electronic

Tracks made with my 64k synth (MVX)
All of these tracks can be represented as an Windows executable file not greater than 32 kilobytes, mostly to mask the fact about how crap they really sound.

64k tracks

Executable music entry for Revision 2011, which it eventually won. About 27k including everything, most of it being the movie sample which you probably can't make out unfortunately.

This track was a tricky one to do - I had to go against a lot of my preconceptions of how or why should I make music, and ultimately a lot of the credit must go to http://soundcloud.com/dshmusic for reassuring me in the last minute that I really should just follow my instinct and go ahead with whatever I feel like adding to the tune, instead of being held back by preconceived ideas.

All in all I think this is one of my favorite tracks of what I've done.

Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/gargaj-thebreakgoeson.zip
reLive version at http://relive.nu/onsite/track-1-2j-cz

The Break Goes On

Soundtrack for the Conspiracy 64k "Offscreen Colonies" available at http://conspiracy.hu/release/64k/offscreen_colonies/

This was done in a very short time but it was all the more fun and challenge to work on this - the brief was "slightly retro, uplifting, slowish", so I tried to make it sound like a bit of an 80s sci-fi movie endscroller track. Despite some serious micromanagement to fit the future visuals, I'm very very happy with the end result.

Inspiration credits go to https://soundcloud.com/sinister-souls and of course https://soundcloud.com/hybridsoundsystem

Download available from
http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj_-_Onwards_Fading_Future.mp3
http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj_-_Onwards_Fading_Future.flac

Excerpts from the Conspiracy Micromanagement Council minutes:

[10:50:01] BoyC: az 54. mp-ben van 3 hang ami egymas utan emelkedik, abbol a harmadik az nem kene, akar ki is veheted sztem
[10:50:46] BoyC: a lead 12. hangja ha jol szamolom

[12:03:28] Zoom: sztem az a keccermondmindent is hozzaad a mintankban a meltosagteljesseghez
[12:03:49] Gargaj / Conspiracy: na ezt a mondatot most nem ertettem :)
[12:03:58] BoyC: ense

[12:20:59] Zoom: ez javulo tendencia ja de meg mindig tul dallamosnak erzem
[12:21:13] Gargaj / Conspiracy: szerintem megin nem a megfelelo szot hasznaltad :)
[12:21:19] Zoom: lehet :)

Onwards Fading Future

Soundtrack for Chaos Theory (http://chaostheory.conspiracy.hu), a 64k intro by Conspiracy
Download MP3 at https://conspiracy.hu/files/music/Gargaj_-_Rude_Awakening_-_Chaos_Theory_soundtrack.mp3
Additional downloads at http://conspiracy.hu/release/64k/chaos_theory
Listen to the sequel at https://soundcloud.com/gargaj/unintended-consequence

Bassline tutorial available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEY04Ucc-k

So I just realized I never actually wrote an editorial here so here goes: This particular track was pretty much done as a reaction - we released our intro "Memento" in early 2006 and the reaction wasn't stellar. People hated the synth and the music, which was a bit heartbreaking because it was my first job working on a 64k soundtrack for Conspiracy - I was angry and hurt. At the same time, at the same party, I entered a ~1800 byte exemusic entry called "Demise" which was very much a proof of concept of doing these huge basslines in small sizes.

When we started working on Chaos Theory, I was very much driven by my recent introduction to https://soundcloud.com/blacksunempire/ - the influence was pretty tangible. At the same time I meshed influences from mainstyle hardcore I was getting into (https://soundcloud.com/djthaplayah/tha-playah-fuck-tha-fame by https://soundcloud.com/djthaplayah/ just came out at the time), and for some reason I felt a strong influence by Dream Theater at the time too, which I can't explain.

The response to this track was absolutely overwhelming, and to this day I'm not entirely sure what resonated with people or why, but I'm glad that it did.

"Nem ártott volna, ha egy _zenész_ csinálja." -nagz

Rude Awakening

Soundtrack for the Conspiracy 64k intro "Actuator"
Download a WAV-writer at https://conspiracy.hu/files/music/ak28r_wavwriter.zip

I guess I took the "make something like this" mission statement slightly too literally on this one: http://soundcloud.com/kraddy/steppin-razor

The Rewind

Soundtrack for the Still 64k "Invoke" (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50135)
Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj__Boraros_ter_923.ogg
The title is a reference to a square in Budapest where I used to wait at 1-2AM for the night bus (number 923) to arrive quite often during the period I was writing the tune. The bus only came every hour so I would need to spend that period sitting in a bus stop. The square itself, as many others, is populated with homeless people, kebab stands, slightly irredentist drinking establishments and dirt, but what made it admirable for me is how "organic" it was - it felt it wasn't prone to trouble, everyone knew the way and routine, and it all evolved into a system.
The track is one of the first 64k tracks to use "glitch" i.e. granular editing. A huge chunk of influence belongs to edIT's amazing first album (http://soundcloud.com/edit/sets/crying-over-pros-for-no-reason). Also, if you think the melody reminds you of The Birthday Massacre, you are very correct.

Boráros tér 923.

Second place at the Breakpoint 2009 executable music compo.
Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/gargaj-distantsweethorizon.zip


...what could I say...

Distant Sweet Horizon

Winner of the Breakpoint 2010 newschool executable music competition - 17k executable including .WAV-writer
Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/gargaj-commencecollapse.zip
Hear the (slightly shortened) compo version "live" at https://relive.nu/reLove/#track-1-17-1Qo

There's not much to say about this one, and at the same time there is.

Commence/Collapse

Soundtrack for the Ümlaüt Design 64k "Träsh"
Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj__Grimesphere.ogg

This track came about when one day I was wondering if we should make a 64k intro and what the concept would be. Eventually I remembered that back in 2003, TGD made a parody of our naming scheme, joking that our next intro would be called "Träsh". Since I thought it's a good name, I began to think about what kind of design would fit, and eventually narrowed it down to "grimy, dirty, sewer-style".
I'm not sure what the influence was the music for, I'm pretty sure the feel for the beat came from the Prodigy remix of "Release Yo Delf", and the glitchy editing was just something I always enjoyed (BT, Tipper, Infected Mushroom...). I believe this was in fact the first 64k intro ever to do that.

Grimesphere

Produced by: Kerry Chambers & Tee Krispil
Written by: Tee Krispil & Gohj-ji
Mastered by: Kerry Chambers

Swallowed Ft. Gohj-ji

Winner of the Revision 2012 executable music compo.

Music and arrangement by http://soundcloud.com/h0ffman / http://soundcloud.com/unstablelabel
Synth, additional music, sound design, mixdown and mastering by Gargaj

Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/h0ffman%2Bgargaj_-_double_trouble.zip
reLive version at http://goto.relive.nu/track-1-4s-gu

BRAP!

h0ffman & gargaj - double trouble

16k executable music for Solskogen 2012.

I might not have been in the best of moods nowadays. In any case, big up to http://soundcloud.com/rawthang !

Download: http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/gargaj-groundup.zip
Obligatory reLive link: http://goto.relive.nu/track-1-5W-u8

Ground Up

Polyurethane audio breeder / semi-organic code regurgitation trooper.

I specialize in the genre of "not very good music". The account says "Pro" but that's a lie.

"Ő Gargaj, aki csak kedvtelésből készít zenéket, egyébként programozó." [colorStar]

"You know you would be considered to be a witch in the 18th century? Your taste in music is evil." [Irvin]