MightyEight MusicI finally have chance to flex my Spyro Soundfont muscles for realsies because I got sick and had to stay home from work a couple days and this is what I occupied my time with. I built this to kinda resemble Cloud Spires structurally because thats my favorite Spyro song and also wanted to base it around the 2 loops in Spyro I feel get the least amount of love which is a shame because they're my favorites other than the one from Cloud Spires itself. It quickly get got weird and wild as result of the loops being pretty intense and it started to feel very Spyro 2/3 speedway like and I quickly was getting more and more ideas and it really just kind of came really seamlessly. Definitely my favorite/best bassline(s) ive EVER written. Also its really important to note how much a MIDI controller can benefit you when writing rhythm sections and staying within the pocket. When you record what you're actually playing within the Spyro style with some quantization, those rock and funk beats come so much more naturally feeling just way less forced and it was doing it constantly here. One of my favorite things ive ever written albeit a little short
Custom Spyro The Dragon Music - Breakneck SpeedwayMightyEight Music2021-12-28 | I finally have chance to flex my Spyro Soundfont muscles for realsies because I got sick and had to stay home from work a couple days and this is what I occupied my time with. I built this to kinda resemble Cloud Spires structurally because thats my favorite Spyro song and also wanted to base it around the 2 loops in Spyro I feel get the least amount of love which is a shame because they're my favorites other than the one from Cloud Spires itself. It quickly get got weird and wild as result of the loops being pretty intense and it started to feel very Spyro 2/3 speedway like and I quickly was getting more and more ideas and it really just kind of came really seamlessly. Definitely my favorite/best bassline(s) ive EVER written. Also its really important to note how much a MIDI controller can benefit you when writing rhythm sections and staying within the pocket. When you record what you're actually playing within the Spyro style with some quantization, those rock and funk beats come so much more naturally feeling just way less forced and it was doing it constantly here. One of my favorite things ive ever written albeit a little short
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comNeed For Madness 2 - Let The Dream Begin (Cover)MightyEight Music2022-09-13 | This song my opinion is a sleeper hit of the soundtrack and even as a kid I was always drawn to it and I didn't know why. It isn't really brought up as a memorable song or level in the fandom because its rather unassuming but the music itself makes it memorable at least to me. Its got really nice synths and good sense of forward momentum and some really curious improv and melody choices. All things I try to do justice picking some juicy synths to remake those lovely chords and some out of the box lead instrument ideas to highlight the unique melody especially in the little freestyle section. I also wanted to really give the 2nd instance of that section in the song some real pizzazz and throw a sick freestyle. It makes me think of a fighting game really. Lots of high energy and character
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comLaser Mind but its sad (Laser Mind Piano Piece)MightyEight Music2022-07-05 | This was a fun little project inspired by "Dearly Beloved but it's evil". Reuploaded to fix clipping and mixing issues.
This song is also quite old dating back before the album had even started but fitting very snuggly into the theme of electronic music and synthwave antics. I used the Artisans song from Spyro as a guide for structure which made the song very plucky but also a tad short. I also got to use a Sax sample for the first time which was a ton of fun albeit a little difficult. It really also made the song very kooky and cheery so I ran with it and took the already pretty thicc chords I built and threw a very gentle and puffy synth on them making it even happier. The track takes a final turn building more chords and adding more synths on a really sweet sounding musical phrase. Finally I took my favorite wailing high pitched synth, the LD Theme Init 2 from Nexus sing it into a fadeout giving it a very end credits kind of feeling to the ridiculous adventure you just took in this album. The songs working title for quite some time was just "End Credits"
