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Gameboy / Nanoloop 1.3
- A Night Of Dizzy Spells
- This is my first real composition using a gameboy, after working on a quick “hello world” piece the first night I had my hands on Nanoloop. I stayed up way too late that night playing with it, and actually had trouble getting to sleep because the music was still swirling in my mind, making me dizzy. I kept that initial, simple theme in the beginning and end. I’m seriously carrying around this gameboy everywhere I go right now. I love it way too much.
- Underclocked
- My second effort on the gameboy takes the tempo down a few clicks and I dig into creating some of the fantastic vibrato-infused melody lines that I loved in the scores for games like Zelda, Metroid, and Megaman. This one also comes in two more flavors, one with just the delay added after the fact to give it a rich techno goodness, and a purist mix that’s straight out of the gameboy.
- Chibi Ninja
- I have a tendency to fall into similar musical phrases unless I’m careful, so I challenged myself to write an uptempo song in a major key. I’m extremely happy with the result, when playing it back, I can’t help but smile and visualize a side-scrolling platformer from back in the day.
- All of Us
- A blending of two styles, this tune goes from a funky little staccato and syncopation infused beat to a battlefield drum inspired passage, and then blends the two themes. Although still tonal and pleasant to listen to, it’s not intensely melody driven, so might be good for background music
- We’re the Resistors
- An experiment with the blending of sounds from Nanoloop and seeing what I can do with Garage Band and a Midi Keyboard. I considered putting some vocals over this, and may still, but I figured I’d release it as it was for now.
Huge thanks to Bre Pettis for letting me borrow his Gameboy and Nanoloop!
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February 27th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Holy shit! I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that. Layered intricacies way beyond what I thought was capable with that music technology. You should compose an 8-bit operetta.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:38 am
Nice work, Eric.
I found myself “pressing” Jump and Duck repeatedly!
February 27th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Very cool. Really well done especially for a first attempt. Sounded like something straight out of the blip festival.
February 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Nice, Eric. Sweet tune!
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:10 am
Hallo,
I like it! Sounds housy for me
Maybe you do a second track?
TC
Rami
March 27th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Awesome. 5 coins!
April 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am
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May 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I LOVE THIS MUSIC D:, is there anywhere I could find similar style mixes?
May 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
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August 6th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Wow! These ROCK!! Nice work man…thanks for sharing. I’ve got to get my hands on one of these!