Probably my favorite thing you have ever done. Gives me major late 2000s vibes

Super Melrod: The Upload 24

Toby Fox - 'rude Buster'

Spotify version: https://open.spotify.com/album/1XhGT9SrmIX8to8CRagfwR?si=t6jMk4t0Qg2WfVU6BiAcEA

im working on a song that im planning to release on september 20 but until then here is a project that i started in early 2023 and polished and added a few new things to

also i know ive been doing calm songs a lot recently but i promise some funky songs are coming soon,,,

original by koji kondo and nintendo

Fairy's Fountain

Deltarune Chapter 3 - SWORD (FM Cover)

what if it could get darker than dark

Song name: Black Knife (YM2612 + SN76489 Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uHx0POv0GM_PLVQy_-vQ-3_4gYnWgrZV?usp=drive_link

discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
https://johntayjinf.tumblr.com/

ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/johntayjinf

bandcamp
https://johntayjinf.bandcamp.com/

please read the channel description

Black Knife [YM2612 + SN76489]

Black Knife (Cover)

my second favorite theme from these last two chapters
made in FL Studio and partially with Furnace Tracker
coverart by @/xJackTheReaperx

Deltarune Chapter 3 - Black Knife (FM Version)

who up climbing they tower

Song name: Deltarune - Ever Higher (YM2608 Arrangement)
Written by Toby Fox;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19jMinRdEmQsObsSuXgDk-HAG53rjh23W?usp=drive_link

discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
https://johntayjinf.tumblr.com/

ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/johntayjinf

bandcamp
https://johntayjinf.bandcamp.com/

Ever Higher [YM2608]

quick konami-style song i did in between working on other stuff

can opener [2A03]

either you're helplessly swept away by it,
or let it take you places you've never imagined before

Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

disclaimer: this specific song uses puNES emulation for the fds' wavetable synth, so it doesn't sound muffled (and thus not hardware accurate)

downloads
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1j7qQ492X3XjikwpDy1Mryzr-cEhfZH2L?usp=drive_link

discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
https://johntayjinf.tumblr.com/

ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/johntayjinf

bandcamp
https://johntayjinf.bandcamp.com/

then came the wind [2a03 + fds]

this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/156NI7gfaxpFA-xEft74yMqW6rjActtPq?usp=drive_link

discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
https://johntayjinf.tumblr.com/

ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/johntayjinf

bandcamp
https://johntayjinf.bandcamp.com/

grass wonder [s-smp]

Original artist's SC here: https://soundcloud.com/nelward

Soundcloud Covers

seafoam breeze (nelward cover)

Warping Popo

The pic of the Matanuska Glacier, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Matanuska_Glacier_mouth.jpg

All composed, arranged, and produced by me.

Glacier

(reuploaded with better sound balancing)

Started working through Celeste's B-sides recently! Here's to over a thousand deaths in Mr. Oshiro's resort of doom.

How Low, Oshiro

This is a remix of Iteachvader's "Win The Race" video (Original https://youtu.be/xZEPgLkzhwE ) using instruments from the original game and several voice clips by the talented Lex Lang. Sentenced mixed to fit the vocals of the original.
This is also a High Quality Rip on SiIvagunner: https://youtu.be/M4FhzRtzN0A

Yes the ending is in fact the Fortnite Default Dance..... I'm sorry

Win The Race (Crash Bandicoot 2 Remix)

Check out my cousin's EDM channel: @avstmusic
And here's channels of other music friends:  @ianciknight
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~ Composer ~ Producer ~ Pianist/Keyboardist ~ Singer ~

Minimum $50 USD for a custom track/beat/arrangement/remix/etc. Shoot me a DM on here or at epicrpgremixes@gmail.com if you're interested~

My musical influences in alphabetical order:      
Aphex Twin, Art of Noise, the Beatles, Ben Cullum, Boys Noize, Bruford, the Buggles, Cusco, Dave Oleksiak (my uncle), David Wise, Death Grips, Debussy, Depeche Mode, Dominique Guiot, Dvorak, ELP, the Follin Brothers, Genesis, Gershwin, Go Ichinose, Hip Tanaka, Hitomi Sato, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Ichiro Shimakura, Jake Kaufman, J Dilla, John Zorn, Junya Nakano, Kanye West, Kapustin, Kfaraday, Keishi Yonao, Lauren Bousfield, Leonard Bernstein, Madness, Manabu Namiki, Masashi Hamauzu, MSTRKRFT, Moondog, Morricone, Mort Garson, Motoi Sakuraba, Nobuo Uematsu, Pat Metheny, Pilotredsun, Rush, Ryota Koduka, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Saitama Saisyu Heiki (SSH), Shinji Hosoe, Shoji Meguro, Squarepusher, Steve Reich, Vangelis, Vince DiCola, Wang Chung, Wendy Carlos, William Bonney, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura, Yuzo Koshiro

Glacier

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