Sample sources:
Alan Hawkshaw - Fastest Man on Earth
Kraftwerk - Numbers/Computer World

I am not a computer

Blue Skies

Award-winning composer for video games and Scottish artist, Barry "Epoch" Topping (PARADISE KILLER, SENTRY, THATCHER'S TECHBASE, ENCOUNTERS) returns with “The Needs”, 11 songs of lavish reflection in a modern city pop style. The album takes the listener through an emotional exploration of identity and change set against the backdrop of late summer. It fuses city pop, rock and dance music into a rich, dreamy blast of video game-tinged modern pop music.

Produced and mixed by Barry Topping and Ged Cartwright
Mastered by Ged Cartwright 
Vocals by Fiona Lynch
Additional performances by Fabian Hernandez, Thomas Temple, Elin Andersson, Nicklas Dahlin, Simon Fransman, Kyle Murray-Dickson
Lyrics by Barry Topping

Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland

Copyright Barry Topping, 2024

Purchase The Needs on vinyl or tape at Black Screen Records! https://blackscreenrecords.com/collections/the-needs 

Farcasting

Starlight Session

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stamina

A remake of the title tune I composed for the Nintendo Entertainment System game "Overlord" back in 1991.

Overlord (NES video game)

Jeroen Tel - Overlord (NES Title Tune) (JT Remake)

A quick song featuring samples from "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "Casablanca". Enjoy!

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Easy To Get Along

L8 NITE TV is an album which tries to capture the feeling you get when you fall asleep with the TV on and wake up at some unknown time late at night when everything still feels like a dream. Come dream and enjoy tonight's feature programming with Crystal Cola! 

L8 NITE TVは、テレビで眠りについたときや、夜遅くに夢のように感じる時に目を覚ますときの気持ちを捉えようとするアルバムです。 Crystal Colaで今夜の機能プログラミングを楽しんでください。 

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"A couple years back I was between jobs and found myself wrapped in hiraeth, alleviated only by retreating into a world of 80s made-for-tv films I found on VHS in second hand shops, romance OVA anime sourced from poorly seeded torrents and online image boards. There's an elusive word that exists if you combine this media and consume between 12am and sun-rise, where time stops and the world becomes filled with emotional electric piano melodies, enrapturing memories of lost connections, desaturated trips to the beach, hazy socials and an eternal optimism that you can always come back to tomorrow night, even if it feels out of reach. 
During this time I came across a soundcloud link to an artist that perfectly captured the sounds of those OVAs that I had escaped to. The tunes were layered, the synths sounded vintage, the structures were satisfying and I became instantly transported into that world. That was Crystal Cola's first 3 tracks. I won't go further into what happened next, but we became friends. 
Crystal Cola has only gone from strength to strength, and with L8 Nite TV he showcases vastly expanded abilities to produce layered, complex and exciting modern city pop. With L8 Nite TV Crystal Cola has introduced a wide array of new instrumentation, things that had been hinted to before in his work on cmyk! and with ALISON (who makes an excellent collaborative appearance on the stand out track CROSSTALK). We are greeted with beautiful saxophone licks on CROSSTALK, rhythmic guitar accompanyment on NIGHT WALK and complex sophisticated drum fills on almost all tracks. This is one of the rare moments where we get to hear a producer announce their talent, skill and vision to the world. With each listen, more of the production skills are revealed, all while being super poppy, happy and addictive. 
As I listen to L8 Nite TV for the umpteenth time I find myself once again transported to a happy place which swells a sense of joy and comfort in me. 
Take a trip into late night wonder, with Crystal Cola as your guide." 

- vid.nas 

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credits
released July 20, 2018 

All songs Written and Recorded by Crystal Cola except "10:30 PM 「CROSSTALK" written by Crystal Cola and A.L.I.S.O.N; "1:00 AM 「STATIC 波」" written by Crystal Cola and Hiro Tadomatsu 

Mixed and Mastered by Hiro Tadomatsu 

Art by Sebun 
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A.L.I.S.O.N: 
linktr.ee/alison_synths 

Hiro Tadomatsu: 
soundcloud.com/hirotado

L8 NITE TV

10:30 PM 「CROSSTALK」(Feat. A.L.I.S.O.N)

open

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

Video game music pioneer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen_Tel

Jeroen Tel - Overlord (NES Title Tune) (JT Remake)

Maniacs of Noise