Happy Tuesday Party Members!
We're going back to the PS1 era today! Actually we'll probably be hanging out there for the majority of the month...but hey nothing wrong with that, right?!
This tune is inspired by Resident Evil 3. While the 2nd one will probably always be my favorite, RE3 does have a soft spot in my heart. I've got fond memories of my friend staying over one weekend, us renting RE3, and running in terror from Nemesis. Pizza and Mountain Dew were involved of course. G...
2023-10-10 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members, Happy....Monday??
It's not too often I do these little update posts, but there's been some features added to Patreon recently that I wanted to address. TL;DR down below.
First, the Patreon app has gotten a huge overhaul. The old version I had deleted from my phone because it was...well, garbage tbh. BUT they've actually made some nice improvements there, at least for me as a creator. But one of the coolest features is t...
2023-10-09 16:58:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today I've got a doomy doom doom track that would work great for a boss fight in a survival horror like Resident Evil. I've actually been playing the RE2 remake for the first time recently, and this was inspired by a certain individual who is in the thumbnail. :D
I'm actually really impressed with that game so far. The way they adjusted the police station layout both feels familiar, yet also makes waaay more sense than it did in the original. (Why would...
2023-10-06 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
And here we go! Kicking off the spooky month with some spooky ambience. I've actually had this tune in reserve since the beginning of August. It popped out one day and I knew I just had to hold off on releasing it lol. Welp, it's finally time!
There are a lot of elements working together here. A few standouts to my ear are the NIN style guitar bends, the Parasite Eve 2 ambient synth about halfway through, and of course the driving percussive slaps on a...
2023-10-03 13:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Recently received a request to do a Zelda style adventure tune. I've done a few world map themes but most of them were inspired by like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger and whatnot. Honestly haven't done a ton of Zelda inspired tunes, come to think of it...I guess I did the Gerudo Valley one and a Fire Temple one...uhhh but anyway!
The request was for something 32-bit-ish. So after getting the foundation down for the song I started layering in some N64 ...
2023-09-29 13:52:04 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Today I thought we would do something a little different! Who here liked those old PS1 fighting games??? How bout this, anyone remember Ehrgeiz?? Even though it wasn't exactly the cream of the crop when it came to 3D fighters, I loved that game. Probably because it had FF7 characters, but besides them I really did enjoy the gameplay.
Those 90s fighters (Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Bloody Roar etc) had some really cool tunes, so I wanted to try and do ...
2023-09-22 14:41:17 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This was a cool little idea that started off with the drum beat. There's a very ominous clock-like feel to it. I leaned into the dark sounds and went for a dungeon theme, imagining the player scaling a clock tower. But not like, the clock tower from the horror game with the scissors man...what was that game called again??
I'm still recovering from the flu so I'm gonna wrap this one up early. Forgive me for not rambling into a full 2nd paragraph! :D
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2023-09-19 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Alright, so I know I should've probably waited a couple weeks to release this one, but trust me, October will not be lacking for any kind of spooky themes or tunes so we good.
This is a quick little loop intended for some kind of a dark magic shop. Some place where you won't be spending a ton of time necessarily, but long enough that you'd want a cool little jam to listen to. It's got some pretty driving drums to it, which could lend it to other s...
2023-09-15 13:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members!
So I think it's been a good minute since I've done a nice little village tune. It's been a lot of sci-fi/dark/broody stuff recently, so I thought I would throw this into the mix. Plus with October coming up, there's going to be a LOT more dark broody spooky tunes coming, so I gotta get this light hearted stuff in before then! :D
Lots of things in the works all of a sudden! It's funny how that happens. You'll go for a while without much new coming in and then sud...
2023-09-12 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Saturday Party Members! Hope you're having a great weekend so far.
I've been listening to some old Bob Marley tunes again recently. I used to have a greatest hits CD of his that I really enjoyed back in my early 20s. So really it was only a matter of time before I took a crack at a reggae tune. I've done this style before (in 16-Bit) but there were some things I noticed about the style recently that really makes this feel a touch more authentic. At least to my ear.
