All my original compositions, some better than others.

Art by my friendly acquaintance, CooperCan, of a proposed boss fight for this conceptual game of his where at one point a giant man attempts to bowl you over with ORB DUCK

Okay. So. I've realized that-- I write what I want to hear, right? Well, I'm usually so busy with that part that I can't even appreciate what little bits of genius are in there (yeah, I'm a cocksucker fuck you) until years later-- usually, it involves the percussion, talking in particular about Lasst Train Ride and Hippin' Hoppin'-- and then I look like a braggart, but hey, if it's WORTH bragging about fuck you.

Tunes by Tahu (Original Stuff)

Song covers in the style of Wario's GBA titles. Source material can be from anywhere.

Waamixes: songs that are essentially the exact same as the original, but feature Wario soundfont(s). 
The waamix designation still applies to songs that more-or-less match the source material, even if the given MIDI has been heavily edited or doctored.*
Waarangement: songs that use the Wario soundfonts, but also sound sufficiently different from the source material: in the case of tracks that used a pre-existing MIDI, the song is considered the source material, not the .mid. 
Examples of waarangements include "Bad (Mario)", "Doodlecture (WL4II Doodle Woods)", "Fury Rock (WL4II Fiery Cavern)", and so on.

To best exemplify this distinction, compare "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Wa" with WL4II's Toy Block Tower, aka "Ob-la-di Obelisk". 
'Ob-la-wa' is a waamix, because it features WL4's instruments, and changes the drums a bit, but is functionally the same as the original song. 
'Obelisk' on the other hand is a waarangement, because its sound is wholly different to that of the original, due to the addition of swing, parts of the original TBT's drums, etc.

* Examples of this rule would include "I'm Only Sleeping in the Row", which sports a thoroughly repaired melody line and a split-up rhythm section, but only because the melody line was highly inaccurate, and WL4 can't handle so many direct voices as the rhythm section was asking for.

"Made in Wario" | Wario-themed Waarangements by tahutoa

"Get ready for even m4re."

My tracks for MarioSpore's upcoming team project, an intended "sequel" for Wario Land 4 that just so happens to take a Siivagunner-like approach to its music. If it ain't in this playlist, it ain't official.
Link to the Wario Forums thread: https://warioforums.com/threads/wario-land-4-2.3330/
Link to the WL4II Discord: https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w

Some of my past songs I've done will have made it in, too, so when it's finished be sure to be on the lookout. Tracks are listed in the order that they were originally completed in. Well, except for Boss Gate and Fury Rock. (<-- Why though?)

UPDATE: Track listings are now basically in order. I figured it was likely people were turned off by the order I had them in before, but never did anything about it until August 15, 2025. My better work on the soundtrack, unsurprisingly, lay with the tracks I finished later in the project's life. The new track order makes more sense and shows off more of the OST's strong points (mostly because it has the actual levels' tracks earlier on).

RIP old track order. PM me if you want a dupe playlist I made that has the old track order.

Special Thanks to:
MarioSpore, (Mr. Magoo voice) ourr directorrrr, who helped sequence The Sweet Board and worked with me directly to ensure the tracks worked in-game.
Shawnster, who composed the epiccc Main Theme! :-)

Sound Room thumbnail sprites ripped by https://www.spriters-resource.com/submitter/DIRGE/

Wario Land 4 II

Tracks of mine that make me think about a quote made by mah boy, whether it be cause of the mixing, instrumentation, or both.
A list of tracks I.M. Proud of / favorites of the stuff I've done, if you will. Not really in any particular order; just added as I think to put them in here.

"you're a fantastic arranger mane"

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Roses_GS.mid

I actually started making this because the original's instruments are so damn similar to Bionicle Heroes, but the idea of sentence-mixing the Dungeon Dilemma vocals was just too damn good to pass on. Creating Wario's vox was much faster, as I was able to learn from working with the DD keysplit and streamline the process of making them match the notes.

Roses (WarioWare Cover)

SpongeBob, you silly ol' sponge. Try using your Vampire Killer!

Got the idea for this when I thought about the similarities between Hx-1 and the Bloodlines Guitar. My original motivation was wanting to do something with said incredibly sick guitar. 
Actually, I don't really know if my motivations were as tangible with this one as some of my other covers. I just wanted to do it 'cause it's freaking cool.
That *was* why I ended up going with SuperSponge sounds, though, was the Hx thing.

