List of tracks I contributed to the game Star Buster! https://twitter.com/Starbuster_Game

StarBuster

'buncha tracks I've had in the 'spotlight' section over the past while. :V

Spotlight #1

A playlist for a specific set of tracks from the HardSpeed project. Gathered up for no particular reason and totally not part of an evil plot to create something new with the project that will take years and years and years to complete. Enjoy.

HardSpeed Project

GET IT HERE!!!

Symphony of Awakened Gods (Elancia)

Sometimes, throughout the course of Star Buster, things go absolutely mad. This is a song for (some of) that madness (but not all of it.)

Bass Boss Chaos

'nother Elancia track! I've had this one bouncing around in my brain for years. Off and on, I'd work on it. Sometimes I'd be happy with the results, most times I wouldn't. I think this is what I'm sticking with? Hopefully?
Anyway, this song focuses on one of the dwarven towns in Elancia. Dwarves on Elancia like to build toys, paint buildings and castles bright colors and spread joy. They're a bit different from ones in other lore, but I guess that's what makes them so fun. Verse and friends stop in a Dwarven town during trying times, and it helps pick their moods up a little...

Factory of Joy

Tsu'ghui unit 32 embarks on what should be a routine operation on planet Exillion. The target is in a mansion bigger than any of them have seen before, but they won't let that stop them from doing their job. (Probably.)
https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/album/hardspeed-7

Target's Mansion

Another thing from that project (it's safe to assume that everything I upload is.)
The subject of this particular song is an abandoned temple devoted to the Sea Goddess in the game's world. The temple has a lot of water flowing through it in various directions, and is massive, going down into the ground below.  The Sea Goddess is said to have disappeared roughly 20 years prior to the game's story, but that no longer seems to be entirely true. Even if she still lives though, she's left this temple behind, along with a few other gifts.

People who have listened to a lot of my crap will recognize part of 'Transformation' ( https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/transformation-1-x) in the song as well, as the two are thematically related.

Sea Goddess' Temple - Early

I had a version of this song uploaded before, but I really wasn't happy with the quality of it, especially since it's one of the cornerstones (seriously, it's referenced in like, 8 different songs) of the personal project that 99% of my music on here is devoted to. I touched up the quality a bit, and changed a few things that were bothering me.

Anyway, this song serves as the credits theme for the final 'season' of my project, and begins playing during the last scene of every 'episode', then rolls on into the credits. It doubles as the theme of a very important character. 

The thumbnail is by https://soundcloud.com/kamiyana !

Transformation[1]x

Circle In The Sky

Sunset arrange of 'Wounds' and 'Scars' from two of my earlier HardSpeed albums. Like the other sunset tunes, it's a little JRPG than 80s. It took a while to get the mixing right on this. Still not sure I'm 100% happy with it, but it's good enough!

Galcian Ruins [Sunset]

Wandering Heart

I've had this kicking around on my harddrive for a while now. I couldn't quite figure out what I wanted to do with it, or how I wanted it to sound for a while. I decided to just upload it in its most recent state. Enjoy!

Cosmopolitan

The new hardspeed album is finally starting to come together. Got a few more irons in the fire after this one.
A tranquil park area across from the Galactic Royal Lunar Palace, where the king and the queen of the Galaxy live. The area's mostly filled with shops and tourist-y things, and has a great view of the palace.

Royal Lunar Park

I was back and forth on if this one was ready for uploading, but I went ahead and pulled the trigger on that one. This is a theme for a fancy sci-fi castle on a moon! It'll be on my next HardSpeed album. Made this almost entirely only using the Korg M1 to keep that era-specific sound I'm going for. 

I took this photo in Spokane WA

Moon River Castle

Collab with https://soundcloud.com/lioness-paladin (she did the lead guitars.)
It was nice to get to work with her on one of the songs for the upcoming HardSpeed album! This song shares some DNA with After the Heartache, as well as Royal Lunar Park, and The Rest is Not Enough

Will you love me tomorrow?

Fixed up a song from an earlier album. This one always bothered me because the ending really 'hit' for me, while the rest didn't quite. I rectified that, and it'll be on the new album!

Resort Planet [B]

A short interlude from my upcoming album Hardspeed: Passion and Warfare. I based it around the sound of my favorite citypop artist, Yuji Toriyama. His work has really stuck with me.

