Less Than Three (<3)

Another piece I did to try and get back into working. It's been harder than I thought. Enjoy another Hardspeed-ized redo of an older song for now! 
Artwork of the in-canon band Vicious Fishes is by Dusky!

VF_Rolling Battle

Just one of those songs that came out of nowhere. I felt I hadn't made anything worthwhile in a long time and just started on the initial arpeggio groove, added some Yamaha TX816 bells and leads, and the rest just fell into place like pearls on a string.

I asked my friends Håvard and Terje if they wanted to add some proper guitars instead of the MIDI guitars I laid down initially, and this is the result.  Pull down the roof on your convertible and start cruisin'! ;)

VIDEO: 

Composed, arranged, mixed and mastered by: Anders Enger Jensen
Rhythm guitars: Håvard Caspersen
Guitar solo: Terje Tylden.

Open Roads

Open Roads [feat. Håvard Caspersen & Terje Tylden]

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Voyage to Everywhere

A Pixelated Sleigh Ride

Happy go lucky song that started off as something completely different a long time ago. Can't remember what the idea was, but about nine iterations later, and several months waiting for some real brass parts that never showed up, I figured I'd finish it before the year was up.

Lot's of KORG M3R, M1Rex, Wavestation and Roland/Yamaha synths making up the intro as well as the go-to bass, keys and synth plucks I usually pick. Replaced much of the guitars with parts from Håvard Caspersen. Strummed steel string, muted electric and a searing guitar solo in the middle. I also got Tylden to do a solo at the end, as usual – because, why not? ;)

2024 has been pretty rough for most people, but I guess we survived since we're still here. Hoping 2025 doesn't bring us closer to the abyss... I'm looking at you America and Russia! :P

I guess it's nothing more to say than:
Happy New Year! Let's go!

Let's Go!

Let's Go (No Leads & Brass)

Let's Go!  (No Leads and Brass)

I found an old sketch I made several years ago, and thought this needed some further polishing. A very happy chord progression with a four on the floor stomping beat, that grew into a solid song. As usual I have some nice accoustic strumming guitars and a searing guitar solo from Håvard, but this time can proudly present some real brass from Bullseye Horns. Børge-Are did a quick arrangement of the original synth brass section and went to work with Mats and Kristoffer.

The Way You Make Me Feel (No Leads)

After a lengthy process of finding the right vibe, I finally found the vibe needed to beef up this gem of a song from Alex Ball. I started on it last year, but inspiration had left me and my daytime job took most of my time and energy.

I took Alex' original stems he sent me and worked around his Juno 106S arpeggio intro and set off from there. The vocals were grouped in two main and chorus mixes so I had little to go on, but chopped up here and there to make a longer intro with some effects. I also doubled them and fattened it all up so it pops a little bit more on the choruses. 

I kept a little of his original guitars, but added more synth and some samples I had lying around that fit the song (yes, I'm only faking it in the video... I can't play guitar to save my life, really! :P). The rest is pretty much some of my goto synths and drumkits to really get the groove kicking. Even added a modulation, which barely made it because Digital Performer and Izotope RX had some trouble pitch shifting the vocals well enough without artefacts and Alex sounding like a smurf!

Hopefully I made it slap some more. Enjoy rewinding your clocks to something inspired by 1988...ish!

Afterglow Remix

Afterglow Remix [Alex Ball]

Afterglow Remix [Feat. Alex Ball]

Ladies and gentlemen, may we present the official Generation 500 soundtrack! It's an Amiga module called "Generation" - and it´s made by none other than pROPER dISCO featuring dLx, Firefox & Danko!

It won the Amiga tracker music compo at Datastorm 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The original module can be downloaded here:
http://media.generation500.com/2017/generation-compoed.mod

Feel free to share! 

The book, Generation 500 (in Swedish only), can be preordered here: http://generation500.com

P.S. There is more to come later this spring... Keep your eyes and ears open.

Oh btw...

The filesize of the module is exactly 198700 bytes.
Amiga 500 was released 1987. :)

This is a song that can be played on a standard unexpanded Amiga 500. The soundchip of the Amiga is called Paula and has stayed pretty much the same since the first Amiga prototype, called "Lorraine", back in 1984.

Here you can see the video capture made by Johan 'sLASH' Elm of the demogroup iNSANE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTq4yx0vO4w

Generation feat. dLx, Firefox & Danko

A remastered extended version of the song made for the 2006 Candela demo of the same name.

For once I actually have the old project files around, albeit not usable on my current workstation. I instead set up a WinXP VM with all my old plugins and DAW:s so I could export and reference the stuff I used. The MIDI notes and Kontakt instruments were easily exportable to FL Studio, and the only casualty was the Cubase-specific filter plugin Tonic which I had to replicate as well as I could. I also added back some parts that were cut out of the demo for time, and replaced some drums to improve the mix.

A shout-out must go to the z3ta+ VSTi and its great implementation of Hermode tuning. It's what makes the signature sound of this track possible, having such aggressive distorsion without all the mud that comes from equal-tempered tuning.

Jeff

An addicted musician making oldskool / 8bit / demo / melodic.

Also known as my other projects:  @b1zb1z (Duo) @xtriQ @1zik (Solo) 

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