Yes! Been waiting for some new music from awesome Teetow! Great as always

This is one from the vaults. About 15 years ago, I made the soundtrack for Ragu, an entry to a game competition called Dream Build Play. As is common with hobby projects, I had a lot of creative wiggle room, so I obviously went with the most predictably happy-go-lucky funk soundtrack I could possibly conjure. I regret nothing!

The original was only about two minutes long, so it has been "de-looped" and given a fresh coat of paint. Happy buzzing!

Srekel, the developer of Ragu: https://twitter.com/Srekel

Ragu Soundtrack

Just like with demo music, I'm really drawn to projects where you have to show your intent clearly, and usually without all the presumptious preamble. I also took it as an excuse to dig into my Castlevania fanboy bag of tricks.

This is the soundtrack for the mini-game Brocken, developed by Anders Ekermo for the game jam The Room. Participants would design a single-screen game, with predetermined controls and entrances / exits, and their contributions would be combined into one big Flash game called SoManyRooms. Neat idea.

Oh, and the original was just over 2 minutes long, so it's been "de-looped" with some new stuff.

Anders Ekermo: https://twitter.com/andersekermo
So Many Rooms retrospective: http://blog.almostlogical.com/tag/so-many-rooms/

Brocken Soundtrack

Way back in the stone age of digital composing, it was possible for one person to store a musical project in a tiny 500 KB file, send to to a different person halfway across the area code (because good lord dialing long distance was for madmen) and every note, sample and delicious pitch bend would be right there. Kinda neat when you think about it.

This track started its life at the desk of Radix / Mosaik / The One Of Several Names, whose creations have always blown my socks off with their restrained glee and wonder. The man builds miracles just because he can, and doesn't show off -- in stark contrast to myself, whose first instinct on this collab was to add horns, MORE DRUMS and a timbale solo. Of course he was right in humbly suggesting we dial that shit down a notch, and so the track was released unto the world.

With permission from Radix, then, here it is in its restored glory. And the timbale solo is back.

Original XM, released January 1997: https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/fishing.zip

Gone Fishing

XM remake. Just like with the recent Mooserun remake, this track needed the same intensity but with some semblance of fidelity =)

The original samples were pretty messy, with drums sampled from The Commitments, the guitar I _think_ was from a Blur track, so they had to be redone. I kept the lead trombone in, everything else is remade.

Favorite moment: Creating a not-terrible funk guitar in Harmor. Also, every time I have and excuse to break out the Hammond organ, I'm damn well gonna take it!

Originally released in 1996 (on my 19:th birthday, nonetheless)
https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/plum/klr.zip

Ken's Living Room

I have no idea how popular this game actually was, but I played the shit out of it as a young' un. It was brutal, grindy and unforgiving, and since this was the only in-game soundtrack, it's a testament to Nintendo's mercy that they at least made it a legit bop.

The original loop is something like 40 seconds long, so needless to say I had to flesh it out a bit. You know. With a couple solos. And some other stuff. 

Yeah.

Enjoy!

NES Slalom (Teetow's Trial Remix)

Debussy shenanigans.

Cover: mynewcamera08 by blower5
https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/mynewcamera08/53759/

Made for and entered in Battle of the Bits • Summer Chip XII • *WILD_CHIP* 
https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Take+The+World+Apart/54650/
Tracked in OpenModplugTracker, mixed and mastered in Ableton.

Song doesn't have lyrics but I'm sure you'll find where to sing "Take the world apart" with a full chest.

Love you all <3

Take The World Apart

XM remake from 1997.

I never really cared for this track. The sounds, sampled off a Roland JV-35, were clean and reasonably punchy but also quite flat and annoying. The lead sound was grating, the solo atrocious, and the melody had a childish, irritating quality that has this track firmly on my shitlist. All the more reason to give it a second chance!

First up was deciding what to do about the lead instrument. After some experimentation I found a tweak to my standard "two slightly detuned saws" that brought a bit more motion to it, something needed for all those sustained notes. I also dug into the organ arrangement, trying to pepper some inspiration into the very monotonous chord progressions.

As always with these remakes, it's humbling for me to hear my musical ideas come out with more clarity and purpose, and as per the rule, this is now one of my favorites. I hope it'll be yours too.

Original XM:
https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/champagn.zip

Champagne

vs mode [sega megadrive]

takechee

Drive Till Dawn

From the album "Tracked x ChipWIN"
Get it here: https://trackedmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tracked-chipwin-007
(Seriously, get it. You won't regret)

This song is meant to symbolize the final stretch of a big dangerous adventure, parting ways with old friends along the way. 
If this was part of a video game, it would play on the last level before the final boss ;) 

A million thanks to everyone who supported me in the creation of this, especially Clover, CornetTheory and Sebb01. 

Shoutouts to the Viiganusser team, the Abiko folks, the awesome chipwin community, and SimpleFlips. 


Made in Reaper using many many freeware plugins, no paid plugins used. Oh also a guitar, i guess. 

Emulating various classic chips (SID, 2A03, SPC700, YMF262), using samplerate reduction and bit reduction on some other instruments to get that nice cozy aliased Amiga feel. The tune was made with 8 note polyphony and certain size limitations in mind, including sampled chords, so that it can potentially be ported to my favorite soundchip, the SNES SPC700, without much loss. (Yes this seems crazy, but i can asure you this fits in 8 channels + 1 "channel" with stuff streamed to the echo buffer from ROM). 

Full list of plugins used: 

38911 bytes, Acon Digital Multiply, Ambient Reverb, C700VST, DD BitCrusher, Digital Drum Compressor (Reaper builtin), Digital Versatile Compressor (Reaper builtin), Dream 64, Guitar Rig 5 (Free Version), JuceOPLVSTi, Leet Delay 2, magical8bitPlug, MH Thump, PanCake2, preFIX, ReaComp, ReaDelay, ReaFir, ReaXcomp, TAL Filter 2, TX16Wx, W1 Limiter.

Tracked ✕ ChipWIN • #007

Crossroads

The final installation of the "Robot Trilogy" of Candela demos. In this restoration, I really wanted to just up the fidelity of the mix, and not poke around too much in the original MIDI. Well, I may have fixed a drum fill or two...

The demo itself, if somewhat rough around the edges, really felt like the culmination of the formula we established with Fair Play To The Queen, but with a proper ending. Always nice.

Mix updated Jan 2023

Etch-A-Sketch

I'm just a tiny, yellow ball making funky music.

"Wii sports on crack" -- MorN

"Makes me think of a news station bringing you the most intense news but at a point in time when it's all run by robots and cyborgs" -- RthR

Ken's Living Room

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