An Interlude

It was pretty difficult for me to go back to this track and bring it into HardSpeed, considering where I was at mentally when I wrote the original. That said, it worked out surprisingly well. I'm a tad iffy on some of the mixing, so I might wiggle the sounds around before release. We'll see.

Toward The Edge

Steel Flower Super

Ridley's theme, here, took me a while to get right. I'm pretty happy with the results, though. A day of listening to Asia got me in the right place creatively.

Art of Ridley by https://twitter.com/emmalemmamewmew

Star Punk

I didn't even expect I'd have this one done in time for the album, but it worked out. This is the theme for one of the characters from the HardSpeed project -- A Space-warship named Frank. Don't worry, he's friendly, and spends most his time walking around in a little industrial robot body. He's married to Lurline, whose theme "Shotgun River" was on the last album

Top Shelf

This song languished on my hard drive for the last 2-3 albums. It took me until this one to figure out what I wanted to do with it. It's pretty different from the rest of the HardSpeed stuff, but I have a rule for myself with Hardspeed; "Don't be boring." That entails using all this retro-style equipment to not just do one genre (say, Synthwave,) but to do anything I can think of. So, here's a shmup-style song.

Planet Viper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98tNUVZWRKk
Dear SEGA, I hear that legal troubles regarding Sonic 3's original soundtrack might be part of what's holding you back from a re-release of Sonic 3 ( www.sonic3remastered.com/ More info here)
I suggest an alternative solution to trying to get the rights to use the songs that are currently providing a roadblock in greenlighting the project.

Signed sincerely,
A lifelong fan
NOTE: I did not adhere to the polyphony limits of the sound chip.

[I knew there was no way I could 'outdo' the original song, and that was not my aim here. I set out to make something very different using most of the same instruments. Enjoy!]

[Alternate] Ice Cap Zone Act 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBaaEw3idc
Dear SEGA, I hear that legal troubles regarding Sonic 3's original soundtrack might be part of what's holding you back from a re-release of Sonic 3 ( www.sonic3remastered.com/ More info here)
I suggest an alternative solution to trying to get the rights to use the songs that are currently providing a roadblock in greenlighting the project.

Signed sincerely,
A lifelong fan
NOTE: I did not adhere to the polyphony limits of the sound chip.
[Rather than paring act 2 down like the original song did, I ramped it up. I couldn't resist paring it down in a few spots to bring back the feeling of isolation the original had in spades.]

[Alternate] Ice Cap Zone - Act 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHciCzqGxO4
Dear SEGA, I hear that legal troubles regarding Sonic 3's original soundtrack might be part of what's holding you back from a re-release of Sonic 3 ( www.sonic3remastered.com/ More info here)
I suggest an alternative solution to trying to get the rights to use the songs that are currently providing a roadblock in greenlighting the project.

Signed sincerely,
A lifelong fan
NOTE: I did not adhere to the polyphony limits of the sound chip.

[This is it! You're at the Death Egg! It's tantalizingly close, but can you make it in time?!
...It occurs to me that in this hypothetical soundtrack, Knuckles would need completely different music for this level. >_>; ]

[Alternate] Launch Base Zone - Act 2

I don't really make a habit of doing game remixes, but this is helping me get through writer's block so I can get back to more original tunes for ya'll. :3 Enjoy! 

Marble Zone

From ECO! :D This is the theme that plays in the two palaces in the country of Kerlynzia. In season 2, it is heard in the palace within the walls of the southern capital, Auraimsho.  It includes a bit of Kerlynzia's national anthem, too.
"The palace was something people talked about having seen, or had been by, when I was little. I heard it was a really special place, full of history and whatnot (at least after the last capital got wiped out a few hundred years back.) Anyway, my expectations were a bit different from reality. Given, I was being taken in as a prisoner when I first really got a close look at it, but it looked less fantastical and more... imposing. In time, it became part of what I came to know as 'home.' It was always there, watching over me and the other children in the barracks, as we busted our knuckles and broke our bones training to defend it." ~ Versearrun's diary

Imperial Palace [Night]

Cat's outta the bag!!! I'm working on Freedom Planet 2!!!
So, what might Dragon Valley sound like in a more peaceful time? 
About like this.
But how long will peace remain?
Collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/stephendiduro !! Enjoy! And go check out the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAYtSUfW0c

Freedom Planet 2 - Dragon Valley

Labyrinth Zone

I've had a -ton- of professional work this year, to say the least. Between jobs though, I've been keeping sharp by doing things like this. Gives me a chance to try out new things that I can put to use in professional work, ECO, etc.
Kind of went for a SonicTweaker-esque sound with this one. :D Enjoy.

