The 8-Bit Guy made, as you probably already know, a new game - Attack of the Petscii Robots. It's available for the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, Apple IIgs and Atari/Commander X16.

Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However,  in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.

Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.

Attack of the Petscii Robots - The Alternate Soundtrack

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 3: The Village

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 7: More Islands

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 9: Forest Moon

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/qA6M9yEB8yU

Lyrics: Gina Evjen, Kristine Frøberg
Vocals: Kristine Frøberg
Music: Anders Enger Jensen, Kristine Frøberg
Guitars: Håvard Caspersen
Arrangement, recording, mixing, mastering: Anders Enger Jensen

LYRICS:
Verse 1: 
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.

Verse 2:
Hold your breath, it’s still too early.
Don’t disclose yourself.
Mystic stranger sweet seduce my open ears.

Bridge:
Let go off your mask.
Let them see your face.
Silver silent lovers’ language reveals itself.

Verse 3:
Use reflections of your feelings.
Build the letters’ sense.
See how easy verbal pictures coming through to you.

Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!

Verse 4:
Don’t spill out the words I’ve spoken,
keep them hidden well.
Make them flourish in your verbal garden.

Counter Point:
Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disguise.
Collect my purple poems too,
and drape them all around you.

Let my words undress your eyes.
I will show you in disquise.
Collect my purple poems too,
bedazzle all of you!

Chorus:
To all silver silent lovers: Language hides behind the shade.
Let your lips confess, it’s a metaphoric masquerade!
Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!

(Guitar solo)

Souly flavoured, sweetly darling. All of the words that we played.
In the poem’s frame, we made the merry masquerade!

Masquerade EP

Masquerade

Music from Demoparties 2021
For Assembly Winter 2022
Mixed by Byproduct, visuals by Closedeyevisuals
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQhoHIRiK0

Tracklist:
00:00 Aikapallo - Sons of Mars (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)
https://soundcloud.com/von-currenter-aikapallo

1:26 Alkama - Arcade (in Arcade by Spectrals - Windows demo at Revision Online 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/alkama

4:00 Mygg - Synthvester (in Synthvester by Bitbendaz - Windows demo at Silvester 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/8-bitmosquito

6:05 Roz - Nuances (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)
https://soundcloud.com/rotsten

7:06 Oerg866 - The Cave (Oldskool Music at Revision Online 2021)

8:38 AceMan & Maze - Evolution (Tracked music at Shadow Party 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/aceman_pl
https://soundcloud.com/user-902495696

11:06 Ihanalammas - Lasertree (Streming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)

12:26 Hogzz - No time (Freestyle music at The Gathering Online 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/hogzz

14:45 Higher (than) - Jazzy Bits (Streaming music at Function 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/higher_than_dnb

18:11 Datacoma - Dayless (Freestyle music at The Gathering 2021 Online)

20:10 Wobble - Driftwood (Streaming music at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/best-url-ever

21:42 Chaser - Aurea (in Aurea by Madwizards & Radiance - Windows Demo at Xenium 2021)

24:07 PsychNerd - Triptych 3.03 (The Sound of SceneSat volume 6)
https://soundcloud.com/psychnerd

28:47 Cosmiq - Cicada (Streaming music at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/cosmiq

31:37 Vincenzo - Inversion (in Inversion by Rebels - Windows demo at Deadline 2021)

34:24 Evade - Last Goat Standing (in Last Goat Standing by Noice - Amiga demo at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/lonerandarebel

38:03 Turbo Knight - Meatgrinder (Breakbeats in the mix at Névoke 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/turboknight

40:52 Retroid - Ghosts of Rakis (Streaming music at Function 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/retroid

43:30 CS-Jay - Arpeggiators Included (Streaming music at Outline 2021 Online)

47:25 Volkor X - For Victory! (in Holo Grail by Holo Sapiens - Wild Demo at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/volkor-x

52:23 Jeenio - My Wooden Lover (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/jeenio

Music from Demoparties 2021

Gravik - Zero Point Field

Grapes of Wrath Redux - Stereolithica 673

Thanks for listening :) Another chillwave attempt...

Evenings

XM Remake time!

Nothing too fancy about this one, just a good excuse to build some floaty pads in Harmor. The intricacies of layering pads is a great challenge in both sound design and arrangements, especially when there's not really anything interesting happening melody-wise.

I ended up straightening the bassline significantly, since the drums are frantic enough on their own. The drum kit is just a pitched-up smashed Superior Drummer kit with a synthetic kick for that sweet sub.

Original XM: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=152061

Gazela

Just a modular jam and recording test with no mastering or adjustments

Random Modular Jam

If ODYSSEY was a video game...

A year in the making, Odyssey is an adventure/RPG type music album filled with the ambience of different zones that exist within the world. 

This is the first album I've made completely on an iPad. It came with it's limitations but overall it was the most fun I've ever had making music hands down.

Beautiful album art done by the talented Jubilee:
Website: 8pxl.co
Twitter: twitter.com/16pxl

Mastered by Grant Henry (Stemage):
Website: www.stemagemusic.com
Twitter: twitter.com/Stemage

ODYSSEY

VERTIGO

Electronic musician from Norway. I started playing piano/keyboards in the mid 80s. After a few years at the municipal music school, I quickly grew tired of the simple piano-only education and got to move on to classes with keyboards and synths. From the early beginning with Technics K-200 rhythm keyboard from 1983 via some Casios/Hohner keyboards, I evolved with the later Technics KN-1000 and KN-2000 before moving on to Roland XP-50. As the computer revolution made DAWs affordable, 1999 made sequencing using Cubase easy and the studio grew ever larger with more outboard gear. Today the studio has become a sizeable and functional MIDI/arranging studio with over 40 synths/modules and more centered around a MacPro with MOTU’s Digital Performer, and numerous more or less famous productions.

I have always had a musical approach towards sound engineering and composing, rooted mainly in vivid harmonic structures and saturated compositions. Inspiration has always been the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Eric Serra to name a few giants in the electronic scene, but also a heart towards well produced pop music from the 70s and 80s as well as epic film scores from John Williams, Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer. The baby era of computer music from the late 80s and early 90s was also a heavy influence.