The Greatest Bits...

Some of my favorite creations in a variety of styles including EDM, Folk, Video Game, Dubstep, Metal, Alternative, Acapella, Djent, Acoustic Guitar, Chiptune, and Stock Audio.

Favorite Creations

This is a playlist of my video game related music.

The first track, "SolTera Theme Song" is the theme song for an upcoming post-apoc, crafting, voxel-based FPS I'm working on through Myth Tech Studios: www.mythtechstudios.com

The next two tracks are part of a full soundtrack I'm composing for a non-existent, modern, indie-style game, inspired heavily by Darren Korb's soundtrack for the game, Bastion ("Somber Souls..." is in progress).

The fourth track, "Sick Game," is a game-nostalgia-metal tune for which I wrote the lyrics and composed & produced the vocals. The composer of the music and I are planning to produce a full song based on this short tune.

The next five tracks are all 8-bit NES-style chiptunes; The track, "Mötæ - Shutter..." is an 8-bit, note-for-note replication of a tune by a band with which I formerly sang and composed. The other four songs are original compositions intended to convey different classic game styles.

"Super Mario Chipstep" was the first song I wrote in FL Studio after about a decade of being away from electronic music production. The focus was on trying to learn a bit about NI's Massive while having fun sampling from Super Mario Bros.

To hear more of my composition skills, feel free to browse around my "Favorite Creations" playlist. If you're interested in my services as a composer, vocalist, or producer, please send me a message.



Video Game Music & Chiptunes

Nidoking 2013

[ Download both motae albums (featuring this vocalist) FREE at http://motae.bandcamp.com/ ]
My friend and musical colleague The Panpsychist (Cody Richards) sent me an instrumental track he had started working on. I was so inspired by it that I stayed up all night writing and recording vocals for it. Here's what it sounds like in its current state. The drummer from motae will be joining us on this piece and laying drums for it soon as well.


Sick Game (The Panpsychist ft. Joshua Du Chene) [Work in Progress]

I met Dutch musician Tijmen Riedé during a trip to the Netherlands a few years ago. He wrote an electronic interlude track called "Reflections" for an album I produced in 2012 with my band, mötæ (motae.bandcamp.com). Tijmen sent me "2210" while I was living in China last year, and it was so exciting that I wrote and recorded vocals for it the night he sent it to me. I just now got around to mixing it and posting it, so here it finally is!

LYRICS:

Did you see it coming all along?
You knew the rest of the world was longing for something more than you could ever give.
Yet you still let it live a lie.

Why am I afraid of all this big talk?
Why can’t I imagine what comes next?
Why were you the only one I trusted?

(There have been reports of resistance and violence in various parts of the greater district… our advice is to gather up your loved ones… and go!)

You wanted this to be sure - that the world was vulnerable.
You want all this to be yours, because your world is vulnerable.
Your world’s so vulnerable.
And you just can’t take it.

Now - guns held out - you’ve taken all you’ve ever wanted without a single thought of repercussions.
Hold your hands up to the sky as you propagate your lies.
Act it out, say it right. With script in hand, use all your might.

But I’m no longer here to take the blame – you should have planned before you rained your glorious declarations of forever building nations of us, when all that we ever wanted to be was free… free… free...

Now we must bid you farewell, for we must all go.
Your fantasies are manifested so unexpectedly.

You wanted this to be yours, because your world was vulnerable.
Your world’s so vulnerable.
And you just can’t take it.

2210 - Tijmen Riedé ft. Joshua Du Chene

Here's the completed chiptune remix of Mötæ's song, Shutter, composed entirely with sounds from the original NES. Hear the original song by searching "motae" here on SoundCloud, or by visiting their site at motae.bandcamp.com where you can download both their albums FREE!
I'll be remixing the entire album over the year, so keep your ears peeled.

Mötæ - Shutter [8-Bit Chiptune Remix]

This is the theme song for Myth Tech Studios' Post-Apoc, Survival, Open-World, FPS, MMO video game "SolTera."
The game is no longer in production, but thanks for checking out the track! 
If you'd like to contract me to compose music for your game, film, or band, please message me through the SoundCloud messaging service. Thanks!

SolTera Theme Song

I am absolutely thrilled to share this piece with you. This is a remix of 'World Revolution' from Chrono Trigger, as part of Elder-Geek.com's '25 Games for My Son' series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twjwRMVXKi4

Download the full album here from Loudr: https://loudr.fm/release/chrono-trigger-music-for-twenty-five-games/wNGuM

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I had the pleasure of working with some incredibly talented musicians on this track. Please check out their work (and hire them 'cause they're totally freaking amazing)!

