SJS Test Tunes, Sketches, and Other Stuff | Spade's Archive Tunes - Twigs & Rocks (Scrapped Album, September 2018) @SJS_Second_Channel | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Another album from my archive of tunes. This time, it's an album I scrapped in September 2018.
For me to tell you why this was scrapped in September 2018, I'll start by going back two months prior. In July 2018, I uploaded an original song on my main channel titled "Highway Rush." I thought it was a good song, and some users liked it. About a day or two after uploading that song, someone made some comments about how Highway Rush had similar melodies and other stuff used in many of the songs I made prior to it. For the sake of their own privacy, I won't mention the name of this individual user. They said those comments in a non-constructive way, so I ended up blocking them temporarily since 2018 me hadn't received such comments like those before. However, sometime after I blocked them, I began to notice that the stuff they said about Highway Rush and the prior songs were kind of right. So, I took their comments to heart (as 2017 and 2018 me would do) and started to dislike Highway Rush and all the songs I made before it. Since I noticed the similar melodies being heard in many of the songs in Twigs & Rocks, I decided that it was best for me to scrap it entirely (though I have since released two of the songs on their own, since they sounded pretty decent to me). It's been more than a year since I moved on from this, and I figured that I would upload what was completed. It's interesting how my style has drastically changed since scrapping this album.
At the time I was making this album, I hadn't discovered Matt Furniss's SMS works as I was only familiar with his work on the Genesis/MegaDrive. Thus, I composed the songs using a scale that allowed me to use slightly lower square bass notes, though some songs do use the periodic noise pulse. The system I chose for this album is the Sega Game Gear. The idea for this album was an imaginary game I had in my head, just like Wavetable Guy's 1st Soundtrack. This time, there was a story I imagined for this one. It revolved around two brothers; one named Twigs and the other named Rocks. Twigs is tall and lean, and solves things by logic with a laid back personality. Rocks is buff and muscular, and tends confront things head on with passionate fury. The story for this imaginary game was that Twigs and Rocks set out to find their parents, having been left in foster care since they were little, encountering many dangers in their journey.
Time stamps:
00:00 - Intro & Title Screen
01:55 - Main Menu
03:51 - Theme of Twigs
04:40 - Theme of Rocks
05:47 - Options
07:13 - World 1: City
07:33 - Level Theme 1 (Strolling in the City)
10:06 - Level Theme 2
12:51 - Level Theme 3
14:27 - The Sewers
16:39 - World 2: Forest
17:32 - Level Theme 4
19:46 - Mysterious Underground
22:58 - World 3: Mines
24:12 - Lurking Within the Mines
27:17 - Mine Cart Ride
30:22 - Cutscene 1
31:55 - World 4: Mountains
33:06 - Mountain Trek
35:11 - Level Theme 5
37:36 - World 5: Suburbs (128 Crisps)
Another album from my archive of tunes. This time, it's an album I scrapped in September 2018.
For me to tell you why this was scrapped in September 2018, I'll start by going back two months prior. In July 2018, I uploaded an original song on my main channel titled "Highway Rush." I thought it was a good song, and some users liked it. About a day or two after uploading that song, someone made some comments about how Highway Rush had similar melodies and other stuff used in many of the songs I made prior to it. For the sake of their own privacy, I won't mention the name of this individual user. They said those comments in a non-constructive way, so I ended up blocking them temporarily since 2018 me hadn't received such comments like those before. However, sometime after I blocked them, I began to notice that the stuff they said about Highway Rush and the prior songs were kind of right. So, I took their comments to heart (as 2017 and 2018 me would do) and started to dislike Highway Rush and all the songs I made before it. Since I noticed the similar melodies being heard in many of the songs in Twigs & Rocks, I decided that it was best for me to scrap it entirely (though I have since released two of the songs on their own, since they sounded pretty decent to me). It's been more than a year since I moved on from this, and I figured that I would upload what was completed. It's interesting how my style has drastically changed since scrapping this album.
At the time I was making this album, I hadn't discovered Matt Furniss's SMS works as I was only familiar with his work on the Genesis/MegaDrive. Thus, I composed the songs using a scale that allowed me to use slightly lower square bass notes, though some songs do use the periodic noise pulse. The system I chose for this album is the Sega Game Gear. The idea for this album was an imaginary game I had in my head, just like Wavetable Guy's 1st Soundtrack. This time, there was a story I imagined for this one. It revolved around two brothers; one named Twigs and the other named Rocks. Twigs is tall and lean, and solves things by logic with a laid back personality. Rocks is buff and muscular, and tends confront things head on with passionate fury. The story for this imaginary game was that Twigs and Rocks set out to find their parents, having been left in foster care since they were little, encountering many dangers in their journey.
Time stamps:
00:00 - Intro & Title Screen
01:55 - Main Menu
03:51 - Theme of Twigs
04:40 - Theme of Rocks
05:47 - Options
07:13 - World 1: City
07:33 - Level Theme 1 (Strolling in the City)
10:06 - Level Theme 2
12:51 - Level Theme 3
14:27 - The Sewers
16:39 - World 2: Forest
17:32 - Level Theme 4
19:46 - Mysterious Underground
22:58 - World 3: Mines
24:12 - Lurking Within the Mines
27:17 - Mine Cart Ride
30:22 - Cutscene 1
31:55 - World 4: Mountains
33:06 - Mountain Trek
35:11 - Level Theme 5
37:36 - World 5: Suburbs (128 Crisps)
