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Malaika, one of the Tsavo orphans, imitates the sounds of trucks on the Mombasa Road, three kilometers from her enclosure.

This audio clip recorded in Tsavo East, Kenya, is part of The Elephant Ethogram: A Library of African Elephant Behavior. Visit https://www.elephantvoices.org/elephant-ethogram/introduction.html to learn more. The image is an illustration of behavior associated with this call sub-type.

Scientific compilation & editing: ElephantVoices, https://www.elephantvoices.org

Field Recording & Copyright: ElephantVoices

Truck-Like-Call (A2300117)

Fabu-goddamn-tastic artwork by TheLazerSofa.

It's been so long since I made this that I don't remember much about working on it besides making the KeySplits for W and Mona's vocals. Making bounce loops for Mona and mapping each sample to where it sounded good proved quite challenging, but I like how her vocals turned out quite a bit. 
Also, just like the real game, Wario's vocals this time are totally different from those seen with the Week 6 covers. That had more to do with the fact that I actually pitch-mapped them rather than using the real WL4 KeySplit. Like with Mona, Wario's vox come from WW: Mega Party Game$.

...Just now, I spent a good amount of time updating the mix. I did some EQ'ing & mixing, mostly. I put M&W in separate DirectWave's, for one. Made the Drop's hi-hat less garish. 
I brought the old marimba channel back in to some degree, because it draws a little too much attention to itself if you're taking the vocals into consideration. It'd be fine if it were an instrumental. 
Not sure how well the changes I did to the drums' EQ go over. I should really make different channels for them so I can give them that extra bit of attention.

Girls in red dresses with white satin panties
Foreign locales like Ки́теж and Atlantis

M.I.L.F. (Mona Is Late, will Fire)

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)

Original score by ClassicMan: https://musescore.com/classicman/scores/148469

Skelux asked on Twitter what music the Piano should play when you get close (a la Piranha Plant's lullaby, I presume), and I suggested some kind of menacing solo piano piece. 

After I looked up 'spooky solo piano pieces' online, I found a list which reminded me of this song. I went and found a download for a piano-only rendition of the piece, and made a mockup of what it'd sound like in Mario 64 in FL.

This excerpt from Totentanz isn't exactly the doom and gloom I was originally imagining, but it's not too high energy, feels spooky, and has a similar melodic cadence to PirPlaLullaby's, like a Dark Twin of sorts.

'Toadentanz' Excerpt (Mario 64 Soundfont)

ロマンスしたい

Not much to say on this one really. It was a completed track I had lying around that I forgot to upload :). It's pretty decent. Enjoy! 

Night Pulse.MP3

An old track that mostly consists of samples from Windows 3.11 to Windows XP.

                              

Windows Grooves

A kinda sequel to my other song Stride 
(https://soundcloud.com/hmister21/stride)I Hope you like it.

listen to it on youtube as well @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GUO-gcrDM

Omega Drive

HEAR THIS ON YOUTUBE! https://youtu.be/n6-p55K589g

LISTEN TO MY OTHER CHIPTUNES...
--Here (Soundcloud): https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/sets/8-bit-covers-compositions
--YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4xLKQmL_1VpxQNoJsqCNYDLpDPlaynX0

One of my favorite 90s hits, now as an NES-styled jam! I started working on this a couple of days ago and actually already uploaded it as an unfinished project, so here's the finished version, now with verses and a few little tweaks to make it sound more spot on.

Tell me what you think in the comments, and feel free to suggest any other songs you'd like to hear 8-bit versions of. Also be sure to follow me if you want to hear more of my music, including other chiptune covers like this one!

Cheers,
~Tristan

Ace of Base- "The Sign" (8-bit Chiptune cover)

This is one of the few soundtracks I composed directly for Infogrames. They used it twice, first in "Martian Alert!" and one year later in "Martian Revenge". The games were also named in other countries "Alert!" and "Marvin Strikes Back!"

Note that the names I've set are the originally intended, not the actual stages of the game.

Looney Tunes Collector - Martian Alert! - complete soundtrack (Game Boy, 2000)

Listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPt6CV3Fv5w&t=3s

Hear my other 8-bit covers!
-SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/sets/8-bit-covers-compositions
-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4xLKQmL_1VpxQNoJsqCNYDLpDPlaynX0

Here's a link to the original song on YouTube if you haven't heard it (it's a ding-dang bop!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBSG...

Made using a Winebottled version of FamiTracker on a MacBook Pro. I had a lot of fun making this, as 50s doo-wop is one of my favorite genres of music- and this is one of my favorite songs in that genre! I'm really proud of it as well, as the backing chord harmonies are a lot more rhythmically complex than a lot of my previous 8-bit covers. I created the thumbnail image using a crappy online image editor, and the custom Mario sprites were also made by me. If you enjoyed this, then consider checking out some of my other music– for instance, this is only one of several other chiptune covers I've created, the likes of which you can here in the playlists linked above. Or don't. This is just a hobby at the moment so I don't really give a crap tbh.

Cheers!
~Tristan

Cheers,
~Tristan

Dion & The Bitmonts- "I Wonder Why" (Dion & The Belmonts Chiptune Remix)

An 8-bit NES chiptune journey of magical twins brewing the wonderful stimulation of -=𝘍𝘜𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 𝘊𝘏𝘐𝘗𝘉𝘈𝘚𝘚=-.

Please check out the Bandcamp version if you can, the download contains some nice extra goodies... including LYRICS! Highly recommended if you wanna follow along the otherwise slightly incomprehensible squarewave blabber!
There's even more to come soon...


CREDITS:
Music composition/arrangement/mixing/mastering by chibi-tech.

"Ameiro no Jikan" lyrics by Misz Umino.
http://pingpongdash.net

"Kumo no Oto" lyrics by H/de. of LOOPCUBE.
https://www.foriio.com/loopcube

Character design and cover art by Cassie.
http://chichann.jugem.jp

SD character art & liner graphics by kon.
https://www.pixiv.net/users/234289

Logo by Yanari.

Additional graphic design assistance and suggestions by Mandi Cosenzo.

Made in Famitracker v0.4.6, using RP2A03 + VRC6 sound sources.

雨色の時間 ♥ Ameiro no Jikan

A little waltz to show my appreciation for a true friend!

Hand in Gentle Hand

Remake of Borderline. I hear this song a lot on the radio while driving. I mostly just used Dexed VSTi and some drum samples.

Borderline - Elevator Music Edition (Renoise)

big man's theme tune
download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uq0AFkYLpoDaKBCsM4tUoFW7rnOzIZg3/view?usp=sharing

FAT MAN'S GREED (Wario World Remix)

most of the music is straight from tiktok.  the other music is from a friend

Amateur kid musician kickin' it up in the Midwest. I write songs, compose instrumentals, and sometimes create chiptune covers of songs using Famitracker. Thanks for checking my junk out!

I'm also on YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUuTc1PCoh_lTFSBZZJ1MA if yo interested.

Cheers,
~Tristan

Ace of Base- "The Sign" (8-bit Chiptune cover)

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