Image was a background from the Archive dump of SuperSponge. It was chosen at random, because my Explorer doesn't like generating image previews, these days. SO, I'm glad it was a winner. 'Put a smile on me face.

Update Mar. 2022: Amplified the master volume.

Bloodlines (SuperSponge Mix)

Thumbnail artwork by Charger342.

Xander Martin requested a WL4 cover of this from me. Unlike some of his past requests this one seemed easy enough to warrant actually following up on. So I took a stab at it. 

At first I was using WarioWare, inc. as my standard for which sounds I could use. Actual Flute and Pan Flute sounds would be open to me this way, and the choir as well. 
[30,2] was an absolute shoe-in for the chorused plucked string, so that was obviously the first thing I did. I also went to the trouble of making this with Sappy playback in mind, unlike some of my other recent WL4 covers. 

Because of these 2 things I'd been flip-flopping on the idea of going full Arabian Nights with this waarangement. Finding ways of limiting the # of sound channels and # of voices while keeping audio seamless put the idea of also limiting myself to base WL4 instruments (justl ike good old day) in mind. 

So, after the initial arrangement was finished, I basically halted production for a while. I finally took a drug holiday this week, and I may resume it tomorrow (not sure just yet).
But anyway, today I came back to work on it a little more, since I remembered not being satisfied with it where it was. I did a bunch of patch event changes, and spruced up the choir part (which is now strings). 
For a while I had the 1st Flute set to be the Soft Electric Piano, but ended up changing it to [113,2], the Arabian Nights shanai. I ended up leaving the echo as [5,2] though, because it sounded like an echo for just the flutier portion of [113,2]'s sound. This gives the illusion that the lead is a doubling.

Cursed Wathedral - Wario's Mystery Meat

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Waamton_meeting.ogg

Something I put together yesterday*
Total time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

I guarantee at *least* half of that time was spent figuring out the bass. Another fifth or something would probably have been spent on figuring out how to distribute the notation between the different parts during the B section.

*Then did about 3 minutes' worth of tweaking-- most of which was Playlist Window stuff. The rest was adding a few more notes to the accompaniment's sequence.

Battle with the Chaotix Prince (VS Lancer)

EVERY TIME I TRY TO SEND A LITTLE [[Cool Refreshing]] ADVERTISEMENT DOWN THERE -- WHAT DOES HE DO? HE TURNS IT INTO [Heavy Showers].
AND WHO NEEDS THAT???
EAHEAHEAHEHEAHEAH

Art by poryphone on Twitter: https://twitter.com/poryphone/status/1459969177943371778

The first time in a while that something I've done has felt like a legitimate rip. I loved that original picture so damn much that I did this - and on the same day, too. I should've done schoolwork instead but I probably would've wasted my time on something unproductive otherwise, so whatever.

I might do a bit more with the vocals, but a running thing with my Spamton mixes is I tend to dislike how the finished vocals sound at first but then they grow on me. We'll see how it goes. (Update: the same thing happened again, surprise surprise)
At some point I also want to improve the counterpoint (mostly regarding the strings for the Major section).

I'd really like to analyze the counterpoint between melody and bass to find out why the same two bar pattern works harmonically throughout the entire melody, even though I wrote it with the Minor section in mind*. I'm thinking the resolution notes in bar 1 probably take turns being tensions or chord tones for w/e the melody's implied chord is at the time. 
*WAIT. Minor. Consistent harmony... I chord and VI chord are both Tonic chords.... HRM.
So, the bass goes like "B, F#, D# E, G->F# | B, F#, D# E, G->E" That means the bass technically stays on WAIT> WIAT IT'S A PENTATONIC SCALE ISN'T IT. 
1 2 3 5 7. E F# G B D# Just corrected myself, the pitch is also F# and not F; Holy SHRIEYT.
I was thinking about how it technically stays on the I chord, specifically in the form IM7(9). It makes TOTAL SENSE that it works consistently between all the melodic bars like this.
I DID THAT SHIT on ACCIDENT. AAAAGH 
DAMN. i'm so awesome.
(edit: technically it's got pieces from both kinds of a penta scale, which is why some parts felt like they worked better than others)

Anyway. Now all that I'd have to do after that is map the chords out, which rartedvisage already did in his sheet music in 2019, but I wanna take a crack at it myself. 
Fun time in the near future :]

((If I can't have 🇦🇱🇮🇹🇹🇱🇪🇧🇮🇹🇴🇫 𝕗𝕦𝕟 🇮 🇲🇮🇬🇭🇹🇦🇸🇼🇪🇱🇱 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆))

Spam-Miser

QUIETLY HAND ME THE [[Little Birdie!]].
WHY NOT?
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
YOU HAVE [[Gooey $#-ow of Emotion]]S FOR SOMETHING YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.
INSUFFICIENT [[3G Data]].

