I love this so much! I'm gonna need to look up the Umihara Kawase games now! ^.-

Prototype

https://twitter.com/CheepThePeanut/status/1438857356201406466

dog hype

OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER OTHER her loving EMBRACE!!!!!!!

ATTACK FROM BEYOND?! - tiny preview

My track for the Snowdrop Festival 2024

Thumbnail image came from here: https://emilyguido.com/2014/02/23/dracula-oh-my/

Noir Nightmares

Flare NuiNui Quest - REFLECT (FM Version)

作曲：近藤浩治
編曲：しるば ・さでぃあす
Composed by Koji Kondo
Arranged by Thaddeus Silva

Mario Kart World

Yoshi Hills

ヨッシーヒルズ

hey ya [5-N163]

Deltarune Chapter 3 - SWORD (FM Cover)

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

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grass wonder [s-smp]

I made this in two evenings to try and sneak into the E3 demo of Crash Twinsanity. It was intended for the Neo Cortex / Mecha Bandicoot boss fight which I designed and scripted. It lacks proper mastering so sounds a bit rough n' ready.

You might notice that it heavily features a rendition of the melody from the Crash 3: Warped theme tune, and I combined it with my own "Neo Cortex Theme".

Jon Burton (Traveller's Tales Head Honcho) managed to recover the original from the E3 demo disc and featured it on his Youtube channel, GameHut!

Check out more VIP content from Crash Twinsanity at: https://jmac.co/crash-twinsanity

Crash Twinsanity - Mecha Bandicoot Fight (2004)

横スクロールアクションゲーム風の曲です。

雨のステージを想定して作曲しました。
強い酸性雨のためずっと打たれていると体力が削られていくので、なるべく屋根のあるところを通る必要がある…という、少し厄介な面をイメージしています。
それ相応に、どこか陰のある雰囲気にまとまったと思います。

MEANIE RAIN

This is an original song composed by me in a style inspired by Atsuhiro Motoyama's work on the Umihara Kawase series, it is particularly inspired by his work in Umihara Kawase Shun and Sayonara Umihara Kawase

For this, i tried to analyse what MIDI hardware and other instrument sources Atsuhiro Motoyama used, and i also tried my best to replicate common composition patterns used by him

I am a big fan of Atsuhiro Motoyama, it is a shame he has not composed for many recent games, i would love to hear more from him
Alongside ZUN and Jake Kaufman, he is one of my favourite VGM composers of all time
Unlike ZUN though, not many people make music in "Atushiro-style", so i wanted to start doing that
If you also like Atushiro Motoyama's style, and you are a musician, please consider trying to make Atsuhiro-style music too, i would love to compare and share insights!

Things i used:
SC-88pro
Korg Trinity
JV-1080
Serum (for manual instrument recreation attempts)
HALion 6 (this is cheating...it just has nice electric pianos i wanted to use in the background)

Oh yeah... and Mizūmi (湖) means lake in Japanese, i thought it'd be funny, because in Umihara Kawase, you have songs that reference the words "river" and "sea" in the titles, but not "lake"





...Also, can you find the hidden Fleentstones notes?

Mizumi (Instrumental Ver) - Umihara Kawase Style Original Song

Palmtree Panoramic Zone

Arrangement: Yoann Turpin. Composition: Koji Kondo. 2020

Remix/ Chiptune : Bob'Omb Battlefield (Super Mario 64)

Made using FM8, D-50 and misc. soundfonts.

Crusader of Centy - Training Grounds [FM Arrange Mix]

from The Ultimate Hum, a fictional game OST by various composers inspired by our favorite 16-bit games!
https://ultimatehum.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultimate-hum-ost
Composed by Michael Frank
Mastered by pumpuli (https://soundcloud.com/thewing)
Artwork by CastleNes

Haunted Castle Conquest

Think 'Jampack Winter 2021 main menu theme.'

I actually recycled a riff from a different track I was developing back in 2018 into this tune. That riff is at 1:07.

This track almost only uses instruments from the Apollo Justice soundfont, with one exception. The outlier comes from the Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth soundfont... so I guess this technically could be considered another soundfont demo!

That Twangy 2000s Vibe

Hello hello~! My name is Sylvsysprit, and composing (especially VGM) is my life passion!
I have a music archive in my website link if you are curious!

Mizumi (Instrumental Ver) - Umihara Kawase Style Original Song

Princess Sylvysprit

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