I a...
2023-09-09 15:01:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey Party Members!
I hate to do it, but I think I need to delay today's song. I had something mostly together by the end of the day yesterday, but listening to it this morning, I just don't think it's ready for release yet. Normally I'd just hunker down about now and get it released within the next hour or so, but I have an appointment at 11 so I have to head out for the morning.
Also going to be gone this evening, so I just have a small window this afternoon to work on it. ...
2023-09-08 14:07:01 +0000 UTC
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Rally Ho Party Members!
...or is it Tally Ho?? I can never remember.
Yesterday was a "start a bunch of ideas and not finish 'em" kind of day. It's been a while since I've had one of those kinds of writing days so I guess I was due. I was actually getting a touch nervous I wouldn't have anything ready for today but lo and behold, something finally clicked and here we are. :D
In FF9, especially towards the latter half of the game, I always really enjoyed how even in medieval t...
2023-09-05 14:30:06 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Ever play the first Golden Sun?? The final dungeon has a really iconic song, and recently was asked if I could do something in that style. So uhhh, I did! The GBA was basically a handheld SNES, so it was time to dust off the ol' 16-Bit machine! It's been a while since I've done a 16-Bit tune so it was fun to pull up my Chipsynth vst again. That thing sounds so good!
The idea was climbing up a lighthouse, but of course it doesn't have to be used that way...
2023-09-01 14:09:02 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This is a fun little ditty I wrote last week. Lots of lush synths + a laid back hip hop beat. Very spacey sounding. I called it Abandoned Station because that's how I picture it: the party comes across an abandoned station (in spaaaace!) and has to explore it to find an ancient artifact/technology/documents/escape route before proceeding with the story.
I guess I've been on a Sci-Fi kick recently?? It's just been flowing easily for me so I'm roll...
2023-08-29 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
This song is actually about a month old, but it's still fresh! Music has a long shelf life, as it turns out. But seriously, I wrote this one around July 20th, and when I opened it back up this week, I really didn't change much of anything. Just added the melody in the last section was all. The tune already felt like it held it's own.
I picture this as some kind of a menu theme. Whether for your title screen, or maybe if you have a segment where you are ...
2023-08-25 14:02:53 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
I'm on one of those Parasite Eve kicks again. Recently saw a game in the works that was inspired by it and it just got the music juices flowing in that direction. Honestly would love to work on a game like that. The PS1 style games that have been making waves recently are exactly what I'd like to compose for at this moment. (Still happy to have the work that I do, just sayin...)
There were a lot of last minute changes to this one, hence the late post. ...
2023-08-22 14:52:54 +0000 UTC
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Ahoy Party Members!
It be a return to 16-Bit music today! And that's as far as I'm going to go with a fake pirate accent lol.
I received 2 requests for pirate music recently, basically back to back. One was a touch more specific than the other, asking for an interpretation of the pirate theme from DKC 2. So this one is getting added to the list of DKC music I've done so far lol. What is that, 5 tracks now?? 6?? :O
My tune definitely strayed from the source material, as far a...
2023-08-18 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Howdy Party Members!!!
....no? Didn't work? Just wanted to try something different but uhhh...yeah.
Today's tune is a bit of a blend of styles. It's like a Parasite Eve song with some western flair to it...well at least that's how it started. The PE elements really take a backseat once the acoustic guitar is introduced.
In the latter half of the song, I also discovered something that sounds EXACTLY like the electric guitars from Starcraft. I even labeled it as such in my pro...
2023-08-15 14:04:15 +0000 UTC
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Rally Ho Party Members! ...or is it Tally Ho?? Just depends on where you're from I guess...
I was wrestling with a few ideas on what to do for today's release. Naturally, instead of just picking one and finishing it, I opted to write something completely new. While messing with a few sounds, I found what would become the basis for this tune: a sound called "Bowl Strikes."
That's all it takes sometimes, just a little catalyst to get the rest of the song rolling. The bowl strike dru...