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - Dutiful WindsMightyEight Music2022-06-06 | I was heavy into Kingdom Hearts last year (foreshadowing ;P) and Kingdom Hearts has these lovely and just totally awesome giant chord progressions that really make you feel something. So when I was feeling particularly pensive one day I said ynow what Im gonna make something epic and emotional. Big boy chords, synthesizers and synth orchestral elements like horns, big bad cinematic war drums and cymbal rolls and what not and THEN I threw this complete rogue element that happened to be this wild slap bass and the funk level just shot up to a million. Notes just hitting you from every which way creating tension and resolving it. But that last bass line is hands down the 2nd bass line Ive ever written and it didnt even start out as one it was a line for the horns and I just had the bass follow while doing its own octave based (haha) slap pattern and those slaps on those higher notes just really get me going. I had built such wicked forward momentum I had to pair some improv on a synth to really capitalize on that wild rogue feeling and then it all gets resolved on one note and a cymbal roll, leaving you with the gentle shaking of a tambourine (which was also a ton of fun to use here and I think people should use them more) It hardcore contrasts against the bleak feeling of the previous track on the album, having Galaxy Dynamite on the offensive running for his life to this track, a major sense of duty and importance instantly set and this intense roller coaster of battle. I imagine him standing on a hill, wind in his hair, realizing what must be done and when it is done....silence.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - The Ultimate DoomMightyEight Music2022-04-14 | I wanted to write something really bleak, dissonant, and kind of just ugly and play around with chromaticism and weird intervals between notes. It reminds me a bit of Doom. At first I was trying to do something really primus-esque but it quickly became its own beast once the supersaw, heavy metal, and epiano chords got involved. It was a ton of fun to have that clean guitar and bass shred through all of those notes playing the same ones together I listened to it on solo at least a kajillion times but then I was stuck less so because I was ideas but my laptop cound not handle the sheer amount of shit I was putting into this song. The file was getting larger and larger and laptops patience shorter and shorter so I was discouraged from it lest I lose all of my hard work somehow but then I got a giant rig that can take mostly everything I throw at so I went all out with the high pitched synths paired up with some guitars that really give it this demonic, hellish, bizarre, and hopeless feeling contrasted against and ultra low bass note and absolutely WAILING synth. Interestingly enough a lot of the end segments were written out of order and I had to find a way to connect them somehow which was tough because right behind the bridge are these GIANT strummed synth fucking chords that may have come to me easy are hard to connect with all of the shredding and crazy bullshit. It all culminates to bringing you back to the beginning familiar dissonant melody and trails off on the most longing, unresolved, and anxiety inducing part never giving you the feeling that this experience you just took part never finishes or resolves. AND I LOVE IT ITS A RIOT.
#music #mightyeight #dreamexhibitfirst bass practice seshMightyEight Music2022-04-05 | ….bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM….MightyEight - Tamashi City SewersMightyEight Music2022-03-30 | Believe it or not this song is 4 years old. I started writing it in June of 2018, my first year of college and let me tell you that is a blessing and a curse. A blessing because this was born in an era that I was just throwing any creative idea no matter how weird or possibly unpalatable or inaccessible it was and you can create this sickest and gnarliest fucking things out of pure creativity like that but holy shit I could not stop writing myself into corners because the material is just so bizarre. It was insanely hard to connect all of these ideas together with the tools 18 year old me set so I really had to pull out all of the stops. I had a Distorted Reality loop that creates this very underwater sewerish kind of vibe so I threw on a drum fill to assist it and it gave it this jerky and janky vibe which I really like especially when I busted out that Yam snare. The Yam can have such a crisp and sharp sound and I think it works really well in tandem with the hard rock sections of the song. I'd say the only thing I was uncertain about was the mix. Its very intricate and loud so for some this maybe a bit much but I love it its one of my favorites on the album especially the end.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - Necros ChallengeMightyEight Music2022-03-16 | This song is a tribute to my friend. Consider this a token of our friendship. I'm so glad we met and I dont know where I'd be without you
So this started out as fun project for someone but as time passed and I became more distracted and the person didnt need the song anymore it became this beast all on its own. When I had first cracked open Kontakt the first couple of times I found this PHAT ass beat that really gave me jungle vibes paired with a split second of a bass line that I heard in an Andrew Hang video. These two things all on their own spawned this really quirky, somewhat training montage-esque song. I had found blending these different bass textures with different instruments. Then I got inspired by said phat beat and it reminded me a lot of Spyro 2 and its use of Distorted Reality so I used some of those loops on there couple with other various Stewart Copeland/Spyro like percussion which only made the beat even phatter. I capped this all off with some fun improv with some synths and keys.
