Distant Islands: 51 minutes of experimental SNES chiptune, treating the soundchip like the quirky 8-channel sampler that it is; featuring microtonality, glitches galore, heavy manipulation of the chip's available effects and parameters, and unusual, often homegrown sounds. All tracks were recorded straight from a single Super Famicom system, with the exception of live drums layered onto "Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines".

Someone once told me that when I write I "leave keys for distant islands" and the phrase has stuck with me ever since. This is my first full-length, non-compilation album in three years, and I focused on making something that resonated with me personally and employed the kinds of sounds I wanted to hear. I also went all-out in exploring just how strange, incredible, and absurdly messed-up the SNES could conceivably sound. I'd like to think this covers some new, fresh territory in Super Nintendo chiptune, and I hope you enjoy it!

All songs were composed and written to blank SNES ROMs using osoumen's C700 VST (or forks of the VST that add microtonal functionality and extra MIDI tooling), then recorded from my Super Famicom. The rendered audio is lightly mastered for consistency. The source ROMs (which simply play the song) are included with the album!

it's island time 🏝️

Distant Islands (2023)

artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

tickets here ☄️⛈️🌊

Elemental Fusion (2024)

music: @blower5 @damifortune
mastering: @blower5
artwork: goutty
special thanks: @b_knox

BLOWER + DAMIFORTUNE BRING YOU --> EXPERT MOD WHITTLERS
Eleven tracks of the most peculiar sizes - all fitting on a single double density floppy disk, with room to spare! Written over the course of two years for various Battle of the Bits events, these songs have finally been collected together and mastered in HIGH FIDELITY for YOUR enjoyment!

bandcamp!

blower + damifortune - Expert Mod Whittlers (2024)

https://h-v-b.bandcamp.com/album/past-future-present-memory
Vinyl preorder open til August 1st 2025!

Our pasts, futures, and presents all power one another - so where does that leave us now? Memories, dreams, and the space between the two. Reborn adolescent dreams freshly filtered through the lens of growing older. What did it mean to feel those ways anyway? What does it mean now, and when will that change? This is a record about making sense of my own place in the world; old memories inform new ones, new memories recontextualize old ones.

In a way it's the record I've wanted to make since my teens, although I had no idea that I'd ever be able to make that record, or that I'd go about making it like this, until it had already taken shape. Its style owes so much to the post-rock and neo-classical artists I listened to back then, and the sponge of youthful naivete with which I absorbed their work, their sensibilities forever informing my past, future, and present. What's important to you changes over time, and this is equally about remembering those convictions and moving on.

Musically this record is about bringing forth the natural from the unnatural, using pieces of the past to write the future, and above all the ambiguous between-spaces found within those juxtapositions. If we always live in the past, future, and present, then so too does this music.

It'll rip your heart out if you're not careful.

--HVB

released June 12, 2025

🌱 Music by Hunter Van Brocklin (@damifortune)
🌱 Art by aurahack
🌱 Mastering by @surasshu

🌻 Produced by Infloresce Records 

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Past Future Present Memory (2025)

it's late summer again

this was my entry for Sample Pack Contest XV, it got 9th/62!

hear the amazing whole album - https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xv

Another Year Around the Sun

this track was made in pxtone (specifically @sidedishes' version "ptcollab") for the PXTUNES 5TH ANNIVERSARY album, and is my first full song in pxtone! this upload has been lightly mastered but you can hear the unmastered version at the full album link below : )

it is a song about being young and stupidly in love, being much older and stupidly in love, and reflecting on what those things meant to me then and mean to me now. field recording taken outside my front door this summer!

hear the whole album here, it's amazing!!! https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/pxtunes-5th-anniversary-memories-of-pxtone (album art by stardiscs!)

