A Hat In Time | Covers

Misc Fan Tracks

I decided to take the chords of the Time Rift Storybook cue and play around with them. Got this idea v late at night, and been spending the past while finishing it up. (You could practically call this an original piece at this point, what with how far I wound up pushing just two simple chords, but eh whatever hueh.)
Rly happy with how this turned out, and I hope you guys enjoy! :)
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Original Piece by Pascal Michael Stiefel
Arrangment by MysteryMan

A Hat In Time | Time Rift Storybook (Synth Jam)

(EDIT 12/25/22: Nothing has changed about the arrangement itself, but I've replaced the old MP3 file with a properly looped WAV! Additionally, here's the MIDI I released on VGMusic last year.)
https://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/ahit_firespirits_arranged.mid

Pascal Michael Stiefel made the original track. Be sure to stream the official A Hat In Time game soundtrack on Spotify/iTunes/etc. Alternatively, you can also listen to a lot of the soundtrack on the official Gears for Breakfast YT channel! (Be sure to buy and play the game btw. It's really good, you won't regret it!)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOywx5hjexDJUP-trlckYNA

Also be sure to support Stiefel and his various work via his social media!
twitter.com/Plasma3music
www.youtube.com/user/Plasma3Music
@plasma3
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Been wanting to cover this track for a long while now, seeing as it's *criminally* underrated and has absolutely no covers out there.
This one was pretty tricky to figure out the backing chords for, and I wound up taking a fair few creative liberties, up to and including the addition of entirely new elements. In fact if you listen *very* closely, I added a sneaky lil reference to *Eric Gleiser's* track "Dance of the Fire Spirits" (https://soundcloud.com/studio-gleiser/dance-of-the-fire-spirits) via a certain backing instrument ;)
Anyhow I'm incredibly happy with how this cover turned out, and I hope you guys enjoy! :)
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Original Track by Pascal Michael Stiefel
Arranged by MysteryMan

A Hat In Time | The Fire Spirits | Cover

(UPDATE 7/19/2023: Pitched this down, changed the percussion and adjusted some stuff. Also experimented with trying to EQ this thing to make it sound close-ish to the S5 dubbing tracks that were discovered ages ago. Prolly failed royally in that department, but hey it still sounds good!

Also I figured this is as good a place to tell y'all as any. I had to take a leave of absence from work due to physical factors, and in order to make sure I don't put my bank account in the hole, I cancelled my SC Pro. I've already started the process of removing older/less cared about tracks to make up for the eventual minutes deficit I might or might not be facing on Friday, and is also part of why I went back and updated a LOT of older tracks -- this one included. Thank y'all for baring with me.)
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The original track was made by TheGermanEngine (@thegermanengine) almost 7(!!!) years ago. You can find the upload here:
https://soundcloud.com/thegermanengine/little-box-tank
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It's long overdue, but I finally made some critical updates to my cover of this Thomas fandom classic that I made last year! I've changed out a couple of the lead instruments, added some small background elements, and replaced the bagpipes in that one section with strings. (I initially tried to use the Hartshorne bagpipes, but it just didn't sound right imo.)
I'm incredibly happy with this new mix, and I hope you guys enjoy! :D
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Original Track by TheGermanEngine
Based on "Little Engines" by Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell
Arranged by MysteryMan

Little Box Tank | Arrangement (UPDATED 7/19/2023)

The original track, which is also where I got the art in the thumbnail from, was made by Edgar Phœte. Be sure to check it out!
https://soundcloud.com/edgar-phoete/a-city-of-calcite-and
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After almost 5 months in development, I've finally finished a new "proper" AHIT cover! This track was a *royal* pain in the ass to transcribe in multiple places, as it's in 3/4 time AND on a swing beat. Was well worth the effort though, and it was a great opportunity to make use of some Project SAM instruments again.
Also huge thanks goes to my boi Kristian (@wisteriabirdstudios) for transcribing most of the vibraphone line in this track. Is something I just could not figure out for the life of me, and he was a huge help.
On that note though, I hope you guys enjoy! :)
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Original Track by Edgar Phœte
Arranged by MysteryMan
Transcription Assistance by Wisteria Bird Studios

A Hat In Time | City Of Calcite And Adventure | Cover

This cover is part of my new remix mod, Mafia Town of Calcite. Be sure to check it out over on the Steam Workshop!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2726185221

