Category: minimal_worlds_ii
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06-thankyou
It was hard to know how to follow up flight_school, especially given that it seemed to break through more than other tracks. Knowing that this was going to be the last track on the album, and that I was feeling like I truly gotten the “Game boy music thing” out of my system, it only…
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05-flight_school
There feels like an interesting trend where my favourite track on each album ends up being the 2nd or 3rd to last one on the album. It makes sense given that I have more experience by that track. Maybe there is a special energy behind feeling like we are near the end of a project.…
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04-thunderking_arena
Back to using a single chip (after the 3x chips in starfall_island), I would consider this a stronger piece in a compositional dimension, though lighter on atmosphere. This almost suggests a spectrum between interesting composition and atmosphere-building, with your creative energy going more one way or the other. If you want both, it suggests you…
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xx-starfall_island
The reason that starfall_island is track “xx”, rather then numbered, is because it uses 3 Game Boy chips side-by-side, rather than the single chip that other tracks on the album use. This was an experiment in seeing whether adding more layers would create a more satisfying sound, while still keeping the lightning-fast workflow of Game…
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03-station_hidden_market
One of my all-time favourite soundtracks is the Pokemon TCG game for Game Boy Colour. It was at least a decade after playing it that I realized behind the chiptune sounds, it was Funk music. That soundtrack has always been an inspiration for me, but this track started out explicitly with the goal of getting…
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02-eban_troupe_caravan
Circus music is certainly not a style that I would start out intending to make. But after kicking the project off with a 3/4 bass line, the melodies seemed to head that direction on their own. I am most proud of the descending chord-changes at 0:51. Not to say it is that impressive a feat,…
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01-misty_grave_mountain
I had stayed away from the stereo functions in the Game Boy music up until this point, as the only option is a hard pan either left or right, and I am personally not a big fan of that early-Beatles style (in their defense, this was due to technical limitations more than creative choice). But,…
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00-ursurpers_fortress_of_bones
minimal_worlds #1 was a lot of fun to make for myself, and there was sense that there was more of an audience ready for Game Boy chiptune music. One day I decided I simply wanted to continue that project, and so minimal_worlds_ii is exactly that – a continuation. By this stage, I had a lot…