#music #mightyeight #dreamexhibitPersonality (amongst other things...)MightyEight Music2022-03-09 | Im going to try and open the door to music commentary content because I just wont be fulfilled passively and quietly posting the odd cover or original song every couple of weeks/months. That way you guys can get to know me a little better and I get to talk about the things im passionate about or share my expereince in my musical journey to other musicians especially new ones. I also would like to use this opportunity to strengthen my editing and speaking skills. I dont want to be a faceless creator anymore so please bear with me as I put another creative foot forward
This is one of my all time favorite tracks from the Kingdom Hearts series only 2nd to Dance to Death and because I am a slave to my nostalgia the original KH2 version is my favorite so I felt the need to honor it but I wanted to kick it up a notch by giving it the synth rock treatment with some badass electric guitars and drums and pairing them with some synth brass and supersaws with some good ol strings in proper Kingdom Hearts fashion and I think the guitars paired with guitar hold like a lot of emotional weight giving the song this relentless yearning kind of feeling. It was also a ton of fun to take the bass part and turn it into a bassline for an electric bass which in turn really spruced up the drums on top of it being in 6/8. You've got yourself a synth rock sea shanty and its funny I didnt even realize this song plays when you fight Barbossa because he's a pirate and the song is a sea shanty or at least very sea shanty like.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comCrash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - The Eel Deal (Death Route) (Synth Rock Cover)MightyEight Music2021-12-27 | Nothing but guitars and rock and roll going on here. This is definitely one of the more underrated songs on the soundtrack. Its really weird with the instruments complementing each other in strange but effective places but it lends itself very nicely to some hard rock drums with crazy breakdowns. Also the Spyro influence is pretty clear here in this cover
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comNeed For Madness? - Do The Snake Dance (Cover)MightyEight Music2021-12-22 | This is one of my favorite songs from the original Need For Madness and ive been meaning to cover it for as long as I can remember but I couldnt find the right way to layer all of the complex rhythmic elements in a satisfyingly like the original song does its literally the heart beat of the entire song especially the bass I had to pan one bass completely left and another completely right which I almost never do but even the lead is layered with a couple synths and a piano. It was a fun cover.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comAndrew Huang - Practice Notes (Cover)MightyEight Music2021-11-20 | This song slaps so hard. Its made from a sample and Andrew flipped it into this funky chill kind of lofi hip hop beat with a great guitar line during an episode of "4 Producers, 1 Sample" and it kind of reminded me of Spyro because of the guitars so when I covered it I threw a Distorted Reality loop on it to further cerement that Spyro feel while having this kind of campy sinister but also fun and funky kind of feel. This is what I'd imagine Andrew's boss battle would sound like if he was a character in like a PS2 game.
Also sorry I just disappeared for a while life got really hectic but im trying my best to make a comeback
#andrewhuang #songcover #mightyeightIncredibox V8/IncrediblePolo - Dystopia (Cover) (All Sounds In Order)MightyEight Music2021-08-10 | I spent ALL this fucking time having NO idea what Incredibox was up until recently and its the coolest music related thing ive seen in a very long time and I have the game on both my phone and on steam. Im deeply in love with this song and wanted to show it some love. Even though I think the full version of this song thats on Spotify is just way too short and doesnt make use of all the sounds that the game does which is a shame but I still thinks its good nonetheless. It's still sick and it was really interesting doing a cover like this with every instrument getting added one by one over the course of 5 or so minutes. Its interesting because usually when songs are just layered with a lot of instruments it can get too repetitious or busy quick and its how I used to write music when I started but this is a really good example of how to do that style of song properly. This was also a really nice exercise in mixing, instrument choice, and transcription.
#incredibox #incrediblepolo #dystopiaMightyEight - Twins Of The City (Spyro Soundfont)MightyEight Music2021-06-29 | I was bored so I threw this together. Gives me Spyro 1 boss vibes
Also sorry I havent been uploading much, been working on multiple projects at once while also busy with work. Forgive me senpais
#spyrosoundfont #spyrothedragonexpress yourself [as]MightyEight Music2021-06-22 | this is a cover of the tik tok trendy song Running Away by Vano3000. the burnout ive been feeling lately reminded me of the old adult swim commercials that casually confided in you so i threw this together.