Spamton Γ. Spamton

"So what?! I didn't feel like going back in time again! That made me sick!!"

Past: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa
Present: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/full-moon-freeway
Good: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/stardust-good

The anticipated Act 3 of Half-Moon Highway. I came back to it today, after a number of months, and put the last few touches needed for the loop to feel natural. For some reason, there are uploads of the song that loop to a different place and leave out the drum phrase right before where it loops as well. In addition, unlike Palmtree Bad, this one doesn't loop naturally with the loader as part of it, either. 
So a big part of postponing it was caused by looping stuff.

Edit: updated the refrain to include the "I've Had" vocals. Also added slide notes to that pattern so the pitch bend she sings goes up by one more semi-tone.

Fun fact about the intro: that high "thonnah" lead playing the vamp is made of two parts. One of them was originally the Pinball Zone guitar. If memory serves, it was changed to the Honky-Tonk Piano patch, I think, by an accidental "Init song with this position" at some point. 
However, it just sounded so good; when I came back to the project after a long time, I never considered it might not be purposeful until I actually looked at the SF Player and thought "that's not right..."
After switching it over to what I remembered it being, I was like "wow that other thing it was set to sounds SO much better."

Half-Moon Highway 'B' Mix

Half Moon Highway (Bad Future)

This is another of those songs I've wanted to post a cover of for a long time, and specifically using this soundfont. Even on paper you can see why.

Getting the chords to mesh with the rest of the sound was the biggest hurdle, I think, because unlike the previous couple of times I tried this, I'm a lot better at transcribing than I used to be.

I'm kind of glad I never finished covering this until now, though, because I don't know that I could've gotten the 2nd Lead to sound as good otherwise.

Quartz Quadrant Past (SuperSponge Cover)

Uses the official MIDI. I wasn't that happy with the mix initially, but after the last few days of it being up on Private I'm actually quite happy with it, now.

Originally I had started this using SB Drawn to Life instruments, but pipca did something with the Crash soundfont recently, if I remember right. Some kind of fighting game song, I think. 
But anyway, that made me think to use Crash, which in retrospect worked SO well that it gave me the inclination to make all future SRB2 mixes just use whichever soundfont worked best for the compositional style. Happy late birthday. it took me 4 tries to type birthday just then.

I wondered yesterday if 4/13 had any significance. I had this odd feeling that it did. Then it turned out to be Homestuck Day.

Update: Returning listeners may notice it's shorter. All I changed was the track length. I just don't think 3 full runs is necessary. P.S. Homestuck Day is also my grandfather's birthday.

VS. Metal Sonic - SRB2 (Crash Bandicoot Arrange.)

Alright, chump, so you got two options, here.
You could either be a ""saint,"" or you could be greeeedy...
Munch, munch. What??? No, you don't get any more!? Those are your two options! Two! I don't feel like thinking of a third! Don't get greedy with ME! I'm the winter warlock, pal!
—
The thumbnail was actually meant to be a placeholder (I think it was one of the only Wario images in the folder I was looking at), but then I realized it's actually perfect for the subject matter.

(featuring Shawnster as the Winter Wario and Charger342 as the disembodied narration)

Wario's Ultimatum

I would have a MIDI link for you, but VGmusic's upload portal has been down for THAT long.

((October 1, 2024)) I did the last few touchups to this MIDI besides actually adding in the train rattling, train whistle, steam hiss, and weird sweepy sound ((That's why the first 20 seconds are so uneventful)). And the timpani rolls, but whatever. That brings it up from the state it was in MARCH of 2022. Also, I originally sequenced it in MuseScore FOUR YEARS AGO ((2020)).

I was introduced to this song by stupidface. The kinda funny thing is, he always would delete his profiles, and then later on, I couldn't find the upload of Ghost Town on here that he'd Liked. I remember having to listen to an audio capture I did of it.