Casino Night Zone 2P

Finally found the mood I was going for last time I sat down to redo this song. :V

Dream Sea [2017]

One of the 'dungeon' themes from ECO, used across various seasons/books/whateverIAmCallingThemJesusThisThingWillNeverGetFinishedSomeoneKillMePlease. Originally, I had used it for what became the train scene in season 1, as well as the Temple of Slumber in season 2.
My main inspiration was Motoi Sakuraba's work on the Star Ocean Series, although it might be a touch hard to tell. <_>;

Heavy Funk Intrigue

Artwork by the incredible Tae! http://www.smackjeeves.com/profile.php?id=22105 
From ECO. I wanted to do a fresh take on https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/a-memory-misplaced that better fit the mood for these scenes. This is heavily inspired by the work of https://soundcloud.com/interovgm , although I don't know if they'll ever hear this!
Although things between Verse and Lyrikos grow strained at times, they always come back to one another.  This is the theme that plays during Verse's peaceful dreams.
During dreams filled with mystery, a different theme plays: https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/dream-sea-2017

You're Still My Sister

Edit: I think every comment on this is about having/not having girlfriends/boyfriends now????
You mean the GF doesn't stand for GIRLFRIEND!?!??!
Gonna be uploading a lot of stuff because I'm going to be absent for all of October and part of November probably. :(

Stardust Speedway Girlfriend

Time for my yearly game remix. 
Act now and you'll get two* for the price of one. :V


*This is technically two.

Zeal/Schala

Scene song from my Elancia Chronicles series.
Artwork is by Renz!
I've been wanting to take another swing at this song for a long time. It took me quite a while to figure out how I wanted to approach it, though. I wanted to give it more of an R&B sound, while keeping it relatively 80s. I had to make a lot of decisions about what fit and what didn't, which kept this one on the backburner for about a week, but I'm very happy with the result. I built the song arrangement around the bass, and only kept a few tracks from the original composition I did back in 2012 or so.

Pocket Watch

Artwork by @TunesofDusky
Alternate take on https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/swimming-through-the-dark-early-wip This is much closer to the original idea I had in my mind for the song than what came out before.
I actually like this one a lot better, too, but as with most tracks on Capel albums, there'll be multiple versions of this one anyway. :V  I'm slowly but surely chipping away at The Bad Friend (my next album) along with the next Capel album (where this song and its partner will live!) I'll be working more on those after I finish up the book-related projects.

Swimming Through The Dark [Night]

I got hired (along with two other fantastic musicians!) to do a song for this pretty rad project called StarBuster!  This is the theme for the intro stage, which is the only one I've done so far. This game really deserves a look! You can read more about it and play the demo here; https://www.sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/starbuster-demo.373/

Awaken

Another HardSpeed song here! This is the battle theme for the Tsu'ghui, a mysterious race of killer clones. It seems like they're being controlled by someone.
The beginning of HardSpeed's narrative follows a squad of Tsu'ghui on a routine mission that turns out to be anything but. I wanted their battle theme to differ heavily from the normal battle theme.

TsuGhuiBattle

Back to Elancia music finally, and more Renz art! As you guys all know (you DO know, right???) the second Elancia album has officially released and you can grab it here! https://www.goalpublications.com/store/p93/symphony-of-hunted-truths-album.html

This track right here is off the third album which is a long ways off,  and is the theme of one "Dark" Derrik Lancaster, the self-proclaimed king of all pirates. Despite him making the title himself, he's held it for an absurd amount of time. The first stories of his exploits are at least 50 years old, and he really doesn't look that old at all (and he's probably too lazy to have done all the things in those stories.) He's amassed quite a following, and his crew is feared the world over. Beneath his bravado, he seems to be carrying a burden that effects every facet of his life. He's not the type to open up about it, but it may soon destroy him.