I'll Never Bid You Farewell

this was my entry for Super Famicompo 3, a transcription of this most beautiful Elis Regina version of the Jobim tune from "Elis & Tom"

SFC3 link - https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=119245&page=1

file replaced with a hardware render from super famicom on 5/5/22 :)

Inútil Paisagem (Jobim/Regina SNES cover)

NEW COOL SONG with @bluenctrn, our first collab in 1.5 years! we're both quite proud of how this cute little slice of life adventure turned out : )

written for Battle of the Bits Summer Chip XII where it got 2nd out of 322 - https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/A+Day+in+the+Life+of+a+Moon+Jelly/54602/

A Day in the Life of a Moon Jelly (with blue.nocturne)

submitted to Battle of the Bits Winter Chip XVIII https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/not+here/57711/

artwork by rui kaj also submitted to WCXVIII https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Winter+Chip+XVIII_+Winter+Graffiti+Poster/59052/

not here [YM2151]

2x SNES soundchips, one tuned to 11edo and the other tuned to 13edo. rendered from my super famicom! written for the Micro Tones Server Secret Santa for amazing composer and cool person @sulkaritari! check out the whole album of awesome tunes here https://microtonesserver.bandcamp.com/album/micro-tones-server-secret-santa

album artwork is by @doctorn0gloff!

somber ancient mariner's rimestone (11+13EDO)

exciting SNES chiptune collaboration between myself and @doctorn0gloff!! written in 31edo (31 equally divided notes per octave) and recorded from my super famicom. submitted to Winter Chip XVIII on Battle of the Bits! https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Barhopping+on+31st/58581/

artwork by aji also submitted to WCXVIII https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/zany+chipzone/58830/

Barhopping on 31st (collab with doctorn0gloff) [SNES]

A sentimental tune about time with your best friends, snowball fights, hot cocoa and cider,
and the feeling of wonder as you watch the biggest snowflakes you've ever seen
begin to fall from outside your window, as the sun sets... 

written in collaboration with the incredibly amazing @dboydchipmusic for Winter Chip XVIII on Battle of the Bits!! made in LSDJ 9.3.8 https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Citywide+Snowball+Fight/58128/

artwork by Salsaraujo also submitted to Winter Chip XVIII https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Glacial+Oasis/59013/

Citywide Snowball Fight (collab w/ don'tblinkoryou'lldie)

.it file written for 64KB module format in BotB "tinymod grandprix" battle https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/seedling.it/59797/

seedling.it [64kb module]

.it file written for 16KB module format in BotB "tinymod grandprix" battle https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/solitary.it/60159/

solitary.it [16kb module]

album art: https://twitter.com/TomasPraestholm
music: @damifortune
track 3 live drums written, performed & recorded by @jaxcheese
track 16 co-written with @doctorn0gloff

Distant Islands: 51 minutes of experimental SNES chiptune, treating the soundchip like the quirky 8-channel sampler that it is; featuring microtonality, glitches galore, heavy manipulation of the chip's available effects and parameters, and unusual, often homegrown sounds. All tracks were recorded straight from a single Super Famicom system, with the exception of live drums layered onto "Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines".

Someone once told me that when I write I "leave keys for distant islands" and the phrase has stuck with me ever since. This is my first full-length, non-compilation album in three years, and I focused on making something that resonated with me personally and employed the kinds of sounds I wanted to hear. I also went all-out in exploring just how strange, incredible, and absurdly messed-up the SNES could conceivably sound. I'd like to think this covers some new, fresh territory in Super Nintendo chiptune, and I hope you enjoy it!

All songs were composed and written to blank SNES ROMs using osoumen's C700 VST (or forks of the VST that add microtonal functionality and extra MIDI tooling), then recorded from my Super Famicom. The rendered audio is lightly mastered for consistency.

Distant Islands

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Rubescent Isle of Reincarnation

Viridescent Isle of Vestiges

Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines (feat. jaxcheese)

Azureous Isle of Avant

Xanthous Isle of Xen

a wild collaborative .it module with @surasshu for the weeklong battle on Battle of the Bits that was supporting the Infloresce & Friends Charity Festival!!! you can check it out (along with the source) here https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/a+chipped+stylus/60519/

cover artwork by @sparklecats2009 and @ezip !

a chipped stylus (collab w/ surasshu)

written for the new gameboy arrangement compilation album "PXTUNES vs. GAME BOY"! check out all the wild tracks here: https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/pxtunes-vs-game-boy

artwork by King Worrell!

