LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL: https://youtu.be/H8gchH4mk6I

Almost four years ago, I was asked to make a remix of this by a friend who I'm about 90% confident was joking. I rediscovered their suggestion in late 2020 and decided to actually do it. I'm not particularly attached to the Sonic universe--I loved Sonic X as a kid but I'm not even sure if I've beaten a single game in the franchise. But I still admire some of the characters, and happy hardcore is one of my favorite genres so I actually liked the style of the original track already. My goal was to modernize it while still paying tribute to that 1990s era of happy hardcore it embodies. With the original already being in that genre, calling my bootleg a "happy hardcore remix" is a little redundant, but regardless I haven't made it in a long time, so revisiting it for this project was super fun!

After isolating the vocals from the original I knew I didn't just want to place them in the track plain, so I decided to use a vocoder to give them a weird spin. They're less intelligible, but I liked the sound so I decided to take that sacrifice. Plus, it's not like the lyrics were grammy-worthy writing anyway. I figured it could still be amended with on-screen lyrics in the YouTube video. I also got some help from this brilliantly arranged MIDI, which saved me the time it would have taken to transcribe the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6A8T-NSJs

Thanks for listening! The original song is admittedly ridiculously silly, and the idea of me remixing it has been a joke for a while, so I thought it would be fitting to upload for April Fool's Day. Because this is a bootleg remix that heavily samples the original track, it's not able to be licensed for store distribution, so no streaming services this time. Please credit me if you use this in anything (though I'd be surprised if Content ID didn't come after it).

They Call Me Sonic (Evilgrapez Bootleg)

LISTEN TO THE ORIGINAL: https://soundcloud.com/porter-robinson/do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do

Yup, it's a Nurture bootleg. This is my favorite album of the year so far, going to wait a few months before deciding if it's in my top ten of all time. In other news, grass is green.

Obviously I liked this song quite a bit, and on my third or fourth listen of the album I realized the potential for a DnB remix. I had a FLAC from buying the vinyl, so I dropped that in my DAW and started playing with it. And uh, this happened.

Out of all the remixes and bootlegs I've made over the years, I think this one is more reliant on the original's sound than any of them. I mean, the drop is 80% the original with post-processing and glitch effects. It's a *really* simple project. But I wouldn't have released it if I didn't like how it turned out, and I do think it's still pretty transformative. Fun fact: The nature sounds in this are from the same recording session I did a year ago for Spread Your Wings!

do​-​re​-​mi​-​fa​-​so​-​la​-​ti​-​do (Evilgrapez Bootleg)

Porter Robinson - do​-​re​-​mi​-​fa​-​so​-​la​-​ti​-​do (Evilgrapez Bootleg)

Original track by Scatman John, who you may check out here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrW3wr4Xau3UssnByxsHdCg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4omQQTNN7ILiMsSB2k9eqX?autoplay=true

I was thinking about participating in Novatone's Audioclash, the theme being remixes of classic electronic tracks. Then @Pulvite (who already claimed Scatman) invited me to collaborate with them, so I immediately jumped onto that opportunity. After playing tennis with stems for a month, this is what happened. 

The original song is a wonderful classic, so I hope we did it justice. Also, this is my second 90s bootleg!

Scatman John - Scatman (Pulvite & Evilgrapez Remix)

Happy birthday to me!

Originally I had a giant wall of text explaining my history with this song from BIT.TRIP, why it was so special to me and so on, then I realized that I'm the only person who cares. So uh...I hope you like it!

Fun fact: This is the first and only track of mine so far to use Ableton in any capacity (the ending jingle was made with it then touched up in Mixcraft). No, I'm not switching DAWs yet. It was a one-time thing for a very specific reason.

The fantastic artwork was designed by: twitter.com/Diamond_Alfax

BIT.TRIP Runner - Impetus (Evilgrapez Remix)

FREE DOWNLOAD: https://evilgrapezmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spiral
If you're stopping by to download the track, make sure to leave a like to show some support!

After almost a year of VIPs and remixes, I'm happy to return to original music with Spiral. This was originally intended to be a garage track, but then I got carried away with ideas. Hope you like it!

Artwork designed by: twitter.com/Diamond_Alfax

(I know the phrase "no copyright" is usually a misnomer and what people are actually looking for is music with no royalties for using it in content, but nobody else does, so that's why it's tagged like that)

Spiral

Evilgrapez - Spiral

happy 7 year anniversary :)
It's still March 10th in some timezone, right?

