SOUNDSHOCK is back to conclude the FM FUNK trilogy. FM FUNK NIRVANA!! brings you 16 new tracks by 19 uniquely talented musicians, from four different continents, using an arsenal of 17 different hardware and software FM synthesizers. 

Although this release marks the end of the series, our hope is that we’ve inspired listeners and musicians enough to carry our message further, and to keep reinventing FM funk for decades to come! "That is", in the words of Tsuyoshi Shimokura, "not a sad thing." No indeed; rather, we believe this calls for celebration: let’s get it started!

Project director: zinger
Assistant director: C-jeff
Mastering engineer: MmcM
Album art: Tsuyoshi Shimokura

Tracks 1 and 15 are mixed by Sergey Kosov. All other tracks are mixed by their respective artists.

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SOUNDSHOCK 3: FM FUNK NIRVANA​!​​!

This is the "Flying Machine" cover I made for Specter of Torment, covered EVEN FURTHER through a fine-tuned AI. See the Buzz in the Grotto track (#01) for a fuller explanation, but the only things that went into this track were the original chiptune ( https://virt.bandcamp.com/track/a-cargo-of-fineries-flying-machine ) and the following very finagled text prompt: 

"A very energetic and thematic pop song. Driving drum beat, electric guitar lead, soaring and majestic, overdriven electric bass, brass section, anthemic, aviation, bombast"

I didn't tell it to add vocals, but I didn't tell it not to either. Sure, why not? I can't believe how similar they sound to the internal nonsense "temp" singing I hear in my head, whenever I write a song before writing the lyrics. It's absolutely uncanny.

I'll post how to mess with all this as soon as I regroup. It's been a pretty sleepless week! A new paper on audio ML is coming out almost every day now and I'm reading them all :E

Neurochip 02 - A Cargo of Finer Fineries

Today, we’re looking at SOME PROG, in its various forms, as it appeared on the SNES. Last time was filled with odd time signatures, but prog can mean more than that. Let’s take a listen!

EXTMIX

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SOME SNES PROG

***Update: I remixed this! https://soundcloud.com/kuro-19/before-it-ends-full-on-trance-remix
An original tune I made in Famitracker with the N163 module. I stereo'd it and added some reverb.
FTM: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ace8ml16br1onfx/Kuro%20-%20Before%20It%20Ends%20%28chip%20trance%29.ftm?dl=0
NSF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjsfe1zd9smqv76/Kuro%20-%20Before%20It%20Ends%20%28chip%20trance%29.nsf?dl=0

Before It Ends (chip trance original)

a joyful misery

Thanks to @Groovemaster303 for the help in this track. It's always fun to work together. Those of you who know our style when we combine forces should more or less know what to expect so I'll let the music speak for itself. Thanks to @GXSCChater for the awesome art :).

Spark Jump Zone (Feat.Groovemaster303).MP3

This is also a pretty early version of the Ripple Dot Zero music. This was supposed to be some kind of ending music. I think it is pretty good, it just got a bit out of style with the rest of the soundtrack as the work progressed over the last two years.

Bad Ending Unused

SOUNDSHOCK is back to conclude the FM FUNK trilogy. FM FUNK NIRVANA!! brings you 16 new tracks by 19 uniquely talented musicians, from four different continents, using an arsenal of 17 different hardware and software FM synthesizers. 

Although this release marks the end of the series, our hope is that we’ve inspired listeners and musicians enough to carry our message further, and to keep reinventing FM sounds for decades to come! "That is", in the words of Tsuyoshi Shimokura, "not a sad thing." No indeed; rather, we believe this calls for celebration: let’s get it started!

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Ryu Takami - Q.C.T.L

tenfour - CAVE BOUNCER

Extent Of The Jam - Hollow Summer

"Pigeons Rule" by linde is the third track from SOUNDSHOCK 3: FM FUNK NIRVANA​!​​!, a team album by Ubiktune.

Gear used: VGM Music Maker

Writing, production and mixing: linde
Mastering engineer: MmcM
Album art: Tsuyoshi Shimokura

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linde - Pigeons Rule

"Virtual adventures" by zabutom is the second track from SOUNDSHOCK 3: FM FUNK NIRVANA​!​​!, a team album by Ubiktune.

Gear used: Nord Micro Modular, Ableton Operator, VOPM

Writing, production and mixing: zabutom
Mastering engineer: MmcM
Album art: Tsuyoshi Shimokura

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zabutom - virtual adventures

"Modulationarism" is the first track from SOUNDSHOCK 3: FM FUNK NIRVANA​!​​!, a team album by Ubiktune. 

Gear used: FMP7 (http://guu.fmp.jp/archives/493)

Writing and production: Keishi Yonao
Mixing and mastering engineer: MmcM
Album art: Tsuyoshi Shimokura

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Keishi Yonao - Modulationarism

Another track from my upcoming album Return to Aloha. Part of the album is all about redoing tracks from the first album in the series to a style that fits in with the newer albums in the series.  This one was honestly one of the hardest to figure out what to do with! I'm happy with the result, though. Keen listeners or long time listeners might notice the instruments from Night Talk (Nightbridge) and the melody from Lost Girl (Return to Aloha) which was a reprise of Night Talk. The song ends with Lost Girl and Night Talk, before it dissipates into the stars.
For those with a passing interest in the 'lore' behind the albums, this is the love theme for Capel (the derpy medic protag) and her on-again-off-again love interest, Haze. An ex-pilot turned junker. I hope things can work out for them someday.

When I Met You (I wasn't Scared Anymore)

"Capel not understand 'sad' but not like. Please make the sad stop? Please? Not like. Not know 'happy' anymore."
Capel experiences sadness for the first time. 

This track was inspired by: https://soundcloud.com/reflekshun/sadness which you should go listen to immediately!
From Return to Aloha, coming sometime this summer.

Dont Understand

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