I haven't gotten into umamusume yet, but hearing all of the inspirations from real horses and stuff is really intriguing and I might start watching it. All these jockeys histories and their lives really make you just sit back and think about the type of lives they had and their impact on people around us as this anime being based on that goes to show. Great piece btw, it's beautiful.

Thank you Tay, this is by far one of your most serene yet powerful composition. I'm no musician, really, so i could not really say if it is flawed, it gives me a dumb smile so it works for me.

haven't had a piece inspire me this much in a while, thank you.

You've been pumping out bangers on rapid fire, take a load off, handle business, but most importantly... try to en-"Joy" yourself ;D

Its like a ride I'd be willing to go on again.

i caved (also I removed most of my reposts because I worried they were clogging up my profile. absoultely no hard feelings intended. but apologies anyways I guess ehe)

slime selects five sure whatever

born to write umihara kawase spoofs forced to write for fm soundtracks

Song name: flowers for you
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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please read the channel description

flowers for you [s-smp]

fang's heist by https://x.com/saxashitter
ost cover art by https://x.com/y2rika9
song by ZrUltra (me!)

Fang's Heist - Roll Down the Results!

quick konami-style song i did in between working on other stuff

can opener [2A03]

collab song i wrote with the lovely @john-tay-2-199198505

look at me (feat. john "joy" tay)

either you're helplessly swept away by it,
or let it take you places you've never imagined before

Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

disclaimer: this specific song uses puNES emulation for the fds' wavetable synth, so it doesn't sound muffled (and thus not hardware accurate)

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then came the wind [2a03 + fds]

A song for a Sonic album I'm working on. I'll be releasing more tracks soon :)

Cover Art by @KayllaCat

Aqua Flow Act 1

this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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grass wonder [s-smp]

@vincmg

ten years later, the slimy scourge is back with a vengeance

made with renoise. download the project file here! drive.google.com/file/d/1cm3Uzwk-qSH9yf7DP8DQIZT04UzJL_OW/view
you’ll need these vsts for it to play back correctly:
- Valhalla Supermassive
- Valhalla VintageVerb (free)
- TDR VOS SlickEQ (free)
- TDR Molotok (free)
- TDR Kotelnikov (free)
- Soundtoys MicroShift
- Goodhertz Tupe 3
- Kilohearts Essentials (free)

🐸 whats dis 🐸

Vince Kaichan - return of pond scunk

this must be what drinking jungle juice must feel like

bandcamp
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Song name: [s-smp] stuck
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker
Mixed with TBProAudio's DSEQ3

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i don't know what subgenre of dnb this is actually

[s-smp] stuck

1k follower celebration from me + @blinkercam :-) art by both of us

10.18.25 -- on U

Tabloid Jargon (FM Version)

overworldB - what a mario world [SPC700]

I sent an idea for a music using smw samples to Kawashin, and we spent a whole day finishing this song.

daisy 「デイジー」[SPC700]

nullge

this is a song i just made cause i'm feeling like a total caterpillar

basically an answer to night oasis

total caterpillar

anchovie's bubble

encountersltd.bandcamp.com is better

he/they
gloopy cartoon artist that musics occasionally
downloads enabled for all original songs
i like green

grass wonder [s-smp]

john "joy" tay

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