High Seas King

So, as I've probably been mentioning a lot, both the second Elancia album and book, Symphony of Hunted Truths, have released (let me know if you picked up either!) That means I'm well on my way into working on the third. This is the "OP" for the as-of-yet-untitled book 3. While the OPs for the first two books were a lot more upbeat (and both shared some leitmotifs) the third book (and third album) have their own mood. I wanted to set the tone for that right off the bat with a much more emotional/slower opening theme.  This song actually first appeared on Roadtrips, of all places, although some Elancia leitmotifs are mixed in. Enjoy! Art of Verse is by Renz!

Under The Moons In The Rain

During development of Star Buster, I came to the realization that some stages changed enough that their second halves might warrant a second song. The first levels for both Alpha and Cassie have this going on in a big way! So this is the second half of Alpha's first stage.
The first half can be found here!
https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/starbuster-intro-stage

Sunset Escape

New HardSpeed track.
This one has to do with more thoughtful, pensive moments for the characters -- specifically Capel, the main character. Capel barely even understands how people work, and yet she desperately wants to live among them. Every step forward is two steps back. Sometimes, she isn't even sure it's worth it to keep trying.
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Mostly done using the Korg Wavestation. I started out trying to decipher the patterns one of the presets had, and ended up reproducing the sounds manually instead. From there, the rest of the song formed. :V

Steady Lights

Night time arrangement of https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/tempestuous-ravine for the upcoming third Elancia album. I wanted to try and do a more subdued arrangement for the song overall, but I still like the original, so both will be on the album. It was fun to do a 'cute' sounding song for once! Enjoy.

Windy [Night]

This will be the first track on my upcoming album, HardSpeed. It serves as the opening text crawl more or less. It has a little more orchestral flair than most of the other HardSpeed music. Part of this is due to the main character of this album, Sydney, being a cello player. (Don't worry, Capel still appears.)
I've been working on something big-ish behind the scenes related to HardSpeed as a whole, and this song was definitely a good step in getting it started. For now, expect a new album out sometime this summer!

Ignition

I'd been wanting to play around a bit with this track from my upcoming third Elancia Album for a while. It isn't that I was particularly displeased with the old one. I just felt I could do more with it, especially considering how the story plays out now. 
Imagine an ancient, lost city. One full of partially functioning machines and lights, where a magical lightning temple has temporarily found refuge. That temple's power is making the machines all come back to life...

Lost Laboratory [2020 remaster]

This is the first track off my new album, HardSpeed https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/album/hardspeed which, as you can see, is up for sale now! There are a few tracks on it that are not on SoundCloud. Please consider supporting my work, and enjoy the music! ♥

Grab the album here!

Transdimensional Gear: Hardspeed

This is the theme for the intro stage of Cassie. She's the second playable character in Star Buster! https://twitter.com/Starbuster_Game
...and also the source of 90% of the inside jokes in the devteam. Her gameplay style is really unique, too! I actually reversed the melody used in Lab 19 (Alpha's intro stage) for part of this song.

Spannerquest 40000

Part 2 of Cassie's intro stage from Star Buster. https://twitter.com/Starbuster_Game
All Cassie wanted was a gigantic wrench! Instead, now she's got explosions and horrifying monsters roaming around like they own the place. Not exactly a great day for her or the crew of the Petrov.

Spannerquest 2 [Gone Wrong] [Gone Explodey]

'nother song from Star Buster! https://twitter.com/Starbuster_Game
This is the theme for the Petrov, a small-ish ship crewed by a sparse-but-hardy (and also pretty moody!) crew. It's been Cassie's home for a long time. It's fixing to be Alpha's new home, too... Almost.

Almost Home

Phoenix Highway, Freedom Planet 2
(Yes, Freedom Planet 2 is out. Yes, you can play it!)

No Speed Limit!

Newer take on https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/imperial-palace?in=leila-wilson-woofle/sets/symphony-of-awakened-gods for the third Elancia album, Symphony of Awakened Gods. I like this one a little better, really. It shows a bit more of the serious/militaristic side of the Empire and its ruling class, but they're both going on the album!

Imperial Palace [Day]

More Star Buster!
Cassie looks well chuffed! I wonder what this stage could be...

SnowFlight

Composer for Freedom Planet 1 and 2, Star Buster, Miasma Caves, Leilani's Island, HardSpeed and tons more. I have two major projects (HardSpeed: Synthpop/80s) and Elancia (JRPG styled music.)
Freelance game composer, author and semi-professional race car driver from the west coast. I've been in the game music business for around 10 years.

Leilani Wilson

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