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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 18/07/2026

Cool original music by OC ReMixers: @flexstyle.fyi 🎵 "Bittersweet Nebula" flexstyle.bandcamp.com/album/trace-...

Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 11/07/2026

I have a track on this. It was written so long ago that in the intervening time I... - graduated college - started a graduate degree - dropped out of said graduate degree - got married - bought a house - started 3 businesses - did a whole lot more stuff as well. Lil' slice o' history, this album.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 16/05/2026

*laughs wryly in emulated Pokemon Unbound*

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Mike DeBisco @mikedebisco.com · 14/11/2024

Hi, I'm Mike! I design things. Possibly too many things. Let's work together 🎨 Portfolio: www.mikedebisco.com #neoy2k #cyberpunk #vgm #gamingmusic #debiscodesign

Various Artists - VGM Essentials: House (Digital Album) (2024, Firaga Records / Novatone / Materia Music Inc.)

EAR - METAL CRISIS (Digital Album) (Self-Released, 2024)

Flexstyle - Hang on to Your Hat: SUPER REMIX 64 (Digital Album) (Firaga Records, 2024)

RoBKTA - Ridge Racer Infinity (Digital Album) (Firaga Records, 2022)

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 03/12/2025

ok who is this and who are the other five of you besides my mom? (just kidding, my mom doesn't like my music at all)

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 01/12/2025

Currently working on songs for perhaps my most truly EDM album ever....tech house, techno, hard trance, drum'n'bass, and a lot of sounds that I've never really played with musically before. It should be fun when it's all done. Yes, that's *original* songs. Not remixes. Weird, I know.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 26/10/2025

dunno about best, but my personal fav off of that album is definitely the Halo Infinite track...but, that's like choosing my favorite kind of dog. which is: possible, but difficult to do.

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 16/10/2025

if you don't know what ocremix is, put it into youtube and go listen to some of the best music you've ever heard

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 15/10/2025

2025 is the year of making music that will see the light of day in 2026, probably

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 09/09/2025

It only took half a year, but I think FL Studio 25 is finally stable on Mac OS. Better late than never. I'd kvetch more, but honestly, free updates is pretty sweet, and the old version has been working great in the interim.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 21/07/2025

Sounds like we might have an interesting conversation or two whenever we get to actually meet in person! No chance you'll be at PAX West, is there?

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 14/07/2025

pretty much anything from ZUN (composer of the Touhou series) is probably going to have some egregious modulations all over the place.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/06/2025

y'all ever wish that you could just not know some of the stuff you know so that it wasn't your responsibility anymore?

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 27/06/2025

Basically, TIL I'm never getting rid of these Neumann speakers...they just sound TOO GOOD, even in an untreated room, to forgo being able to listen on them.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 27/06/2025

So I A/B'd it a couple times and yep, the difference was STARK. I called my wife in and started her with the pair of KRKs, and she was like "this sounds good, what are you talking about?" And then I replaced a KRK with a Neumann and she was instantly like "Oh. I get it now." So yeah.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 27/06/2025

I swapped the Neumanns out for some KRK Rokit5 G4s that I use as bookshelf speakers and played some tunes. Sound "felt" off as I was listening, so I put one Neumann on a stand and had one KRK with it. I couldn't hardly believe what I heard -- the Neumann side felt like it was in 3D instead of 2D.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 27/06/2025

Story time! I was looking around my studio figuring what I really use and what I can sell. Since I moved everything into a non-sound-treated room, my final mixing gets done on some Slate VSX headphones, and my monitors (Neumann KH120 + a KRK sub) really aren't a critical piece. Or so I thought.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 13/06/2025

I have not been this excited for a movie announcement in a VERY. LONG. TIME.

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 19/05/2025

Very upsetting news: ReMixer Level 99 & Vilecat's 5-year-old Xavier has masses in his brain & spine. PLEASE support their GoFundMe at ANY amount you can. 🆘 gofundme.com/f/help-stevo... Please help a lonely fight feel less lonely. Would you mind taking one moment to please share?

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Donate to Help Xavier Bortz Through Brain Surgery & Recovery, organized by Andrew Aversa

Our dear friends and pillars of our community, Stevo Bortz and Valeri… Andrew Aversa needs your support for Help Xavier Bortz Through Brain Surgery & Recovery

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 08/05/2025

If you get hungry, you should visit my friends at Plan Bee Pizza (food truck). I might even be there slinging pies as well!

