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

Spotlight #1

Gathering tracks for my next Capel/80s album, Return to Aloha. 
Release Date: 07/14/19

Return to Aloha

Every single Capel album mashed together in a horrific mess of 80s neon and floppy disks. You can purchase the albums on my bandcamp if you want to support me! https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/album/nightbridge + https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/album/agoli-5-oasis

HardSpeed

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July Playlist 2019

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

A playlist of some of the songs I like best by Leilani "Woofle" Wilson, one of my all time favorite composers! Please note that I am not affiliated with her in any way, I just love her work.

Her SoundCloud: 
https://soundcloud.com/leilani-r-wilson

Her Bandcamp: 
https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/

Please go buy all of her music, she deserves all your love and support! Also make sure to go buy Freedom Planet and it's soundtrack, as well as Freedom Planet 2, which is out now! You may also wanna check out the in-development Starbuster and Prototype N that she's doing music for. Again I am not affiliated with Leilani Wilson, nor am I paid to say this, I just like her music a lot and believe she deserves your support.

Best Of Leilani Wilson (Subjective)

-Quo Vidis-

Composer : M2U
Arranger : M2U

Quo Vadis

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

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

Impact BLUE

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

Caramelldansen

As of late, I've become quite the Undertale fan... So, here ya go...

Undertale and "Hopes and Dreams" by Toby Fox
Original Remix by https://soundcloud.com/videogameremixes
Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/xunreachablee

Toby Fox - Hopes And Dreams (VGR Remix feat. Jenny) [GonZealous Re-Route] [FREE DOWNLOAD - "Buy"]

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

Dream Sea [2017]

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

New Cover: Prisoner's Awakening from Dead Cells, by Yoann Laulan

Prisoner's Awakening (Catboss. vers.) - Dead Cells

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]

Last upload for today!  Art is by Dusky!
This is another track from the next album I'm working on -- Return to Aloha. It's a sequel to a series of other albums I've had going on since around 2014 or so. Fans of that particular series might recognize this tune!

Colony - Afternoon

Uploading on hotel internet, so we'll see how this goes... Also, art's by Renz! 
This is another of the "battle" themes from my upcoming album Return to Aloha (one of the Capel albums, a story about a laser-staff wielding space-monster nurse.) This one covers conflicts less emotional than https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/clouded-moonlit-rendezvous . I guess you could call it the standard battle theme if all the Capel albums were a game's storyline.
Which is totally not something I've been poking at.

Evenhanded Rendezvouz

FireTypeBunny

Pokémon Sword and Shield - Scorbunny!

Another song from my upcoming album Return to Aloha (which I'll probably be releasing alongside The Bad Friend, later on this spring.)
This song may be familiar to those familiar with my work. It's an alternate take on this tune from Elancia Chronicles: https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/heroism?in=leila-wilson-woofle/sets/elancia-chronicles-order-of-1  Which, let's face it, was already really 80s! I decided to go for a feeling a bit closer to 80s anime rather than just straight up 80s for this rendition.
Got some fun stuff like a collaboration in the pipeline, so stay tuned. Work's a bit slow for a little while.

Go Forth Hero Capel! 1B

Another track from my upcoming album Return to Aloha. Part of the album is all about redoing tracks from the first album in the series to a style that fits in with the newer albums in the series.  This one was honestly one of the hardest to figure out what to do with! I'm happy with the result, though. Keen listeners or long time listeners might notice the instruments from Night Talk (Nightbridge) and the melody from Lost Girl (Return to Aloha) which was a reprise of Night Talk. The song ends with Lost Girl and Night Talk, before it dissipates into the stars.
For those with a passing interest in the 'lore' behind the albums, this is the love theme for Capel (the derpy medic protag) and her on-again-off-again love interest, Haze. An ex-pilot turned junker. I hope things can work out for them someday.

When I Met You (I wasn't Scared Anymore)

More Return to Aloha stuff! I'd say the album's finally nearing completion. This one, like many of the other tracks on the album is a re-do of a track from the first album. Engineering gets two themes, although this particular theme is more specifically for one engineer rather than the department as a whole, for those who care about the lore of this series of albums.  Anyway, rambling aside, some folks might recognize bits of this from Strut The Mall, which is a partial reprise of it.