Joshua Du Chene (guitar and vocals)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuaduchene
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/joshuaduchene
- Web: https://www.facebook.com/SkinwalkerAudio

Alyssa Menes (alto and tenor sax):
- Web: http://portfolio.acmenesmusic.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/acmenes
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/acmenes

Michaela Nachtigall (violin):
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/mklachu
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mklachu

At Last, It Is Time (feat. Joshua Du Chene, Alyssa Menes, & Michaela Nachtigall)

Album available on Bandcamp! https://ryanike.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-original-game-soundtrack

The full length version of this song can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/ryanike/heavy-hands-where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-soundtrack?in=ryanike/sets/where-the-water-tastes-like

The debut trailer for Where the Water Tastes Like Wine! A new indie game by former Gone Home developer Johnnemann Nordhagen at Dim Bulb Studios!

http://dimbulbgames.com/

I had a blast writing the music for this, and got to work with some very talented performers!

Ryan Ike: Composition, Arranging, Lyrics
Joshua Du Chene: Guitar, Male Vocals
May Claire La Plante: Female Vocals
Max Wolpert: Fiddle

Lyrics:
If I turn my eyes
From these cold blue skies
Won't stay my worry
Won't calm or quell

I can say my piece
I can barter my tale
Won't ease my burden
But I might as well

There's a heavy hand
Laid across this land
And it steers my journey
And it guides my pen

Press on, head high
'Til the ink has run dry
'Cause my story ain't like
To wind home again

Heavy Hands - Where The Water Tastes Like Wine (Trailer OST)

You have come so far. And now, from the top of the tower, you can see more clearly than ever before.

I composed this piece for Bananacat Studios' 2016 Global Game Jam entry, Small Sacrifices. This is the song that plays once you've conquered the tower.

Play the game, free, at https://smallsacrifices.hoff.tech

From The Top Of The Tower (Small Sacrifices OST - GGJ 2016)

This tower is the prison of Ur-Grue, the legendary dream eater and memory wraith.
You are in a room. There is your favorite jacket, a stone altar,  and an inscription in the room. There are exits to the north and east.

I composed this piece for Bananacat Studios' 2016 Global Game Jam entry, Small Sacrifices. This song is the combination of each of the level's themes, played in a seamless sequence from beginning to end. 

Play the game, free, at https://smallsacrifices.hoff.tech/

Small Sacrifices (Small Sacrifices OST - GGJ 2016)

Black Sand (Rough)

This is the opening music for the upcoming exploratory platformer game, Ashes of Eden, being developed by Indie Hug Hug. 
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AshesOfEdenGame/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indiehughug
Check our site for updates: http://ashesofedengame.com/

Here Lie The Ashes

This is the intro level music for the upcoming exploratory platformer game, Ashes of Eden, being developed by Indie Hug Hug.
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AshesOfEdenGame/
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indiehughug
Check our site for updates: http://ashesofedengame.com/

With A Heavy Heart And Hopeful Eyes

We, the cocky little freaks, unite
(Good luck) Good luck against Uncle Andross
We fly tonight

We fly tonight, albeit this is horrible
Keep your thumbs on B and R, and we might survive
We fly tonight, albeit this is horrible
Keep your thumbs on B and R, and we might survive

I’m no landmaster; take to the skies
I’m no landmaster

I’m no landmaster; take to the skies
I’m no landmaster; take to the skies
I’m no landmaster, take to the skies
I’m no landmaster, take to the skies

You’re becoming more like your father
Too bad he’s a douchebag too
You’re becoming more like your father
Too bad he’s a douchebag too

Can’t win ’em all McCloud

Do A Br00tal Roll

Retrocious - Rising Sprites

Heptaedium - Robotic People

Musician and game audio engineer from the Pacific Northwest. 
- Audio tech design on Halo Infinite and Clockwork Revolution.
- Guitar, Vocals, and Mandolin on PRIME: Metroid Reimagined and Where the Water Tastes Like Wine.
- Vocals for the Singapore-based metal band, A Porcupine’s Narrative. 
- Vocals and Mandolin for the progressive rock band, mötæ.
Cheers!

Mötæ - Shutter [8-Bit Chiptune Remix]

Joshua Du Chene Audio