Still got my wings to spread!

Evilgrapez - Spirited Wings

OH GOSH WHY DID I MAKE THIS OH GEEZ THIS IS TERRIBLE AUGH

You Can't Stop The Electric Guitar

This is a song that you don't rate halfway through - listen to the entire thing, and let it fester in your mind a little. You'd be surprised how much your thoughts can change. Enjoy.

~Heartthrob~

Heeey! This is my first attempt at a remix of a song. I'm not sure if this turned out so well or not, but I hope it's at least good for a first! Let me know! :P

Hear the original here: www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/105753

~EnV - Heaven (Evilgrapez Remix)~

Hey guys!! I made this song to celebrate me coming back to the Newgrounds Audio Portal! I think it's really good, and I think I'll make more songs in this style for a while. Hope you enjoy!

~Return Trip~ (I'm back on Newgrounds!!)

Here it is, Terrarium! Making this was a ton of fun and I hope you guys enjoy! This EP was inspired by Terraria's "inside a terrarium" theme so I hope this is cool for all those Terraria fans out there (look up the game sometime because it's awesome)! All the songs have been exported as FLACs instead of WAVs which I did last time so I hope that makes these songs higher quality!

~Sailing The Metal Seas~

Sure, the contest has been over for a long time, and the winners have been decided. But that's not gonna stop me from remixing this awesome track! I hope you enjoy! Let me know how I did! :3

~Nee (Enn Remix)~

Get it on Supportify (free download): supportify.ch/dl/?track=10466

EDIT: Also, don't worry about the tab that says "Buy" - the track's free. Soundcloud just won't let me rename that tab. :P

I loved this song, and two other people were working on remixing it, so I thought I'd revisit it in a remake! I decided to do it in the dance-style of music I do now, and I think it worked out! I really hope you enjoy! :)

Special thanks to miniek for listening to the song beforehand and telling me what he thought of it before I uploaded it! Go say hi to him here: soundcloud.com/miloszkrawczyk

Also, to himhim2340, I tried mixing this up a bit by including some extra instruments and adding the other melody to the mix to make it less repetitive, but I'm not sure if it really worked. I'm sorry if I failed at that. D:

~Revision V2~ (FREE DOWNLOAD IN DESCRIPTION)

FREE DOWNLOAD: supportify.ch/dl/?track=15132

Happy New Year! Here's a little New Years present to all of you. Stay awesome! <3

So, I've been playing a lot of Kirby lately (Kirby's Return to Dreamland ftw), and I kinda wanted to make a track themed around the Kirby Series. I thought the idea of riding on a miniature star that goes faster than the speed of light was really freaking awesome, so I named it Warp Star! Plus, I've been listening to F-777's "Ludicrous Speed" album lately, so I wanted to make something fast-paced anyways. So, this was born!

I tried my best to simulate the lead saw in my favorite song from the album (Ultimate). It doesn't sound exactly like it, but I think it sounds at least close! I used the same piano trick from my Piano Test song I uploaded earlier, too. I decided to make this track shorter than usual. Mostly to stop the extreme repetitiveness, and also because I want to practice my Space Cadet V2 challenge. I also had the trial version of FL Studio installed, so I decided to try and make some drums for the track using it! I know, I sound noobish with the default drumset, but it's a really good set and I wanted to at least do SOMETHING with FL before I uninstalled it. :l

So, uh, that's all I have to say about this one. Enjoy!

Cover art: https://soundcloud.com/miloszkrawczyk
Mastering: Robert VanZandt

~Warp Star~

DOWNLOAD: https://theartistunion.com/tracks/943269

Hey guys, this is a track I wrote for Miniek! Today's his birthday and I wanted to give him something special! It isn't all that great but enjoy anyway! :3

Evilgrapez - Happy Birthday

Happy new year! Here's a little hardcore freebie I wrote during the New Year's Eve celebration to celebrate. Enjoy!

Seventeen

Seventeen (2017 New Year Special)

Original Author: Hirokazu Ando

So, in case you didn't know, this year's the 25th anniversary of my favorite video game series, video game character, one on my biggest inspirations, and my favorite puffball. Kirby!

