This is an Act 2 remix of Turquoise Hill from Sonic Chaos. I should also mention that this is my first making chiptune music ever, using a tracker, no less, and it was a lot of fun! I found that Turquoise Hill sounded a lot more like an Act 2 version of itself rather than an Act 1. Though the original game doesn't have separate act themes, I took a lot of inspiration from Sonic 2, Sonic Mania, and the SAGE 2018 remake, as well as putting my own spin on it to really give it that "Act 2" flair.

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Original composer(s): Masayuki Nagao
Original arranger(s): MaxieDaMan

[V1] Sonic Chaos - Turquoise Hill Zone Act 2 (YM2612 + SN76489)

Fang is a stupid thing to call Nack the Weasel.

Tried my best to limit the number of sounds here, as well as the number of voices. It doesn't go above 18 at any point, I'm pretty sure.
I didn't want to use PM's piano sounds for the de facto lead, because the note ranges didn't work too well for it, and on top of that it didn't mesh with a lot of the other colors. The piano is pretty rare to hear in Paper Mario to begin with anyway, so it actually makes sense to use something else.
Keeping as many of the parts as possible without using the stated patches was a challenge. Part of it was because of instruments not being suited for certain ranges again, like the left-pan guitar. In the end it uses 4 different patches. The rest was wanting to have a proper PM64 sound, like the song was begging to have applied to it on a compositional level. I wanted a sound where you could imagine gameplay of the fight easily.

MIDI uses the official 2.2 sequence. Speaking of which, the Arid Canyon sequences were exactly the same as the ones I used for my recent uploads. That Juan Esparza guy either did MIDIs for the game and thus had the right to post it, or he's a hack. I'd like to think it was the former. (Update: HACK confirmed by Cobalt herself in these here comments).

VS. Fang - SRB2 (Paper Mario Arrange.)

Made this one for Round 1 of the Mega Drive Music Competition, an event run by myself under the Sonic Hacking Contest banner! The prompt for the round was to remix one of the new tracks featured in Sonic Origins, and since I already remixed a grand majority of them, I decided to go with this one to round out the set.

To check out the other entries in the competition, head on over to the Sonic Hacking Contest Discord: https://dc.railgun.works/vacifmjs6x

Hope you enjoy! :)

Sonic 3 Beta - Credits Theme (Mega Drive Rearrange)

A remix of Bridge Zone I was doing as a test in late 2022 to see how I could do using only specific VSTs, I think it came out well although I never could add percussion to it like I wanted to; perhaps think of it as cinematic Bridge Zone or something like that.

Bridge Zone UNFINISHED

Queue Music for a Tidal Tempest inspired theme park ride concept created by my buddy Sunset, kind of expanded upon by myself.

Just testing out SampleTank 4 with just the SampleTank 3 content, as well as trying out T-Racks 5. (+ using Xpand!2 because I last used it for something in 2019)

Logo Art by Sunset
https://www.youtube.com/@projectsunset4862

Secrets Of Tidal Tempest - Queue Music #1 [Past]

I started working on this in February, this would be the theme that would play around the Palmtree Panic Botanical Gardens as you would walk around, taking in the sights and smells of the garden. Unfortunately I grew out of working on this one too quick as it didn't go quite the way I wanted, but I liked the initial direction and idea I had.

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Palmtree Panic Botanical Garden - Area Theme [VERY UNFINISHED]

A remix of Green Hill in the style of Exercise Mode, then ported to Mean Bean Machine

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine - Green Hill (Remix)

I was messing around with other sound modules in FurnaceTracker and out came this. :)

Sonic 3D Blast (GEN/MD) - Green Grove Zone Act 1 (SMS/GG Demake)

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/michelemininni
Track: Metropolitan Indians
Label: https://soundcloud.com/hell-yeah
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital LP
Release date: 31/05/24
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9MAAGQIZgj0

🛒: https://michelemininnimusic.bandcamp.com/album/pop-archetypes

Having been long-time admirers of one another from afar, Hell Yeah and Michele Mininni finally come together for Pop Archetypes. It is a multifaceted debut album that collides broken beats, worldly rhythms, jazz, eastern melodies, live drums and much more into one thrilling 15-track opus that arrives on May 31st.
Italian artist Mininni has always had a leftfield take on electronic music and imbued it with rhythms, melodies and instruments from around the globe. He has released it on cult labels like R&S, Optimo Trax, Internasjonal and Curle Recordings but has saved his magnificent debut album for Hell Yeah. It is much more than a collection of sounds he has already explored and instead finds him heading off into all new territory without losing his signature sense of inventive and beguiling rhythm and melody. It is a multicultural journey that takes in heterogeneous styles and diverse influences but distills them all into one cohesive album with its own unique storyline.
Says Mininni of the record, "I wanted each track to be like pieces of a unique, multifaceted picture, like walking through train cars or progressing through the levels of a video game, all filtered through my own vision and concentrated into 36 minutes. I wanted a pop album rooted in the extraordinary richness of popular music and projected into the future, a continuum where pieces communicate with each other and are received by the ears in symbiotic balance."

Despite that concept, the album is a spontaneous listen full of surprises, left turns and original ideas that all hold together in thrilling fashion. It kicks off with the tumbling jazz drums and swirling synths of 'Spinning Around Cotton Candy', takes in mellifluous melodic layers and broken beats on 'Golden Room' and 'Slipped Air' casts you adrift amongst gorgeous piano keys and refracted vocals on the suspensory 'Vertigo'. There are jungle interludes with Eastern string melodies like 'Bangkok Tempo', lavish fusions of organic and synthetic sounds on 'Kundalini' and more charming Far Eastern rhythms on 'Muting Cat'. 'Congoflash' brings electrifying cosmic rays to busy hand drum patterns, 'The Magic Of Synesthesia' combines dark amen breaks and bright and uplifting flutes while 'Carousel Of Tears' douses you in watery melodies and celestial pads that awaken the soul.
Pop Archetypes is an adventurous work packed with meticulous and infinite details but all with an overarching narrative that makes it far more than the sum of its parts.

PREMIERE | Michele Mininni - Metropolitan Indians [Hell Yeah] 2024

Sonic Generations: "Whirling Around In a Maze That Drowned!" ~For Rusty Ruins Zone: Act 1 (Classic)

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - Stickerbush Symphony (OPL3 Remix)

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