Untitled Playlist

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

Common Tonalities is an exploration of Southeast Asian tuning systems and scales through modern music technologies for the creation of new music.

Presenting 20 new tracks from 20 musicians around Southeast Asia — from a series of workshops led by Khyam Allami.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.goethe.de/prj/nus/en/art/cmt.html

Yaboi Hanoi - ชิงชัย Ching Chai  (Spirit Of Combat)

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

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

Soundtrack for the F!M&ÜD cooperation of the same name (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68775); second place at the Demobit 2017 demo compo.

I really wanted to do a deep/dark breaks track for a long time with a nice long breakdown, so I suggested to Pasy to work on something together and I'm quite happy with the end result.

Big up https://soundcloud.com/futurefunksquad and https://soundcloud.com/simon_shackleton

Download at http://gargaj.umlaut.hu/music/Gargaj__Margin_of_Error.ogg

Margin of Error

Valaisia Brass Band's winning performance at the 2017 British Open.

British Open 2017

Fraternity - Valaisia Brass Band - British Open 2017

64k track; http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=72755

Gimmik rules.

Fun fact: some of the glitchy sound design were originally rejected from https://soundcloud.com/gargaj/unintended-consequence

Soundtrack for the 360 video animation "In The Mind" by Veronika Harangozó: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PllxQGa9S9E

I've been approached for this through a mutual friend; the brief was to score an animation with electronic music that accompanies schizophrenia and hallucinations - after some discussion I decided to go to a more demoish beat-driven rather than a strictly cinematic approach.

Imprint

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]

ICL

Gargaj