I really wanted to do something special on the day of his anniversary, but it didn't work out. However, I did make this! Yogurt Yard's theme was always one of my favorites when I played Kirby's Adventure. It's just so darn catchy and happy. When I rediscovered it thanks to a certain channel with extremely high-quality rips, I knew I had to remix it. So I started working on it, and I spent about 24 hours on it (plus a few extra, more worrying hours because I thought the project file was corrupted) before finishing it and calling it a day (literally).

I personally really enjoy it, and I'm glad I got to release something summer-y this summer.

Also, in other, non-relevant news, I picked up my first bass guitar yesterday. Hooray for me!

I'll see you guys around!

Lossless download: https://evilgrapezmusic.bandcamp.com/track/yogurt-yard-evilgrapez-remix

Yogurt Yard (Evilgrapez Remix)

Just a tiny remix I made for fun, while I was sick.

I always thought of Grape Garden as a more slow and sweet-sounding tune, like Kirby's Return to Dreamland's version. I also thought it'd make for a nice remix, so I made this.

Grape Garden's tune always reminded me of "Silver and Gold," from Rudolph.  It has a similar sounding melody. Actually, I'm not sure why I mentioned it because it's not relevant to the remix at all. It's just been in my head for so long that I felt like getting it out. It drove me insane whenever I heard either of these songs because I keep thinking things, like "Hey, that's Silver and Gold!" or "Hey, that's Grape Garden!" So, yeah, that also drove me to write this remix. Now I wonder if I should classify it as a remix of Silver and Gold, too. Hmm.

Hope you like it!

Kirby's Adventure - Grape Garden (Evilgrapez Remix)

Working Title: Bigley's Symphony

I also made a piano version, which you can listen to here: https://clyp.it/wfxsbhxf

Miiverse, a big part of my life for a couple years, is officially closing its doors in a couple days. Looking back, it was a pretty dumb site, but I'm gonna miss it anyway. So, to celebrate its end, I made a medley. Transposing the music took longer than expected, but after that was done the rest came naturally. I used the loading theme, the profile settings theme, and the startup theme for this. I'm not sure if there are any others.

Whatever the case, I hope this brought back some memories for you (that is, if you were even a Miiverse user). Farewell, you horrible social media that I'm going to miss for some reason.

Reminiscence (Miiverse Medley)

Made in three days of panicking.

It's been a really crazy couple of weeks. I left Discord for a while (soon to be Twitter as well), one of my songs got stolen, as a result of the song being stolen Start Up blew up a little on Spotify, and the Nintendo Direct happened and freaking Smash Bros. was revealed. But, I managed to squeeze out a track for today anyway, somehow. I have no idea how, especially considering a lot of the time that should've been spent on this was spent researching and emailing stores about the stolen track. Superpowers?

My third anniversary was coming up, so I brainstormed with myself about what WIPs I could finish. Eventually I realized that I'd wanted to do something new with Azure for a while, so this happened! Azure had a lot of it cut out from the final mix so I used the unused stuff for the base here. It was a lot of fun to make (if not a little stressful, I only remembered about today four days ago) and I experimented a lot with it. I'm pretty happy with what I made here.

It's really crazy that it's been three years already since I first started. A lot's changed. I'm really thankful that you've all stuck with me (it hasn't been a smooth ride for all of it).

With that, I'm focusing on my album and other projects now. No more singles for a while, probably. If I haven't made it clear in the past, I'm very excited for you all to hear the album.

So, with all that being said, I present to you a very experimental and different version of Azure. Here's to the next chapter! Let's make my third year a good one!

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuPrxdmF7k

Download: https://evilgrapezmusic.bandcamp.com/track/azure-evilgrapezs-vip

Azure (Evilgrapez's VIP)

Evilgrapez & Liminal - Azure (Evilgrapez's VIP)

I find it slightly unlucky that when I finally started releasing music again, my Twitter was locked (and it still is, unfortunately). Nonetheless, this originally started when I asked Pulvite for the stems so I could remix the track, and eventually this was made (I think some other people were doing remixes too at one point, but I'm not sure if they're still working on them or they're all dead projects).

I've been looking forward to releasing this one for a while (this was originally the "early June release" I talked about, but it got pushed back). I played with several different sounds and ideas here, and did a lot of different things that was my first time doing in a project (for instance, playing my bass).

Anyway, hope you enjoy it. I'm probably going to be releasing more remakes and remixes, as my originals are focused on my album (which has been changed from a summer release to a "when it's done" release).

Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kjrZfwjOE

Pulvite: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBSQ1TeBaAF6AFNVK31_BVg (@Pulvite)

Stream on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/67TMz3MKmSTQ6i07cxsBfd

From Me To You (Evilgrapez Remix)

Pulvite - From Me To You (Evilgrapez Remix)

Discovery

Prologue

Evilgrapez - Prologue

Start Up (Remastered)

Evilgrapez - Start Up (Remastered)

3GB RAM

Evilgrapez - 3GB RAM

Gamma

Evilgrapez - Gamma

Midpoint (Switching Gears)

Evilgrapez - Midpoint (Switching Gears)

Bonfire

Evilgrapez - Bonfire

Epilogue

Evilgrapez - Epilogue

Behold, the epic story of how I milked a seven second loop dry to make a remix.

95% of this was written in 2019 while I was hard at work on Discovery. I started it because I wanted to take a break from working on the album. To be honest, there's no reason I didn't release it back then. But I'm also kind of glad I didn't, because rediscovering it in my project files was one heck of a surprise. I spent a few days polishing it up, got it licensed, and here we are. Due to this essentially being a remastered 2019 song, it isn't nearly as impressive or complex as my other post-Discovery material, but I'm happy to have it out!

I love the Wii a lot, and I love its music. Everyone knows about the Wii Shop Channel's theme, and it's a popular choice for remixing and mashing up. Hardly anyone brings up the channel's banner music though, and I've never seen it remixed. That was enough motivation for me to get to work. I soon learned why nobody remixed it: Making a full-length piece out of a seven second loop without having it be super repetitive isn't easy.

Regardless of the challenge, I had fun originally making this and remastering it, so I hope you like it!

Wii Shop Channel Banner (Evilgrapez Remix)

This is part of the official remix package for Bonfire. I'm so happy I got to put this together, please click the link and go check out all of the fantastic remixes on it!

I got sick during the last stretch of production on this, so it's less finished and mixed that I want it to be. Nonetheless, here's a VIP of Bonfire! I didn't take the production as seriously as I did on the original (which took almost three years, this was done in a couple months). I was very happy with the original song as it was, and the other remixers were already going to keep the upbeat vibe up, so I thought I'd be weird with mine and instead of trying to write a masterpiece, making something fun instead. Therefore the goal of this track was to answer the questions nobody ever asked or wanted to know the answers to: "What if Bonfire had darker harmonies, was five times as heavy as the original, and also had multiple hard dance sections?"

This is also the first track I've produced in Mixcraft 9, which I finally upgraded to from Mixcraft 8. Automation curves are very nice. Hope you like it--and if you don't there's always the original track and the other remixes.

I will not be uploading the 8-Bit version to SoundCloud due to upload limits.
Artwork by: https://twitter.com/diamond_alfax

Bonfire (Remixes)

Bonfire (VIP)

Evilgrapez - Bonfire (VIP)

As of today, I've been putting music online for six years.

"Rainbow Curse" is one of my oldest tracks (it's nearly five years old), and I've been wanting to remake it for a while. I already made a VIP a long time ago, but there weren't any rules saying I couldn't do that again! It also seemed especially fitting in celebration of my musical anniversary to recreate one of the first songs I wrote that actually had an original melody.

Because of the deadline I kind of speedran this and put it all together more quickly than I usually make a track, meaning a month or so of work.

That doesn't seem very fast, but considering everything else going on in my life at the moment and the technical problems I have to deal with, it's fast for me for a track like this. There were days when I could make more creative music way faster (for instance my VIP of Azure, which was made in a few days), but that's hard for me to do right now for a lot of reasons.

Of course, doing it quickly came with some unfortunate sacrifices. Both drum loops in both drops are full Cymatics drum loops without a lot added to them. I almost always use sample packs for drums anyway but I usually like to put together my own arrangement, combinations of samples, and post-process them a lot. The loop was just supposed to be a placeholder, but as time got tighter they had to serve as the final drums.

I had to rely on a few more presets than I would have liked and the arrangement isn't that creative. It's a lot more similar to the original song than I intended. But I'm happy with it anyway, and I think the quality's still a huge improvement over the original. I don't think it would have won the Art-Inspired Music contest still, but it's not for a contest this time so that doesn't really matter.

The fantastic artwork was designed by: twitter.com/Diamond_Alfax

Prism Curse

Evilgrapez - Prism Curse

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