From 1993 to about 1995, Roland Corporation released several diskettes for the SC-55 MIDI module with pre-sequenced music. One of them was full of Earth Wind & Fire songs, which, of course, had "September" on it.

MIDI Sequencing by Katsumi Nagae.

I cannot express my feelings in words. Please listen to this MIDI file instead - Mettaton

I'm surprised no one had tried to modify the soundfonts of a "Livin' La Vida Loca" MIDI file to have "Voice" use Mettaton's dialogue beeps. Or maybe someone has done it but never uploaded it online in a visible spot. Guess I had to be the one to take the initiative. XD

I ended up putting in way more work into editing the MIDI file than was necessary. The edit could have been as easy as doing a mere soundfont change, but I could only find three MIDI files of "Livin' La Vida Loca", and none of then had an accurate transcription of the lyrics (all of them did not include the lyrics at the very end of the song); yet our beloved leggy robot is a perfectionist, so of course he would demand that I first edit "Voice" to have a more accurate transcription.

Tracklist:

Needle Mountain • Fingers • Bloodeater • A.T. Field • Puzzle • Hell • Macaroni & Beer • Dungeon • Barriers • Sugar Pool • Warped Tour • Sweatz • Cool • Song • I Fuck Everything Up • Sleep

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Rat! (Windows, MikeM16, 1997)

An ambitious complete Klik & Play point-and-click adventure game, ripped free from its 64-bit incompatible installer and made playable in-browser here.

hello i am back from my unintentional hiatus

and i made a playlist video ahahaha

anybody here like MIDIs? yeah that's right, i know you do

Dark0′s Eternity

Todays rip: 29/06/2023

voiceless - simple ds series vol. 01 - the mahjong (¥1480)

Season 2 Featured on: Haltmann's Highest Quality Video Game Rips Also on: SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials

Ripped by trivial171, MtH

Part of Voiceless Week! Requested by @cookiefonster!

WELL, remind me to never use Drafts again, because apparently last week's post just flat out spoiled the rip of today in the URL. Tumblr, huh?

Anyhow - this request was part of why I decided to commit to this week's theme, as its a track I too wanted to cover but didn't really feel up to doing before actually disclosing the original track's impact in its own post. Through its appearance on two albums now, I think I can say pretty confidently that this is the voiceless-arrangement I've listened to most in my time due to its permanent placement in my playlists. But its addition to those playlists came as a surprise to me at first, as I'd never even once heard the rip on the channel itself. Even worse - I'd never actually listened to any of the Simple DS Series-rips whatsoever!

As I've previously alluded to on this blog, I think this is one of the beautiful things about the channel - it celebrates the art of just making things without an expected audience to flock to it. Every rip is cherished by a unique group of people because its impossible - or at least extremely unhealthy! - to listen to every single rip on the channel. After having discovered the game and its rips through this installment, I can now absolutely call myself a fan.

Like the prior rips I've covered this week, this is very much a remix through and through aiming to recreate the original song in a new context. Despite having never played the game before, its sound feels so "early DS" through and through, in a way I can only really compare to Gen 4 of Pokémon? I'd speculate that this sound comes from games transitioning from the GBA's heavy use of samples to relying more on full-on MIDI, but still undergoing a form of compression to be audible through the DS. Regardless, the rest is just an immaculately dense and thick sound - drum hits that vibrate through the compression, a bassline that becomes even heavier due to it, and synths that sound videogamey in every way possible. With the three voiceless remixes I've covered thus far, slideless was a direct translation of the original song into the style of a different track, wheras voiceless (short rave remix) was a full on reimagining with all new instrumentation. voiceless - simple ds series vol. 01 - the mahjong (¥1480), then, speaks to me as a full-on rerendition of the original track, capturing every single element of the original track's instrumentation and directly retranslating them to fit the DS vibe. It probably helps that MtH worked on this directly after already being very much involved in the original voiceless, likely allowing more of the subtle differences in instrumentation to become directly translated rather than full-on reimagined.

The result, at the end of the day, is a trio of fantastic celebrations of voiceless' legacy. Ironically, voiceless - simple ds series vol. 01 - the mahjong (¥1480) in particular shows that the song hits just as hard even without vocals - even when quite literally voiceless, the team's voice shines through it all.

I've been making (relatively obscure) DOS music compilations and people seem to be enjoying them? They're also safe from copyright flagging!

Here’s a new song, it’s going on the EP. I hope you enjoy, give me your thoughts, don’t be mean tho.

Personal cover of "Hidden Anger", by Mark Klem, from Memento Mori, 1995.

today's purple album of the day is: Rhododendron by d'Eon!

hey guys I can't believe it!!! I found Sunsetters' No Entry in a record shop!!! but it's kinda warped, and only the first two tracks are playing right now. :c but here they are! the above song is track 1, "CAUTION."

and here is track 2, "GOTHIC EGG." it has some lyrics in there I can't hear, can anyone else have better luck?

what the hell is this album even about??? is this really the next Sunsetters album????

(real talk: full album's still a ways off. but these two songs came.. quite out of nowhere, and I am so proud of them. consider this a teaser. No Entry will be as big a step up from We Excavate as Summer Sucks was to The Mythology of Empathy. it will have much more involved fiction to it. and whatever form it ends up taking, whether these tracks are even gonna be the first two tracks-- or on the album at all-- who can say? but. one thing's for certain: No Entry will be synthetic horror.)

(downloads for those tracks: CAUTION, GOTHIC EGG. might need to right-click and "save as.")

Tracklist:

TIKTAALK.mid • Board Room • Your Office Toucan • Amphibious • U-Turn • Interlude • Passenger • INDS_09.mid • Test of Ascension • RIO Sunshine • Walled Garden • Birdhouse • Rainforest Collapse I • Rainforest Collapse II • Rainforest Collapse III • INDUST

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if you told me a decade ago that my favorite instrument would be some kind of squishy piano keyboard, I’d have reported you to the ardents because forseeing the future is of the voidbringers