You can check the video version here:

https://youtu.be/Y4YL7xlPC9A

CREDITS:

coloradoweeks - bass

http://coloradoweeks.io/

Ian Martyn - whistle

https://ianmartyn.bandcamp.com/

krobonil - piano

https://www.youtube.com/@krobonil

Unknown Pseudoartist - arrangement, vocals, mix, production of both music and video, etc

http://unknownpseudoartist.com/

Original source known as "Blessing of Nature", "Itori Village" and other titles, since it was not released officially.

Composed by Yasuhiro Kawasaki.

DETAILED BORING TEXT:

This was done for Soundole's ChillOut 2024 competition. Obviously this is not expected to win anything! But I just noticed it's the time of the year when @tremendouz posted his own entry and then I got the inspiration to try something, since it'd be my first time having a presence in that event despite knowing Soundole and both his music and contests. It's time to extend the bird invasion!

Arrangement had quick progress and I was lucky enough to find the right people to collab playing real instruments for it. However, the rest of the process was full of trouble, which is kinda ironic since this is meant to be chill but it was an anxious mess to deal with. Mostly technical unexpected issues, basically. Still now there is a considerable number of issues in both music and video, but after so many hours I decided to just let it as it is.

You may check more details about the contest, and also since you are there check more from Soundole's music and stuff, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2auuvegvw

The title I had in mind, "Just as roses have thorns..." is based in an advice a random NPC tells you in the game. A curious particularity about Illusion of Gaia, which is also pretty common in other Quintet games, is to rely on polarized themes and, for instance, every town and place has two opposite sides. A place you think it's wonderful you later notice a surprisingly dark side. For instance, a beautiful city with petals flowing over the sky happen to have a hidden business with child slavery.

P.S.: Kweh!

Just a simple and short outro for my original EP, "The placeholder of Something". Reusing a couple melodies from the album's first track to connect both intro and outro.

Yet another attempt of original music composition. Just some weird, nonsensical thing I guess I could call as Synth Speed Metal, nothing pretentious. No real instruments played, so it'll sound "very midi-ish". No AI or any similar bullshit used.

Here we go with another track from my synth metal original mini-EP, "The placeholder of something".

This one was initially started with the plan to be musically closer to funk, and the title was meant to be "Funking Shirt". However, as usual this mutated into a totally different thing. I don't even know how to define this in term of music genre or style. Just weird stuff.

I soon noticed this song and the choice of sounds has a texture that kinda reminds me to that of some Gameboy Advance's soundtracks. That's where the title switched to "Gotta Be Absurd". Just had to think of a title that shares the GBA acronym.

As usual, nothing great in terms of songwriting or production, but I think it just works for the intended purpose of "just doing another weird tune". Lots of fancy arpeggios and stuff too.

I hope you like :)

Second track from my short mini-album / EP of original tunes. 100% MIDI, no real instruments played. Done with no more pretensions than just composing something and having fun with it. The initial intention was more of a classic hard rock tune somewhat inspired by Black Sabbath's Paranoid, including some attempt of characteristic riff. Can't say it went that well, but still I think it works as a simple and quick but fun tune.

Title is a silly pun with Cops, Corruption and Prr (you know, that cute sound cats do).

I was totally careless about self-promo, but 1 month ago, for April Fools, I released an album of original tunes, and here comes the first one. You can download/stream the full mini-album/EP here:

https://unknownpseudoartist.bandcamp.com/album/the-placeholder-of-something

Musically I'd define that as (very) synth metal with my usual diversity of influences from both inside and outside metal. I have the habit of starting albums with smooth intros and calm instruments like harp, and this is no exception. Nothing spectacular or unique. My intention was not to do something great or mindblowing in terms of music complexity or production but just whatever came to my mind, and what I can humbly make with this ancient computer of mine. Basically just toying with riffs and arpeggios in the DAW.

Watch the video for this song here:

https://youtu.be/XwFyfupzF68

CREDITS:

DeLuxDolemite - drums

http://www.dwellingofduels.net/artists/deluxdolemite/

krobonil - piano

https://www.youtube.com/@krobonil

pixelseph - bass

https://linktr.ee/pixelseph

Tremendouz - whistle

https://www.youtube.com/Tremendouz

Unknown Pseudoartist - arrangement, mix, vocals, fake guitars, video, etc (aka everything else)

https://unknownpseudoartist.com/

Original source is known as "New Destinations" from the SNES game "E.V.O.: Search for Eden", or "The Coast" from "46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~" (the PC-98 prequel that is not that well known in the western).

Originally composed by Koichi Sugiyama

STORY / BORING WALL OF TEXT:

February was "Animal Month" in the monthly videogame music contest of Pixel Mixers. That is: any tune that is linked to an animal character or in game whose main protagonist is an animal.

Technically this allows a wide variety of tunes including Guile's theme from Street Fighter or Tifa's theme from Final Fantasy VII, since humans are animals, too (mammals specifically). However, I preferd to rely in non-human animals instead.

