Welcome to the official playlist for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest! 🎶

This collection features every submission, listed in the order they were received.

🎯 Contest Overview:
Participants were challenged to create an original song for a game of their choice. Each track was designed to fit naturally within the game—whether for a specific scene or theme.

🗳️ Judging Process:
A panel of judges will narrow this list of 29 songs down to the Top 10 finalists.

The Top 10 songs will be announced at the June 25th Game Industry Gathering—and then YOU get to vote! Stay tuned for the ballot—we need your input to help choose the final winners!

🎵 Listen. Enjoy. Support your favorite composers. Leave encouraging comments!

Huge thanks to everyone who submitted—and good luck to all!

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Soul Ties is more than just a song; it's an emotional journey. 🖤✨

Released in January 2022, this track blends trap, pop, and R&B influences into a soulful anthem about the complicated, unbreakable bonds that tie us to our past relationships.❤️‍🩹

With hard-hitting 808s and an ethereal vibe, Soul Ties captures the pain, nostalgia, and the dark allure of love that just won't let go. The lyrics are raw and real, offering a glimpse into Aceforever's growth as both an artist and a songwriter. 🌑💫

Soul Ties showcases Aceforever's versatile style-mixing pop rap with It's dark, introspective, and fun-verses that feel like a conversation you never wanted to end.⛓️‍💥🕊️

The track draws comparisons to artists like Playboi Carti, Juice Wrld, Lil Uzi Vert, And Don Toliver but it stands apart with its unique blend of trap energy and emotional depth. 🔥💭

soul ties

Yalla feat UZ

Meet Swankadelic, the genre-defying DJ who knows how to keep the party going. With a passion for good music and even better vibes, he's rocked art house venues, nightclubs, and everything in between. From Drum and Bass to Jazz and R&B, Swankadelic's unexpected mix will keep you dancing all night long. Don't limit yourself to genres, and let Swankadelic take you on a musical journey you won't forget.

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Felt good to return with another stacked show full of forgotten music that I think you should rediscover or learn of. I have to say that since i've started my show on Rinse, it has been the toughest 4 weeks as far as preparing and performing the show. It's all part of the legacy though. I have never had to dig this hard in my life! I really kept this show smooth and highlighted a lot of neo-soul and melodic tracks. No matter how advanced or "future" the music keeps getting, I can't help but go back to my roots. We are still fighting a never ending battle against the majors which is why we have to dig harder but at the end of it all it will all be alright. 

Stay tuned for some great special guests to come on the show soon. Spread the word, tell a friend. -Joe Kay

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My Childish Gambino 'Fire Fly' remix - uploaded here because i already have 2 strikes on my other account & i can't risk getting a 3rd one....

SO ENJOY IT MY SISTAS & BROS

Much love sent your way via speakers - Have the best weekend of your life ok?

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icey 

@icekream

INSTAGRAM & TWITTA THO: @MrKream

Download: http://artistintelligence.agency/artist/hits-and-pics

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icekream - Hits & Pics (OKAY!!!)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.

🎶 Song Name: The Arrival
🎮 Game: Halo 3
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_3
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Being dropped off from a Pelican ship at the beginning of an Exploration Zone, with combat levels not exceeding low intensity.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/6wbp6plTFrE?si=qS3AEA3N3M-GuzMn&t=41
🎼 Credits: Kendall Wix - Composer

The Arrival (Halo 3)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.


🎶 Song Name: Covert
🎮 Game: Splinter-Cell: Chaos Theory
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_Splinter_Cell:_Chaos_Theory
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: This Stealth track is designed to dynamically scale alongside gameplay, ranging from the player being Undetected to Full-Combat.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/B9bn1ooLZJk?si=WJv84lPmZvX9XvaO&t=5044
🎼 Credits: Kendall Wix - Composer

Covert (Splinter-Cell: Chaos Theory)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.


🎶 Song Name: Maroon Moth
🎮 Game: Mega Man X
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_X
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: Stage Music - Combat
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/pYPMaTjv38I?t=20
🎼 Credits: Reniery Villafranca

Maroon Moth (Mega Man X)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. POTIONS & PIXELS is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact

Rketec - University Park

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.


🎶 Song Name: The Underground Lab
🎮 Game: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Ultimate
📽️ Scene / Theme Description: My song was designed to be stage music for an underground lab stage, if it were to exist in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The BPM is strategically placed at 130 to have an upbeat feel to it. It is fast enough to get players in the fighting mood, but not too distracting during gameplay.
📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmjfkTZH3s&t=11s
🎼 Credits: Jimmy Saldana - Lead Composer
https://www.potionsandpixels.com/

The Underground Lab (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

This song was created for the POTIONS & PIXELS Game Music Contest. This video is official gameplay footage of Hi-Fi Rush along with my track Digital Dreams. This is a rhythm game, so it is deeply integrated with the official tracks so it was difficult finding a specific clip. 

