Sigma Harmonics - Flowing Time

Selected works from 2012-2015, remixed and remastered. This album is a tribute to the video game music that has moved and inspired me. 

To all my listeners, friends, and family. I could not continue producing music without your support. I wholeheartedly thank you.

Thank you to the game composers:
Revo, Jake "Virt" Kaufman, Manami Matsumae, Takashi Kumegawa, Yoshio Hirai, Masashi Kageyama, Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata, Koji Kondo,Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, David Wise, Eveline Fischer, Robin Beanland, Manaka Kataoka, Atsuko Asahi, Fumito Tamayama,Yoko Suzuki, Shigenori Masuko, Brad Buxer, Cirocco Jones, Michael Jackson, Sachio Ogawa, Tatsuyuki Maeda, Tomonori Sawada, Jun Senoue,Miyoko Takaoka, Masanori Hikichi, Shinobu Tanaka, Kenta Nagata, Mario Gonzalez & Javier Perez, Nu Romantic Productions (Mark Steven Miller and Jason Scher), Ryo Nagamatsu, Yasunori Shiono, Hirokazu Ando, Jun Ishikawa, Yasunori Mitsuda, Masato Nakamura, Naofumi Hataya, Masafumi Ogata, Spencer Nilsen, David J. Young, Mark "Sterling" Crew, Keiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Kinuyo Yamashita, Koji Kondo, Shota Kageyama, Minako Adachi, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano, and Nobuo Uematsu

Special thanks to Brad the GameChops Intern

Download - http://music.djcutman.com/album/volume-iii

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T-Bird (Battletoads)

Sword Search

Get the album on Bandcamp: http://store.bravewave.net/album/retro-active-pt-1-remixed

Retro-Active Pt. 1 Remixed, as the title implies, is the remix album of Keiji Yamagishi's critically acclaimed debut Retro-Active Pt. 1: store.bravewave.net/album/retro-active-pt-1 

Keiji Yamagishi is a Famicom-era pioneer and has composed music for some of the most beloved gaming franchises, notably Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, Captain Tsubasa, Dynasty Warriors and Gitaroo Man. In this remix album, he's joined by comrades Chipzel (of Super Hexagon), Kozilek (Nuclear Throne), ABSRDST, and other friends to squeeze out the potential of the original album's melodies.

Starfish Cluster (Chipzel Remix)

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Storm Approaching

Tracks from the for-fun would be underground Inkopolis band, Bering C. Remixes from a few old Nintedo games, and even an original thrown in there for good measure.

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03 WANNA FIGHT DO YA [Kirby's Dreamland 2 Boss Rmix]

One of the scenarios involves the main character interacting with a young slave girl. She asks him to grant her three wishes. Her first wish is to have her very own horse.  His solution is to offer her a piggy back ride.  Her final wish is for her freedom, though this is one that despite his efforts, he ultimately fails to grant, leaving her in tears as she's taken away, recaptured by her master, crying that she never got her third wish. 

Early on in my work on the upcoming game Americana Dawn, I had designed my own set of SNES sounds from raw samples, in order to create what would sound like a never released classic from era of Squaresoft's 90s masterpieces.

The direction of the game has since changed enough, that SNES music will no longer be the best choice. I've since discussed with the game director the possibility of releasing all the SNES music written for the game at those stages in some capacity, and she was completely open to me doing this in any form that I would see fit.

I'll be uploading more of these gradually. 



 

Niagara Falls (Original SNES RPG Music)

Music written for the game TANGLEDEEP - a game I'm creating! (Not just music, but code and design too!)

http://www.tangledeep.com/

Tangledeep OST: Dungeon Theme 3 (SNES)

Tangledeep OST: Dungeon Theme 2 (SNES)

Sprint Vector OST: Entertainment Overdrive 

Intergalactica

https://bknapp.bandcamp.com/album/combat

This beat tape from me Youtube searching myself "BKNAPP". I found that my last beat tape was featured on a well known trap Channel. My Beats were getting tens and thousands of views. I was pretty stoked at first because that brings traffic to my bandcamp and soundcloud. But the more I listened to those beats and went and looked what else was on that Trap Youtube channel I quickly realized how much of a fucking gimmick my beats have been lately. Quickly thrown together popular video game samples with Logic Pro's stock trap drum kit on top of it. 21 year old me would have fucking hated those beats. So uninspired. I grew up listening to complex beats and perfectly crafted beats from guys like Premier and dilla and here I was throwing together gimmick beats for a few extra plays. It was time to get back to training and learn how to do new things with my beats. 

So with this project I went back to challenging myself. I have layers of samples with nothing to do with each other. I had to figure out how to get them all to work together and make sense musically. My drums are in tune with the samples and I went back to my boom bap influences with them. 

This is my favorite project I have done. No gimmicks, no bullshit, just a bunch of floating ideas from my head put onto gritty drum beats. Hope the probable 10 people that read this like it. Putting this out on my 25th birthday too. That means I've been doing this for 5 years now. Besides teaching, it is my favorite thing to do. 

Also thanks to DJ Cutman for giving me some advice on mixing and mastering as that has always been something I struggle with. I'm improving for sure, but still have a ways to go.

Ambient Aquatics

Andrew Aversa (a.k.a. zircon) is an award-winning, covert-ops audio specialist with headquarters located on the outskirts of Baltimore, MD. His top-secret blend of cutting-edge electronic-organic sound design, sonorous composition, and ultra-polished production values have yielded dozens of credits in the realm of video games (Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Soulcalibur V), TV (Heroes, Skins, MTV, Touch), film, advertising and other media. As the recording artist zircon, he has written, produced, engineered and collaborated on over 15 albums.

The continuously-expanding array of zircon albums and EPs has met with both critical and popular acclaim – Impulse Prime achieved a dual victory at the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, winning “Best Techno Album” and the single “Tomorrow” winning “Best Techno Song”. This victory was repeated at the subsequent 2009 JPF Awards, with Antigravity’s “Depth Charge” taking “Best Techno Song” again, as well as the #1 spot of “Best Techno Song of All Time” at Garageband.com.

A lifelong fan of music, film scores and video games, Andrew’s background in music began in classical piano but soon evolved to include computer-based music production shortly before his departure to college. This led to a powerful thirst for knowledge and self-improvement, a thirst that has yet to be quenched as he continues to devour composition and production techniques every day. Thanks to this liquid background, Andrew integrates in his music a formidable arsenal of influences ranging from electronic artists like BT, Prodigy, Hybrid and Pendulum to film composers such as James Newton-Howard, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman and many more.

A true sound-scientist at heart, Andrew is the lead producer and co-founder of Impact Soundworks, a sound design & sample library development company with an enormous list of users all over the world, including some of the most well-known video game, television and film composers in the industry. If he is not designing a new collection of critically-acclaimed instruments for this company, he can be found concocting synthesizer presets which are similarly widely-used.

Andrew is frequently sighted teaching student composers and game developers at Drexel University or otherwise assisting fellow musicians in the fields of production, mastering, and sound design.