a cool guy and a great artist.

The album name was Reserve Tank: VARIAtions for those who haven't seen it and you can download it here if you're so inclined, and I recommend it since there are a lot of great songs on it (far better than my contribution): Reserve Tank - VARIAtions

Aside from that I haven't released anything. I have some stuff sitting finished and that I'm working on that will be part of various game soundtracks, but they are far from release yet.