#runningaway #vano5000 #adultswimCustom Kingdom Hearts Music - Uphill Battle (Strange Journey Combat)MightyEight Music2021-06-09 | Starts at 0:10
I've been really heavy into Kingdom Hearts and its music lately and I forgot how cool I initially thought it was as a kid that every world had a regular theme and a theme for combat that was intense and faster and really meant to ramp up the pressure and emotional weight of the situation in places kind of like the Death Routes especially in Crash Bandicoot 2. So I took some motifs from the original song that me and Shaad wrote together and spiced it up. The non boss battle songs in Kingdom Hearts especially in Kingdom Hearts 1 are really short usually spanning around 50 seconds to a minute and a half at most with a LOT of stuff crammed into that short amount of time. Key changes different time signatures transitions and yadda yadda so I worked in some polymeters and polyrhythms together in a 10/8 time signature for the 2nd and 3rd haves of the song to give it that Kingdom Hearts pizzazz.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comWings Death Route Crash Bandicoot 3 Style (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon: Day 9)MightyEight Music2021-04-18 | Death Route Starts at 0:10
I just did this cuz I was bored. Wings is a really intense song with a lot of synths and funk and edm influence especially in the percussion and bass and theres a really intense section before the last chorus with A LOT of 16th notes so I wanted to incorporate that in to the death route song but also to my knowledge the death route song has no chord progressions but Wings does so I got to throw in some chord progressions into the songs that weren't there before and honestly it slaps pretty hard
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - Starship 2000MightyEight Music2021-04-12 | This song was created in the flurry of inspiration birthed by Komplete Start and my deep nostalgia for 2000's mainstream music mostly being Hip Hop and R&B. This music is probably some of the first music I heard in my life just sitting around watching my sisters consume media that I was only just then becoming old enough to understand so it's very nostalgic for me and while searching through Komplete Kontrol I found the percussion for the song and it instantly reminded me of that 2000's Hip Hop and R&B so I wanted to combine my synth style with the hip hop because to my knowledge those 2 styles are combined very often so I wanted to throw my hat in the ring and give my take on what that would sound like especially because its still what I make as for all the crazy synth stuff but its different enough for me that im still pushing my comfort zone in an interesting way. As for the name, 2000 is the inspired time period and the name "Starship 2000" itself is the name of a UFO themed amusement park ride also from my childhood which ties into the whole space thing for this album.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - The Sun Will Come BackMightyEight Music2021-03-08 | These past 3 or so months have been hell on Earth for me. Just anything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong. It was easily the hardest year of my life. But, many months ago I started writing this song and it was extremely cheery and I was really making a ton of progress and then I hit a brick wall creatively and it sat untouched, and I was so upset these past few months I couldnt bring myself to finish it and I almost got tired of working on it and I just wanted it to fucking be done already. But today I got the motivation to pull it together just a little bit and finish it off especially near the end of the song which is EXTREMELY cheery like it'll give you a cavity its so sweet and it really cheered me up and kind of reminded me that even though my depression is in full force right now, it doesnt have to be like that forever. Its temporary and The Sun Will Come Back. And that things will get better eventually. I dont know when or how but eventually things will get better, they wont be how they used to be and thats a shame but it will get better EVENTUALLY. And you can be happy again. At least for a little while. I dunno, thats what I took away from it.
This song uses a percussion sequence in Nexus that I never explored and really added to the synthwave-ish feeling to it. I used a bass ive never used before and paired it with what I believe to be a mandolin and but a TON of chorus giving it a really warbly feeling to kinda add to the magical and otherworldliness of it. Then I added some BIG FAT chord progression to get the maximum amount of emotional response from a listener especially near the end and then capped it all off with a teeny bit of glockenspiel to give it some twinkle.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - A Timeline In DangerMightyEight Music2021-02-15 | The world is a seriously ridiculous place right now. Socially and environmentally. Please spread the love because we need it now more than ever.
