happy new year everyone!

in 2021, i graduated in june with a BS in chemistry and soon after began working at my first full-time professional job. clearly, the past five years of undergrad put a strain on my will to continue the music i've been making since middle school, and keeping up with the online communities i've embraced pretty much since then as well.

i've known full-well that even during my years of pseudo-inactivity, music is something that i will return to time and time again as my passion, no matter how often it waxes and wanes.

being 23 now, change is a very frequent part of my life in pretty much all facets i can think of, which is as exciting as it is chaotic. this year, i hope to rely on music to ground me in my personal chaos, as it's been a comfort of mine that i've indulged in since the age of 11. even after straying away, coming back to OpenMPT never feels foreign.

this year i will devote more time to my music endeavors. working a 9-5 makes me realize how valuable my time is; how i need to really block out time to sit down and create amid balancing my work life, social life, and sleep. it's been a challenge so far, but still very manageable, and fun! it's quite rewarding to have it all feel adequately balanced.

new years is probably my favorite holiday, for symbolizing a fresh start which encourages change. the identity of a musician is something i've shied away from in recent years, and i aim to change that this year. so let me hold myself accountable in this statement, and please enjoy this little tune :-) i think i doodled up the main melody for this song sometime in like 2019, so it's been a long time coming!!! (i think i actually started truly composing a song out of it in december though :P)

thank you all for your continued support and encouragement. every little snippet i've posted on twitter, and occasional OHC upload over the past period of general inactivity has been met with excitement and anticipation for more music to come. it truly touches me to see it, and it only motivates me to keep on at it.

<3

-joe

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Today

a song i wrote today!! RPG-themed songs are always fun to make

16 channels, tracked in openMPT, using various VSTi's and samples

Queen of the Sea

★ FREE DL ★

Starlight Mall

my entry for round 2 of kfaraday's S3XMODITMANIA II!!

you've come across quite a pretty series of colorful metallic caves...

placed 4th out of 21

find the source and the other entries here: http://s3m.it/compo/530

Bismuth Chambers

my entry for round 3 of kfaraday's S3XMODITMANIA II!!

this song is on the goofy side, i kind of rushed myself to make it ~_~

placed 7th out of 17

find the source and the other entries here: s3m.it/compo/531

The Carpet Factory

my entry for round 4 of kfaraday's S3XMODITMANIA II!!

snowfall??? already??? sweet jesus

placed 4th out of 10

find the source and the other entries here: http://s3m.it/compo/534/

Snowfall at Twilight

around six months ago i began working on this song.  this is an mp3 i rendered of it a few months ago to show people what i had at the time.  so, in other words, i guess you could say this song was "finished" a while ago.

as some of you may already know, my hard drive kind of completely died on me in my essentially unusable laptop in mid-november, and all of the work that either wasnt saved in a dropbox somewhere, or, wasnt in the possession of any of my friends, disappeared forever.  this was one of them.  the module, at least.  i had this mp3 saved in my public dropbox though.

its pretty unfinished, with all of the polishing that was to be done, but i couldnt bring myself to remake the song entirely because with the death of my hard drive was the death of my (kind of) extensive library of samples and instruments.

this upload was kind of impulsive because i felt like i havent really posted on soundcloud lately and i didnt want to look dead so i hope you guys enjoy this filler tune that hopefully tomorrow morning i dont regret uploading, haha

cloud armada

long story short #mod_shrine was hosting an OHC but it turns out no one could actually make an entry except for myself so the compo itself fell through but i finished my song before the compo Died so heres a late night upload because i liked what i made

tracked in openmpt, .it, 24 channels
mastered for soundcloud

duck drawing from the #mod_shrine wiki page. coda drew it iirc

trudge

ALT. MIX BY @3nin-ga-au !! CHECK IT OUT: https://soundcloud.com/3nin-ga-au/stinkbug-bard-jr

this is a cover of an OHC tune @coda made a while back on battle of the bits, http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/bard.it/8477/

this was entered into botb's "BotB's Decadent Decade" compo, found here http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/bard+jr./18935/ [came in 1st out of 251!!!!]

★ FREE DL + ALT MIX ★

bard jr.

i am uploading this on impulse because i am happy with it right now :P

this is a tune i made for a one hour compo earlier this night, you can find the module itself right here: http://s3m.it/compo/618

i did a little post-editing, so the module you download from the site there will sound different from the mp3 i uploaded here

Like it

small thing i made last night and finished today

gloaming

s3xmoditmania is back again for a third time!!  this was my entry for round 1, and it got 1st place out of 44 entries!!!

find my song along with the other entries in the compo here: http://bitpuritans.moe/arena/battle.php?id=13

The White Room

entry to the #mod_shrine 2015-12-12 one week compo, 3/6th place

labyrinth

900 followers!!!  this is crazy!!!  here is a little song i want to upload to say thank you to everyone who has enjoyed my music over the past 3+ years i've been uploading music to this place.  this song is actually old, like... october 2014 old.  i came across it a couple of weeks ago again and i decided it would be a neat little track to polish a bit and upload to soundcloud, so here it is!  once again, thanks so much everyone for giving me a follow on here, my next milestone is the big 1k so these are exciting times!!!!!!

lullaby

this is my tune for maxo's LEVEL MUSIC BEST release!! i felt honored to be asked to be a part of this comp, tons of sweet tunes and cool people on this album!!!!

LEVEL MUSIC BEST

Links Of Glass (Corridor Of Chains)

wanderer

S3XMODITMANIA IV is here!!!!!  this is week one's tune, placed 4th of 29 entries!!

find my song along with the other entries in the compo here: http://bitpuritans.moe/arena/battle.php?id=45

Deception City

i wrote a tune today, it's been a while

29 channel .it, loops once

Rainy Meadow

Boss Theme

Space Mode

Pipe Mode

Start Menu

this is my entry for spring tracks VI on battle of the bits! placed 9th out of 277 entries overall! you can find the entry (as well as the source .it) here: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Plastic+Waltz/25482/

the cover art for this upload is also an entry for the same compo, and it's made by crabbandicoot! you can find that here: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Spring+Track+Sexto./25596/

★ SPRING TRACKS VI ★

Plastic Waltz

a_poignant_memory_has_resurrected!

Tuesday Night Shenanigans

clouds and trees

entry to 'FM Synth 2' battleofthebits, placed 3rd out of 60 entries! find it here: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/cat+factory+deluxe/26640/

cover art is an entry from Tiido: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/ESD+madness/26614/

loops once, mixed & mastered by lob31 (@3nin-ga-au)

cat factory deluxe

an assignment for a class in which the focus of the song was to take a motif and "phase shift" it through a full "cycle"

shifter

i don't actually use the mystic chord sorry

stinkbug

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