Simple rolls with bricks

Formerly known as Project02, this song is one of my personal compositions.  "Frozen Lightyears" makes me think of a spacecraft traveling for hundreds of years while the crew are frozen in time.

This was created entirely on a Yamaha PSS-470, which is a kid's keyboard from the 1980's based on the YM3812 (adlib/soundblaster) chip.  There is absolutely no post-processing involved, this is what the keyboard actually sounds like (or would sound like if you had 5 of them playing at once)

Frozen Lightyears performed on PSS-470

This is my own custom version of Carol of the Bells, done with 4 vintage and toy keyboards:
Yamaha PSR-300 (1990)
Yamaha PSS-270 (1986)
Yamaha PSS-470 (1987)
Casio SA-76 (2015)

Watch the performance on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdAeiAIygNY

  Live Long, Toy Keyboards, and Merry Christmas!

Carol Of The Toy Keyboards

This is another piece of background music I wrote using my PSR-36.  Nothing fancy, but it wasn't meant to be.  I thought I would share it here.

Project07 - Incidental Music

I created this on my PSR-36 for some background music in one of my upcoming 8Bit Guy episodes.  I thought I'd share it here too. It isn't anything fancy.

Project08 - Incidental Music

I've re-created the famous Rob Hubbard tune from the game WarHawk.  This tune was far more difficult than I thought it would be and took me probably 4 times as long as I thought it would. I really wanted to concentrate on showing off the keyboard, but instead I spent much more time trying to figure out the right notes to this song. I still think I have a few notes here and there that aren't right, but I just can't figure them out.  

Warhawk Performed on Yamaha PSR-36

This is a little 4-track recording I did from a very primitive toy keyboard from the 80's, the Yamaha PSS-130.  It really only produces different square waves and has 2-note polyphony. Also I had to do a hardware modification so that I could even record from it since it had no line or headphone output.  So I drilled a hole and added an RCA output. Still, it was a fun little song to create.  

Watch the video of this song on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfE7FQaaJa4

Square Waves Delight!

This track is me playing the tune to Spelunker live on my MK-100, without any editing.  I have used the synthesizer part of the keyboard to configure it to imitate the sound of the SID chip in the C64.  So it sounds very similar to the SID version, only slightly better since it has more voices and a cleaner sound to it. 

Spelunker - Live Play on Yamaha MK-100

A collection of tracks I've made over the past two years.
I hope you like them!

Miniboss

Curse is a clunky obscure shmup, but it has its place in my heart. I really dug the music for Level 3, so I decided to redo it on its own soundchip in hopes that it'll sound better than the original.

Originally composed by "Shaka" (that's all I could find)

Curse - Level 3 (Redux in YM2612+PSG)

Cover of the track "Mission 1" from the TG-16 / PC Engine game called "City Hunter". I wanted to hear it on the Sega Genesis, here it is now.

Mission 1: Gone With the Beauty - City Hunter シティハンター [COVER]

Download the Conscious Anatomy EP here:

silentbomber.bandcamp.com/album/conscious-anatomy

Amnesia

(2012) Cannape

Randomly heard this wonderful track - "Stars" by Visti & Meyland - and it immediately reminded me of something.. took me a while to realize.. but it's Jeroen Tel's fantastic music for the C64 game "Hot Rod" - so I did a little mashup edit of the track - Note that the full "Stars" is about twice as long, and has an amazing intro, worth checking out :)

(Pic from an 80s themed dinner/disco I was at recently!)

Stars - Visti And Meyland Vs Tel edit

Collection of custom songs used in the iBookGuy and 8-bit Keys

Warhawk Performed on Yamaha PSR-36

8-bit Keys

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