Ghost Town (Windows Media Player Cover)

The sister piece to Waves of Sand & Sky. I wanted to convey the different kind of brutality that comes with a snowstorm compared to an arid desert. I'll add more notes once I have my school hard drive back up and running. This one may have come first, or it may have been an exercise rather than an assignment.

Waves of Ice & Snow

Watch the short film with this music featured: https://youtu.be/wC84FmoW-jY

Completed as my Capstone project for my bachelor's degree at Berklee College of Music.

Cue 4A - Evading the Police

the sierra nevad a maountains rise majestically over 14000 feet in the air...

Assignment 5 for Composition for Film & TV 2 class. I was listening to this audio most recently when I was inspired to finally take some initiative on making lods of emone! I still like it. I may revisit it someday.

Bandcamp!

Montaine (and I have a Bandcamp now)

Rediscovered this while going through my mp3 archive. What a flash from the past. stupidface and I had a regular rapport, my grandfather was still alive, I wasn't anywhere near as burnt out. I plan on recovering, of course. lol :p

LttP Dark World Dungeon (WL4 Cover) - 2019

Also from 2019. Some audio clip we could use for one of my sound production classes reminded me of a certain fanfare.

SASSY

From 2019. I don't know if I ever posted this. I hadn't taken many theory classes yet, if any, so some parts sound a lot better than others.

Sweet Guy Alert! (2019)

From 2019. One of the test pieces for the Bionicle Heroes soundfont, which I was still working on. Very basic, using some MIDI I got that no doubt was lost with most of the stuff from G drive.

Do the Legomotion

From 2019. Another midislap. I don't even know who made the song, much less the MIDI. All I remember is I made it as a joke, like the Party Rock midislap I did around the same time. I apparently did this the very day before my Tainted Love arrangement, probably my biggest track ever.

Man, I miss how good WL4 sounded in FL. I wish my laptop still opened 32-bit programs worth a damn.

Stereo WAH

This version is a lot more like the original Spamton tune. I'm thinking about making an updated version of the original Spam-Miser using this FLP. I think a lemonoid-something made it. I've had it for years and it wasn't labelled.

SPAMMISER_MEETING

Nothing special. Just sounds nice.

Thumbnail by me.

Underfell - It's Raining Somewhere Else

For some reason, there isn't a high-quality upload of this on SC.
Go to my SounClown profile for a garlic chain's worth of Wario content.

“So admit it... Don't I look cool in the game screens? Those long, muscular legs on my sturdy, toned frame... I'm the perfect specimen of a man! ...What!?!? You say I look fat and my quadruple chin looks like a waterfall of flab? Shut up! That's just because you have your television set up for widescreen display!”

Edit: When I get Pro, I'm updating the mp3, because I got my hands on a HQ version. Even if I kinda resent that this track has a good 890x the amount of views that my others do on average, I can't wait to actually put a high-quality upload on here. I'm gonna update the track title and everything.

Update: hey hey hey, pisanos. Say hell o to the newly-updated Greenhorn! BTW, fun fact: Greenhorn is, like, an actual thing: it's a noun that means "noob", essentially, only it sounds nicer.

Wario World

2003

Wario World - Greenhorn Forest [HQ]

This melody isn't even true to the dream I heard it in, but I was so terrible at figuring out if I was harmonizing or actually getting it right that it ended up like this instead. The real one was in MAJOR for crying out loud

Update: I got rid of those PMW2 anthologies and got a T H I R D of my allotted upload time back

Pitched the song up +580 cents on a whim, realized it was in a/the key that matches up with Bad, and as we all know, if there's one soundfont that should always have a few MJ songs under it's belt, it would be Wario Land 4.

Bad (Mario) - "Bad" in the style of "Portal (Menu)"

"Thanks a lot, buddy, it took us three whole days to make this MIDI."
(Shakes fist)
"THREE DAYS!"

Ghostly Garlic (Ghostly Garden + Wario Land 4 Soundfont)

I think I've finally done Monster Iestyn's MIDI justice :D
...i hope.

Too bad I didn't know about FL's tendency to screw with literally every programmable slider until some time after Iestyn himself literally pointed out that the pitch bending wasn't there. Son of a bitch. I made a fool of myself in front of the person whose MIDI I like better than the original Mystic Mansion.

"There's nothing to fear
So listen dear
Follow me, and I'll make sure we both get out a-li-ive"
"Please, just un-der-stand,
That's not my hand,
I would ne-ver be wont to lay a finger on you!"

