Icterus Galbula

MAXIMALISM

my track for this wonderful ZeroRanger arrange album: https://resonantunion.bandcamp.com/album/zeroranger-arranged-album-green-arrange

it's about 90% sourced from samples of the other tracks on the album manipulated in various ways, the rest is mostly original synth manipulation from me.

This is "technically" a remix of Menacing (the original of which has this main 8 note synth sequence playing over samples of other tracks from the original game). However in practice this is more like an original plunderphonics track featuring that ostinato.

If you'd like to see where the sampled material comes from, I delineated what comes from where as best as I could in the premiere video, timestamp for my track linked here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPk89-Kk55Q&t=3826s

I may eventually upload my own even more granular and precise video (a couple parts aren't as clear what comes from where as they could be, but I could do things like time them to light up in intensity even more tightly). This is mostly accurate down to the frame, but there's a couple short bits where what you'll see is sorta approximations/guesses where I may be able to more confidently nail exactly what-plays-when in the future.

I highly recommend checking out the full album if you have even a passing interest in any of the involved artists, ZeroRanger, or shmup/STG music in general. It's a love letter to the genre in so many ways, and perhaps the most high-effort arrange album I have ever even seen. Everyone gave their best, going above-and-beyond expectation to showcase our love for not only this soundtrack, but the variety of types of music this type of game hosts in general. Over 60 collaborators, from recognizable names to musicians who've scarcely been heard before. I saw people who put so much work into organization, translating lyrics, clever editing of that premiere video, learning parts to play live on their instruments. The list goes on, but the end result shows a high passion that I deeply respect.

"Menacing" from ZeroRanger originally composed by: eebrozgi

Includes samples from: Promtastik, AIKATYPE, antymis, Cryptovolans, MB, HeavyViper, Justin Thornburgh, potatoTeto, neozoid, milkypossum, Lena Raine, Garoslaw, jaxcheese, ViRiX Dreamcore, floopy, fusoxide, Dominic Ninmark, SomeSpoonyBard, Philip Saguil, Yasuhisa Watanabe, Melos Han-Tani

Mastering by: R-Man

Cover Art: Ebbo

Project Organizer: Recca

Menacing [fifth_nucleus]

vermillion

madotsuki

Soundtrack for a little game by cement dragon!

https://cement-dragon.itch.io/tithe

https://namae3.bandcamp.com/album/tithe-soundtrack

Graveyard / Castle - Tithe Soundtrack Out Now!

susumu yokota today

original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxnAz51PWd0

tq-jam - "plum pop"

Dreamforge

An EP that was simply made for fun. I started taking my music too seriously (despite facing little to no pressure) and got to a point of not enjoying it. I gave myself no time limit and made whatever sounded "cool" and enjoyable to me. I spliced both old demos and scrapped sounds with new ones, and I this is the most genuine fun I've had making a project thus far.

Street (Within Passing Cars)

🧥 Oldman Steptoe’s Tape Diary: Entry #44 — “Remi’s Crawl (Revised)”
It begins with a whisper that shouldn’t be there. Remi’s voice, reversed and stretched, floats over a pad like fog rolling through a derelict playground. The melody—Gb to Eb, F to D, Ab to F, G to E—feels like someone tracing the outline of a memory they’re trying to forget. It loops again, but this time the bass doubles, and a hi-hat ticks like a warning.

Then the chords arrive.

Not chords, really—clusters. Eight-note slabs of chromatic tension. G♯ to G, stacked like bricks in a wall that doesn’t care if you climb it. Then D♯ to B, jagged and restless. Then G to E♭ to E, like a scream folded into origami. Every 16 bars, another synth joins the procession, each one colder than the last. It’s not harmony—it’s architecture. A cathedral built from unresolved grief.

At bar 65, the world drops out. Just the pad again. But now there are children laughing. Playing. It’s not comforting. It’s a memory you didn’t make, but somehow still remember.

Then the final crawl begins. From bar 81 to 161, the same chord clusters repeat like a ritual. Every 16 bars, a new synth layer is added—each one heavier, more suffocating. Around bar 129, the fade begins. But it’s not a fade-out. It’s a burial. The music doesn’t end—it’s swallowed.

By the time it’s over, you’re not sure if you heard a song or survived one.

Remi's Crawl

weird rhythms | weird chords | weird sounds
80s-90s synths

i tend to be inspired by prog, jazz fusion, 20th century classical, and a wide variety of electronic music. the most oddball variants of all those categories most preferred

most of my music is for games that either i make or other people make

chimera:ratio

Menacing [fifth_nucleus]

Chimeratio