HardSpeed Cross

A playlist of every song canonically performed by the band 'Vicious Fishes' from the 'HardSpeed' universe.

Vicious Fishes

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)

Getting close to album release (finally!) for HardSpeed Divide!
Capel writes a love ballad for her band Vicious Fishes that she formed with her fellow Tsu'ghui Veia and Qeshi. It sounds great, but the lyrics are incomprehensible and have nothing to do with love or anything.
"Tiny angry fishfoxes with tiny angry teeth" was her original title for it. Qeshi politely asks her to rewrite the lyrics, as he's the vocalist. Capel, of course, cries and demands a guitar solo, as she's lead guitarist. Veia, the synthplayer just... sighs...

Ballad of Fish

(Veia sprite art by Proto)
This track's off my upcoming album HardSpeed: Love is Never Over. In-universe, this song is written by Veia, one of the main characters of the series. She writes it to work through her frustrations at arguments with her lover. Hopefully, it works out for her!
I originally started writing this as just a little 30 second interlude, but got carried away.

Around Again

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'm still laying awake
I thought this was me
After the heartache"

From my upcoming HardSpeed album, HardSpeed 7.
https://leilawilson.bandcamp.com/album/hardspeed-7

After the Heartache

Another piece I did to try and get back into working. It's been harder than I thought. Enjoy another Hardspeed-ized redo of an older song for now! 
Artwork of the in-canon band Vicious Fishes is by Dusky!

VF_Rolling Battle

Caught in the Undertow. It's too strong to let me go.

From my next HardSpeed album. A few comments stuck with me when regarding the older ones vs. my Elancia stuff. Folks said HardSpeed's music lacked the emotional depth of Elancia's music. While that may be true overall, I wanted to show that you can still have feelings in space.

Undertow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.)