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)

This is a compilation album of tunes written or released in 2024, and the fifth yearly installment in such a series. These songs were all made for various compilation albums, competitions, commissions, or other occasions.

https://h-v-b.bandcamp.com/album/the-blueberry-batch
Read more on the Bandcamp upload, and pick it up if you like - your support is much appreciated! The Bandcamp album is lightly mastered for consistency too, while this Soundcloud playlist does not contain the final mastered audio in most cases.

🫐 bandcamp 🫐

The Blueberry Batch (2025)

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 

💾 now saving...

Past Future Present Memory (2025) - vinyl preorder open!

this is a cover of @ajitek's amazing song "summer phase change" (links below, hit Show More) which was originally part of Sample Pack Contest XII - this was written as part of a "secret cover ring" in maj7 discord server where we all covered each others' music. i felt very lucky to be assigned an artist i already deeply admire, and knew i wanted to do this track immediately :)

this is an all-EP cover written in just intonation; i stripped the song down to contrast with the incredible sound design of the original tune. written using "Lounge Lizard Session 4" vst

hear aji - "summer phase change" on soundcloud or bandcamp:
https://soundcloud.com/ajitek/summer-phase-change-spc-xii
https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/track/summer-phase-change

hear the rest of the cover ring songs - https://maj7jam.bandcamp.com/album/maj7-cover-ring

spring piano change (cover of aji - summer phase change)

submitted to BotB Summer Chip XI (you can download the .nsf here too) - https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/ashflower/47747/

check out playback in NSFplay Synthesia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuee1i6AGOo

ashflower [2A03+VRC7]

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)

from my new EP, out now on iiiypad records! https://iiiypad.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-harmony

Elemental Harmony is a short EP of playful, lightly glitchy, melodically focused chiptunes written for the NES, SNES and Gameboy. Elemental Harmony conveys not only the whimsy of the spirits but their peaceful coexistence with other life, a necessary component of the fabric of this world.

Sylphids & Gnomids

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)

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]

.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)

pc-engine + pcmd8 + pc-98 + snes

written for the Battle of the Bits Furnace compo - currently ongoing as of this upload! https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/crack+the+earth/65139/

crack the earth [multi-chip]

@damifortune
Microsoft MSGS

This is an MSGS MIDI song built around the idea of repitching samples, both in terms of wildly repitching channels to get new textures out of the patches and in terms of treating chunks/phrases of MIDI data like "samples" - proportionally adjusting their lengths as they are shifted around in pitch to match how they would behave if sampled.

STAFFcirc vol. 9 - MIDI MODULE FANATIX

🎵 whats this 🎵

Hunter Van Brocklin - Thunder and Strawberry Wine

2x SNES chiptune cover of "try again?" by the amazing @meaningsband https://soundcloud.com/meaningsband/if-you-could-inject-me-with-something-that-would-make-the-rain-come-back-another-day?in=meaningsband/sets/puzzle-league

written for the maj7 cover ring volume IV https://maj7jam.bandcamp.com/album/cover-ring-iv

we were always trying to be something we couldn't (meanings cover)

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

written for the NES's 2A03 soundchip... in deflemask, which offers a higher quality sample channel, so a substantial backing track is part of the arrangement: a quartet for piano, drumset, upright bass and NES. explores using the 2A03 channels together as one multi-oscillator synth!

made for the FAMICOM GRANDPRIX event on Battle of the Bits https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/rhapsodic+quixotic/68876/

rhapsodic quixotic ["2A03"]

written in Furnace for 4x 2A03 chip. made for FAMICOM GRANDPRIX event on Battle of the Bits https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/delicate+predicate/69136/

delicate predicate [4x"2A03"]

Expert Mod Whittlers

gnoss2.maxk_v4

what's in the sack

└─ atmosphere.__ultimax ▒░

big boody

paint by numbers

made in Dn-FamiTracker using every single channel available in Dn-FamiTracker, also featuring a custom VRC7 patch bank. written for FAMICOM GRANDPRIX on Battle of the Bits https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/woebegone+eidolon/69398/

woebegone eidolon [every NES chip]

this is my demo track for a cool new tracker by @janglerr - osctet!
https://jangler.github.io/osctet/
osctet features intuitive microtones, ratio-based tempo adjustments, and the absolutely insane ability to "zoom in" the tracker view to place notes more finely!
check out my demo module as well as the others when you download the software!

critter chorus (osctet tracker demo song)

written for Battle of the Bits' Winter Chip XX event! SNES soundchip, hardware rendered on my Super Famicom https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Tangerine+Isle+of+Transformations/74153/

cover art by grasshopper! also a Winter Chip XX submission https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Skipping+through+Snowflakes/76002/

Tangerine Isle of Transformations (SNES)

written for the Battle of the Bits event "chipwest emo"! https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/9948/Entries/chipwest+emo

Three Types of Ghost

Original soundtrack written in 72 hours for "Icebreakers!", a game created by Moonlight Jammers for the Ludum Dare 57 game jam. Written for the PC-98 sound chip (YM2608) using BambooTracker!

As an explorer(-in-training) taking their final Field Exam, explore the depths of Antarctica and break the ice with your new friends! Play the game at either of these links:
moonlightjammers.itch.io/icebreakers
ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/icebreakers

❄️ Moonlight Jammers Team: ❄️
chunderfins - logo design
damifortune (HVB) - music
DonutShoes - SFX, story
NomnomNami - programming, background art, story
npckc - programming, character art, story
credits

🧊 all music by Hunter Van Brocklin (damifortune)
🧊 associated game by Moonlight Jammers: chunderfins, damifortune (HVB), DonutShoes, NomnomNami, npckc
🧊 cover artwork by NomnomNami 

❄️ bandcamp 🧊

The Creature...

Staff Roll

released for BotB's Spring Tracks XIV event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/split+in+two/77181/

split in two

.it module with vocals! released for BotB's Spring Tracks XIV event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/stasis/77570/

stasis

vocals + LSDJ + guitars + bass + drums! released for BotB's Spring Tracks XIV event: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/cadmium+blue/77610/

cadmium blue

💾 download memories

Mitosis II (Winnower)

Ships Passing

Mitosis I (Futurebuilder)

Starbreaker Heartgazer

Memory Flash

Reemerge

Yesterday Yesteryear

Unfarewell

Outpour

Night Beach 2

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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