"Sapphire Passage - Mystic Mansion" | Wario Land 4 + Sonic Heroes

You thought it was some sickass rock n roll, but it was ME, DIO

uhh https://musescore.com/crono23/foolin-around

"Foolin' Around (1920s Piano MIDI, not Deff Leppard)" | Henry W. Ross + Wario Land 4

"Still Dre - Variation" | MuseScore + Wario Land 4

I actually composed something, holy shit! And it isn't too long-winded and samey like Gusty Woods before it! this is a huge deal for me :D I'm pretty proud atm, and I hope that doesn't change between now and later ' - '

I also made that character design. The shutters around the eye are exactly what they look like-- flexible shutters that follow dude's pupil, which as you can kinda tell is a concave shape. The pointy parts you see are gold and shiny. The rest is a shade of blue similar to the background, and has a texture akin to somebody's tongue.

Crystal Starfish (Original Tune)

I put ToA into MuseScore and it sounded dOpE as HELL <-- GET ITTT AHSAHShhHHHAAHHAHAHA

Tower oF Asccension

Happy WAAlloween, everybody.

Also, in true WL4 spirit, those chords you're hearing were played by hand, and as such their timing will at times be ever so slightly off.

The Peaceful Villa (Wario Land 4 Tune)

Here's something that IS (yet another) Wario track. It's something original that I made a few months ago, back in like August or September, maybe.

Also fuuuuuuuuuck dude I'm almost out of minutes again.
Edit: apparently I AM out of minutes. So, uhhh, I guess I'm gonna have to go back to uploading on tahutoa for a while, or something like that, until I probably either start a third account or go pro for this one, which is also pretty likely because this is the only one that's gained any traction.

Wah Thang (Out of Minutes...?)

I'm uploading this because all the MIDIs I've found for this piece online fail to live up to this beautiful arrangement. So, either both MIDIs get the sheet music wrong, or these performers managed to improve upon the original tune. (Update: Bela Banfalvi is the main guy for this version.)

I hope I don't get flagged for this-- especially because Classical music is in the public domain. I'M NOT TRYING TO PROFIT OFF THIS, ASS, AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU, IT'S PUBLIC DOMAIN

Dvorak - Humoresque, Op. 101 No. 7 (Best Version)

“Waa–!? I expected that road to still be there! Now I’m all wet for no reason!! 
Well, at least this place seems less… busy. Who installs loudspeakers on a highway??“

Present: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/full-moon-freeway
Bad: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa-bad-futer
Good: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/stardust-good

DOWNLOAD the MIDI: http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/sTARSust_Seedwaa.mid

I've wanted to cover this song since very early on, much like Ice Challenge before it, but only just now managed to follow through, all the way to the end of the tune... again, much like Ice Challenge.

I wonder how many people were sold just from the intro alone. I know *I* would be.

Half Moon Highway

Half Moon Highway (Past)

I was listening to the backing track & realized it'd be perfect. 
Glad to see MS thought so, too.
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Join the WL4II Discord server: https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w

Inside the Second Pyramid

Wario Land 4 II: Inside the Second Pyramid

"Wow!! This place is really busy! No idea how high up this is, but the view from here's really something! I wish I could get down to those casinos! Especially since there never seem to be any humans around in these paintings... What's up with that??"

Past: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa
Bad: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/starsust-seedwaa-bad-futer
Good: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/stardust-good

UPDATE: Happy New Year 2022! Here with a MAJOR Update to Stardust Present! I've added the remaining HUE's, replaced the Daow portion of the "Hit it" with the "EY!!" vocal from Club Sugar, and added in the siren. I've also given the effects on the Loader an overhaul. I finally used a Limiter for the sake of getting the master to be nice and loud without clipping like the old audio does.

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Unlike the waarangement made for Stardust Speedway Past, this one was NOT made from scratch. Most of the channels were (sufficiently modified versions of) Iestyn's MIDI. The electric piano chords that make the rhythm section I DID do completely from scratch, and the drums as well (including the intro), with the exception of the pre-chorus break (the part with the high-pitched cubana "not-a-cowbell" agogo thing), where I used Iestyn's version as reference.

The choice I made to include WL4's vocal bits was an inspired moment, for sure.

