Name: Microsoft Encarta 97 Splash Screen Intro by Stan LePard
Duration: 16 s
Description: Composed and produced by Stan LePard in 1996 for the intro splash screen music for Microsoft "Encarta '97 Encyclopedia" CD-ROM.

Released on Ubiktune: http://ubiktune.com/releases/amplitude-problem-the-frequency-modulators-orchestra-vol-1

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"Armed with synthesizers and an nostalgic affinity for '80s video game soundtracks, Irming conjures an artificial world of high-tech joy, pop music for Donkey Kong to jam to." - All About Jazz

"... exhilarating blast of jazz fusion, synth-pop, and electro funk ... Imagine Kraftwerk composing a theme for an Atari 2600 cartridge." - JazzCorner

"... sets the bar higher, pushing the boundaries of electronic music ... a musical journey across various textures, ideas, and melodic invention ... a winning combination of atonal experimentation and harmonic richness" - No Depression

"... this album is a one stop shop for all sorts of tasty treats ... honestly one of the coolest things I've heard this year." - Chiptunes = WIN

"... radiates the 80s feel ... iconic sound and hooks ... face melting solos throughout ..." - Chip Bit Sid

A retro-electro-jazz concept album consisting of songs created exclusively using FM synthesizers and lo-fi drums. An exploration of the degree to which cold, digital synthesis can be transformed into the warm, human grooves and nuanced, improvised language we expect from the great art of jazz. A zany chiptune adventure down the pixelated rabbit hole. The synth-funk soundtrack to your brain.

Composed, performed and produced by Amplitude Problem, LA 

Mastered by Grammy Award winning engineer Don Grossinger, NY 

Artwork by Mythical Vigilante

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This Mutant Mind of Mine

Music for the 1st Amiga 500 demo from Booze Design.
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Amiga: Baby Steps

Hey ! here's my latest track, which was featured on the latest chiptunes=WIN compilation ! Give it a listen it has a lot of great artists on it ! https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/album/chiptunes-win-volume-8

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Zealous Tide [Chiptunes = WIN Volume 8]

My entry for Kindergarden 2012 32k executable music compo.

Place: 3rd

Wiklund - Blaster

If ODYSSEY was a video game...

A year in the making, Odyssey is an adventure/RPG type music album filled with the ambience of different zones that exist within the world. 

This is the first album I've made completely on an iPad. It came with it's limitations but overall it was the most fun I've ever had making music hands down.

Beautiful album art done by the talented Jubilee:
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Mastered by Grant Henry (Stemage):
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SKYWARD

My track for PTE Squad's ひきこもり・Hikikomori compilation! 

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Mercuric

Composed and produced by Stan LePard in 1996 for the intro splash screen music for Microsoft "Encarta '97 Encyclopedia" CD-ROM.

Encarta '97 Splash Screen Intro

Microsoft Encarta 97 Splash Screen Intro

Composed and produced by Stan LePard in 1996 "Microsoft Golf" CD-ROM.

Complete music for sports playlist: https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/sets/sports-world-hybrids

Stan LePard Music website: https://stanlepard.com

Microsoft Golf 3.0 Splash Screen Intro

Composed and produced in 1998 by Stan LePard.

Encarta Virtual Globe 1998 - Virtual Flights - Europe

This is the first of a (hopefully) annual series of themed collaborative chiptune events hosted by the Chiptune Server.

For our first compo's theme, we settled on retrofuturism: the future, imagined by the past. Each entrant selected a year of their choosing and created a chiptune song to envision how the musicians of that era might have predicted 2050 to sound. This resulted in an eclectic, but steadfastly danceable album that takes the listener through an electronic tour of the 19th and 20th centuries' musical trends.

You can download this track in its original quality here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/seuu7hpa0uqk7a8/2050.zip/file

Selected Year: 2000

Artist's Comments:
"'2050: The interconnective powers of the internet have lead to nothing short of a revolution. People from all corners of the globe live in perfect harmony, linked as tightly as web pages by a shared yearning for understanding and peace. The scrappy young technocrats who fostered this prosperous era now oversee us as our benevolent rulers, and their flawless judgement has eradicated nearly all of the world's former ills. Global warming, world hunger, and all manner of diseases are nothing but footnotes in schoolchildren's Digibooks, and people from all walks of life, able to procure all of history's knowledge at an instant, have found their ways into society's highest echelons.
The greatest pleasure in this utopian present is the club, a centerpiece of mankind's ever-expanding leisure time. No matter where they are, the citizens of the world all dance in metaphorical lockstep to the genres first pioneered in 2000—a rhythmic and energetic style, laced with the latest and greatest of timbres—united by the drum machine and the synthesizer.'

While I've never expressed it much before, I have a slight fondness for the so-called 'Y2K aesthetic,' a design style that reigned from roughly 1998-2001. Bolstered by the approach of the 'new millennium' and the seemingly limitless potential granted by the personal computer, designers embraced blobby curves, transparent surfaces, and extraneously ornamental circuitry designs in a reckless push to create the fashion of the future. Accompanying this new visual style was the recent popularity of techno music, whose washy synthesizers and relentless grooves were effectively the aural equivalent of the dreamlike CGI spaces omnipresent in Y2K-era art. All of this media is extremely dated now, of course, but that's why it appeals to me so much—2020 makes it very tempting to escape into idealized depictions of the future!
In an effort to capture the sound of 2000, I used several samples from E-MU's Orbit-3 and Proteus romplers, as well as the Methods of Mayhem loop pack, but I added EQ, reverb and other post-processing tools to them to keep the tone 'modern.' I also found a recreation of Korg's famous Ice Field patch from a Reddit thread, which became an essential part of the overall track (that patch is everywhere, by the way—look for it in almost any Y2K-era techno song!). In the end, the song ended up much longer than I originally anticipated, but I'm still happy with the results.
I'd like to shout out Synamax, whose Metroid Prime samples source videos were what introduced me to E-MU, as well as Froyo Tam of the Y2K Aesthetic Institute, an invaluable source of references and inspiration."

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