This was HEAVILY inspired by Andrew Huang's "Yours" and it really got me in a synthwave mood so I set out to make something generically synthwave and in an effort to capture the nostalgia that synthwave creates, I overshot and created something that had a lot more longing/yearning and uncertainty which reminded me a lot of the state of the world at the moment especially in the middle and end. I was still messing around with Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol also introduced to me again through Andrew. I also threw a little homage to a song from Transformers: The Game of the PS2 but I doubt anyone will recognize or really care about it lol. I also used 808's for the first time in this.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comThe Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon - Floating Island Fight (Spyro PS1 Soundfont)MightyEight Music2021-01-27 | Someone suggested this like months ago and I realized that I do/see the Crash Bandicoot equivalent of this a lot with games and their PS1 soundfonts but not with Spyro and its later games and id wager thats because the later games soundtrack is a lot more orchestral and complex and not midi like in the old days. I actually dont know much about The Legend Of Spyro ive played it once or twice so when this was suggested I scoured the soundtrack and found the song I liked the best and tried to turn it into like a Spyro 2-esque boss battle like Gulps Overlook or Clash With Crush. Heavy intense grand percussion and this has some really cool dissonant chords rubbing against each other to really drive that sense of dread and the really intense bouncy timpanis. I also had to add the trademark percussion fill at the beginning of like almost every Spyro 1 and 2 song
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comABOVE EXPECTATION MEDLEY - CELEBRATING 4 YEARS OF MUSICMightyEight Music2021-01-12 | On this day 4 years ago I posted my first piece of music to this channel, and here we are, 4 years later. I doubt anyone remembers these songs in any detail, but if you do, and you are a veteran of this channel then this video is for you and I thank you for your support.
This is a medley of a couple songs from my first album all set to the same BPM and transitioning into each other one by one with a custom intro and outro. This took a LOT of work and I started it a long time ago and then hit a brick wall as I became discouraged due how to how grand the idea of recreating segments of those songs with all my favorite instruments while keeping the overall feeling of the song the same actually was and then I came back to it months later and I was damn this is pretty good and so I finished it off. A link to the Above Expectation playlist can be found below. Fair warning to you though, those were my first songs they're pretty rough around the edges.
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comFirst Of October - Ravioli (Cover)MightyEight Music2020-12-31 | I love this song so god damn much its so much fun to sing to. For those of you who dont know, First Of October is a band composed of Andrew Huang and Rob Scallon where every year they make an entire album in a day on October 1st and hilarity and strange song concepts ensue, hence Ravioli. The original is a bit slower so I wanted to kick it up and give it more funky energy while also giving it my brand of midi video game energy especially with the electronic kit and the synths because the originally doesnt have much in the way of synths. And Rob and Andrew, if you read this...I just got into both of you recently and you inspire me a great deal.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comCAROL OF THE BELLS SYNTH COVER - MIGHTYEIGHT CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (2020)MightyEight Music2020-12-26 | It's a little shorter then my last few years but it was a fun project. I just asked one person to pick a song for me and she landed on Carol Of The Bells so here it is.