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 26/03/2025

As someone who's kinda just made their niche in VGM and never broke into mainstream EDM, what are some of those "rules" that were counterproductive? (I'm a fan of the axiom "you gotta know the rules before you break em" so...)

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 21/03/2025

dude your delivery was already great years ago but this is a new level -- this flow was FORCEFUL.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 17/03/2025

You might look at a service like EasySong or SongFile. They'll charge you a rate for X number of "download licenses" or whatever it's actually called -- basically, you guesstimate how many you think you'll sell and go from there. EasySong charges about $80 for 500 downloadable sales, for instance.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 06/02/2025

+1 for Beyerdynamic. I don't wear glasses on the regular but used to wear Gunnar Optiks all the time while on the computer, and my DT880 Pros never felt like a burden while doing so. I've got even bigger, squishier ear pads for em (vs stock) now and those are even more friendly to glasses.

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Highsight @highsight.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I didn't PLAN on posting two @flexstyle.fyi mixes in a row, but I had a hankering for this song today. Sometimes you just gotta satisfy the craving. What can I say? Ensuring a diverse roster of daily mixes can produce Hard Times.

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The Jetzons - Hard Times

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Highsight @highsight.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day 71 #ocremixdaily 🎧 SZRC Anthem (Busiest Days of My Life) 👥 @flexstyle.fyi & OverClocked University 🎮 Sonic 3 This is one of those "if you know, you know" posts. Hits good as a millennial who tried making stuff in FL Studio back in the day, inspired by others. Also The Jetzons. @ocremix.org

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OC ReMix #3038: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 'SZRC Anthem (Busiest Days of My Life)' [IceCap]|Flexstyle/OCU

YouTube video by OverClocked ReMix: Video Game Music Community

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Highsight @highsight.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Day 70 #ocremixdaily 🎧 Caravan Bowser 👥 @flexstyle.fyi & @joezieja.bsky.social 🎮 Super Mario 3D World Caravan Palace meets Mario in this collab! Man, talk about an underrated genre, electro-swing really never got that big, but it's amazing to hear it represented so perfectly here! @ocremix.org

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OC ReMix #3263: Super Mario 3D World 'Caravan Bowser' [World Bowser] by Flexstyle & XPRTNovice

YouTube video by OverClocked ReMix: Video Game Music Community

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 01/11/2024

new @ tag, this is a cool feature here bsky

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

yeah I'm a fan of my friends and their work so what

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

"huh, so that's what happens when you don't overthink it because you don't know what you're doing...."

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

always follow the rules of mixing unless your mix sounds better when you break them then break the rules of mixing

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

Finally, here are a few of my favorite tracks of his: soundcloud.com/ocremix/15-p... roborobmusic.bandcamp.com/track/who-ar... roborobmusic.bandcamp.com/track/face-m... roborobmusic.bandcamp.com/album/mega-r... flexstyle.bandcamp.com/track/dire-d... ocrecords.bandcamp.com/track/crypte...

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

Not to mention he's also a sick lo-fi producer as well with his Save Point project. I'm super psyched to see how he evolves as a producer, DJ, and label manager, and I'm only a LITTLE bit bitter about consistently losing to his teams in the Nerdcore VPCs! ;)

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

(We've had work appear on the same ticket since before that, but still). Rob is a killer, multi-genre producer, and he's been a great encouragement to me by getting me involved with @firagarecords.bsky.social. Every track he puts out is a banger, he keeps getting better, and he's a good dude.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

These are in no particular order, but someone has to go first! For my first shoutout, I want to tag the homie @roborobmusic.bsky.social -- we've been working together since Super Cartography Brothers from @ocremix.bsky.social.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 28/10/2024

I've already spent enough time on social media promoting myself. Nothing really comes of that. So, instead, I think what I'll be doing for a while is shouting out music friends I've worked with. I'll try and do this with as many friends as I can find here over some time.

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Michael "Flexstyle" Birch @flexstyle.fyi · 26/10/2024

I was over social media three networks ago, so...why is this one good? (and why should I keep using it?)

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Mike DeBisco @mikedebisco.com · 18/01/2024

New work for Flexstyle's forthcoming "Hang on to Your Hat: SUPER REMIX 64" LP Out Fri. 1/26 on Firaga Records 🎩✨ Pre-save/Pre-order: firaga.to/HangOnToYour...

Cover art for "Hang on to Your Hat: SUPER REMIX 64" by Flexstyle. Out Fri. 1/26 on all platforms!

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