Haze Does Work

Art by Renz!
Last WIP from Return to Aloha for now! I'm gonna buckle down and get the album out this month. This was the title track from the second Capel album I was developing (yep, there were two!) ...Which ended up becoming one giant album. So what you're really going to be getting when Return to Aloha releases is both Return to Aloha and its Hardspeed Divide all in one.
HardSpeed Divide was focused more around space combat and Capel dealing with the federation falling apart around her, whereas Return to Aloha was focused on Capel dealing with her memories of Aloha, espionage and her previous human life.  Should make for an interesting mix of moods.

Hardspeed Divide

A really amazing theme that took almost a full month to recreate the almost entirely [Nozlee]


Death Waltz (Impossible Piano Song) [U.N Owen Was Her] By Nozlee

Back during the original run of Planet Aloha (before I revamped everything in Return, even!) I never got around to making a song for the science/botany department. I didn't for the Military, either, which I've since rectified. Now science finally has its own song 5 years later! anyway, I'd first set out to make Qeshi his own theme for the project, but I accidentally made this instead. It ended up working out well.
Enjoy~

Science Department

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

More HardSpeed music! For those who don't keep up with the (incredibly fractured and name change-y) worldbuilding I've been doing for it over the past several years, the Tsu'ghui are strange cloned monsters that are used by a shady organization to perform assassinations. They have ties to the wars that almost destroyed the galaxy before, but not in the ways you might think. The main character of HardSpeed, Capel, is one of these, or rather, was.
Anyway, they have a big spooky mothership, and this is its theme.

Tsu'ghui Mothership

More HardSpeed music -- art by Renz!
The Tsu'ghui are a strange group of space monsters that perform assassinations all over Earth Federation Space. They're very slippery, and none have ever been captured. It's unclear who is pulling the strings, frustratingly for the AFP. 
Two Tsu'gui units, 03 and 04 are slowly beginning to become self aware. When 04 begins to develop a concept of death and begins to understand love, it may just try to escape its shadowy masters with 03 -- any way it can.

The Tsu'ghui

Even more HardSpeed music! Elza concept art by Renz.
Space Pirate Elza is notorious across Federation Space. Despite the fact that only ever steals food, ammunition and fuel for her ever-growing crew. Elza has only been sailing the stars for 10 years, but is one of the most wanted pirates in the Galaxy simply for the fact that she likes to taunt the Federation. No one knows quite what the federation did to her, but it must have been bad. Some say that's where all the scars on her face came from. Some kind of experiment gone wrong during the mechanoid wars perhaps? Maybe they took her children from her?  
Elza considers herself the first member of the "Galaxy's free peoples," and believes in free love, free-flowing booze and not having to listen to anybody. She embraces pirate aesthetic, too.  One last fun fact: All the Tsu'ghui look exactly like her. Is she behind the Tsu'ghui attacks?
(And yes, her character design is literally orange spaceVerse. :| )

Space Pirate Elza

A 'lil collab between Woofle and I! Very glad to see her spin on the melody, with a lot of callbacks to:(https://soundcloud.com/leila-wilson-woofle/advanced-federation-police)!

Please check out HardSpeed and the rest of her tracks! Her new book, Symphony of Hunted Truths is going to be out there soon. I've been reading the first book so far and it's great!!


Image Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/outrun/comments/4u5kx3/miami_beach_cop_car_and_adjacent_building_gave_me/

[HARDSPEED] CopPalace 1A (ft. Woofle)

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

Finally! Got Roy's theme squared away. Out of all the Hardspeed songs, this one's given me the most trouble. It's just upbeat enough, I think! The concept sketches of Roy are by Renz.
Here's to a better 2020.

Viceroy

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

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

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

Helblinde - Gateway to Psycho【Life Starts at 200bpm CD】

Initial D Norma Sheffield Maybe Tonite

Composer for Star Buster, Miasma Caves, Leilani's Island, Freedom Planet 1 and 2, HardSpeed and tons more.
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.  I have two major projects (HardSpeed: Synthpop/80s) and Elancia (JRPG styled music.)