Please take it easy, and be safe, Im gonna go chill out and listen to some music. Take care
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comDarren Curtis - Fireside Tales (Cover)MightyEight Music2020-12-21 | I swear you find music you like in the strangest places. I found this song while going on my ASMR escapades and this one video I was watching had this song in the background because it was old timey fantasy tavern themed and I was immediately drawn to it and its really short and quaint but I really enjoy it its a very catchy and relaxing song. Fun use of dulcimers and guitars and for that reason what youre hearing is mostly soundfonts except the 2 synths. The drums also become more intense and rhythmic after every loop which is also fun because of the ethnic and tribal-ish nature of the percussion. Darren Curtis makes really rad royalty free music so go check em out.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comIn Loving Memory Of Elsie Grace CampbellMightyEight Music2020-12-10 | ...MightyEight - Strange Journey (feat. Rashaad Justice)MightyEight Music2020-12-08 | Holy jeez this has been a long time coming. Shaad slept over and we got to tinkering in FL Studio like we always do and he got down a basic chord progression and melody built up to the first musical phrase, a day passes and he goes home leaving me to build on the ground work he laid out like what we did for Twins Of The CIty but jesus christ this took such a long time to finish and it didnt get finished until I got Native Instruments "Komplete Start" for free to give me a huge boost in motivation and inspiration and its from there that I got the drums from this song. Shaad left me a really cool chord progression and melody too work with I just needed to be in a good space to act on it. The song it self has a very mid tier energy level, not too fast not too slow, but still chill and stimulating and mysterious. I had fun working with Shaad as always.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - The Rat PackMightyEight Music2020-11-20 | Holy shit an actual piece of original, music its a miracle. I really just kinda whipped this up out of nowhere one day not expecting a song to come out of it and it quickly turned into a really kooky and quirky piece of music and it reminded me a lot of mice and the original title was going to be "Rat Race" but I wanted to personify the subject of rats more so I did what I did with The Armada and make the song about a group of space travelers. The Armada was aliens so this became a group of space rats and then of course I had to whip up a drawing to match that.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comOoblets - Sinister Slide (Synth Rock Cover)MightyEight Music2020-11-06 | My friend put me on to this game some time ago and I really enjoyed all the music for how nice, simple, and kind of just wild and silly it was while still being enjoyable with an interesting use of basic techno percussion and kinda easy going synths. This song immediately grabbed my attention because it has a really catchy and memorable melody and bassline and it really inspired me to throw some of my crazy sounds and intense drum fills at it and im pleased with it.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comAncient Mystery Death Route Crash 2 Style (Crash Soundfont) (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon Day 8)MightyEight Music2020-10-13 | Here's the Crash soundfont equivalent of the last video where I made a death route version of Ancient Mystery and I figured since I did the Crash Soundfont for the original song, Id do it for this too
Happy Listening!
Original (Ancient Mystery Death Route Crash Bandicoot 2 Style (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon: Day 7)) youtube.com/watch?v=-COpWdevuag
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comAncient Mystery Death Route Crash Bandicoot 2 Style (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon: Day 7)MightyEight Music2020-09-08 | I tried to mix it up a little to keep this "marathon" from getting stale so I decided to try and do a Crash 2 styled death route which is just a higher intensity, more urgent, and alternate version of the original song while keeping its structure and some melodies kind of intact. Its pretty tough to do but its a nice little musical thought experiment.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comCrash Bash - Manic Panic (Cover)MightyEight Music2020-08-30 | I think this is grounds for the best song in Crash Bash. It has a very catchy but kooky vibe. Thats really all I can describe it as. I also took some liberties and embellished some parts of the song as I tend to do and anyone who knows this song by heart will definitely know what I mean.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comSpyro The Dragon - Unheard Track #1(Cover)MightyEight Music2020-08-01 | This is one of my favorite songs from the original Spyro and its a rare find in game. For some reason theres a glitch with the music playbacks that cause different songs to play when youve hung around in a level too long. Alternate versions of existing songs in the game and completely original pieces by good ol Stewie. Its very chill, thoughtful and quaint and embodies would I consider some of the most "Spyro like" music in the franchise at least in terms of the original trilogy. I would hear it all the time when Id get stuck in Wizard Peaks too long and it kinda spooked me when the Wizard Peaks song would fade out and this new quieter one would fade in. It was very mysterious and I love it so much.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comTouHou Bonus Round Crash Bandicoot 3 Style (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon: Day 6)MightyEight Music2020-07-30 | Im back from the dead, I sold my old laptop and bought a new one and it took a century to get here so im here now. Also for some reason my Movie Studio fucking REFUSES to let me use my custom fonts so I had to use the shitty Legacy Text which is why it looks a little different, much to my chagrin. Anyway, here's the crash 3 bonus round in TouHou's soundfont.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - The Armada (MIDITrail)MightyEight Music2020-06-30 | Here's a visual demonstration of "The Armada" in MIDITrail, havent used it in a while so I figured id dust it off and give it a whirl
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - The ArmadaMightyEight Music2020-06-22 | Continuing my quest to create more synthwavy electronicish music, I found an electric drum kit I had never used and combined that with an EDM kick and then found a Nexus sequence preset that sounded very techno, then I found a Sytrus present that just screams aliens and it was history from there. I was going for an alien invasion space battle kind of feel and a lot of this heavily inspired by Invader Zim with its campy but somewhat sinister nature.I also used a metric fuck ton of guitars in this song more the I usually ever do because I dont have a lot of them and they can be really difficult to write for but I used elements of heavy metal with the crazy power chords to add some more hype and suspense to the sinister feeling. Its a lot of fun I actually havent had that much fun writing a song in a while.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comSpyro 3: Year Of The Dragon - Cloud Spires (Cover V2)MightyEight Music2020-06-06 | Ive returned to my favorite song in all of Spyro to fix up the absolutely terrible mixing, sloppy note placement, and questionable instrument choice from my original cover. I added some instruments, l mixed it better, fixed some note velocities, and just overall tied up loose ends. Not much else to say other then this is the best song in the whole franchise and you c a n n o t change my mind.
