Dude! Who knew that Ace of Base wrote chiptunes!!!!! This melody is like perfect for a chip tune!

8bit style 7

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

A remix of the rather...minimalistic theme of W.D. Gaster, turned into a hypothetical battle theme for the guy.  Had lots of fun with this one, and hopefully I managed to capture this guy's spooky, freaky essence with the theme.

By popular demand, here's an external download link because I can't seem to figure out how to get Soundcloud's cursed download system to work properly: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3gs5rtz2zmpczvq/Dark%2C%20Darker%2C%20Yet%20Darker.mp3?dl=0

And here's an hour-long extended mix if you prefer your jams to be seamless and uninterrupted: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4e8u0spd69270bg/Dark%2C%20Darker%2C%20Yet%20Darker%20%5BExtended%20Mix%5D.mp3?dl=0

Dark, Darker, Yet Darker

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

I started this tune on December 1st 2015 and I worked on it until january 13th, when I got stuck!
I wrote the beginning of what should have been the 2nd part, but I couldn't go on... When Antonio decided to publish a preview of the game (Semptember 2016) I decided to use a short version of the tune containing just the first part. I just had to make some little changes to make the lead instrument audible for the 6581 SID models, but wait: the version you're listening to now (the same that is on the CD) is the original one, with the filters working correctly!

Towards the end of the production of the game we needed another tune. Since there wasn't much time, we decided to keep this tune as it was on the preview.
When I listen to this tune it seems too short and incomplete... If I had more time (and maybe more ideas) I would try harder to develop the second part and maybe add a third one, as I had initially planned to do...

P.S.: As for the other Planet Golf tunes, the title was decided by Antonio, whom I thank!

Planet Golf Game Soundtrack Selection

Red Dust

Red Dust (Recorded from a real C64 with a 8580 SID chip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkOI3nqVqo

ENNUIJAMS 2017

Daiei (Famicom Remix)

I played this at MAGFest 2018 open mic, and now it's uploaded for all to hear!

Pastel Prism

HEAR MY OTHER 8-BIT COVERS (playlist): https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/sets/8-bit-covers-compositions 

HEAR MY UNFINISHED COVER OF THE BEATLES' "COME TOGETHER": https://soundcloud.com/user-596109938/the-beatles-come-together-8-bitchiptune-cover-wip

CATCH ME LIKE A COLD ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUuTc1PCoh_lTFSBZZJ1MA?view_as=subscriber

Well, it's still snowing in Minnesota- so much, in fact, that we had school off today! In light of this unexpected break, I started working on a Famitracker cover of this excellent 90s bop that I've been listening to a lot lately for some reason. So far I've only fully worked out the chorus, but I'm in the process of making the verse, so expect a complete version to come along sometime soon. 
In the meantime, tell me what you think of this in the comments. And be sure to follow me to hear more of my music, including other 8-bit covers-- I make a lot of them!

All the best
~Tristan

Ace of Base- "The Sign" (8-bit Chiptune Remix) [WIP]

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)

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 Remix) [WIP]

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