Buy the album: https://mandrasigma.bandcamp.com/album/hold-it-close

‘Hold It Close’ is an overview of my journey as a music producer. It touches on the pitfalls, ambitions, and promises that you make to yourself throughout the pursuit of being a musician.

As I began writing with a feeling and an atmosphere, I started thinking, “What am I going through while making this? What do I want to talk about? What do I need to talk about? Who else is affected by the same things?”

This album is my answer to these questions.

Thanks to: my ever-supportive friends, family, mentors, and the one reading this :)

Full greetz can be found in my liner notes.

credits
released October 6, 2022

Music, Lyrics, Art: mandrasigma

Album Mastering: aivi & surasshu

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PRODUCED BY
INFLORESCE RECORDS 

infloresce.com

Rainwalker

i was so honored to be asked by the doodle team to do music for their extremely ambitious doodle, celebrating the life of pioneering game tech developer jerry lawson (aka the man responsible for inventing the exchangeable game cartridge, leading the way for the NES, SNES, megadrive/genesis and so on!)

i approached each in-game track with limitations suitable for the time (so the 8bit track and 16bit track are at least somewhat within range of what would be feasible on equivalent hardware of the time)--while the "edit mode" and "menu" tracks are meant to be "outside" the machine, set in jerry lawson's workshop, an optimistic and happy creative mood!

please check out the doodle and read more about jerry lawson's history here: https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

In Game (16bit Version)

Composition, Arrangement, Production: Yoann Turpin. 2023
Artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/latteamoi/art/Magic-shop-743557993

Chiptune/Soundtrack: Magic Shop

Throughout HardSpeed's narrative, there is a group of recurring midbosses who think they are the main villains. I decided to give them their own theme for when they're doing a monologue at you while you're just trying to go about your day.

Lackey

a collection of the first wave of $20 commissions by tohomoko.
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each song's follows the formula: [commissioner] - title
follow all the commissioners here!
twitter.com/GrandGuppyFish
twitter.com/RasterPlan
twitter.com/BBDecIan64
twitter.com/of_citrus
twitter.com/StickFigya
twitter.com/PBSnapple
twitter.com/ZJTrayGamingYT
twitter.com/java_matrix
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follow me here for more toho: twitter.com/tohomoko

[Side Of Citrus] - guy who tends to fall down stairs (but alas, he is afraid of elevators)

Jam Jams 2 is here!

This is another collection of VGM and VGM-inspired works from me. Some of these were one-off commissions or smaller projects, others were tests or experiments that I think are neat and want to send out to the world.

I hope when you listen you can enjoy a trip through various virtual worlds.

Jam Jams 2

Anuran Astrobrew

"Happier times. Before he watched Camdyn disappear under the flood waters, and before the fire.
That was all so far away now, just like her smile and her laugh, they receded into the fog of memory.
Memories were odd. Subjective. They would drift in and out, and assault without rhyme or reason. Memories made everyone who they were, but if one stopped too long to consider every single one, they might've been left wondering who exactly those memories made them."

This is the 'full' version of 'Memory' first heard in Season 1. There are a few new bits and baubles, to signify memories of the past being made clearer, by returning to a long forgotten place. 

Here is the BGM for Qaimusu Village in the PAST - https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/never-stay-the-same-child

Memory - Later

Summer Vacations

Jazz Practice (Robugaa, Jredd & MBtech)

The second (and objectively better) song I made for our entry (me, Jimmyoshi, pedipanol, and raphaelgoulart) to BotB's first ever game jam!

You can find the game here: http://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Sakura+Blast/23217/

And the other collaborators:
https://soundcloud.com/jiyoshi
https://soundcloud.com/pedipanol
https://soundcloud.com/raphaelgoulart

Enjoy!

Sakura Blast OST

Sakura Blast - Stage 2

Was unable to release these songs properly at the time of the album cause of being in the hospital, hope you guys can enjoy this one, I'm still quite proud of it.

Artwork is Metalwork Colossus by Jamie Jones

Jazz Practice (Robugaa, Jredd & MBtech)

Dropbit