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - WingsMightyEight Music2020-06-05 | This is my new favorite song that Ive ever written and thats saying a lot because I REALLY love Ancient Mystery but as much as I love it this song is composed better and has more going on. This is the first attempt to use a more developed song structure and also using solely electronic instruments, mainly synths. There are zero traditional instruments to be found. There are more song sections and more complex writing in general and this the first time since Ancient Mystery where I felt VERY attached to a song. Most of it was done in Sytrus and Nexus and I even busted out the good ol Yam snare that I used to use back in the Synth Kid days.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - LiminalMightyEight Music2020-06-03 | This "song" was created to assist the creepy visuals in my video "Photos That Are Strangely Familiar But Uncomfortable With Some Spooky Music I Wrote" where it accompanies a myriad of images that fall under what is called "Liminal Space" I was going on one of my usual walks through the internet and youtube recommended a video called "Strangely Familiar Pictures With Unnerving Music" and it took me down this rabbit hole filled with an enormous amount videos of slideshows of familiar but creepy photos of Liminal Space, a type of space that functions as a threshold between the starting point and destinations of our daily lives. These places are usually populated with things or people and are the in between points that we dont pay much attention to but in these photos, there is either nothing or no one which adds to the creepy factor. We know these places are usually populated with things or people but to see what it looks like when nobody is around makes us uncomfortable and may invoke feelings of nostalgia so I picked out the pictures that felt familiar to me and composed an creepy ambient piece of music to go with it. I wanted to see if I could create uncomfortably dissonant ambiance like what can be found in many horror and even regular video games. But dont worry, this isnt going on the album lmao.
Happy Spooks
Original Video (Photos That Are Strangely Familiar But Uncomfortable With Some Spooky Music I Wrote) youtube.com/watch?v=GdZdWPmXOKk
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comPhotos That Are Strangely Familiar But Uncomfortable With Some Spooky Music I WroteMightyEight Music2020-06-03 | I know what youre thinking, what the hell is this? Lemme explain. I was going on one of my usual walks through the internet and youtube recommended a video called "Strangely Familiar Pictures With Unnerving Music" and it took me down this rabbit hole filled with an enormous amount videos of slideshows of familiar but creepy photos of something called Liminal Space, a type of space that functions as a threshold between the starting point and destinations of our daily lives. These places are usually populated with things or people and are the in between points that we dont pay much attention to but in these photos, there is either nothing or no one which adds to the creepy factor. We know these places are usually populated with things or people but to see what it looks like when nobody is around makes us uncomfortable and may invoke feelings of nostalgia so I picked out the pictures that felt familiar to me and composed an creepy ambient piece of music to go with it. The "song" will get its own video. Fun fact, the last photo is my bedroom. its a picture I took some time ago that gave me a similar feeling.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comSuper Mario Galaxy 2 - Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Violin Synth Cover) Ft. DoeKittyMightyEight Music2020-05-06 | This is the first time ive ever had a live recorded instrument in a song or cover and that live recorded instrument is provided by my dearest friend DoeKitty but it doesnt even fuckin end there because she drew the picture featured in this video of us as Rosalina and Mario with a keytar and violin respectively. She recorded the process of drawing it and the speedpaint and DeviantArt post will be linked below and in the end screen. As for the music itself it was her idea because she loves this song and suggested we cover it together wit my synths and her violin and thats exactly what happened and I couldnt be more happy with how it turned out especially when the drums kick in. She's extremely talented and played the hell outta that violin so give her all the love in the world or I will personally eat your ass.
