8bit music

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Original Works

stranger things

i've been sitting on this for much too long.
it's not the length i wanted it to be, but i'm still pretty satisfied with it.

Infiltration (MMC5)

the first set of remixes from "malediction parfait"
Featuring remixes from Alex Mauer, Crunk Witch, and Femme Fatality.

https://anatoliasfinest.bandcamp.com/

./clairvius/narciss.exe (Alex Mauer Remix)

My cover entry for Famicompo Pico 2014. Enjoy!

Super Mario 3D Land Theme (VRC6)

A remix of the rather...minimalistic theme of W.D. Gaster, turned into a hypothetical battle theme for the guy.  Had lots of fun with this one, and hopefully I managed to capture this guy's spooky, freaky essence with the theme.

By popular demand, here's an external download link because I can't seem to figure out how to get Soundcloud's cursed download system to work properly: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gs5rtz2zmpczvq/Dark%2C%20Darker%2C%20Yet%20Darker.mp3?dl=0

And here's an hour-long extended mix if you prefer your jams to be seamless and uninterrupted: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4e8u0spd69270bg/Dark%2C%20Darker%2C%20Yet%20Darker%20%5BExtended%20Mix%5D.mp3?dl=0

Dark, Darker, Yet Darker

Half-Slanted View Of Life (2A03+FDS)

Purchase the full album here:
https://dyamusic.bandcamp.com/releases

Neon Dreams is my debut album release and a very eclectic compilation of original VGM inspired music (and 2 covers!) I composed and/or arranged over the course of the past 2 years with some help from Rudy Escobar and Trevin Huges (Jredd) collaborating with me on a good portion of the tunes. 

Every song on this album was lovingly crafted for maximum listening enjoyment using various video game console trackers (VGM MM, Famitracker, Deflemask as well as Renoise and guitars recorded in Reaper. 

Thanks to my mom, dad, my 3 wonderful kids Bella, William, and Kat, Rudy Excobar, Trevin Hughes, Erik Peabody, Patricio Pereira, Chiptunes = Win, Brandon L Hood, Sally Ann (from Paula Powered), Toni Leys (potato chips), Dan Bisciglia, Adam Kennelley, Paul Stevenson, Nick Stephens, William Culver, Rob Luther, Landon Long, Joshua Witt, Michael Kelso, Ed Wilson, Mike Levy, and the rest of the Retro Junkies (you know who you are), my Relay Bros crew, E$G and Hokuto Force, Delek (creator of Deflemask), David Burton (Groovemaster303), the countless VGM composers who inspired by work and many more I've forgotten to thank.And a special thank you to you for visiting this page.
credits
released June 27, 2016 

Written, performed, sequenced, produced by Dya except: 
Guitars on tracks 1, 7 and 8 by Rudy Escobar and 
arrangement assistance on tracks 4,9,11, and 12 by 
@Jredd 

Mastered by Viking Guitar http://twitter.com/VikingGuitar 
Album Art by Drexagar http://twitter.com/drexegar

Neon Dreams -  Track 01 - Lazarus

an experiment in writing music without relying on percussive sounds

Instated Flux (VRC6)

the main theme for my MAGL3 level, BUTTSMASH VILLA.

MAGL3 - BUTTSMASH VILLA

https://crappyblue.bandcamp.com/album/hitting-the-town

not a new track! this is one of the eight pieces on my album from mid last year, Hitting the Town, which was a selection of music i wrote in 2015-2016. it's some of my best work, and i'd be super happy if you supported me and my work by buying it!

Hitting the Town

Turnaround (FDS)

still figuring things out for yourself? it's alright. nobody else knows what they're doing, either. wherever you're going, whatever you're doing, you'll make it out just fine.

Feeling Your Way (2A03)

I started this tune on December 1st 2015 and I worked on it until january 13th, when I got stuck!
I wrote the beginning of what should have been the 2nd part, but I couldn't go on... When Antonio decided to publish a preview of the game (Semptember 2016) I decided to use a short version of the tune containing just the first part. I just had to make some little changes to make the lead instrument audible for the 6581 SID models, but wait: the version you're listening to now (the same that is on the CD) is the original one, with the filters working correctly!

Towards the end of the production of the game we needed another tune. Since there wasn't much time, we decided to keep this tune as it was on the preview.
When I listen to this tune it seems too short and incomplete... If I had more time (and maybe more ideas) I would try harder to develop the second part and maybe add a third one, as I had initially planned to do...

P.S.: As for the other Planet Golf tunes, the title was decided by Antonio, whom I thank!

Planet Golf Game Soundtrack Selection

Red Dust

Red Dust (Recorded from a real C64 with a 8580 SID chip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkOI3nqVqo

ENNUIJAMS 2017

Daiei (Famicom Remix)

Pit Boss - round 2 with savestate
Theme;
"only 12.5 and 50% duty allowed for pulse channels. chords must take up all 3 channels for polyphony (so no "arps")"

25 PERCENT NOISE

round 3 with themnotyou
theme; “pulses and triangle only. alternate channels for lead and bass”

hoping mechanism

Pit Boss - round 1 with minerscale
Theme; use koji kondo's zelda whistle motif! and sound romantic

wolf whistle

An assortment of unreleased/unfinished Famitracker covers

I played this at MAGFest 2018 open mic, and now it's uploaded for all to hear!

Pastel Prism

I've had this thing finished for several months but never bothered to upload it, so I thought it'd be neat to have it up for christmas so yea, cool.