And well, at this point anyone familiar with my stuff knows my interest in 90s obscure games, mostly SNES JRPGs. And so I though of E.V.O. (originally "46 Okunen Monogatori" in Japan). A weird and unique game where you basically travel all around time since the beginnings of time being a primitive fish in the sea, eventually a dinosaur, a birb or a mammal and... who knows, maybe someday a human too. Basically the theory of evolution combined with fantasy elements.

The game itself is also a very interesting mix of platforms with JRPG elements. You kill and eat others to get "EVO points" you use to evolve individual parts of your body (jaws, tail, neck, dorsal fin, horn, etc). Such changes are not just a matter of stats but may also change your creature's aesthetics and shape drastically, allowing a large variety of combinations.

Amphibians aren't most popular non-human animals ever and the tune of choice might be not the greatest either. But I'm familiar enough with this game and its music to know its potential and so I soon started tinkering with a bunch of ideas in my mind based in the game's plot. More specifically the fight agaist the evil bees.

It's kinda curious, however, how this game was made in the 1990s and bees are the evil ones ruining the environment, devouring the plants until what used to be green plains becomes a desert. Yet nowadays in the real world, bees are pretty much endangered and the planet's safety is seriously affected by the lack of them in a negative way.

I already ruined the underwater / fish theme once in 2022 and... not gonna lie; the idea of making an album full of E.V.O. arrangements is in my mind. Maybe in the next chapter...

Anyways, with no more interesting things to say... just listen and enjoy this! Or suffer it, and share with your enemies to hurt their erars. Or whatever.

CREDITS:

donut - clarinet

https://www.youtube.com/@WarpWhistlesMusic/videos

Ian Martyn - guitars and whistle

https://www.youtube.com/@MooglePower

krobonil - help and advices

https://www.youtube.com/@krobonil

Unknown Pseudoartist - arrangement, production/mix, etc

http://unknownpseudoartist.com

Original source: Mushroom Race, from Terranigma

Original composition by Miyoko Kobayashi and Masanori Hikichi

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/3_V94JbpZi0

STORY / BORING DESCRIPTION:

(coming soon!)

A simple but terrific cover/arrangement of the ghost town from Terranigma.

Credits:

donut - clarinets

DeLuxDolemite - chimes and percussions

Original composer: Miyoko Kobayashi

Original source title: Wandering Souls

This was done for ThaSauce's PRC, in what sadly happens to be the latest compo. You can check the site for more cool stuff here:

https://compo.thasauce.net/rounds/view/PRC472

This is the "Abyss of Thor" from Tales of Phantasia. An original arrangement in a somewhat industrial metal style, just me and my synths/samples (no real instruments played, no collabs). That tune plays in what can be considered as the stereotypical ancient civilization with super advanced technology. A longer title I had in mind was "Echoes of Ancient Civilizations, Hopes of Future Societies". I even had some ideas to add news-style speeches using some of the in-game lines when you watch the screen but discarded that in favor of a fully instrumental version and a simpler title.

That source kept me thinking of how online community efforts that eventually stops could be perceived in a distant future, and how important, or at least interesting all what we leave behind can feel like for other people after years or decades. In a certain way culture and knowledge works like that: even if it gets buried it's likely to be eventually discovered and enjoyed. This is the final PRC and I assume all mp3s will be kept in the site. But even if the site and everything inside got drown in the depths of the net, that's a lot of stuff that is likely to be discovered by other people in the future. Music enthusiasts who would keep copies and share elsewhere and other enthusiasts who would discover that and, who knows, maybe be surprised by so much of cool stuff that was done in the past. After all, this is somewhat happening already with other communities of the past like VGMix, some removed OCR tracks, maybe OLremix and lots of artists and the mp3s they had in their old personal sites.

Nothing is likely to be totally lost forever, and even if this is the end for PRC, we all music enthusiasts will have lots of stuff to enjoy forever. Stuff that, very much like other forms of culture and even knowledge, is likely to be passed and shared and enjoyed throughout generations all around time. Isn't that wonderful?

That ancient but super advanced civilization that was once crashed by a comet and drown in the sea was there waiting for our "heroes" to be discovered and their technology used as a hope to travel in time. Who knows, maybe some people in a very distant future will discover all what we had been doing during all this time and be shocked at it. Maybe the mainstream music of the moment will be generally so bad... that thing you are listening here will sound like a masterpiece for them, and the whole site will work as inspiration for a generation of wannabe musicians. Wouldn't that be cool?

Sometimes I think of my music in a slightly similar but a lot less narcissistic way: nowadays my stats (listens, downloads, followers, etc) is a foolish joke. Criticism is often negative and it seems like people generally don't understand my ideas and I just didn't get to find my place or my audience anywhere yet. But maybe in a future some of that stuff will be discovered by some random person of the net in some random corners at the deepest depths of this cyber-world and then getting the proper attention and love? Whether this happens or not, if just one single person enjoys my stuff, even if that's not happening today but 20 years later, I then may feel like it was worth all the time and effort spent. Heck, even if only crickets listen, the simple fact of being able to convert ideas from brain to DAW is already such a fantastic feeling! Let's keep creating stuff unto the ages of ages!