Half Moon Highway - Mega CD Wario Land

For JAWF. The brass/toxic landfill guitar combo ended up pretty close, eh

Click my name for an unhealthy amount of Wario content. ...Like this for example: https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa/der-kommissar

fun fact: the only reason this exists is because 120,2 sounds almost just like the square from the original, to the point where I at one point asked myself if that was the source used for it.

"Tainted Love" - Soft Shell

Now completely WL4-compatible! That's right punk, all the instruments, effects, etc. that you're hearing will actually carry over 100% to the final hack. (Well, not the EP's echo channel. We have to take the number of voices into account, you know.)

Original MIDI by Ulrik Ruud Rostrop, heavily modified by me.
WL4II Discord Server: https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w

Hip Shop

Wario Land 4 II: Item Shop

OH SHIT, this is the 100th track in my "Post-Return" playlist! Pretty sure I forgot to add some of my tracks to that, though! so, uh. ...Oh, whatever.

I downloaded two MIDIs for this song, one for the After the Fire version and one for the Falco original, and wouldn't you know it the Falco MIDI sounded more like the After the Fire version than the MIDI made specifically for the AtF version. BUT there was a banner ad with just the cutest little baby on the page that I got it from, so it wasn't a total loss. But anyways, the result of that is I've inadvertently created a hybrid song of the two versions by attempting to instill bits from the After the Fire version that were worth including. ...For me, this is essentially Tainted Love: the Right Way, in a bizarre sense because it's 80s stuff, and it'll probably become relatively popular, knowing the Internet (edit: okay, but actually fuck everybody? this song is better?), BUT I actually enjoy this song, so.

Also, I can't believe it's taken me THIS LONG to realize that :carpet-ride: comes from VB Wario Land. I had to reeeeally think about the way that Wario's head was drawn before I realized.

WAAr Kommissar's in Town

MIDI by meeee! And it sounds dope, too. I think I did a pretty good job capturing the vibe. 

Status as a joke tune aside, it's a chill listen, and fitting as fuock for PTP.
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https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w Discord for aaaa waa land 42

Palm Tree Paradise

Wario Land 4 II: Palm Tree Paradise

I started this track soooo long ago, but once I had it transcribed up to a bit before the first chorus, I knew from how that sounded that this was eventually going to be a project that was worth it. This has been a long time coming, and to me, finishing it is a bigger deal than figuring out whatever the hell Crescent Moon Village is even going to be. 
Some say that a first level's stage theme is incredibly important, and if you ask me, I think this will serve as a great-ass overture.

Things in particular that I like about this track as its own standalone track:
How fuckin' badass the "Shady's Back! Back! Back!" section sounds;
The combination of claps and E3 snares;
DEFinitely the combination of Snaps and D3 snares. That sounds dope as fuck. Originally it was just the snaps, but it lacked the punch heard in the original song's Hi-Hats;
The fact that this song's theme of 'returning after a while' matching with that of WL4II as a whole didn't even register until like two+ days after I started writing up the project;
How melodic and properly "flow-y" the note choices I made for the chorus's vocals (like the phrases and stuff) sound, given the source material.

Other things I like:
The inclusion of the wiew wiewekwewkeakwweaweaeh **BAM!** thing (that took a long time to transcribe, too-- writing the pitch-bend was killer, but it literally sounds JUST like the original if you set that preset to be that same kind of pulse wave);
The inclusion of Em's chikka-chikka sounds (it's a rather small detail but I still like it anyway-- same goes for all the sound effects that I opted to include, but these ones in particular stand out to me);
that including the bit from the end where Em laughs translated so seamlessly to that right-panned Daow channel;
other stuff as well

https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w <-- join the walland IV-2 development server

Comeback Corridor

Wario Land 4 II: Comeback Corridor (OST Version)

I originally had planned to use the Still D.R.E. waanstrumental that I created back in like January for the credits (in place of The Dream I Had Last Night), but unfortunately none of WL4's presets are up to snuff when it comes to filling in for Twisted's piano preset and meshing properly with the other instruments. It WAS built around the piano, after all.

Funnily. this waarangement I actually started working on WAAAAAY long ago, to the point where I can't even remember how long it's been-- maybe even a year. But anyway. I got my grubby mittens on the Super Star .spc music files and exported the Meta Knight Defeated tune to a .mid. 
THEN, I spent however long recreating every individual channel by hand, using the .mid as a guideline. This speeds up the process but NOT at the expense of feeling like I cheated. 
Plus, because I only used a reference, I can actually upload the sequence to VGMusic (http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/Setting_Sun.mid). Hoo'ay!

