This song has quite a few firsts in it. It is the first finished song using both my SammichSID and Ableton Live. It is also the first song after the birth of my son. I entitled it Hello World for those very reasons. Sort of a triple meaning I suppose. I always like to epic inspiring titles but I think this one fits just as well. Hard to believe I have not released a song since 2007 but I hope this is the start of many more! To that end, I will admit that I was a bit eager to release this one. I could have continued to tinker but I think it is good where it is and I want to see if I can keep my creative juices flowing.

A quick demo for Rewired which grew a bit larger than expected. Thanks to El Blanco for the catchy oldskool soundtrack that motivated me. This demo placed 1st out of 4 at the Rewired 2009 democompo.

Fish Light (nori mix) el blanco [fulcrum] about 3:50

Seven's recent work on pulling together assets for a demo got me motivated. So I started off by writing a "radio edit" short version of Fish Light since the original is far too long for the demo we had in mind.

We ended up not using this one for the demo, but it was a good exercise in trying to abbreviate my often long song ideas.

I personally prefer the original, since the buildup to the end is really important to setting the tone for the ending. But this ain't bad.

el blanco [fulcrum]

That Connection Feeling 3:12

I set out to write a tune without the aid of drums or percussion (which I usually use with a bit too much gusto to cover up inadequacies in my song writing). I ended up with this little semi-minimalist tune.

I got this far with it pretty quickly, but when I set out to try to expand upon it I always ended up hitting a brick wall. As I listened and listened and listened to the tune to figure out how to approach it again, I realized that my head was always ending up a good place after listening to this tune.

I decided to leave it alon

Another exploration into the world of electronica. I think I'm getting a little bit better, but I have a few interesting works in progress as well.

Created entirely within MadTracker 2.

This tiny intro was a fun project to really test my byte-hunting skills again. Making the Versus gfx-4k was rushed due to the Breakpoint deadline, so it wasn't very optimised, and I was curious if I could get the pickover-stalks in 128 bytes. I was pretty discouraged when I got it around 150 bytes and got stuck, but a few nights sleep, some ugly hacks and a complete disregard for speed over size saved the day.

Too bad the colors are the default (ugly) palette, but there *really* wasn't space to fix that... It runs infinitely, so press ESCAPE to stop it. It doesn't set the gfx mode back to textmode, so I suggest simply double-clicking it in Windows, instead of starting it in a dosbox.

Breakpoint 08 had a 4K executable gfx compo (an idea they stole from Buenzli and TUM), and I took the opportunity to get back in 4K assembler coding. Versus took 5th place out of 12, a bit lower than I had hoped for but the level of competition was amazingly high.

Living, Again and Again (Marcus John Mix) 3:43 el blanco [fulcrum]

Dedicated to the spawn of my pal Bannor and his lady.

This is a complete remake of an old tune of mine, done up with a healthy dose of reFX's Slayer2 for rocking goodness.

Started working with MadTracker 2 lately. Most of the stuff I've produced hasn't amounted to very much, but occasionally something comes out of it. This is exploring my electronica style again. Hope you like it.