A really nice and really creative mix if styles! Thank you!!

This little part reminds me to Aladdin from the Sega Megadrive!

This sounds like it could fit in a paper mario boss battle. Inspiration maybe?

So I've been meaning to try out this EDM thing people are on about. I dunno about genre, it's all trance to me =)

Also, it turns out I stole the hook from the intro to Sixteen Short, I guess those chords just make sense to me... 

Anyway, enjoy!

Mix updated March 2023

Fastest Cube

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)

Malmen - Polarity Shift

A concert version 2016, Yerzmyey & Pinokio at Riverwash 2016 party: 
https://youtu.be/qAaCJUdbN24?t=28m43s

An italo-disco chiptune song made with ZX Spectrum 48K with AY-interface. :) 
The song has been made on Sound-Tracker 1.1, for a HOOY-PROGRAM game "Deadly Labyrinth of Lord Xyrx". ;) 
"Chiptunes" album with this song is downloadable from here: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
The ZX Spectrum game is here: http://hooyprogram.republika.pl/xyrx.zip

Yerzmyey - Deadly Labyrinth of Lord Xyrx

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Jammer - Walking Squares

A remastered extended version of the song made for the 2006 Candela demo of the same name.

For once I actually have the old project files around, albeit not usable on my current workstation. I instead set up a WinXP VM with all my old plugins and DAW:s so I could export and reference the stuff I used. The MIDI notes and Kontakt instruments were easily exportable to FL Studio, and the only casualty was the Cubase-specific filter plugin Tonic which I had to replicate as well as I could. I also added back some parts that were cut out of the demo for time, and replaced some drums to improve the mix.

A shout-out must go to the z3ta+ VSTi and its great implementation of Hermode tuning. It's what makes the signature sound of this track possible, having such aggressive distorsion without all the mud that comes from equal-tempered tuning.

Jeff

A Comeback Tracker cover of the 'Lemon. Announce' song by Julius aka Martin Schioeler. One of my favourite amiga songs!

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Announce

Just a little story about a girl, a boy, and a big, scary world.

This track came about mostly because of the main theme, originally intended for a more straight electro-type track. The goal was to find interesting harmonies that could work under such a simple melody, and keeping the major / minor ambiguity alive was a fun puzzle. As always, I haven’t got a goddamn clue which key or scale this song is in, I’ll leave it as an exercise for the listener =)

The world/folk/fusion space is an interesting one, with many ways of jumping between styles and genres without losing cohesion. The B-riff is an adaptation of something I heard from Hungary once, but also had this great latin vibe that gave me ideas for the piano riff.

For the breakdown, I resisted the temptation to track the chords to the solo the way I’ve done it in the past. Something about leaving the melody open to interpretation seemed appropriate. The fusion solo contains a tiny homage to Esbjörn Svensson Trio, one of countless influences that have shaped my view of jazz and its many incarnations. A bonus was the accidental 80:s chunky Stratocaster patch I whipped up using Harmor. Gloriously kitschy =)

Building some tension towards the end, I decided to try and navigate back to the main theme for a bombastic Eurovision finale, which seemed appropriate. All in all, a fun little adventure!

Composed for the the Sound of SceneSat Volume 5 compilation.

The Sound of SceneSat Volume 5

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Here's a little track I made from only Nintendo 64 Sound Fonts - in other words, just samples and sounds from the old classic N64 games. It's a challenge from one of my fans on Youtube, 
Allen Husch, who said: "I really want Anders to make a song with a primitive video game SoundFont. Super Mario 64 for example."

So here we are! I've been a sucker for many of the soundtracks on this platform, especially Wave Race 64, Mario Kart 64 and Pilotwings 64, so these are the main SF2 files I used, but I found that some of the others like Blast Corps, Diddy Kong Racing and a few other N64 extractions also were good, so this is a huge mix with a little from everywhere. But no other sounds or samples were used, only effects, EQ, compression and good old MIDI tracking in my DAW.

Think of this as a homage to the good old times and the eminent works by Kazumi Totaka, Koji Kondo and all the others (too many to mention with the fear of forgetting some). 

Thank you Nintendo for all the fun hours in front of the console in the 90s. :)

Retro Grooves Vol. 4

N64 Love

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

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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

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