Name: Koji Kondo - Yoshi's Island - 'Room Before Boss' & 'Kamek's Theme' by Good Ol' Mothy
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Description: Note the little homage to Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard at the beginning, just to play up the contrast. Oh, I had fun with this one.

Batman Meets Two-Face

In the late nineties I did several soundtracks for the games of Velez & Dubail, published by Infogrames. At first I would also do the sountrack for Wacky Races, but they needed a really fast sound driver, as the game would be some of the most advanced ever for the console (just check it, it's amazing). Unfortunately my driver was too slow for what they needed, and writing a new and faster one was far out of schedule and budget.

The tracks you hear are the first test, just to check if the game could deal with the sound driver CPU consumption. The tunes only use 2 channels (+ noise), as one entire channel had to be reserved for the sound of the car engine. They use many stereo effects, so be sure to put your headphones on.

In the end the job went to Manfred Linzner who did a wonderful work.

Wacky Races - test tracks (GBC, 1999, unreleased)

This is one of the few soundtracks I composed directly for Infogrames. They used it twice, first in "Martian Alert!" and one year later in "Martian Revenge". The games were also named in other countries "Alert!" and "Marvin Strikes Back!"

Note that the names I've set are the originally intended, not the actual stages of the game.

Looney Tunes Collector - Martian Alert! - complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 2000)

I wanted to teach myself how to use Audiosnap (a timing repair tool) in Sonar. So instead of faking a sloppy take and adjusting for rhythm, i sampled Lemongrab from Adventure Time into an entirely new composition. I am going to bed beaming tonight at how well this came out. Oh my god! I hope you like it too.

Help me pay my mortgage: http://1051.bandcamp.com/track/unacceptable-condition

Unacceptable Condition (feat. Lemongrab)

Note the little homage to Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard at the beginning, just to play up the contrast. Oh, I had fun with this one.

Koji Kondo - Yoshi's Island - 'Room Before Boss' & 'Kamek's Theme'

Good Ol' Mothy

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