The awesome art in the thumbnail was done by Kuro (https://twitter.com/TheKuromoai / https://kuromoai.tumblr.com.) Be sure to check out her work!
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Pascal Michael Stiefel made the original tracks that this version is based on. Be sure to support him and his various work via his social media!
twitter.com/Plasma3music
www.youtube.com/user/Plasma3Music
@plasma3
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I know this seems a little silly, given how short the length is, but this is easily one of my favorite covers that I have ever made. It was a satisfying challenge figuring out how to blend together elements across multiple variations of this cue, while making it fitting for the City of Calcite. In particular, I took inspiration from Mafia Town, Alpine Skyline and the unused Time Rift variant!
I'm incredibly happy with how this turned out, and I hope you guys enjoy! :)
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Based on Music by Pascal Michael Stiefel
Arranged by MysteryMan

A Hat In Time | Level Intro | Cover

YouTube Mirror (updated):
https://youtu.be/cdZCxZQDuXU
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The amazing art in the thumbnail was made by BittyBattyBunny (https://bittybattybunny.tumblr.com / https://twitter.com/bittybattybunny.) She did an incredible job bringing the concept I had for this lil project to life; be sure to check out their other work!
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Instrumental Upload:
https://soundcloud.com/mysteryman_17/damn-guess-snatcher-got-dat-soul-after-all

Vocals + Instrumental (WAV and OGG format):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N5UNnTptqekA8sfjSNc9M2i0-jnVZpI-?usp=sharing

For charters/modders: tempo starts off as 91, but switches to 110 at about 31.681 secs into the song. Time signature for the whole song is 4/4.
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Story: Boyfriend rummages through Snatcher's things in his tree. The Subcon Minions notice and quickly try to get him to leave, figuring Snatcher will be mad. (He is, but not enough to actively hunt down a nuisance that's already leaving.) BF is walking out of Subcon Forest as heard in the very start of the song, the old stuff he rummaged through still fresh in his mind as he takes in the once-beautiful scenery. But all of a sudden (at 0:31 in the track,) he trips one of the forest's many traps and is dragged into Snatcher's contract-signing dimension. Snatcher pops up excitedly, looking forward to tormenting someone with the prospect of menial labor (followed by death!) ...But then he sees that it's BF *again,* and is basically like "bruh..." But hey, a soul's a soul, so he's just gonna get this over with. Or so he thinks.
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Ladies and gents, this is what I was using the Endless Encore mashup as a test for: my first "proper" FNF-styled track!!
So firstly, like, I am *genuinely shocked* that I'm THE FIRST ONE to try to make a ground-up FNF track for Snatcher. I can't even find an *actual* track based on Your Contract Has Expired anywhere (only direct ports with random charts slapped on top,) and that's essentially the **Megalovania of A Hat In Time!!** ...Anyhow, upon seeing this shocking gap in the FNF fandom's musical lineup, I knew I had to TRY to throw my hat into the ring with this at least once -- I figured at this point that if I didn't do it, chances were slim to none that anyone else would.
As for how I decided to go about working on this track: Oh It's You left me so much room for jazzy swagger, and Alpha Bookstore brought the potential to integrate his tragic backstory as the Prince into the mix. (I also directly sampled Snatcher's Contractual Obligations for a better transition between the two initial sections lmao.) I wanted to have the best of both worlds shine here, and sort of "sum up" Snatcher: a spooky, pompous bastard with a dark sense of humor, but also one that once had a heart of gold long ago (and maybe still *has* a hint of the old him in there... somewhere. If you squint hard enough.) It was tricky to get certain things sounding as I wanted them to, especially since I was worried the two tracks might not fuse well!
All in all tho, I am incredibly satisfied with how this turned out, and I hope you all enjoy.
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Based on Motifs by Pascal Michael Stiefel and MP2
Arranged by MysteryMan
BF Chromatic by NyxTheShield
Snatcher Chromatic + Additional Vocals by MysteryMan

Trespasser | Friday Night Funkin (vs Snatcher) | Updated 5/11/23

The amazing art in the thumbnail was made by BittyBattyBunny (https://bittybattybunny.tumblr.com / https://twitter.com/bittybattybunny.) She did an incredible job bringing the concept I had for this lil project to life; be sure to check out their other work!
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Full Song:
https://soundcloud.com/mysteryman_17/oh-its-a-blue-haired-kid-with-pronouns

