Ancient Space Station

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Kevin Villecco and friends have come together to create a
Yoshi-themed remix album. Taking inspiration from different Yoshi-themed stages from Mario games, Year of the Yoshi is the remix event to kick off the summer. Year of the Yoshi is available now.


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Yoshi Moshi By Absrdst

Saga fiddled out with his Roland D50 in 2011... and then 12 years later jeenio and I joined and we as three developed his idea to a full track.

This track won the Deadline 2023 Tracked Music competition.

Basic automatic mastering applied.

Bacter, Jeenio & Saga Musix - The Day After

Asleep

Groove Voyage

I've always been intrigued by how divisible 6/8 time is, and how many distinct grooves you can make. I also felt it was time to really flex my sound design muscles with Harmor, which makes every sound in the track except the drums and the organ. So I made this track, more as a musical sketchpad than anything else.

By the time I'd reached the Irish folk part, I realized there was little point in restraining the style of the track. Instead, I drew inspiration from Frank Zappa, who seemed to approach his music in a very free-flowing way, keeping the listener guessing as to what would come next. In a way, the last slow-shuffle part is a homage to him, who arguably had the largest impact on my musical life.

For the Thirds

From my debut album, Sunshine Express (out 7/7). Just over 100 audio cassettes left.

Buy/stream: https://fanlink.to/sunexp

Tracklist:
01 Welcome Aboard
02 Lost on Whale Island
03 JUNGLE☆FANTASY
04 Ocean Blue
05 Overworld
06 You Are My World
07 UP&DOWN
08 Sweet Dreams
09 Farewell, Friends

Illustration: https://twitter.com/MAMETCHl
Mastering: https://twitter.com/djrhythmics

Sunshine Express

Welcome Aboard

A remastered extended version of the song made for the 2006 Candela demo of the same name.

For once I actually have the old project files around, albeit not usable on my current workstation. I instead set up a WinXP VM with all my old plugins and DAW:s so I could export and reference the stuff I used. The MIDI notes and Kontakt instruments were easily exportable to FL Studio, and the only casualty was the Cubase-specific filter plugin Tonic which I had to replicate as well as I could. I also added back some parts that were cut out of the demo for time, and replaced some drums to improve the mix.

A shout-out must go to the z3ta+ VSTi and its great implementation of Hermode tuning. It's what makes the signature sound of this track possible, having such aggressive distorsion without all the mud that comes from equal-tempered tuning.

Jeff

Just a little story about a girl, a boy, and a big, scary world.

This track came about mostly because of the main theme, originally intended for a more straight electro-type track. The goal was to find interesting harmonies that could work under such a simple melody, and keeping the major / minor ambiguity alive was a fun puzzle. As always, I haven’t got a goddamn clue which key or scale this song is in, I’ll leave it as an exercise for the listener =)

The world/folk/fusion space is an interesting one, with many ways of jumping between styles and genres without losing cohesion. The B-riff is an adaptation of something I heard from Hungary once, but also had this great latin vibe that gave me ideas for the piano riff.

For the breakdown, I resisted the temptation to track the chords to the solo the way I’ve done it in the past. Something about leaving the melody open to interpretation seemed appropriate. The fusion solo contains a tiny homage to Esbjörn Svensson Trio, one of countless influences that have shaped my view of jazz and its many incarnations. A bonus was the accidental 80:s chunky Stratocaster patch I whipped up using Harmor. Gloriously kitschy =)

Building some tension towards the end, I decided to try and navigate back to the main theme for a bombastic Eurovision finale, which seemed appropriate. All in all, a fun little adventure!

Composed for the the Sound of SceneSat Volume 5 compilation.

The Sound of SceneSat Volume 5

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Go go internet race machines. Another track in my series of "don't overthink it, make it fast, release it" tunes, enjoy the bloops!

Internet Race Machine

Internet Race Machine [Free DL]

Here's Rymdsylt! I've played this song a few times on streamed gigs but never uploaded it anywhere for some reason. Feel free to download it!

Rymdsylt

Sweden-based internet artist known for his high-energy dance music overloaded with 2000s nostalgia.

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