The official playlist for OST Composing Jam: PASTIME I, where musicians and composers around the globe are challenged to compose track(s) based on existing music from their favorite video games in just a little over than a week. The theme for the jam is "New Beginnings".

This playlist only contains submissions that are posted on SoundCloud and does not contain the entirety of the jam's submissions. For the full list, please see the jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-i

If you do not see your submission here and have already posted it onto SoundCloud please do not hesitate to contact me through email or Discord.

OST Composing Jam: PASTIME I — New Beginnings

System ST91 - Primordial Ooze - RMX

This song represents a journey. Please sit back and enjoy all of the scenes that come your way. Every new passage represents a new event, from town scenes to battles breaking out! I wanted to make this a powerful experience where you are constantly surprised by what comes next. This project took me 67 hours and represents so many things that I've been through and I couldn't be where I am today without Chrono Trigger. So here it is!

This song is a tribute to Chrono Trigger and Chrono series in general, the main homage here is 'Battle' from Chrono Trigger by Yasunori Mitsuda

Ever Forward - Chrono Trigger

OST Composing Jam: PASTIME I

Prologue - Looming Acappella of Destruction (from Romancing SaGa 3)

Lance - the Chillest City (from Romancing SaGa 3)

Arrangement of the tracks Title Screen and Introduction from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, for OST Composing Jam: PASTIME I.

Original composition: Go Ichinose

Rate here: https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-1/rate/1276848

Title Screen / Introduction (from "Pokémon Diamond and Pearl")

Cover Medley created for the OST Composing Jam: PASTIME I.
Jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-1
itch.io page: https://tk-fjbn.itch.io/eastward-medley-cover

Original composer: Joel Corelitz

Eastward Medley - New Beginning

Astrologers proclaim this winter will be the longest in recorded history, lasting years or even decades. Fresh off an online romance, a young teen hero must embark on a journey to bring back the sun, stir his digital lover out of her seasonal depression, and finally meet in person under the summer sky.

For the OST Composing Jam #3 https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-3

Album art by Chloé Luce Le Moing

Daemon

Two 1990s SquareSoft games that made an enormous impact on my young imagination were Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI (or, as we called it in my day in 'Murica, Final Fantasy III). I always thought the two games' protagonists, Terra and Crono, would make a solid team. I would read the hell out of that fan fiction mashup, particularly if Neil Gaiman went ahead and did it. So Neil, if you're reading this, let's get to it, mkay?

My other main musical influences are certainly at play here, too – the likes of John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, etc. Not coincidentally, those American jazz artists were huge in Japan in the 1980s and '90s, and almost certainly influenced my favorite game composers. It all comes full circle.

Narshe artwork by Orioto, Terra artwork by Mujumonster, Crono artwork by Akira Toriyama.

Crono and Terra Get Beers in Narshe

When I compose and it's kinda ok and it's kinda finished I'll probably upload them here.

Host of @OSTCompJam

Grew up in the glory days of the 90s. My passion for music began on the SNES, and I've never stopped discovering new ways to express my love of evocative melodies. https://www.twine.fm/Tetsu

Ever Forward - Chrono Trigger

Tetsu

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