Join (eyeball emoji) --> https://discord.gg/7gNtW5w

My Cash & the Setting Sun

(OG Credits)

Wario Land 4 II: My Cash and the Setting Sun (Main Credits)

It's time to play "Guess the Source", everyone! I made the transcription myself, so no help there. ...Oh, and speaking of which, I'll betcha this is the first time anyone's made any sort of desk phone sound effect using only WL4 samples.

I'll tell you this, though: the bits of it that I copied down were literally such a pleasantry come from nowhere when I heard it, that I stopped what I was doing just to try and do something musical with it. There's just something so aesthetic about percussive organ chords accompanied by a low A being used as a "Now Dialing" tune of all things.

what's great is my laptop speaker is so awful at anything besides treble that the BandPass on Wehro is practically undetectable without my headphones.

"Now Calling: Wario" - Dial Waa

Hopefully I did a good job of translating the original song into what it would've been like had it been brought over.
Thumbnail is from an EB-styled Mother 1 remake, presumably by Tomato.
I've had the MIDI for so long I can't remember who made the original file. uhhh... james a. bloke
base Drum sequence by resident byootif' @awsewr-nwaafw

Battle Against a Flippant Opponent

* Stand by for Diagnostic notes...
* 5-6 Components critically damaged;
* Insufficient material for 1:1 replacement;
* Components replaced with Upgraded parts.
* Repairs complete; please stand by...
* Resuming operation...

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I was getting rid of some C notes as per request, and just ended up giving this whole track a refurbishment. Posting as a separate upload though, just in case one prefers the original.

Twisted Killer Cyborg, Mk. II | MOTHER 3 + WarioWare: Twisted!

Like hey man, bandits are pretty scary, right? 

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I heard this in Film Class, as the main Riders' leitmotif while watching the ol' 1903 ten-minute film. The final showdown (the location of which I based the thumbnail's scenery on) had a cool addition for the finale where the bass part got fleshed out, and I wanted to do something for it at the very least.

The Great Train WAAbbery

Well where do I start here, just a few weeks ago I met a very nice fellow by the name of MarioSpore (Developer of WL42). To make things short, we met through discord on the Wario Land 4 2 server. We voice chatted and I showed him some of my own music using the fantastic Wario Land 4 soundfont created by Tahutoa. He liked my stuff and the conversation lead to me trying to create a theme for Wario Land 4 2, and now here we are, about 3 weeks after these events took place. 

Song Notes:
Well, I struggled to get the ball rolling at first, making several different themes (which I might release later). I actually settled on a completely different theme, worked on it for HOURS...then forgot to save it...wow Shawn how spicy of you. So, I took a short ONE day break to think about my next move and try not to screw it up again, I took a scrapped WL42 theme and fixed it just so I wouldn't be put too far behind.  Then as the song developed more and more MarioSpore suggested that I try and add a few other themes in as well, I added what MarioSpore told me was one of Tahutoa's favorite tracks, Dust in the Wind. Then I added on of MarioSpore's favorite pieces of music, Sweet Board. Everything else is completely original ad took about 3 weeks, with short little 4 hour work sessions. 

Here is Tahutoa's words on the project and his part in bringing this WAHnderful piece of music to WL42.

(Note: First uploaded on Tahutoa's soundcloud)

This song was composed by @shawnster1-366703936, our relatively recent addition to the team.
Who would've thought that beyond some decent first whacks at waarranging would lie a decidedly very competent composer. Like, he even leitmotifed Sweet Board and I didn't notice it like a dumbass common bumpkin loser boy, on top of creating a catchy-ass theme tune. Serious props to that guy. 
I remember telling mah boi that I was so impressed with what I heard that I was literally no longer internally opposed to having someone else encroach on my turf. 'Cause this shit was dope, and I'm glad to've had the privilege of getting to arrange it beyond what I started with.
AS for my end of the work, here's this. uh
So, I got the final export for the finished MIDI on the 29th or so. I didn't reeeeally bunker down on it until last night, though. The only real changes I made besides adding and rearranging the instruments in certain places were probably utilizing a revolutionary-for-me-and-MS-anyway system that makes the process of adding Preset Events SOOOO much more efficient and somehow managing to fit ALLLLL of this song into a mere 7 channels-- six if you don't really count that Oomph square (and I don't) I used to boost the 16000 freq. range-- and tbh that's pretty amazing for what all's here. I feel like a clever boi righ' bou' now.

