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Created Wed 07 Feb 2007.

I tried to recreate the M&B sounds with the Microkorg.

Microkorg Experiment | Megaman and Bass - Museum

A forgotten collab between me and Circuit created late last year that was left unfinished until I just recently finished it by looping it.  This was originally going to be "Menstrual Hadoken" but there was a huge change in sound.  Menstrual Hadoken here --->https://soundcloud.com/dj-cneulic/tranquil-asphyxia-dj-cneulic

Tranquil Asphyxia [Dj CneulicXDj Circuit] - PimeTaradox [2012]

Chilled out, deep, funky, filter house.

http://youtu.be/MYwB0AB1jDk

Guitar performance: https://soundcloud.com/paulbethers
Keys & Programming: Pejman Roozbeh

A reimagination of Metallic Madness and Special Zones of Sonic CD. Part of the OCRemix compilation album, "Temporal Duality". The entire album can be downloaded here: http://soniccd.ocremix.org/

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Join the Fight!! OverClocked ReMix celebrates Mega Man®'s 25th anniversary with our first commercial album, For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man!! For this fully-licensed collection of arrangements, we've partnered with Capcom & taken on music from the first game of each Mega Man® series! Twenty-one tracks from OC ReMixers arranging music from Mega Man® classic, X, Zero, ZX, Legends, Battle Network, and Star Force! Electro, trance, ambient, rock, funk, & more, paying homage to one of the greatest video game series of all time!

2-04 Mega Man Battle Network - ectogemia - Amps Macabre

FS-471 Wwise Interactive Music implementation assignment.
update: Video of implementation here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtXrKpW7G4&hd=1
remix version: http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/be-wild

Credits:
Sean Folk - Piano
Nikhil Hogan - Acoustic Guitar
Ethan Lee - Guitar Solo (SECRETS LOL)

THE BAND!!!
Guitars - Fake Falk
Bass - Fake Falk
Drums - Fake Falk (yeah you get the idea)

When thinking of what game to score for my Wwise interactive music assignment, I had the bright idea a few months ago to try to do a Sonic the Hedgehog level. Firstly, because it was a no brainer, but secondly - Japanese games have had a cultural precedent of barely touching interactive scoring compared to western titles. On the flip-side, this allows the composer to do what he does best, which is create memorable melodies and hooks you can hum along to that aren't limited by the 'loose' requirements that interactive scoring demands.

While the goal of 'interactivity' and 'memorability' seem to pull in opposite directions, Sonic levels are (for better or worse) on rails, and more importantly at points they funnel you through one-way sections, meaning that I could apply a basic song form concept, assigning each part of a song to each part of a level, making sure the sections can loop around seamlessly, and then writing appropriate transitionary sections that can be jumped to from the end of each phrase within a section.

I chose Spagonia as my level, and there are many tie-ins of the composition to the level. For instance, while the violin lead parts were a feature of the original track, I maintained that as a means of tying the track to the European vibe of the level.

Since musical sync to the level is the essence of this project, one of the transition segments is the clock tower climb and subsequent grind (which conveniently enough is one-way) and is characterized by the breakdown section and guitar solo.

There's also a whole bunch of little musical cameos that connoisseurs of fans of Sonic music throughout the past 20 years -should- be able to pick up on (I hope!) be it from the 16-bit games, Sonic Adventure, hell even Sonic X anime.

This is only Stage 1 of the assignment. There's a shit ton of other stuff I still need to do before the project is deemed complete, and no, I'm not talking about implementing it in Wwise. Stay tuned!



Be Cool

My 2nd submission to Project VGM, the hometown of Thena.

"A small, peaceful town of the Wesdrow nation. Upon reaching adulthood, citizens are required to enlist in Wesdrow's reserve militia. While the town has maintained this loyalty to Wesdrow over the years without much protest, the town itself sits far from the dangers of large-scale war. It is surrounded on one side by a forest and opens into the Faris Plains on the other."


Composed/piano performed by Aivi Tran
Guitar written/performed by Anthony Morgan
Contrabass performed by Stéphanie Desbourdes (Dentelle)

A'deo Chronicle - Thena (feat. Anthony Morgan & Stéphanie Desbourdes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmf5EsGfFWs

First stage of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

I went with a Sonic CD vibe for this one, with emphasis on clouds and rain.

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Rivulets - For Hilltop Heights Act 1

Versão Acústica da Aquatic Ambience. Donkey Kong Country. SNES. 

Acoustic version of Aquatic Ambience. Donkey Kong Country. SNES. 

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Aquatic Ambience - Donkey Kong Country

Lost Knights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Z9whouusI

Act 2 of the first Zone of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

In many ways Rivulets (Hilltop Heights Act 1 music) is iconic of Before the Sequel as a whole - It's the first piece of music (other than the title screen) that people will hear, and it sets the mood of the game as 'something wildly different from the typical Sonic experience' (as opposed to starting with a Green ____ trope for example).

For Act 2, I decided to retain a lot of familiarity with Act 1's music. I think this should help that feeling of 'a new adventure' to fully sink in, while at the same time building up the intensity level.

p.s. This track has arguably the most recognizable Sonic music cameo so far out of all the stuff I've done for BTS. :V

* http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Downpour - For Hilltop Heights Act 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92s47PQNw8Y

Act 3 of the first Zone of this awesome fangame. It's out and you can play it now*; we're making a 2012 special edition with an original score for SAGE 2012.

If Rivulets (Act 1 music) was characteristic of Before the Sequel as a whole, and Downpour (Act 2 music) built on it, this track would be a step towards building expectations for the OST in general. I wanted to, early on, expose players to the full range of genres that could be represented in the soundtrack and dissuade any preconceptions on what a 'retro'-style game had to sound like. Sonic CD was 1992 and its two OSTs fit so well with the game despite it being 224p 16-bit fare.

