Fulcrum - public release

First Album by Ranger Rick (a.k.a. Raccoon Fink) Available Tomorrow

RangerRick — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:28:37 -0500

My first album, titled "Finally", will be released tomorrow!

It's been a long time coming, I've been meaning to do this for quite some time now. All of the tracks on the album have been generally available from me (as "Ranger Rick") in the past, but I spent 2 solid months cleaning them up, in some case making minor changes to the songs, and all cases cleaning up and re-mastering them.

The album will be available on Amazon MP3, iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, and a host of other services. You can purchase it, as well as the single, "Pointillize," at Amazon.com, or you can check out my profile at last.fm for full-length previews of the tracks.

Winter Blooms

coplan — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:45:56 -0500

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.

Filename/Title	Size
Winter Blooms (Coplan_-_Winter_Blooms.mp3)	5.62 MB

Picky 128 byte DOS-intro

Seven — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:13:36 -0500

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.

Filename/Title	Size
Picky_by_Seven_Fulcrum.zip (Picky_by_Seven_Fulcrum.zip)	1.08 KB

Versus 4K executable gfx

Seven — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:37:40 -0500

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.

Filename/Title	Size
Versus4K_Final_by_Seven_Fulcrum.zip (Versus4K_Final_by_Seven_Fulcrum.zip)	9.7 KB

Living, Again and Again (Marcus John Mix)

elblanco — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:12:17 -0500

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.

Filename/Title	Size
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).ogg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).ogg)	6.13 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).mt2 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).mt2)	1.86 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).mp3 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).mp3)	5.12 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).jpg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Living_Again_and_Again_(Marcus_John_Mix).jpg)	154.83 KB

Phoenix Swimming

coplan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:01:06 -0600

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.

Filename/Title	Size
coplan_-_Phoenix_Swimming.mp3 (coplan_-_Phoenix_Swimming.mp3)	4.82 MB

Natural Grown Killer (Final)

Seven — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:11:26 -0600

Finally managed to finish the final, after the Newyear festivities, exams-by-proxy and some relaxation time after that.. The final version adds some effects that were planned but left out due to lack of time at the partyplace: the leafs on the plant and the raster-effect on the credits, plus various small fixes. There's still a lot of things that *could* be improved, but I'd rather spend my time on a new production :)

Filename/Title	Size
NaturalGrownKiller_Final_by_Fulcrum.rar (NaturalGrownKiller_Final_by_Fulcrum.rar)	21.35 MB

Fish Light

elblanco — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:30:00 -0600

Fish Light el blanco [fulcrum] 5:32

After a bit of a lull and constant interruptions by real-life(TM), finally, another tune.

I really focused on VSTi usage in this one. Pretty much all the instruments (except for the drums) are VSTis.

I really enjoy using the Angular Momentum Additive Table Synth by Laif Oddson & Thomas Weber. Just love those delicious sounds it puts out. If only it didn't crash madtracker all the time! I mainly used some presets with a few minor tweaks.

The piano is Steinberg's "The Grand" run through MT2's flanger to make it fit in with the trance sound.

Filename/Title	Size
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.mt2 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.mt2)	3.26 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.ogg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.ogg)	10.5 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.jpg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.jpg)	185.4 KB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.mp3 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Fish_Light.mp3)	8.22 MB

Natural Grown Killer (fixed party version)

Seven — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:28:40 -0600

Here is the party version (minus a crash) of our third demo, which we started making three years ago. It took us slightly longer than expected :) There's still a lot of things to fix up for the final version, so that may take another month or so (cross your fingers).

It placed 7 of 12 at TUM 2007, which was less high than we had hoped, but we admit the weird story isn't to everyones taste ;)

Filename/Title	Size
naturalgrownkiller_by_fulcrum_fixedcrash.rar (naturalgrownkiller_by_fulcrum_fixedcrash.rar)	20.27 MB

Accidental Ray of Sun (Piano Mix)

elblanco — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:23:00 -0600

Accidental Ray of Sun (piano mix) el blanco [fulcrum] 5:08

I really liked the full mix of Accidental Ray of Sun. I also really like playing around with Steinberg's The Grand. I realized the song could be adapted to a piano only tune without much complication -- so I arranged it for the VSTi.

Turned out really nice.

Filename/Title	Size
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).ogg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).ogg)	3.02 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mt2 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mt2)	139.45 KB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mp3 (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mp3)	5.2 MB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mid (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun_(piano_mix).mid)	19.13 KB
el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun.jpg (el_blanco_[fulcrum]_-_Accidental_Ray_of_Sun.jpg)	60.59 KB