A glitch hoppy-ish chiptune EDM track. Made in FamiTracker. 

This started out as an experiment with the Namco 163 wavetable synthesis audio expansion chip used in Famicom games like Final Lap and Megami Tensei II. It is a very peculiar sound chip, granting you 1-8 additional sound channels and letting you design your own waveforms. I mostly went with sawtooth waves and some noisy overtone stuff here. But the more channels you enable on the chip, the crunchier its output gets (plus there's that weird high frequency noise).

Certain emulators and NSF players can clean up the expansion's sound rendering but I kind of like the roughness of it as is. The NES/Famicom isn't exactly a hi-fi device after all. Most games with a N163 chip utilized 4 channels which is what I also started with, but I eventually updated that to 6 channels.

The chord progression and general vibe of what I was composing was giving me "an evening at the arcade or mall, after-work activities" feel, so I was thinking of going with something like that as the title. I was trying to think of an alliterative title with two E's and at some point my brain suggested "Evening on e621" and well, I felt it was strangely appropriate.

FamiTracker module: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ixa7g1p4eu9p13938npy8/Evening-on-e621.ftm?rlkey=zmsfgwlrlbfc2xck7fdvbqyju&st=s29c5xsq&dl=0

2024

Evening on e621

Hello, I'm Kermakastikeritari, or Kermis for short. I am a hobbyist musician from Finland, mainly making music for fun and my own enjoyment.

Firage is a "fictional video game music" project that I founded in 2005. Firage doesn't really have a set genre, but I'm highly influenced by other video game musicians, rock/metal music and various kinds of electronic music.

I'm more interested in composing, arranging and mixing music on a computer rather than actually playing physical instruments, but I'm capable of performing some simple stuff on keyboard and guitar.

I mainly use OpenMPT, FamiTracker, FL Studio and Audacity to create my music.

Most of my music is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so feel free to use my music either as it is or by expanding on it. And if you do, please send me a link to your game/video/remix/other creation, I'm curious.

Contact info:

email: kermakastikeritari at gmail dot com
Discord: Kermis#8417

And I guess you can also just send me a message here on SoundCloud as well if you need to

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