Tahutoa's Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/tahutoa

Wario Land 4 2 OST - Main Theme

I needed an excuse to finally Public my Monster Hits playlist, and I'm sure some of you people will appreciate this track, so here you go.
MIDI from midi-world, with the exception of the main riff (which, as we all know is the most important part). That's the same notation I wrote which is to also be heard in that "nah nah nah you playin" track I posted.

Sweet Dreams but it sounds like Wario Land

Ian Livingstone - Composer
Herman Witkam - Duduk, Irish Whistle, Peruvian Quena, Xiao, Shvi
Mark Livingstone - Acoustic Drums, Percussion
Tony Clarke - Guitars

Extracted from the game's files and converted from .wgt to .flac using VLC Media Player.

BIONICLE Heroes

Piraka Playground 1, Credits

Avak's Dynamo

I heard @a-gentle-breeze's cover of this song, and that was neat-- neat enough to make me take the ol' gander at the original. THEN I saw that the original also had an FLP download included. I thought about how similar that first pad thing sounded to SBSP's Acc-lo preset, and really I just couldn't resist.

The original: https://soundcloud.com/superdf/gaming-addiction-megalo-made-only-with-gbfont-flp

Swimming Addiction - SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperDF

I rather quite like the way that second half turned out.

Score originally transcribed by https://musescore.com/torbybrand 
Arrangement by me.

Mice On Venus

Not sure why, but despite my not liking this one much at first, it grew on me as I worked on it.

Score originally transcribed by https://musescore.com/torbybrand 
Arrangement by me.

Living Mice

"iIIII'M-a numbuh'r wUAAANN!!"

It's been literally almost a year since I started making this particular .flp, and one of the earliest confirmed songs. Yesterday MarioSpore reminded me I still had yet to finish it, and so today I somehow managed to pull everything from around 1:12 all the way to the end of the song out of my ass.
The thumbnail art is a Portraitificated version of one of the "devotional" images-- whichever one is portrayed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxL6pEMAlKE. I have no idea if this is even the proper album, but to me this picture will always be *THE* depeche mode picture, so that's what I'm using.

Special thanks to @user-384430368 for creating his I Feel Loved Instrumental, which is what I referenced for this project.

Boss Battle

Wario Land 4 II: Boss Battle (Wah Feel Loved)

A combination of multiple instances from the original Kajetokun video to make it as long/complete as possible.

Available to download. Credit is decidedly not necessary, though it would be neat.

"Gutsman's Ass" Musical Sting (Extended)

Thank you very much Superjustinbros for linking me the .s3m files that made this very important release possible.
DOWNLOAD: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1r…T2DJ?usp=sharing

Reminder that this was originally sequenced by my good friend Jimothy J. Face. I was just the arranger.

Sno-Miser (3D Maze Man.sf2)

KaaaHhPoOtneehhk

DOWNLOAD the late Face's sheet music here: https://musescore.com/tahutoa/kaputniks

Kaputniks

Kaputniks (C700 Arrange.)

"Massive Fähigkeit"

(If you enjoy my tracks, be sure to h'whack that like, repost, and share it too.)
You've reached the home of the so-called "epic Wario" thing. I've a massive catalogue of waamixes and waarangements for yon nigras to peruse with hearty contentment, as they eat whole garlic loaves and shoulder bash their computer.

Sorry if uhhh the volume for tracks varies, or is just relatively all-over-the-place. Even though I usually keep my system vol. at 52, there have been times where I've changed it and forgot that I did, then started working on a project.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/tahutoa300

Q: Why do I use the Wario Land 4 soundfont to some capacity for so many tracks?
A: Because I love the way it sounds, obviously. Half the reason why I'll start making a MIDI in the first place is that I want to hear what it'd sound like with the Wario Land 4 soundfont.
Q: Wo, Tahutoa, youre music sure is good! :))
A: DON'T CAPITALIZE MY NAAAAAME AaRRGHKKhH IT LOOKS SO HEINOUS I CAN'T STAND ITTITTI hawhawtitits?? Thank you, though

One wonders how much of their fanbase thinks of ol' typhoidoa as "epic Wario man, *and ig some other stuff*" - the same sort of typecasting that has felled a number of UT Remix artists over the years.

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