August 2014's track. Jarre and Tangerine Dream inspired synthy fun. Sequenced in Reaper, using Omnisphere, Harmless and Sytrus.

Propulsome

About 11 years late to the party, I found this insanely beautiful rendition from Melissa Hollick. Originally a Chris Isaak song from his Forever Blue album. Melissa did a touching and tender, slow piano ballad which sucker punched everyone who played through this epic game in the Wolfenstein-saga. I never had a powerful enough PC back when the Wolfenstein New Order came out, and just earlier this year, had the opportunity to play the game. The ending got me too, and hard!

So, of course I just had to do my take on this song and sprinkle it with some magic 80s power ballad dust. I took the original recording from Melissa and separated the vocals from the backing track using lalal.ai. From there, I had to find a median tempo as the original is organically swaying quite a bit. I settled on 106 BPM and time-aligned her vocals to the grid, while trying to keep as much as the original feel and flow.

I also added a few bars here and there and shortened the intro. The structure of the song is a bit different from standard A-A-B-C-A... etc. so what's normally the chorus, became a second pre-chorus, with the Ooh section ending up as the real chorus. Furthermore I changed the chords up a bit, as the normal three/four chord progression became too tiresome for five and a half minute of slow power ballad.

Not too much going on in the backing section, a mixture of Yamaha TX816 (DX7) stereo Epianos, pads, and twinkle bells etc, as well as some Fingered Bass/Amped bass guitars layered with Nexus5 guitar patches and pads. Drums are a mix of Nexus5 80s drums and Zenhiser Retro 80s Drummer samples.

Håvard Caspersen laid down a series of Michael Thompson ambient guitars, strummed accoustic and some searing lead stuff in the background. Stellar work as usual!

I Believe Remix [Feat. Melissa Hollick and Håvard Caspersen] (Instrumental)

Invitro for Compusphere 2025 on demo party Outline.

Convivus

Pastel Beach is back and a lot more is coming down the pipleline. 

Cereal Rom

Short cracktro/keygen loop for funsies. 27kb!
Download the xm at cerror dot nl slash music!

crack_01 (xm)

A cover of And one's Military fashion show on the atari st without sid or any timer effects at 50hz.
Never heard the song before and was surprised how catchy it is!

Made it for the little single screen demo "A Letter to Sommarhack" by effect.
Released at sommarhack 2025 and the demo won 1st place! (not because of the music lol)

snd can be found on cerror dot nl slash music
In the modpack can be found here: sndh/xrwwr010.snd

military fashion show / A Letter to Sommarhack (atari st)

After a lengthy process of finding the right vibe, I finally found the vibe needed to beef up this gem of a song from Alex Ball. I started on it last year, but inspiration had left me and my daytime job took most of my time and energy.

I took Alex' original stems he sent me and worked around his Juno 106S arpeggio intro and set off from there. The vocals were grouped in two main and chorus mixes so I had little to go on, but chopped up here and there to make a longer intro with some effects. I also doubled them and fattened it all up so it pops a little bit more on the choruses. 

I kept a little of his original guitars, but added more synth and some samples I had lying around that fit the song (yes, I'm only faking it in the video... I can't play guitar to save my life, really! :P). The rest is pretty much some of my goto synths and drumkits to really get the groove kicking. Even added a modulation, which barely made it because Digital Performer and Izotope RX had some trouble pitch shifting the vocals well enough without artefacts and Alex sounding like a smurf!

Hopefully I made it slap some more. Enjoy rewinding your clocks to something inspired by 1988...ish!

Afterglow Remix [Feat. Alex Ball] Instrumental

Speed & Commitment

Caribbean Blue

A digi-drum YM tune composed with maxYMizer that I used in my <a href="http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=55152" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cracktro for D-Bug</a>.


Crystallized

Soundtrack for the Kickstarter introduction video of "The Masters of Pixel Art - volume 3", originally meant as a soundtrack to the announcement demo for the book, but the demo was never finished.

My Pixels Are Weapons

All the tunes can also be downloaded from my personal webpage @ https://iki.fi/cube

Crystallized

!Cube