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making up for yesterday's lack of song post, i shall double post today! both of today's songs are premieres, as they are from Super Famicompo 4 which just concluded. the previous song was a hefty original, but this one is a cute cover!

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today's song is: Blipston Theme (Squidlit cover), for the SNES's soundchip SPC700

this is a song from one of my friends' games, Squidlit! which, as i just grabbed the link for it, is apparently on sale for 49 CENTS and its quite impressive sequel Super Squidlit is on sale for $1.59. they would be money well spent for a fun afternoon or something. the original is modeled heavily after Gameboy game restrictions, while the sequel targets the Gameboy Color and has some neat 3D segments. the original music was made in LSDJ!

anyway, when i played the game this tune lodged itself in my brain and i decided i wanted to do a rendition of it for SNES. the song reminded me of "Hello, Happy Kingdom" from Super Mario RPG so i used the instruments from that song to make it. i didn't pull any huge punches with the tune or anything, but i snuck in a bunch of pitch modulation for flavor and because the squelchiness of the distortion sounded very squid-like.

daily song time is upon us... today's installment is a real special one!

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today's song is: Inútil Paisagem, a cover of the classic Jobim tune (specifically the recording with Elis Regina) for the SNES's soundchip SPC700

this was my entry last year for Super Famicompo 3's covers category. i chose one of my favoritest songs of all time and had a delightful time transcribing it (i think i've used that crazy circle of fifths motion of the 7#9->dom13 a hundred times on my own since then). it was the first time i ever used the ROM export on C700 and i only did it because i didn't want to spend ages trimming it down to .spc - in hindsight i could've used nicer samples because of all the extra space, but i wasn't thinking about that and the process was new to me. i was happy to use the chrono trigger pianos anyway, and i spent some time auditioning sounds other than "cute saw wave" but eventually just settled into "cute saw wave is the best after all".

this is a 1:1 transcription, i even loaded in the original audio side-by-side to get all the notes lined up perfectly with the original. it's on brand for me, extremely rubato :o)