Name: Lakes & Menus by gstdaisuki
Duration: 9 min 22 s
Description: Lakes and menus. What do these have in common? Latin elements in their background music, perhaps? Bossa nova? Let’s take a listen.

Today, we're looking at the career of John Hancock, from his origins as pianist writing chiptunes to his transformation into a dubby techno powerhouse.

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Artist Feature #27: John Hancock

Listening to all of the SMS/GG soundtracks, I noticed an interesting trend: a lot of songs would create this looping, spinning, shimmering soundscape. It worked really well with the square waves on these systems, so I’d like to highlight that sound today!

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GG Spinning Squares

Square waves are pretty good at creating a spinning, “shimmering” soundscape, but sometimes, I want it to go further. I want some varied timbres. So I arranged a few tunes! Let’s take a listen!

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Assorted Arranged Arps

Today we're exploring the works of Traz Damji, one of the many musicians responsible for making sports game OSTs go hard!

Artist Feature #28: Traz Damji

I love video game music that could work on the dancefloor. But, sadly, the humble Game Gear has a tinny bass-less sound chip, so it can’t drop any bass. But maybe you can still go hard anyway? Let’s take a listen!

This Handheld Can Make Banger Tunes (i swear)

The Game Gear has some amazingly dancefloor-ready arrangements that are stuck inside a doorbell tier sound generator. Today, we’re giving some 90s synths to these tunes. Time to jam.

Extracting the Rave from Game Gear

Paul Wilkinson is probably best known for his first ever score, which is unfortunate because he’s done way more, and way better. Let’s take a look!

Artist Feature #29: Paul Wilkinson

Today, we're looking at a few jazzy selections from the Game Gear. Maybe. I mean... it could be jazz. Perhaps. You'll see what I mean.

Dubiously Jazzy Beeps

Today, we’re looking at some jazzy 8-bit Sega tunes... in the form of a MIDI medley. (Made with real MIDI!)

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Paul “Z80GameCoder” Hutchinson grew up surrounded by pirate radio in London, and he brought some of that with him to Sega of America. Let’s take a look at some newly uncovered examples!

Artist Feature #30: Paul Hutchinson

Lakes and menus. What do these have in common? Latin elements in their background music, perhaps? Bossa nova? Let’s take a listen.

Lakes & Menus

Game SoundTracks, lovingly curated by theme.
This is just the audio portion of my video mixes, so do check out my youtube channel for the full experience!

Lakes & Menus

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