2023-08-11 14:01:47 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today I thought I'd do something a touch different and dive in to some Lo-Fi hip hop grooves to space out to. I actually had like 5 or so ideas that I was messing with for today's release, but this one was so different than my normal thing I thought I would roll with it.
I think I've only ever done like, 2 lo-fi tunes before? I did them as an audition for the game Sonzai. The devs loved em, gave me a great testimonial, but ultimately I didn't get...
2023-08-08 14:05:41 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Hope you have had a great week. I've been jumping between a lot of projects so its been an interesting one for me.
I've definitely been on a Legend of Dragoon kick recently. Not playing the game right now, but just having constant reminders of how much I loved it.
The first disc is so well done...I almost wrote a minor spoiler here but I wont because I think it's best experienced for yourself. Anyway, I will say that the final area on the fi...
2023-08-04 14:10:14 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This tune has been floating around my songs folder for a couple of weeks now. I slowly started adding elements, just messing around with sounds until it really started to form in to its own thing.
It's got a very Native sound to it, mostly coming from the drum pattern. But after I added in the flute the tone was really set for this one. I tried to break up things a bit in the 2nd half by adding a spacey synth sound, but it still feels like it sta...
2023-08-01 14:07:24 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
Man, it's been HOT this summer. I don't really have great A/C in my house, just a window unit in my bedroom. This means that it gets reaaally warm in the studio, even with the box fans going full blast.
So that being the case, I'm thinking it's influenced the past couple of tracks here. Well, maybe not so much the one on Tuesday...but whatever, doesn't matter!
This is a very islandy tune, as the title implies. I considered adding more elemen...
2023-07-28 14:04:52 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
Today's tune is not a fancy one. It's not layered down with a ton of instruments, counter melodies, or syncopated rhythms. It's just a very peaceful, yet melancholy tune for those somber moments in your game.
So this was another exercise in restraint for me. The majority of the songs weight is carried by the guitar. In the latter half though I wanted to keep the ear interested so I added in some light strings and a cool sounding bell/chime. And that's ...
2023-07-25 14:50:29 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
First of all, I want to thank Locke for helping me to brute force my phone and make this upload possible. My internet is still down and there's no telling how long it's going to take Comcast to fix it. :(
I'm gonna keep this fairly brief since I'm posting from my phone. It's been so hot recently I thought I'd do something kind of tropical, to celebrate! Got lots of fun grooves in this one, and I even recorded some live acoustic guitar. Woo!
As alw...
2023-07-21 15:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Just wanted to let you guys know my internet is still down. Can't figure out how to get the songs onto my phone either, otherwise I could have made it work. I've got a really cool song ready to go for ya but the storms last night put a damper on things.
As soon as I'm up and running I'll get the song to ya though!
Hope you guys are having a good day so far, ttyl!
-Bert
2023-07-21 13:59:57 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
This one started as a really fun groove that popped out one night. It has a mystical/mechanical sound to it, that made me think of your party reaching some ancient ruins or tower. The kind of ruins that have been hidden for thousands of years, yet the technology is way more advanced than anything the party has ever seen.
The beginning is fairly dark sounding, but in the latter half the tune opens up into a lighter phase for some nice contrast. Really e...
2023-07-18 14:04:04 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Party Members!
So for those who missed it, on Tuesday I mentioned something about a lot of new sounds opening up for me to use. It's really helped to reinvigorate me, and to give you an idea of how much it has...since Monday I've started 13 new songs. Now mind you most of them aren't finished or anything, and a bit of em are spacey ambience, but still!
So today's tune was from that burst of creativity. It's a bit of a slower prodding tune but there is a guitar t...
2023-07-14 14:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Party Members!
I got some new sound libraries recently, and MAN they have been inspiring. Literally thousands of new HQ sounds to work with and use, and in the midst of trying them out I stumbled on this little diddy.
It's a style I don't do often but a style I very much enjoy. I'm a kid of the 90's, and as many of you know, this style was EVERYWHERE in video games. Didn't matter if it was a racing game, a sports game, Ape Escape...DnB had a strong grip on the scene....
2023-07-11 15:28:17 +0000 UTC
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