Name: Summer Flower by Lobster
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Description: This song was made using Famitracker, using the Konami VRC6 sound expansion. Please feel free to tell me what you think! (Also, I think you can play parts of this song on the Ukulele, in case you cared)

141kph

Original: "A trip through the Grand Canyon" by George Stone

If you don't have a clue what this song is, don't worry. I'm just nerding out =)

This song shipped with Windows 3.0 as a flex to showcase its "multimedia" capabilities. For many a poor soul, before the interwebs and mp3:s, it was the only piece of music your Windows PC could reproduce.

As bit of a challenge I decided to reproduce it by ear, using a couple YouTube videos as reference, rather than just dropping the MIDI file into FL Studio. Some liberties were taken with the arrangement, since I really wanted to lean on the guitars more than the tinny FM sounds of the original. I think it worked out well.

CANYON.MID

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

gregalovania

Get the full album at knasibas.bandcamp.com/album/nyans

https://www.facebook.com/knasibas/
https://twitter.com/Ondskapet

Shine Mine

This song was made using Famitracker, using the Konami VRC6 sound expansion. Please feel free to tell me what you think! (Also, I think you can play parts of this song on the Ukulele, in case you cared)

Summer Flower

My remix of one of the tracks from the new @purelygrey album "Searchlight". Go check out the album!

Original Song: https://soundcloud.com/purelygrey/deep-waters

Searchlight Album

Purely Grey - Deep Waters (Blue Navi Remix)

Direction

L8 NITE TV is an album which tries to capture the feeling you get when you fall asleep with the TV on and wake up at some unknown time late at night when everything still feels like a dream. Come dream and enjoy tonight's feature programming with Crystal Cola! 

L8 NITE TVは、テレビで眠りについたときや、夜遅くに夢のように感じる時に目を覚ますときの気持ちを捉えようとするアルバムです。 Crystal Colaで今夜の機能プログラミングを楽しんでください。 

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"A couple years back I was between jobs and found myself wrapped in hiraeth, alleviated only by retreating into a world of 80s made-for-tv films I found on VHS in second hand shops, romance OVA anime sourced from poorly seeded torrents and online image boards. There's an elusive word that exists if you combine this media and consume between 12am and sun-rise, where time stops and the world becomes filled with emotional electric piano melodies, enrapturing memories of lost connections, desaturated trips to the beach, hazy socials and an eternal optimism that you can always come back to tomorrow night, even if it feels out of reach. 
During this time I came across a soundcloud link to an artist that perfectly captured the sounds of those OVAs that I had escaped to. The tunes were layered, the synths sounded vintage, the structures were satisfying and I became instantly transported into that world. That was Crystal Cola's first 3 tracks. I won't go further into what happened next, but we became friends. 
Crystal Cola has only gone from strength to strength, and with L8 Nite TV he showcases vastly expanded abilities to produce layered, complex and exciting modern city pop. With L8 Nite TV Crystal Cola has introduced a wide array of new instrumentation, things that had been hinted to before in his work on cmyk! and with ALISON (who makes an excellent collaborative appearance on the stand out track CROSSTALK). We are greeted with beautiful saxophone licks on CROSSTALK, rhythmic guitar accompanyment on NIGHT WALK and complex sophisticated drum fills on almost all tracks. This is one of the rare moments where we get to hear a producer announce their talent, skill and vision to the world. With each listen, more of the production skills are revealed, all while being super poppy, happy and addictive. 
As I listen to L8 Nite TV for the umpteenth time I find myself once again transported to a happy place which swells a sense of joy and comfort in me. 
Take a trip into late night wonder, with Crystal Cola as your guide." 

- vid.nas 

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credits
released July 20, 2018 

All songs Written and Recorded by Crystal Cola except "10:30 PM 「CROSSTALK" written by Crystal Cola and A.L.I.S.O.N; "1:00 AM 「STATIC 波」" written by Crystal Cola and Hiro Tadomatsu 

Mixed and Mastered by Hiro Tadomatsu 

Art by Sebun 
twitter.com/7bun_junbun 
www.instagram.com/7bun_junbun/ 

A.L.I.S.O.N: 
linktr.ee/alison_synths 

Hiro Tadomatsu: 
soundcloud.com/hirotado

L8 NITE TV

12:00 AM 「NIGHT WALK」

Composition, Arrangement: Yoann Turpin. 2020
Artwork: https://www.deviantart.com/ellysiumn/art/Waiting-for-the-sun-785231692

Trip-Hop Shut In #27:  l'Aurore

I created a new genre, its called TRANSWAVE. hahaha

Tempo: 99 BPM

DAW: Reaper 6.21
Synth: YM2612 + SN46789 (Sega Genesis)
Sampler: Yamaha A3000 (never again)
Samples: two things from Sonic CD (thanks Collision Chaos Radio)
Guitar: Epiphone SG + Chorus CE-2

Covert art by Edduardo Alvarez Lopez (IG enickart)

Recording session footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGyxBtr5Qs

TransWave

featured on @summoningsalt 

I mostly stick within the realm of spacey/futuristic music, but every so often I'll write something different. Also if I disappear for months on end, it's just because it takes me forever to write something that I'll actually finish.
Music softwares: FL Studio, Auxy, Famitracker, OpenMPT, Schism Tracker, Musescore

Summer Flower

Lobster

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Specimanic!

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