CTRL+ALT+DELGADO: Dramatic and noisy drum and bass music soundtracking the Cyber Threat Resistance League finding Delgado at the heart of Big Crypto's blockchain prison The Labyrinth, and his chaotic and unpredictable escape from there, fighting bugs and running for freedom! -- 🔊 Stream this on other sites: hyperfollow.com/moule/ctrlaltdelgado 👕 CTRL+ALT+DELGADO Merch: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/158295636 🎥 CTRL+ALT+DELGADO Cover Art Timelapse: yewtu.be/watch?v=T657cW57Be8 🦨 Read Melody's posts about CTRL+ALT+DELGADO here: mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/112439989064417641 -- I'm excited to share CTRL+ALT+DELGADO: dramatic and noisy electronic music soundtracking the Cyber Threat Resistance League finding Delgado at the heart of Big Crypto's blockchain prison The Labyrinth, and his chaotic and unpredictable escape from there, fighting bugs and running for freedom! -- This track started off from scratch and was very tricky to make without direction. I started by reversing the ending of my track Reality Collapse (moule.bandcamp.com/track/reality-collapse), lowered its pitch, added reverb, and made it loop. Then I added what sounded to me like creepy numbers station bleep bloops by typing "DELGADO" in Logic Pro's Musical Typing keyboard, editing the output. -- Next up I added glass smashing effects and creepy monster noises, and after much self-deliberation quickly abandoned the "audio-drama-only" vibe I was going for in favour of drum and bass music with rapid-fire snares and beats. Some extratone blast beats also feature, but they were heavily reverted and covered with last-minute beats I added. -- It was a pain in the ass to get this track's volume, EQing, and mastering correct, as I was working with broken headphones and recorded the different parts at different volumes. -- As for inspiration, someone posted this humorous video (yewtu.be/watch?v=oV0eeRdZS10) on the Fediverse about Mark Zuckerberg escaping containment, which had the track "Second Warning" from the Lobotomy Corporation OST (yewtu.be/watch?v=pe3h62MrlPE) playing in it. The theme of that video coupled with the short snippet of music in it inspired the rapid-fire snares and beats of CTRL+ALT+DELGADO, though I listened to the full version of Second Warning afterwards and it sounded like that version also soundtracks Delgado's escape from The Labyrinth much better than CTRL+ALT+DELGADO itself. -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at MASTODON.MOULE.WORLD/@MOULE (or copy and paste @[email protected] into your own instance's search bar), or visit MOULE.WORLD for all MOULE links! more

KAIZOPOCALYPSE - OpDaMyZr the speedrunner fox faces the Kaizopocalypse - an onslaught of extremely hard platformer game levels requiring extreme precision and timing to dodge obstacles! One of the many tracks in my upcoming GLHF album. -- 🔊 Stream this on other sites: hyperfollow.com/moule/kaizopocalypse 🦊 Stream the GLHF album on other sites: hyperfollow.com/moule/glhf-2 👕 Kaizopocalypse Merch: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/156292863 🎥 Kaizopocalypse Cover Art Timelapse: yewtu.be/watch?v=A8F3LXQ8zV4 -- Kaizopocalypse began production on February 2, 2023 and was finished on December 20, 2023. It's inspired by kaizo games - a subgenre of games, usually platformer, that are extremely difficult and require perfect precision and even use glitches to dodge past an overkill amount of obstacles! More information about kaizo game design: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizo -- My biggest inspirations for this track were Kaizo Mario levels, especially tool-assisted speed runs such as Item Abuse 3 by PangaeaPanga (yewtu.be/watch?v=JuZMvMtZCWU) and the stunning speedrunning tactics for Super Mario 64 as shown by pannenkoek2012 (pannenkoek2012.fandom.com/wiki/The_pannenkoek2012_Wikia:Home) and Ukikipedia (ukikipedia.net/wiki/Main_Page). All of these have had huge influences on OpDaMyZr! Plus, there's just something so satisfying about watching a character dodge so many obstacles yet not lose a life. -- As for this track's musical inspiration, it's my own style of "power electro" drum and bass music combined with elements of glitch hop and dubstep. It was inspired by Pegboard Nerds, Dream of Omnimaga, and Skrillex! -- As for my mastering, I think it continues to improve. I deliberately put off exporting this track as a WAV and MP3 file for a night so I could make some minor tweaks the next morning which I think really helped. It was challenging to make (much like a kaizo video game level!), but so rewarding to see the final result! -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at MASTODON.MOULE.WORLD/@MOULE (or copy and paste @[email protected] into your instance's search bar), or visit MOULE.WORLD for all MOULE links!more

THE LABYRINTH - Hard techno and psytrance music! After Lampy revealed the Labyrinth and the mysterious Delcoin addresses to the Cyber Threat Resistance League (CTRL), the hacktivists must hack their way through the heart of Big Crypto's closed-source blockchain patrolled by AI programs to save Delgado! -- 🔊 Stream this on other platforms like YouTube and Spotify: hyperfollow.com/moule/the-labyrinth -- 👕 The Labyrinth Merch: redbubble.com/shop/ap/157838706 -- 🎥 The Labyrinth Cover Art Timelapse: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GuwiEx_wQJ0 -- 📖 Read about CTRL's mission in The Labyrinth here: https://mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/112302159334975032 -- This track was originally planned to be built on a track I made years ago, but instead I went with working from a copy of Lampy's project file, since this track takes place directly after CTRL discovers Lampy who unveils The Labyrinth to them: a network of addresses on Big Crypto's closed-source, heavily-controlled blockchain. -- My aim was for this track to be strictly hard techno only with atmospheric elements, but a subdued acid arp I added gave this track a cool psytrance feel I just couldn't let go of. It adds to this track's urgent, mystic sort of feel to it as CTRL uncover just how vast the Labyrinth is. -- Some rapid-fire acid squelching sounds were intended as well, but the subdued acid arp sounded really cool and adding more to that would make this track more busier than it is. Also, there's two beats: Hard Bass House (the clear one) and a distorted bass drum that can be heard shortly after each beat – they're not the same drum. I'm especially proud of my mastering in this one! -- This track was heavily inspired by D-Noiser and Michael Da Brain, musicians who made the acid hard techno tracks for the final races of Midnight Club II. The psytrance elements were inspired a lot by the tracks from @sat2199's 2015 Goa Trance Mix that I often play when working out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-cjSMcZp5E -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at https://MASTODON.MOULE.WORLD/@MOULE (or copy and paste @[email protected] into your own instance's search bar), or visit https://MOULE.WORLD for all MOULE links!more