Vocals + Instrumental (WAV and OGG format):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1N5UNnTptqekA8sfjSNc9M2i0-jnVZpI-?usp=sharing

For charters/modders: tempo starts off as 91, but switches to 110 at about 31.681 secs into the song. Time signature for the whole song is 4/4.
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Story: Boyfriend rummages through Snatcher's things in his tree. The Subcon Minions notice and quickly try to get him to leave, figuring Snatcher will be mad. (He is, but not enough to actively hunt down a nuisance that's already leaving.) BF is walking out of Subcon Forest as heard in the very start of the song, the old stuff he rummaged through still fresh in his mind as he takes in the once-beautiful scenery. But all of a sudden (at 0:31 in the track,) he trips one of the forest's many traps and is dragged into Snatcher's contract-signing dimension. Snatcher pops up excitedly, looking forward to tormenting someone with the prospect of menial labor (followed by death!) ...But then he sees that it's BF *again,* and is basically like "bruh..." But hey, a soul's a soul, so he's just gonna get this over with. Or so he thinks.
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So... yup, as you can tell by either this or the main song post, I've given this track (especially the chromatic) some MAJOR finetuning!!
Given my new computer is in a functional state, I've been able to use some new things I've gotten (including the Kontakt Library Factory 2 that I've gotten with an *actually* legit copy of Kontakt 7!) This made working with ProjectSAM Swing a bit of a pain -- for obvious reasons, but I was able to work around the demo limitations well enough lol.
Also can I just say: MusicBook is FUCKING AWESOME. The dobro and banjo I implemented here are *both* from there, and were free!!! In addition to those, I decided to make use of a royalty free drum loop that I got via a Humble Bundle, and also replaced the synth strings with a preset from the Mercury-6 VST from Cherry Audio.
Not much to say that I don't already on the main post, so I hope you guys enjoy!!
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Based on Motifs by Pascal Michael Stiefel and MP2
Arranged by MysteryMan
BF Chromatic by NyxTheShield
Snatcher Chromatic + Additional Vocals by MysteryMan

Trespasser | Friday Night Funkin (vs Snatcher) | Instrumental

This arrangement obviously wouldn't exist without the *phenominal* Zombotany Remade series by Whisperjas (@whisperjas / https://www.youtube.com/@whisperjas.) If you somehow haven't checked it out already, let alone the rest of their awesome work, you're doing yourself a massive disservice. You can check it out on their YouTube page!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4zXgRnralvKhnT1AA5ms08M2PoNLobt

While I fully transcribed everything you hear 100% from scratch, I wound up referencing Soapgaramond's Big Wave Beach Zombotany recreation for a piano part that was particularly tricky to pick out, so I'd be remiss if I didn't give it a shoutout. You can find it over on their Musescore page!
https://musescore.com/user/77844586/scores/20952751

This is also now downloadable as an in-game remix mod that replaces Clocktowers Over the Sea. You can get it over on Steam!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3363165561
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In hindsight, my timing for conceptualizing this arrangement was hilariously perfect. Cause I *high-key* forgot it was AHIT's 7th anniversary in early October until the announcement ping in Hatcord. Seeing as this both aims to improve on something from AHIT's past AND celebrate what I love so much about both AHIT and PvZ2 + Whisperjas' Zombotany, it wound up being a far better fit for the (now late) anniversary than I ever would have thought before.
Anyhow, this was a ton of fun to work on!! Took about a month of work, 14 WIP renders and a 198MB Mixcraft file with 35 instrument tracks and 2 audio tracks. Figuring out the base transcription, while also doing my own things to make it feel kinda new-ish, was rly satisfying. Similarly to my approach with the "Level Intro" jingle cover I did a few years ago, I wound up taking inspiration from elements in a LOT of the different Zombotany variants -- namely Ancient Egypt, Lost City and (indirectly) Steam Ages. Also... As much as it's become my mortal enemy in song form as of late, I decided to work in the motif from Eric Gleiser's "Time Trials" track in a way that hopefully DOESN'T suck at 1:35-1:39.
Figuring out the best combination of instruments was EASILY up there for being the biggest challenge I faced with this track. It's extremely difficult to represent *all* of A Hat In Time itself in one Zombotany cover, but what I wound up doing was taking a couple consistent techniques that Pascal used in the AHIT OST (layering strings/xylophone/woodwind, and obviously a theremin) and made *heavy* use of that throughout in different ways.
My arrangement doesn't have ALL of the actual PvZ2 instruments, but I was so determined to bring this to life, I dropped about $100 on Xpand!2 to get a couple of the most important ones for the backing. Aside from this, it's an absolute clusterfuck. Kontakt *and* SF2 versions of the Proteus 2, flexatone samples I had to create an account on a platform that I'll likely never use again just to download, the M&L Partners In Time soundfont **SPECIFICALLY for the clock sounds in the drumkit.** I could go on all day about how fuckin goofy my choices were on the whole... and I wouldn't have it any other way, this all came together so wonderfully.
All of my unhinged rambling aside, I hope y'all enjoy! :)
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"Zombotany Remade" by Whisperjas
Based on Motifs by Laura Shigihara, Whisperjas, Pascal Michael Stiefel and Eric Gleiser
Arranged by MysteryMan

