(Hometown theme)
2. Handbrake Hydroplane(Shop theme)
(Battle tutorial)
(The adventure commences!)
(The woodland realm)
(Tragic backstory)
(Entering the villain's castle)
Released 14 May 2024
Recorded November 2022-February 2023, October 2023
Orchestral, new wave, strings & drums.
7 Tracks (22m 49s)
Tracks
| 1. Nineties Pro Tools (Hometown theme) |
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| 2. Handbrake Hydroplane (Shop theme) |
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| 3. Tour des vélos (Battle tutorial) |
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| 4. Push Off Before Pedalling (The adventure commences!) |
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| 5. I Forgot My Other Shoes (The woodland realm) |
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| 6. Don't Ride at Night (Tragic backstory) |
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| 7. Steal a Wheel (Entering the villain's castle) |
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Once upon a time, I wanted to do a whole album of game-oriented music using only the E-MU Proteus line (or at least their EXB equivalents in Emulator X3). For one reason or another, I stopped working on that idea and I never got back to it. Not wanting to just leave these in my composing folder to rot for the rest of time, I decided to just put them up here. The names all have something to do with bicycling because of reasons.
The songs are based on the idea of a Chrono Trigger-like roleplaying game, starring elementary school kids on an imaginary quest. Their destination is the woodland realm of Greenblade to vanquish the evil spirit wizard, Elgort, and restore the woodfolk's castle to normal. Really, it's just the playground at the other side of the nature park, where group's leader saw the class bully. They'll show up there about 2 minutes after he leaves, declare the evil defeated, and defend the castle against other evil. Time to go home, staff roll, game over.
I never realised just how much of the Stargate SG-1 soundtrack used the Proteus/2 until I wrote the first track; it was surprising just how much it sounded like the SGC! Oh well, I guess, if you were a TV composer back in the '90s, you used either a Proteus or an SC-55. With very few exceptions, all of the instruments used here are from either the Proteus 1, 2, or 3. The only noteworthy exceptions are VSCO2's upright piano in "I Forgot my Other Shoes", the Linn LM-1 Drum Computer in "Handbrake Hydroplane" and "Tour des vélos", and the Yamaha DX7 in "Tour" as well. "Tour" also has a steel acoustic guitar, because I figured that composers with Proteus/2's and LM-1's probably also played the guitar. In this case, the guitar is provided by a Yamaha Tyros4, but it sounds enough like an acoustic guitar that we can just say that's what it is. Also, I cheated a bit with Infinite One in "I Forgot" and "Steal a Wheel"—since the Proteus/2 patch called "Infinite One" has such a long delay between keypress and sound, I used the tamborine from E-MU PROcussion. It's the same sample, but with different envelope settings. "Steal" also has a high-pitched version of this sound playing as a conventional tamborine hit.