scizor switch

Personnel:
Wan - Songwriting, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
Drazil - Songwriting, Music Box, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion
Francesbrumes - Songwriting, Drums & Percussion
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Songwriting, Lyrics

I Could Have Lied

Personnel:
Fauxx - Keyboards, Drums
Drazil - Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Steel Drums, Percussion
Frances - Subbass, Clarinet
SlendStone - Keyboards, Bass, String Arrangements

Old Joe (Ft. SlendStone)

Written by James Willis, Ash Wynn, Raiju, Paprivcka
Sung by James Willis
Instruments by James Willis, Raiju, Paprivcka
Mixed by Raiju
Single cover art by James Willis

Lyrics:
Yellow bird takes flight
Through a haze of perplexing sights
About a dozen chained-down lobotomites
Who have wealth in trade for their human rights
The ground made his talons hurt
Much harder than soil and much colder than dirt
Slipped in the sweat of an overworked
Low salary man full of hunger and thirst

Down below, an amber glow ignites
All the gizmos and gadgets hissed and then he took flight
But the worker, far distanced from day and night
Stared so empty at the screen, and it's blaring blue light
The little bird noticed there were nine at every cubicle
With several being wheeled out like a twisted pharmaceutical
The scared little thing tried to whistle something musical
The worker blew his brains out, he was just another numeral

Work is good
And love is bad
This is what
We teach our class

Work is good
And love is bad
This is what
We teach our class
Contract doesn't
Pay for cries
Extinguishing
Soul and spite

Little bird
So bright and live
Flying up
Far in the sky
We only leave
When we die
Then they turn us
Into dimes

Working Class ft. Raiju, Paprivcka, Ash Wynn

album art: https://twitter.com/TomasPraestholm
music: @damifortune
track 3 live drums written, performed & recorded by @jaxcheese
track 16 co-written with @doctorn0gloff

Distant Islands: 51 minutes of experimental SNES chiptune, treating the soundchip like the quirky 8-channel sampler that it is; featuring microtonality, glitches galore, heavy manipulation of the chip's available effects and parameters, and unusual, often homegrown sounds. All tracks were recorded straight from a single Super Famicom system, with the exception of live drums layered onto "Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines".

Someone once told me that when I write I "leave keys for distant islands" and the phrase has stuck with me ever since. This is my first full-length, non-compilation album in three years, and I focused on making something that resonated with me personally and employed the kinds of sounds I wanted to hear. I also went all-out in exploring just how strange, incredible, and absurdly messed-up the SNES could conceivably sound. I'd like to think this covers some new, fresh territory in Super Nintendo chiptune, and I hope you enjoy it!

All songs were composed and written to blank SNES ROMs using osoumen's C700 VST (or forks of the VST that add microtonal functionality and extra MIDI tooling), then recorded from my Super Famicom. The rendered audio is lightly mastered for consistency.

Distant Islands

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Barhopping on 31st (with doctorn0gloff)

Lazuline Isle of Lakes

Take A Chance (roland-d50)

my set with @retro-alt @chickensuitgamer slay

Retro, RH, and Chicken at DRIPCAMP 2023 FULL SET

‘Til Tomorrow (Sped Up)

FLOOR BABA - Sexy Toads And Frogs Party

Was originally a commission, but the style changed and I kept this song anyway - I think it's kinda cool. Art by me.

Frozen Plumpkino Zone

A multi-national electronic supergroup formed in 2022. 

James "Wan" Willis: https://soundcloud.com/wanwanwanwanwanwan
Ersatz "Fauxx" Blu: https://soundcloud.com/fauxxcyan
Justin "Merrcen" N.O.: https://soundcloud.com/merrcen
Francesbrumes: https://soundcloud.com/francesbrumes
Drazil: https://soundcloud.com/drazilofficial

I Could Have Lied

Harbingers Of The Dawn

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