This is mostly just me using the Shovel Knight instruments to create an arrangement, I took most of my inspiration from The Betrayer obviously tho the intro uses some instruments from Flowers Of Antimony, but yeah a lot of it is just me dicking around till I thought I had something that sounded neat so it's not supposed to be like a perfect 1 to 1 with any specific Shovel Knight track lol.

Vs. Marx 8 Bit (Shovel Knight VRC6 Arrangement)

HEAR MY OTHER 8-BIT COVERS (playlist): https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/sets/8-bit-covers-compositions 

HEAR MY UNFINISHED COVER OF THE BEATLES' "COME TOGETHER": https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/the-beatles-come-together-8-bitchiptune-cover-wip

CATCH ME LIKE A COLD ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUuTc1PCoh_lTFSBZZJ1MA?view_as=subscriber

Well, it's still snowing in Minnesota- so much, in fact, that we had school off today! In light of this unexpected break, I started working on a Famitracker cover of this excellent 90s bop that I've been listening to a lot lately for some reason. So far I've only fully worked out the chorus, but I'm in the process of making the verse, so expect a complete version to come along sometime soon. 
In the meantime, tell me what you think of this in the comments. And be sure to follow me to hear more of my music, including other 8-bit covers-- I make a lot of them!

All the best
~Tristan

Ace of Base- "The Sign" (8-bit Chiptune Remix) [WIP]

Original Date of Initial, By-Ear Composition - December 2018

Hailing from their 16th and 18th studio album (in the UK and US, respectively) from roughly 4 decades ago - this was originally recorded in the late '70s as an abandoned reggae rock track for Some Girls - one of the Stones' previous albums around that time, "Never Stop".

It was then abandoned and reworked, however, under the tutelage of engineer Chris Kimsey at both Electric Lady & the ill-fated Hit Factory in NY, and was later used in various commercials - most notably Microsoft Windows 95 (also, who could forget that Bob Rivers parody?!) / Omega watches.

Original Song: The Rolling Stones (the ill-fated RS Records / Virgin Records / EMI / Universal Music Group, 1981) - under FAIR USE (NO INFRINGEMENT/PLAGIARISM INTENDED)

The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" (8-Bit Cover)

Although I'm not big on sports whatsoever - the iconic song on which this cover is based is commonly used for the New England Patriots' entrance theme...but I digress!  Hailing from his post-Black-Sabbath debut solo album 'Blizzard of Ozz' - Osbourne's song revolves around the fear of annihilation and anarchy during the Cold War, and is one of his best known and recognizable as a solo performer.  

Not only was the song rated 9th greatest guitar solo ever by readers of Guitar World magazine, it was also ranked 9th by VH1 on their 40 Greatest Metal Songs list and was named the 23rd-greatest hard rock song of all time also by VH1 in '09 - the highest placement by a solo artist on the list.  

Now...GUESS WHO'S FINALLY MANAGED TO HELM YET ANOTHER NES-INSPIRED REARRANGEMENT OF IT!!

Original Song: Ozzy Osbourne, alongside Randy Rhoads, Lee Kerslake and Bob Daisley (Jet Records, RIP / Epic Records, 1980) - under FAIR USE (NO INFRINGEMENT/PLAGIARISM INTENDED)

Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" (8-Bit Cover)

"The future... Civilization died in the cataclysms. The Draconians were born from the death of Old Earth. Who will rule the new Urth?"

After 1/4 of a century, who could forget that opening sequence...let alone one of its supporting stage themes?!  Hailing from one of the most controversial VS fighters rivaling even WB / Netherrealm Studios / the ill-fated Midway's ever-popular MK franchise....except this was by the once-great-but-long-since-buried Atari, here's my usual NES tribute to Sauron's 'Red Beach' stage - featuring cues from its Genesis (the one I'm the most familiar with amongst many other ports) and CD soundtrack, "All the Rage".

Original Song: Doug Brandon / Steven Kirk / Andrew Brock (Courtesy Time Warner / Atari, with Probe - R.I.P. 1994-95)

Primal Rage - "Beachin' (Sauron's Theme)" (NES Version)

From their 7th studio album circa 1990, 'Violator' - this classic DEPECHE MODE ballad was first recorded 3 decades ago prior to the fact, thanks to its legendary songwriter's (Gore) initial, ballad-like version which was reworked into the finalized uptempo version at the whim of its then-backup vocalist/keyboardist (Wilder).

Original Song:  Depeche Mode (Gahan, Gore, Wilder & Fletcher - Mute Records, 1989-90) - under FAIR USE (NO INFRINGEMENT/PLAGIARISM INTENDED)

Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" (8-Bit Cover)

Hailing from this legendary 4-piece emo/punk rock band's 6th studio album, 'Sing the Sorrow', from over a decade and a half - this is also featured as a playable track in Harmonix's Rock Band 2 & Guitar Hero 5 / Live, as well as in the ill-fated Tapulous' Tap Tap Revenge.  Now - as ever - hear it like you've never heard it before...MINUS ALL THAT FAKE-ASS "GXSCC" CRAP!!

Original Song: AFI [A Fire Inside] (Gahan, Gore, Wilder & Fletcher - Dreamworks Records, 2003) - under FAIR USE (NO INFRINGEMENT/PLAGIARISM INTENDED)

AFI's "Girl's Not Grey" (8-Bit Cover)

happy st patty's day lol
This one was a request from a friend. Technically he said he'd commission me for it but I kinda went off and finished it before he could pay me lmfao. I work quick when I feel like it.

Pirate Man Gets Quarantined [5-N163]

i am an amateur pixel artist and chiptune composer. welcome to my soundcloud, where i upload the latter!

contact: crappyblue@live.com

Infiltration (MMC5)

Crappy Blue