Saudade do Peixe Vento (Ballad of the Wind Fish/Mabe Village)

a SNES orchestration (recorded from real hardware!) of a piano tune by @rewitkin! submitted to Super Famicompo 5

Den of Thieves (collab w/ rewitkin)

Elemental Fusion

05 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - I. pastoral

04 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - IV. fruitage of wine

03 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - III. a white circlet of snow

02 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - II. harvesthome dance

01 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - I. a fresh dewy coronet

Expert Mod Whittlers

gnoss2.maxk_v4

what's in the sack

└─ atmosphere.__ultimax ▒░

big boody

paint by numbers

demo module made for @squiggy-music's wavetable+sample tracker, WaveTracker, which i helped test this past year! check out the tracker: https://wavetracker.org/ the .wtm module is located in the "Sample Songs" folder.

precision dash (WaveTracker demo song)

💾 download memories

Mitosis II (Winnower)

Ships Passing

Mitosis I (Futurebuilder)

Memory Flash

Unfarewell

Outpour

cover of a tune by @miracle-mirage from BotB: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/sky+blue+life/75917/

sky blue life (mirageofthem cover)

Jupiter, the Sky Father - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/eternal+eye/79808/

eternal eye

Venus, the Lover - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/the+adoration+cosmic/79864/

the adoration cosmic

Saturn, the Noble - made for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/rings+of+ice/79900/

rings of ice

Mercury, the Inferno - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/sunscorched+pariah/79960/

sunscorched pariah

Uranus, the Eremite - written for BotB's "The Planets" event https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/parallel+rivers+icebound/79985/

parallel rivers icebound

Mars, the Blood Star - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/the+color+of+blood+_+the+promise+of+water/80056/

the color of blood & the promise of water

Neptune, the Mariner - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/endless+wind_+endless+wave/80099/

endless wind, endless wave

Earth, the Cradle of Life - written for BotB's "The Planets" event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/ley+line+hymn/80126/

ley line hymn

Pluto, the Lost One - written for BotB's "The Planets" event https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/look+to+the+sky/80173/

look to the sky

These tracks were all made for Sample Pack Contest XII, which I hosted! The contest ended up with 77 submissions and over 4 hours of runtime. Check out the whole thing here, there's so much incredible music: https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xii

My collab with blue.nocturne (@bluenctrn), "Moonlight Melancholy", got 6th place, and my incredibly long and self-indulgent glitch track "someone somewhere else's something" got 8th!

someone somewhere else's something

written for Sample Pack Contest XIII, in which it took 6th place out of 72! a sequel to my SPCIX entry "Dawn Breaks on Magical Girl Dream Island".

hear all the other tunes here: https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xiii

this is the program I wrote to accompany the song:
section 1 (0:00-1:32): dusk is beginning to set after a beautiful sunset with vibrant colors the likes of which normal humans have never seen. the magical girls usher in the night with a splendid waltz.
section 2 (1:32-2:56): night has fallen, so you know what time it is..! the magical girls are throwing a party! it's going to be a big night!
section 3 (2:56-4:07): not so fast - Scary Troutman has once again come to magical girl dream island, spreading his sinister tones about the land and using his nefarious Prime Scepter to turn time irrational. the girls band together and put a stop to his dastardly plan in a climactic moment!
section 4 (4:07-4:51): the flower festival is beginning, a joyous affair that everyone goes all-out preparing for. put on your festival outfit and go have yourself a time! yes, you!
section 4.5 (4:51-5:41): the famous, highly esteemed Hanabi Girl is putting on a fantastical light show! riding a beam of luminescence, you and your magical girl friends take an exhilarating flight through the sky, surrounded by fireworks and burning-bright patterns of all colors.
section 5 (5:41-7:00): as the festival winds down, you share a few laughs about the wild and memorable night you've had. everyone starts to go their separate ways, and lights start to go out. sleep takes its nightly hold upon magical girl dream island, and you awaken.

Dusk Falls on Magical Girl Dream Island

written with blue.nocturne (@bluenctrn) for Sample Pack Contest XIII, in which it took 3rd place out of 72! (I wrote the middle section, bluenoc wrote both the first and last sections and did all the sound design)

hear all the other tunes here: https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xiii

Amber Leaf Equinox (collab w/ blue.nocturne)

⚡glitch composer & experimentalist - vgm, chiptune, digital fusion
🌱 open for work! portfolio + contact: https://samplemance.rs

Hunter Van Brocklin

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