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(11 replies, posted in Releases)

what the fuck was that

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(30 replies, posted in General Discussion)

YMO were influential to game soundtracks because of their fun pop-but-light-jazzish style which has been recreated countless times by JRPG soundtrackers. but lol if more than 4% of the touring gameboy riders can make anything that sounds remotely like Rydeen ever

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(66 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

damn, i should have said "contempt"

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(66 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

stasis

Fell Plot... it was the first time i'd messed with NES expansion chips so I was learning as I created. also because I was operating under the RPM "album in a month" Challenge rules a lot of desperation song ideas presented themselves as if from nowhere - the title track was written in ONE DAY and it's ten minutes long.

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(3 replies, posted in Releases)

good work! cool to hear the c64 like this

you don't get many hits around here from a release thread unless all the slugs already recognise your name
but i hope they give you a chance

lol

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(10 replies, posted in Releases)

tss is on a fearsome roll lately!

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(6 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

bumping. this is the tutorial that helped me come first place in Summerchip 2 on botbuh

i write this with confidence 11 days before you can even vote

26

(141 replies, posted in General Discussion)

once i showed someone an NSF and I promised them it was a song but they acted all confused because they couldn't see an album cover

oh wait that was HERE

thanks sirz
and i agree, it's time to fight bandcamp with v small files

aanaaanaaanaaana.net is exciting

NSFs can be opened in a bunch of different stuff, I use VirtuaNSF but maybe you can't if you're not using windows

so Visit and Download and Listen and retain some of the data in my songs and in ant1's songs and in our silly demos

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(29 replies, posted in Releases)

is this REALLY called "Blacker Than Your Dad"

well i make sure not to touch the tracker until i've worked something out on keyboard. this doesn't always mean starting with a chord progression either, so much as looking for weird rhythmic clashes and quirks, or anything which slightly defies expectation. and after a certain amount of experience hunting for song ideas you'll start to gravitate naturally to comfortable ones, which is definitely a bad development, and you should try to resist doing your old stuff again.

my melodies still suck but you can't have everything

one way to find new stuff while jamming on an instrument is to do it while you're tired, because you'll mess up and miss chords and find stuff that might be new ground for you. i guess most people would have written "drugs" here

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(69 replies, posted in General Discussion)

love zzzv took ages and i hate it
fell plot took a month and i love it
n0de claw took two weeks and i really love it
moke moke took ages and ended up as an EP-length thing instead of the full length i imagined and i am already sick of it

maybe i'm saying don't overcook the ideas in your songs

wow i'd go see 4mat if i wasn't a recluse