A King's Lament

yeah. we're new jack swingin it up. and ya boy got his hands on a jv-1080. (but just the software version... for only a 30 day free trial... but WE MAKIN THE MOST OF IT. JV FUNK LET'S GO)

for audio secret santa 2023!!! this was made for SCARRLETT who asked for “something either disco and early dance music style, or something new jack swing/late 80's early 90's rnb style. all that really matters is that it grooves like hell.” and i love this prompt so much... i had way too much fun coming back to new jack swing, it was such a blast! thank you scarrlett!! hope you enjoy :D 🙏🙏🙏

stems & midi: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O96piC0jCEkqg0PMdLYprp4rJcXZ_snT

steppin' in sync

Fun little Bad Apple cover i started doing yesterday for fun
Zinkk wanted to help with some parts, that's pretty cool
without his help this would of been kinda boring ngl 
his side melodies and guitars carried this thing
Thanks Zinkk!!

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For this cover i wanted to take elements from both the Touhou 4 Ver by ZUN and the Alstroemeria Records Ver

I hope you guys like it, it was really fun to make

Youtube Upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l38P0SJ-8A&ab_channel=Rodri

【東方】Bad Apple!! 悪い リンゴ【VGM Cover】Ft. ‪Zinkk99

To Rin the Vulpix, my PMD2 partner:

The pure soul you have is something I wish I found more in this human world.
It's a bit naive, but your impossibly strong faith and love for the small things of your world is something we've always needed more.
Maybe you don't think highly of this, I think I know you feel down about falling short a lot, even if you know approaching that pitfall isn't a good idea.
But don't blame yourself! There are shortcomings that (at least some of us) are still trying to break free from, and it absolutely doesn't happen overnight. Someday, you won't even need us to be strong anymore. Like honestly, give yourself credit, the change started in you and not with our presence!

*ahem*

You know, I keep hearing about humans... ceasing to exist in their own terms. I hear more about humans, in their sadness, distancing themselves from the town... worrying alone, and giving up alone.
I hope you won't have to feel that pain again.
Finally, I hope that we find more people like you.

Best regards, a partner you might have met before


https://shimiviolet.bandcamp.com/album/dont-ever-feel-alone-ep

Don't Give Up Alone!

born to write umihara kawase spoofs forced to write for fm soundtracks

Song name: flowers for you
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
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discord
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bandcamp
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please read the channel description

flowers for you [s-smp]

TV WORLD x club classics

lil deltarune and brat mashup i made
 

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TV WORLD x CLUB CLASSICS

Arrangement: Yiter
Original Composer: Ippo Yamada
Mastering: R-Man

Track for "Everlasting Ethos", a Mega Man Zero fan album

Full album: https://youtu.be/POahcc8x-fE?si=NbEjzxiHUdJETrUx

Enemy Hall

this will be my last public release in a while. i have been very addicted to work and have been sleeping very late the past few weeks. burnout is also getting to me from having no sense of direction, so i will not be posting in a month.

anyways,

if you haven't caught on already, i have been dipping my toes into umamusume pretty derby. that gacha game/ anime series with anthropomorphized horse girls. i found out about it around a month ago when the global release of the gacha game released. it gained traction very quickly upon release and was picked up by big gaming streamers.

personally i found out through my friends playing the game (one who doesn't typically even enjoy anime, let alone gacha games, which surprised me). i passively played the game and thought it was pretty neat. i liked the characters; i knew of the "communal daughter" haru urara, redeemed tokai teio with my ssr voucher for her title [peak joy], i got lucky and pulled a 3-star oguri cap who is my favorite uma to date! ^_^ with super creek and silence suzuka close behind.

what i didn't think i would get into was the irl history of the horses themselves. though only passively gaining information from yt shorts (with all kinds of misinformation, but i managed to figure out which was real and which wasn't), i started having genuine interest in the actual horses, their jockeys, their groomers... and how much their lives, their achievements, and their failures have impacted japanese peoples' lives. the supplementary media engages the viewer so well with its drama and character-focused-stories, which not only kept me guessing, but got me more invested into the series as well. i've only watched season 1 of the anime but i hope that season 2 blows me away (aside from the admittedly lifeless mixed cgi animation). s2 ep1 seems to be setting up amazing things for future arcs.

i was upset knowing about grass wonder, who was an american-born stallion that passed away from old age and organ failure (on the 8th of aug 2025, at 30 y/o). a lot of people (incl. uma fans) were mourning his passing. i didn't know much about the horse but i understood his impact in his 4-year-long racing career, and figured i could write a piano piece as a tribute. grass wonder in the umamusume anime is known to be a soft-spoken, yet aggressively competitive runner of team sirius, and notably one of special week's rivals (which afaik is true irl as well). she notably sings chatsumi in a yt short - a japanese folk song from 1912 (with an unknown composer), so i used it towards the end of the song and reharmonized it with a pop progression. i haven't fully verified if it is actually playable or not and only written initially impossible hand movements and key presses, so please do inform me if there are any weird movements that will be removed in rearranging this song for an 88-key piano.

it's certainly not my best song up to date, but i think it's a good enough sendoff to the legendary grass wonder. a goodbye to an era. forever living in horse racing lovers' hearts, and immortalized with umamusume.

as much as both things are designed to make our money (and as much as i don't like the typical anime culture surrounding umamusume)... i think even in the most unexpected pieces of media or recreational activities are we able to find meaning and fundamental values that we all can potentially live by.

soar high, grass wonder.
soar high.

Song name: grass wonder
Written and arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Chatsumi (Tea-picking song, 1912) borrowed from the Japanese Ministry of Education
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

downloads
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discord
https://discord.gg/WvNP6cr

bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/johntayjinf.bsky.social

tumblr
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bandcamp
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grass wonder [s-smp]

Crystal Shard Runner (Instrumental)

water blade

横スクロールアクションゲーム風の曲です。
精神を乗っ取られて敵側に回ってしまった仲間とのイベント戦で、「傷つけたくない、でも戦わなければならない」という葛藤をどことなく切なげな曲調で表現しました。 

知っている方もいるかもしれませんが、この曲は3年ほど前に別所で公開した曲です。
予想を超える反響があったので「リミックス版」として細部の調整を行い、SoundCloudでも公開することにしました。

HEARTACHE (2020 ver.)

Don't worry alone!

discord: rin_shirokone

Don't Give Up Alone!

Partways