This was an interesting track to work with. I discovered halfway through working with Act 2's music that the rap I was working with actually mentioned "Rainbows" and "Prisms"- a fact that I didn't know when I was just using its chorus "Feel the Beat" section for Act 1. It worked alongside the orchestral-ish rendition perfectly for Act 3's lighter mood. Kinda funny how things turn out.. ;p Despite the rain being gone, I still get a very chilly vibe from the overall zone coloration (nevermind that it's really Hilltop Zone tiles in the foreground). Hopefully the music conveys that well.

I also threw in Green Hill again like I did with Act 2, except as a feature rather than a hidden easter egg. Musical quotes from Sonic music is going to be another staple for this OST, as it really is my homage to the franchise in general.

* http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7437

Prismatic - For Hilltop Heights Act 3

Writing the music for Tails' first boss was quite thought provocative. There were quite a few things to consider.

The first is the fact that unlike Sonic, Tails is completely new at this. It's the first real hint of serious adversity in his new adventure. 

The second is that, like the next Tails boss, (which is a pure Rotatatron homage; we're keeping the track from Colors for that boss, even - the entire zone is a series of homages) this boss involves some rotating mechanics. Lake and I decided really early on that dance music would work really well as a 'leitmotif' for the unique badnik that Tails repeatedly faces off for his bosses, the way Sonic's battles with Eggman all borrow from speed-heavy genres. I needed to build up an expectation for Tails' boss music in general.

With that in mind, this short-ish piece is actually two themes. The first is House-ish, rotary, simplistic, all elements which represent the boss. The second half is a retro, Saturn-ish trailblazing theme, with a somewhat awkward trumpet taking the lead. New at this, it's still unsteady and unsure, but it's going to try its best regardless. This section represents Tails, as he sets off on his new adventure pursuing Sonic.

p.s. M.O.A.B. = My Own Adventure Begins

M.O.A.B. - For Star Shores Boss Act

Written for Metro Madness Zone Act 1 of Sonic Before The Sequel.

We're going back to the 90s.. the 70s.. today.

Violin performed by Lacy Rostyak

Metro Madness Act 1

Written for Metro Madness Zone Act 2 of Sonic Before the Sequel.

Progressive House tempo with a hybrid of electro house and funky disco house.. I guess all major House genres are crammed into this 90 second loop.

Metro Madness Act 2

Original track written for Metro Madness Act 3 of Sonic Before The Sequel.

Depths of the city, industry, clanking steel.. Dubstep.

Metro Madness Act 3

Written for Metro Madness Boss of Sonic Before The Sequel.

For the boss, had to take it to Techno. Square wave acid lines, jazz funk chords drenched all over, pizzicato violin B section sampling, we're going everywhere and nowhere in 60 seconds.

Metro Madness Boss

Written for Titanic Tower Zone Act 1 of Sonic Before The Sequel.

Just plain fun. High times and good vibes here. Stylized vintage mode. Moog leads, Rhodes chords, grooving bass, disco strings, disco toms, wah guitar transitions, and best of all… filters. Capture that French Disco House sound here and enjoy the rest of your day, or life. :)

Titanic Tower Act 1

Written for Titanic Tower Zone Act 2 of Sonic Before The Sequel.

Put on your sun shades and go out for a night drive. We're going back to the 80s with this lush, pumping, driving get sweaty at the gym run after your dreams anthem!

Titanic Tower Act 2

2-piano remix of Stephen White's awesome song, "V-Kick Madness" from the Break Blocks OST. This was so much fun to arrange!

ShostakoV-Kick (Break Blocks Cover)

Jazzy interpretation of "The Tale of the Kalendar Prince" by Rimsky-Korsakov, for the game 1931: Schenerazade a the Library of Pergamum.

http://scheherazadegame.com

The Jazzy Prince (Rimsky-Korsakov Cover)

Unapologetically funky.

Written for Tech Tree Act 1 of Sonic ATS.

Rocks Like This

Chillax sex music.

Written for Tecnology Tree Act 2 of Sonic ATS.

Stellar Lights

Retro 90s Trip Hop.

Written for Technology Tree Act 3 of Sonic ATS.

Freefall

Dark space disco funk.

Written for Technology Tree Boss Act of Sonic ATS.

Wolf Rayet

The older version was done over the course of about 8 months so there's a huge discrepency in sound/production quality across the set. A couple of weeks ago I decided to give them another pass and get live soloists so they sound way more consistent. This revisit is what eventually made it into the mod release.

Could probably have made it sound even closer to the originals, but eh, diminishing returns, plus I really, REALLY, need to finish ATS soundtrack. Like. ASAP. To you dudes who have been waiting extra patiently for that, I got sidetracked by a couple of career-related offers I absolutely can't turn down (Working with/for people you've very likely heard game music by) but yeah, last stretch on home ground for ATS.

Enjoy.

Soloists:
Violin - Ting-Ru Lai
Flute - Rachel Dziezynski - rdziezynski.wix.com/main
T.Sax - Chris Burgess - http://soundcloud.com/cburgess1


Sonic Unleashed WHITE SPACE MEDLEY

Intro music.

ATS Intro: "A Matter of Pomp"
BTS Intro: "Circumstance"

Remix/Mashup: Pomp and Circumstance

I'M A GENIUS THANKS FOR PLAYING

Special thanks to Andre and KgZ.

A Matter of Pomp

Funk so great it comes from Fiction.

Video Game Music Credits: No Straight Roads, Epitasis, Cytus II, Crypt of the Necrodancer.