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In 2019, I've received a request (because technically I can't call it a commission) to do a retrowave-styled track for one of the "speedrunning" events. Long story short, I did the instrumental but song was not played anywhere (neither on stream nor in the location of the event). I asked my friend Kacepru to do some vocals for it and tried to mix it, but for some reason, I couldn't force myself to do it for a long time.
Two years later, I proudly present to you - Slow Run. A song that I'm really proud of even today. I hope you'll all enjoy it as much as I did making it.

Instrumental: Chip Jockey
Vocals and mixing help: Kacepru (http://www.youtube.com/c/Kacepru)
Artwork: Ramnik5 (http://twitter.com/_ramnik5)
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LYRICS:
Glowing city lights
Shadows in my eyes
Memories I had
All forgotten now

You know I'm gonna make it
I know you're gonna take it
I'm packing all my stuff
I've had enough
I'm going for a slow run

Going for a slow run (x2)

Big thoughts undefined
Whispers in my mind
Feelings overkill
With Queen's dollar bill

There must be a reason
For all of this treason

Glowing city lights
Shadows in my eyes
Memories I had
All forgotten now

You know I'm gonna make it
I know you're gonna take it
I'm packing all my stuff
I'll see you around
I'm going for a slow run

Going for a slow run (x2)

Slow Run

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Slow Run (ft. Kacepru)

The artwork is by Setani O: https://twitter.com/setani_o

All composed, arranged, produced, and performed/programmed by me.

Prefecture

cover of the yard intro based off exexgirlfriend's liveplay rendition which can be found here: https://twitter.com/VeryCuteAndCool/status/1462180984284233730 (she is also the person who made the original song)

i took a few liberties as well

The Yard Intro (.nsf)

My 30 minute composition from 12/05/2021, with the theme of "space invaders".  These aliens are a little bit groovy I guess.

Invaders From Groovitron (Luna Festa 12/05/2021)

Just like with demo music, I'm really drawn to projects where you have to show your intent clearly, and usually without all the presumptious preamble. I also took it as an excuse to dig into my Castlevania fanboy bag of tricks.

This is the soundtrack for the mini-game Brocken, developed by Anders Ekermo for the game jam The Room. Participants would design a single-screen game, with predetermined controls and entrances / exits, and their contributions would be combined into one big Flash game called SoManyRooms. Neat idea.

Oh, and the original was just over 2 minutes long, so it's been "de-looped" with some new stuff.

Anders Ekermo: https://twitter.com/andersekermo
So Many Rooms retrospective: http://blog.almostlogical.com/tag/so-many-rooms/

Brocken Soundtrack

I enjoy using vocals in my tracks but unfortunately I alwaays have to take them from vocal packs or libraries which I edit and integrate into my productions... hoping on collaborating with a singer to do something nice :)

LYRICS:

Do you want to know me?
(I don't know)
Do you idolize me?
(I'm starting to)

Staying deep inside your mind
Can you hear me yet?
It's only a matter of time
Don't make me upset

Do you want to know me?
(I guess so)
Do you idolize me?
(Very much so)

Continuing to change your kind
I promise it will be fine
Let me in and you will see
Just believe in me

Turn him into reality (x2)

Please come and set me free
(I want to)
Turn me into reality


SAMPLES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iSsXYsvJtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJgNcM4pMA


Cryptids (Instrumental)

Show me your moves! Falcon quotes aside, here is an F-Zero cover I did recently. I wanted to do a more synth orientated cover for my next VGM cover and so I ended up picking “Silence”, from the first F-Zero game on the SNES. It was also a case of me really wanting to do an F-Zero cover as it’s one of my favourite gaming franchises. Whilst GX is my favourite game in the series, I really dig this song and thought it would make for an interesting rendition. 

I’m very proud of the outcome of this cover. The sounds I got out of the keyboard were perfect and set up a nice sci-fi synth vibe. I also managed to play the bass part with fingers competently, considering I am still a novice on bass, especially when playing with fingers. And I’m very pleased with how the trumpet section in the original track translates nicely onto guitars, as well as the rhythm guitar I wrote for this rendition. As I am still learning about mixing I also believe I did a decent job with the mixing, doing the best I could with what I knew and what I had. 

Hope you like my cover and stay tuned for more VGM covers in future.

F-Zero is the property of Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo. 

Equipment used:

Interface: Lexicon Alpha USB
DAW: Cubase LE 5
Drums: MT PowerDrumKit 2 (Drumming assembled in drum editor)
Bass: Ibanez GSR180-BK
Bass amp sim: AudioAssualt Bassgrinder VST
Keyboard: Yamaha PSR-200
Rhythm & Lead Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard
Harmony Guitars: Ibanez GRG270B
Guitar amp sim: Peavey Revalver HPse

F-Zero - Silence (Synth/Metal Cover)

https://themnotyou.bandcamp.com/album/rare-fruits-flworks01-2010-2015

Threatened Skies - Part 1

In the not so distant future, hope for humanity lies dwindling as the spread of industry envelopes the Earth. The robot factories have now covered over 75% of the Earths surface, while the skies have shifted from a bright blue, to a dense layer of dark greys and reds.

Through the thick, burning air, one man stands alone against the threat to his home. His name is Carltron9000, and with him he brings a new light. A light in the form of the ultimate computer virus which systematically converts all PLC/ICS and hybrid robotic instruction into Famitracker chiptune code. Once the code is injected, the world will resonate as the very robots who seek to terminate our existence, one by one, begin to start arranging the chaotic musical code into organized works of stunning complexity, and to our biggest surprise, songs of such magnitude and beauty that most of the world still refuses to believe the robots are actually responsible.

Now, as the planets life runs dry, our only hope lies with CT9x to pen. the FAMIcore and find out for himself the true nature of this remarkable phenomenon. Are the robots slowly being converted one by one, by the power of chiptune, only to form an uprising against the oppressive industrial central AI? Deep within the metallic corridors of Robot City lies the underbelly of the AI core. Here, our fearless hero will search out the robot chipists and attempt to make first contact in the hopes of jamming out the sweetest chips; uniting all lifeforms through music and replenishing the once rich sky with the bluest of all blues and freshest of all human/machine fusion chip music!

Threatened Skies [Mk III]

From the Agoli 5 album! :D It's getting there slowly.
0:00 - 1:57 - Capel and her brother Koto (yes, there's two of them. X.x; ) set up Medbay on the station, trying to ascertain how many of the old machines even work
1:57 - end: Emergency surgery on a newly arrived patient, with only half of medbay operational. @~@

Medbay [Day]

Another attempt at trying to write like Masashi Hamauzu.

Hamauzuesque 2

Day 6 - Minty Fresh Snow

Synth cover of aquatic ambience from Donkey Kong Country. My favorite game soundtrack. Sometime I put on the SNES and just let it sit in this level. I used the microbrute, microkorg, behringer model d (only for withe noise) and volca keys.

Donkey Kong - Aquatic Ambience (Synth cover)

My Wildchip entry to Summer Chip IX, at Battle of the Bits.
https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Hyper+Wonder+Modulator/32416/

•10th/25 in *WILD_CHIP* category
•53rd/230 in overall placement

XM:
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=186255

Hyper Wonder Modulator

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Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum - Eterna City(Solo Piano)

s3xmoditminia entry - Round 1
arena.sincx.xyz/battle.php?id=23

dj-jamster-PSYCHIQ - GOOD FEEL (LIVE @ THE METAL TANK 2000/07/07 (RARE EXTENDED MIX)).mp3

Hitting the keyboard aggressively with my hands and checking if I made something decent since 2011. 
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