Name: Heist for your life by Leilani Wilson in HardSpeed Cross
Duration: 6 min
Description: Imagine having to pull the heist of a lifetime in order to ensure the safety of yourself and those you loved most.

Absolutely fantastic!! Might just be my favourite track from Cross so far!!

Leilani always killing it with the beat drop

your music never fails to get my imagination going. You are one of my favorite artists of all time and i appreciate your work a lot.

oh this little drum machine fill is SO cool

Looove the trip this takes mew on <3  Another new favorite~  *smashes like button*

HardSpeed Cross

Stars Beyond

Fresh take on an old song of mine. I'm finally fully happy with how it sounds.
Art by Proto

Hero

ARTWORK BY EMMA.
I was never happy with any song I came up with for Medbay in the past. (The two attempts on it are on very old albums in this series IIRC...) I'm pretty sure I'm happy with it now. This might end up being the closing track on the album when it releases. I only have to finish up one more track and it'll be ready to go!

Buy it here!!!

Medbay Day 2A

Dragon Train was composed during a time when I was still recovering from a depressive period of burnout that had essentially killed my creative drive for two months on end.
This was initially conceptualised in my head as my own take on a Falcom-style 90's era RPG boss theme with a prominent rhythmic drive, but initially I was paralysed by great trepidation and the idea that this might be way past what I was capable of.

And yet I was finally able to realise this with some motivation from friends and the DTM Central community, though it wasn't without its issues: midi hardware would struggle to synchronise correctly, I had to record parts during a heat wave, and some bugs in my DAW had suddenly messed with parameters of certain tracks without me knowing how to effectively fix them.

Still, I'm very happy with how this arrangement turned out and it was a great test drive for some of my custom drum kits, as well as some custom Roland XV patches I commissioned from a good friend.
I hope listeners will find some genuine joy in this, as it is most certainly a labour of love.

Gear used:
Roland SC-8850
Roland XV-5050 with patches from SRX-06 Complete Orchestra and custom synth leads from @studiostriver .
BOSS DR-660
Korg Triton Rack
Yamaha MU128

Part of the larger community album "POWER! SuperDIGI", which may be listened to here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA5loM9Vcbo

Tracklist assembled by @harumkt and album uploaded by @speedyfm

Mixed by @manibrandr-soundworks and mastered by @harumkt

My Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/alicegrimaude

Dragon Train (DTM MIDI Central Mix)

It ain't much, but it's home...

From my next album (as of this post,) which will hopefully be done in winter!

Little rowhouse

A conversation with a distant self.

Yet another track from my next upcoming album. It includes a couple of little nods to earlier HardSpeed songs.

Wandering Maiden

Theme for a much younger, less hardened Elza. Back before her royalty was obliterated, and before she lost her eye.

Space Princess

Another song by the in-universe band "Vicious Fishes" lead by Qeshi, and featuring Capel, Veia, Haze, and Chloe. Only the first three are pictured here. Enjoy!

VF Burnin - Up

Another day on the job for Elza and Nael.

OnTheJob

Imagine having to pull the heist of a lifetime in order to ensure the safety of yourself and those you loved most.

Heist for your life

Another track from my album HardSpeed Cross. Definitely one of the moodier tracks. I tried combining a lot of disparate elements here. I ended up quite liking how it sounded. This song more or less is to set the mood of the album, so it'll probably be a pretty early track. Art is by Renz, lead illustrator of HardSpeed and Elancia. https://twitter.com/Azureikaru
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Elza has a lot on her mind. She's investigating a string of bizarre violent murders, her family is starting to fall apart, her sister was nearly killed, and her fear of nightmares has her addicted to drugs that prevent sleep. Worst of all, a huge golden monster lurks within her, one the government has taken interest in -- and one who may just be the murderer Elza's been chasing all along.

Neo Noir

Here's another one. These are fun to make :D. I think I veered off on my own "Jredd" direction for the second half but it sounds cool so I went with it :D. Level 2 for a fictitious Sonic fan game perhaps? Yeee! :D 

Toxic Canyon Zone.MP3

Neon-drenched synths, gentle guitar riffs & chilled beats — this album brings cyberpunk calm. Perfect for focus, late-night drives, or simply unwinding under neon skies.

Net Beat

NIGHT LIFE

Let’s run it up — follow, stream, repost.

dancing with a stranger (alone mix)

I made this one as a tribute to the Namco Classic Collection arcade compilations. This was made with the Namco Classic Collection soundfont, the most difficult soundfont that I've ever put together.

Namco Jazz Tribute

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.)

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