this chord progression has bugged me for years so I finally decided to spend some time trying to remake it

then I ended up remaking the whole song. oops. accidental cover woo!!

Metropolis Street Racer - Menu (Cover)

2023.6.24llrec21.18.7

Nothing of note happened. So we just won't talk about it. This track was made for the SampleMancers collaboration album! Please listen to the full thing over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzDUVdToq4s, with all the tracks and samples up for grabs over here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Gk_WbRw8pzHqP4WwHaQoWLXJpPomV5y

All the songs were really good!!

As always, you can download the module from my site over here: https://catonator.net/works/trackers/files/PsychicPicnic.xm

Sorry btw that the old links got broken when  I reorganized my site. I'll try to fix it soon.

Tools used:
ModPlug
FL Studio (used to mix, eq & master track in post)

Psychic Picnic

Track 7 of POWER! SampleMancers, a compilation album in which we made a bunch of original samples then proceeded to only use these samples.

EXODINUM IMBALANCE

My first of two tracks for the DTM MIDI Central POWER! SamplerMancers collab album I hosted. Join the fun: https://discord.gg/SGdKSGn

FULL COLLAB ALBUM STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzDUVdToq4s
DOWNLOADS (FLAC/MP3/SAMPLE PACK + LINER NOTES): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-Gk_WbRw8pzHqP4WwHaQoWLXJpPomV5y

This was largely inspired by old crazy DnB programming, but I wanted to add my own twist to it by doing it on an SPC700. Fitting 26 samples(!) into 38KB feels like magic wizardry, and then managing to get a full 5 minute song going on that poor machine was brutal. But I am certain the results paid off, and am in love with this song.

POWER! SampleMancers

Riffmancers

My entry to 'POWER! SampleMancers'

This song was composed in Sekaiju using my Yamaha TX16W sampler, utilising my Digitech DSP 256XLII and circuitbent Fostex DE1 effects units, then multitrack recorded into Cakewalk.
My bestie dusthillresident who is also on this album helped figure out some of the harmony and gave me useful feedback, without her it wouldn't be finished!

Full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzDUVdToq4s
YT Upload: https://youtu.be/xDOWgLERKFY

Capisce-koma (POWER! SampleMancers)

Transcription by Me.

My MIDI repository.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/5/folders/1fwEQAXriXLlPR9Sq6X8fU10BkYi5ZsGg

[Roland SC-8820 / SCVA] My Castle Town - Toby Fox

...of which I had only a fleeting glimpse.
I have tried to speculate where this might have landed, I must admit however such conjecture is futile.
Still, questions about whose module might one day play my MIDI file are unsettling to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed, and so I hit the submit button, realising that perhaps the perfect ending has not yet been written.

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This was my contribution to “POWER! GM Roulette-8”, a collab album project where a set of 8 General MIDI instruments were picked at random, and then the participants could write songs using only those instruments, and with no non-GM features permitted (not even reverb and chorus level adjustment…). It was a truly punishing set of constraints! I wrote this song for the GM mode on my Roland JV-1010. The version of the song I've uploaded here was mastered by HaruMKT. Please check out the full album! It can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_RtmlQHNK8

falling into that starry expanse (from POWER! GM-Roulette 8)

Make sure to visit Sega Channel for all your Sega Genesis/MegaDrive Music needs! soundcloud.com/groups/6-channel

Upstairs

This track was composed in Sekaiju on the Yamaha MU90R module for Speedy's 'POWER! XG' album. :>

Cover art by HaruMKT for the album.
For the whole thing and the source MIDIs, please check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGGUXESnZs
Thanks!

Right Time Left

I woke up one day and wanted to record really distorted guitars and put them on top of sampled drum loops. Here's the result.

Tools used:
A guitar (cannot remember the manufacturer)
FL Studio
E-mu ESI-2000
Nord Lead 2
Polestar Magnetics X-Static Goldmine
Best Service Voice Spectral vol. 1
Zero-G Chemical Beats
Zero-G Cuckooland Unhinged
Sony Industrial Toolkit - Methods of Mayhem

falling into that starry expanse (from POWER! GM-Roulette 8)

hikari_no_yume