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mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight And Friends Have A Sparta Synthwave M8 RemixMightyEight Music2020-05-01 | So I took the base I made and made a Sparta Remix using videos from my gaming channel with me and my friends as sources. It was long arduous work but I got it done. It took me a little more then 5 or so hours to make the base and then the remix because I did it all in one sitting.
I got this idea on a whim, and I said to myself I know the ins and outs of most Sparta Remixes so why not make my own base since I have the means of doing it with FL Studio. I wanted to make a base that still hearkens back to the days of 2009 when Sparta Remixes were the shit but still has my brand of Synthwave video game music kind of flavor with unique pitches and chord progressions while still having the whole "DUNDUNDENDEN" thing. Im pretty proud of it. I even made my own sparta remix with this base as a test using myself and my videos with my friends . I kept the original "Extended Remix" very low in the background because it really kinda drives the whole song. I may have made my own remix with this but honestly im not the BEST remixer out there theres probably a whole lotta people who could do so much more with this then I ever could
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.com(Part of) The Making of Cosmos Space RodeoMightyEight Music2020-04-29 | MY APOLOGIES FOR THE GARBAGE AUDIO QUALITY OF MY VOICE. This is 1/3 of the writing process for Cosmo's Space Rodeo. The finished product will be linked below.
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - Cosmos Space RodeoMightyEight Music2020-04-29 | I wrote this on stream and you will be able to watch 1/3 of that process with the link below. This song is a dedication for my best friend, it reminds me a lot of her. Something about the high energy country rodeo vibe just makes me think of them.
I used a loop for the drums and split it up with Slicex to make pseudo fills. Lots of slap bass and more unique transitions and instruments, like this was the first time I ever use a banjo. Its good to know I can make a song last up to 4 minutes when just a year ago I couldnt get passed 2 minutes. I dont know why I leaned so heavy on the rodeo country feeling so much it just kinda happened but its a welcome change because I dont often get to successfully try new genres like this and I for sure didnt think I had the ability to write something that could be considered "country synthwave".
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comTouHou Death Route Crash Bandicoot 3 Style (Death Route/Bonus Round Marathon: Day 5)MightyEight Music2020-04-21 | Remember when I said this would be a thing and then just stopped doing it??? We're just gonna keeping going as if we haven't skipped a beat. Here's the death route theme in TouHou's soundfont which has most of the same samples as the HQ Orchestra Soundfont which I frequently use in my own music
Tumblr mighty-eight.tumblr.comMightyEight - FeverMightyEight Music2020-04-19 | The world is a really bizarre place right now. Please take the state of things seriously and remember this isn't forever, and that we're in this together.
Despite there being a pandemic going on that wasn't the inspiration of this song. I came down with a really bad fever months ago and was just completely miserable for about a week straight but thankfully I got better and I said to myself if I could put into music how terrible and how unhappy I was how would it sound but I never really thought about it passed that at first but then my sister suggested a documentary about Miles Davis to me and in that I heard a song that really did mirror the feeling I was thinking of and I began to write. Then the state of the virus really became bad and I started to get scared because I live in New York and its very bad here and of all the cities in the county I live in my city has it the worst which made me incorporate a fearful feeling into it. The song itself is a very slow and quiet piece driven by a bass, acoustic guitar and piano gently weaving around each other. It was also a small practice in improv and I learned that C Sharp Minor is my favorite chord because it isnt sad, but it isnt happy either. I find it very suspenseful because I never know how to really feel about it and thats very interesting to me. The song becomes a little bit more uplifting at the end, so dont lose hope.