Interviews with Broky, Rain, Ropz and Robban and thoughts on success, motivation and pressure. Interviews were done at the Blast Paris Major 2023.

#124: The Faze Episode

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Interview with T.c, coach of Complexity, at IEM Sydney 2023, the first major Counter Strike 2 tournament, after they qualified for the grand final with a victory over G2 in the semi-finals.

#126 T.c @ IEM Sydney 2023

Interview with Faze coach Filip 'Neo' Kubski after winning IEM Sydney 2023. We talk about the similarities between Faze and VP, the beauty of CS, how the emotions of playing change when you're a coach, how he's adapting to coaching and how Robban might return to the team at some point.

#128: Neo @ IEM Sydney 2023

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The Weeknd - Starboy (Bestrack Remix)

In early 1995, I was working at Microsoft as an intern software engineer on the Windows 95 team, and was approached to write the music for the hidden Windows 95 Easter Egg.

This ‘Easter Egg’ was tricky to find, but once found it opened up a window with all the names of who worked on Windows 95, with my music as the theme.

The only instructions I was given was that the music should invoke images of ‘clouds’ and feel ‘floating’ and ‘peaceful’ – this is how Windows 95 was going to be marketed. Well, and that it had to play well on all sound cards at the time. For 99.9% of computers, this meant through the Adlib synthesizer emulation of the Creative Labs Sound Blaster card (or equivalent clone). In other words – no sampled instruments, no effects – just simple FM synthesis. General MIDI at it’s finest.

With that said, I really couldn’t do too much in terms of interesting instrumentation or sounds. I’ve rendered it out using a GM sound module (which is better than the Adlib synthesizer) but still doesn’t come close to the realism you’d expect from most computer music today.

Enjoy!

Clouds.mid (Windows 95 Easter Egg)

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The Midnight - Los Angeles (Bestrack Remix)

Guitar and synth-driven tunes I've composed and produced since 2002, over styles including melodic rock, pop & metal with a strong 80's influence, retro synthwave styles like dreamwave and more modern EDM & trance.

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