Hello my name is Cornette
and I'm an android
I am the proprietor of Cypher Mining Corp.
deep in the mines, I work hard to bring home daily gains
this is how  I use my drills

All of the other Cornettes are sad imposters
[fake drills]
Somebody programmed them wrong to think that they are me
[fake drills. Disavow. My drills hurt.]
Deep in the mines, we work hard to stave the monsters off
[get rekt!]
this is how we use our drills
[gians, gains, gains, hodl]

Drizzle-Ore Drones
Identify teleport zones
though skull bears roam;
they long to crunch on me, like any Cornette.

I hodl the drizzle I get,
Like any Cornette,
Inside these diamond hands
One of these days
I'm gonna be paid
then my cpu will malfunction
we will reconvene at the auction

Praise these gains!

Every Cornette is sentient
sovereign and free
not just an NFT; we
grow and adapt every cycle
[Did he sell? Pump it]
upward on and on
to the moon

My Drillz Hurt (2021)

Reconnected with an old buddy of mine, and he happened to be holding onto a file I'd sent him back in 2002, of a draft of an arrangement of "The Tragic Prince" from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which I'd worked up in MODplug tracker, of all things.

Really takes me back! Thought I'd share.

The Tragic Prince 2002 Remix

My friend Mason showed me a clip from a video game where somebody says "What do the numbers mean, Mason?" And I thought it was pretty funny, so I wrote a song.

What do the numbers mean, Mason?

Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple PIlots Cover)

Live recording, circa 2010. Musical arrangement done on NES hardware.

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Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffet Cover)

A cover of Chandalier, by Sia.

UPDATE: Thank you very much for the 8.5k views! Here's an offsite download link, since this track's long-ago exceeded Soundcloud's download cap: http://shaelriley.com/musicfiles/shael/solo/covers/Shael%20Riley%20-%20Chandelier%20(Sia%20cover).mp3

Shael Riley - Chandelier (Sia Cover)

Dig Dug

Cover of one of the Internet's best kept secrets. Link to the original, including the lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkw2vtW6AE

Shael Riley - Mike Tyson Quotes: The Song (Just Dave Cover)

Shael Riley - Hey Jealousy (Gin Blossums Cover)

Brill-Building Pop style cover of Weezer's Why Bother.

Why Bother (Weezer Cover)

A liberal arrangement of Bush's "Swallowed," with some variations on the original chord structure. I'm very happy with the way this came out. Might be my favorite of all the covers I've done.

Swallowed (Bush Cover)

Hard synth-rock cover of American Jesus. As relevant today as it was when it was written twenty years ago, and probably the best mixing I've ever done. Hear it!

Like--how did I produce a mix that isn't muddy? I don't even know what I did right. Must be the source material's gravity.

American Jesus (Bad Religion Cover)

Acoustic cover of my favorite band ever. 

if (crawlOutOfMud = true);
{
wash_flood (them);
}

Only As Good As My God (Everything Everything Cover)

Revisited an old Gameboy arrangement for NES hardware I made in Famitracker, in Sonar.

I Accidentally the Whole Mario 2015

The soundtrack everyone has probably been waiting for.

Bat Scream

At some point, if you're some kind of video-game-music/chiptune guy, you eventually have to tackle the most iconic video-game theme of all time, right? Created using both SONAR and Famitracker.

Super Mario Land/Super Mario Bros. Medley (2016)

Smooth Zoodles

Two minutes of procedurally generated variations on a simple chord progression for piano, bass, and muted trumpet; created with the play probability feature of Sonar's step sequencer, and several of Cthulhu's randomizing functions. Drums created with Liquid Rhythm controlling Session Drummer's WholeLottaKit sample set. Fairly happy with this one!

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