Shadow

The first single from my new project. Made entirely with layered, processed loops.

Dat Disco Baby

I just happened to come across this one a few days ago. Andy (Zircon) asked me to do a remix of one of the songs for his Dungeonmans original soundtrack a few years back. The project came out, and I completely forgot that I did the remix! 

So I came across it again and decided to finally upload it! It's a mix of electronic and ethnic, but was a blast to put together. 

Enjoy!

Dungeonmans Remix

I wanted to take the Fei Long theme and try something a bit dancey with it. I ended up keeping the distorted guitar(?) sound, but changed the background to something a bit more 90's dance mixed with a bit of tropical house.

Fei Long Stage (Super Street Fighter 2 Remix Sketch)

I was playing around with some of the sounds and settings in Live and threw together this quick sketch of one of the most iconic pop songs (and music videos) of my childhood. There are tons of fantastic covers of this one, but the original is probably still my favorite. 

Enjoy!

Sweet Dreams (Remix Sketch)

I played through Megaman 11 only a few weeks ago, and it was so great to be reminded of the incredible music from the whole series. There are a few excellent tracks in 11, but I decided to do a quick remix sketch of the 'weapon get' music in the game - which is a propulsive, upbeat theme. 

Pretty simple one here, but still fun to mess around with for a few hours. 

Enjoy!

Weapon Get! (Remix Sketch)

I played the Messenger around the holiday season and it was one of the games that really brought me back to my gaming childhood in all of the perfect ways.

I loved the feel, the aesthetic, and especially the killer retro soundtrack by Rainbowdragoneyes. I hope to put my spin on a bunch of the songs from the soundtrack, but decided to throw this sketch of one of the earlier pieces in the game. 

I had no idea how many layered synths there were in this one until I tried to re-create it! Very fun stuff. 

Enjoy!

Hills of Intent (Remix Sketch)

For all the affection I have for the series, I've never actually covered any of the songs in the Starfox games!

There are a few tracks I would love to give a proper full remix to, but the Titania theme seemed like it would be a good fit for the more laid-back groove in this sketch. 

While creating this, I came across an idea for a completely different remix of the Titania theme, but that won't be able to happen for some time, so I wanted to post this in sketch so that fans of the soundtrack could check it out. 

As always, hope you enjoy!

Titania (Remix Sketch)

The Top Gear series on the Super Nintendo always held a really special place in my heart as one of the very few games that my brother and I actually played together on occasion. It was simple, fun, and "cool" enough for both of us to be into back in those days when we had very different interests. 

When Horizon Chase Turbo came out I was immediately drawn to how much the game reminded me of the Top Gear and Outrun series' of the 16-bit days. I picked it up for the Switch, and it's been a great arcade racer for traveling and in between longer games. 

The music in the game certainly reminded me of the games from years ago. The propulsive beat, the fun melodies - all callbacks to the great soundtracks of that era. I was working on something a little slower with some distortion, so I decided to put together this sketch of one of the songs I liked from the soundtrack. 

As always, thanks for listening, and Enjoy!!

Bleeding Fingers (Horizon Chase Turbo Remix Sketch)

I'm always so afraid to even try and revisit any of Yuzo Koshiro's songs since - even on original 16- and 32-bit hardware - his songs are freaking legendary.

While the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack is definitely my favorite of his soundtracks, this was the first game that really caught my ear as sounding a cut above a lot of the regular Genesis fare. 

I was messing around with some plugins and ideas and decided that the great, laid-back feel of the SOR intro music would be a fun track to play around with. Added some rhythmic synths and some slightly different sounds, but kept the main parts that made the classic so... well... classic!

Enjoy!

Streets of Rage Title Screen (Remix Sketch)

This remix was initially a piece I worked on as part of the latest Overclocked Badass album project. I couldn’t come up with a great protagonist or antagonist theme that wasn’t done to death, but I remembered Dark Pit was a pretty cool character, and his theme was wonderful. 

The arrangement was nearly completed, at which point I was going back and forth with one of the project directors about its sound. In the end, I decided that this particular piece didn’t fit the tone and feel of the project. So I started another remix for that, and decided to complete and release this one as a remix on my own.

The difficulty in this one was that the original song already sounds like it is a cover, performed by a group of incredible musicians! It was tricky to come up with a style that offered something different, but incorporated most of the great parts of the original theme.  

After about a week and a half of experimenting, I finally found a groove in this one that I felt was worth exploring. The synth leads made it sound different enough, and the chopped up guitar parts echoed the original while adding my own ‘can’t play guitar’ flavor. Within my limitations, it worked. 

Enjoy!

Dark Pit (Kid Icarus Uprising Remix)

Decided to try and revisit this one. Brings me back to playing the game on a tiny 13" TV in a small bedroom, but great memories nonetheless! 

Enjoy!

Marble Zone (Sonic the Hedgehog Remix Sketch)

There's some music I'm afraid to even try and cover out fear of not being able to come close to the level of excellence that the original artists' achieved with their works. A lot of the music of Yuzo Koshiro falls into that category.

The recent release of a new entry in the classic series made me go back and play some of the original games. I didn't actually play Streets of Rage until it was on Sega CD, and playing it again recently I was still blown away by how incredible the music was.

I wanted to sketch something more upbeat and fun this week, so I settled on this level music from the game. My sketches lately have been a little more modern sounding, but for this one I wanted to call back to some of the 90's sounds that made the pop music from that period so cheesy and fun. I forgot much that old synth piano was missing in my life, till now!

I haven't played or heard Streets of Rage 4 yet, which is something I'm hoping to rectify very soon. Till then though, the soundtracks from the originals are timeless to me.

Enjoy!

Keep the Groovin (Streets of Rage Cover Sketch)

After having just recently played through the Switch remake of the original Panzer Dragoon, I was reminded of how much I loved that game when I came out, and how impressive it was back in 1995. This was one of the first CD-based games I ever played, and back then the idea of game audio which wasn't limited by the constraints of cartridge sizes and primitive synthesizer technology was a novel, exciting thing. 

The Panzer Dragoon soundtrack had a few truly memorable moments - its title theme chief among them - but some other pieces that just worked well as background music. "The Empire" was one of those songs.  

For this sketch I decided to make something a little synth wavy(?) I can't say it fits too closely into that genre because I only discovered it being an actual genre about a year ago, and I'm far from an expert in its trappings. 

The driving bass, slower tempo, and use of synth leads in a song that slowly builds instead of changing and evolving were elements I decided to incorporate into this one. As a result, like the original, I think it can work pretty well as a mood piece or background song on its own.

Enjoy!

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