Zombotany (Remade) | A Hat In Time Arrangement

Uhhhh play A Hat In Time ig???? A bit burnt out on it in some regards (been playing it for 4 fucking years now,) but it's objectively a pretty good game with a great modding base.
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Motifs:
-Time Trials Loop
-Braniac Maniac (PvZ)
-Main Theme/Title Screen
-Clocktowers Beneath The Sea
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I have more Brothership stuff in the works, and even one that's very close to being done, but I figured I'd settle the score with something from A Hat In Time that has plaguing me on-and-off for quite some time.
To say I dislike the original Time Trials track would be a *gross* understatement. I understand it was from an earlier point in AHIT's development, but even in comparison to the rest of Eric Gleiser's tracks for the game, Time Trials sticks out like a sore thumb. It feels very much like "we have Plants Vs Zombies at home," not helped by a huge chunk of the bassline basically being a weirder sounding version of Brainiac Maniac's.
I already slightly rearranged a small chunk of Time Trials for my cover of Whisperjas' Zombotany (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4zXgRnralvKhnT1AA5ms08M2PoNLobt,) but I decided it was finally time to do a FULL arrangement. If this is gonna be "we have PvZ at home," then it might as well be the best executed version of that style that it can be, damn it! To that end, I actually transcribed a tiny bit of Brainiac Maniac from memory and used some PvZ1 instruments, as well as PvZ2. I also drew a LOT from my Zombotany cover here as well in terms of structural ideas, and added a bit from Clocktowers Beneath The Sea at the end too! Not much else to say rly, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Hope y'all enjoy! :3
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Based on Motifs by Eric Gleiser, Laura Shigihara and Pascal Michael Stiefel
Arranged by MysteryMa'am

A Hat In Time | Time Trials (Reimagined)

This is a bit of a first for me! Rather than outright recreating a piece from the show, I transcribed the motif and then elaborated on it to make a theme.
And as you can see (and hear,) I took the motif from S24's "The Royal Engine" and spun it into a theme for Duchess of Loughborough. Incredibly happy with how this turned out, and I hope you guys enjoy! :)
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Based on Music by Chris Renshaw
Arranged by MysteryMan

Duchess' Theme | Arrangement

I do remixes and shit. For private matters, PM me.

The policy on using my music:
>I've decided that instead of the DM system, I'm just going to include a Drive folder with my deleted tracks for you guys to reupload as you wish.
>HOWEVER! The ONLY reuploads of tracks that are permitted will be ones from the Drive folder. **Any other reuploads,** including unofficial crossposts of tracks that are still officially listenable on my page, are forbidden in their entirety (especially "DO NOT USE" tracks.) 
> And credit *must* be given, no exceptions. Front and center, in the title and/or thumbnail. Any uncredited reuploads will be struck down.
>You don't need to ask to use my stuff. Doesn't mean you get to reupload them w/o credit tho, ya clown XD

Also since I know I'll get asked about this, yes the old Misfortune FLP pack I set up with Mada is still up. I just removed the old release post to clean up my page a wee bit. Here's the link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RmxtF9q9keIn230uS2HFDA18AAzumFam?usp=sharing

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