POTIONS & PIXELS (https://www.potionsandpixels.com/) is a nonprofit organization that creates and utilizes games, art, and technology for social impact.


🎶 Song Name: Digital Dreams

🎮 Game: Hi-Fi Rush

📝 Game Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_Rush

📽️ Scene / Theme Description: General late game gameplay with more complex composition. 

📹 Video Corresponding to Music: https://youtu.be/fnQVWmV-esQ *Video includes song*

🎼 Credits: Xavier Jimenez (Code: Savi) - Producer

Digital Dreams (Hi-Fi Rush) Competition Edit

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Every Where Is Some Where

Blood In The Cut

beat: https://soundcloud.com/catbonesmusic/dead-dogs-birthday

Every dog has his day, and every dog goes to heaven/
but in this dog eat dog world, there is no telling/
All bark and no bite, all dark and no light/
When I spark the pen ignites, Cujo with this new flow/
Yo dog looks emaciated, you ain't feeding him right/
raw meat and gunpowder we out here feasting at life/
Rabid for the cabbage yeah I do damage, I do numbers/
I been breaking off the leash for like 15 summers (straight)/
I been awake, I'm trying to fall back asleep/
While these flows have been 'concepted' so 'emaculate-ly'/
Rub my stomach like Buddah, actually the belly of beasts'/
Eating like I've never seen food the dog that's  in me/
I mean the God that's in me, I mean the hardest emcees/
Have fallen prey to my flow I mean your hardly a feast/

Celestial Dog(RAW)[Fu Dog]

Maverick Radio is the official podcast of Reporting From 20XX, a blog/publication dealing with gaming & local music in the Charlotte, NC Regional Area.

Music Credits:
Ill Victory Beat - Jet Set Radio Future (Unreleased Tracks)
Opening Stage - Megaman X OST
Paul's Miracle Deathfist - Tekken 2 Strike Fighting Vol.2
Sweet Home - Tekken 2 Strike Fighting Vol.2

Maverick Radio Podcast: Episode 1 - Intro's & Q1 2019 Games

Carpe Diem

Beat by Conrad Harvey
Lyrics & Vocals by Conrad Harvey

Lyrics
"I've been running on the fuel of positivity
I keep depositing these checks even when the getting itty bitty
then they grow then they ebb then they flow

keeping on  my grind even when its really  getting shitty
you build a life, build a castle then you build a mother fuckin' city
let's build a fucking city
wait don't stop that shit you were building
create now don't gotta be gilded
if you listen close then you know i ____________
let's go and build this
I don't give as hit what coming on the next day
maybe I am dead
maybe it's my last play
maybe this is something that you do not want to say 
but you got to face this rhythm and you got to face this fate
you gotta seize this day
(you gon' die)
what you waiting for? Go

we ain't never gonna stop creatin' 
we ain't never gonna stop creatin' 
we ain't never gonna stop creatin' 
we ain't never gonna stop

(Chorus)

Just one life 
is all you got to live
why you wasting all your time
when you got so little to give

why bring worry to your mind when you can fly
why bring worry 
just let that shit go
cause it ain't gonna solve nothing

Verse 2)

Listen
bitch, you already know you're gifted so just live it
so let the create flow
you ain't gotta stop nothing
accept those crippling assumptions
if you start putting in the years 
you might actually do something
you gotta crank it for you spank it
lazy bitch can't tell me nothing
oh shit that's me
those are my assumptions
my dysfunction
bitch do as I say
and never as I do
the only way to shape your life
well
is just to create you
wait don't stop that ship you were building
stars pretty far
better build resilience
if you gonna make your trillions
or whatever
help poor children
new minds for the times
when we reach 9 billion
times gonna fly when our minds our filled in
all linked up and AI brilliant
even our creations can become villains 
but
we ain't never gonna stop creating 
we ain't never gonna stop creatin' 
we ain't never gonna stop creatin' 
we ain't never gonna stop

(Chorus)

Just one life 
is all you got to live
why you wasting all your time
when you got so little to give

why bring worry to your mind when you can fly
why bring worry 
just let that shit go
cause it ain't gonna solve nothing"

© Conrad F. Harvey 2020

Digital Dreams (Hi-Fi Rush) Competition Edit

Code: Savi

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