5 Days of Christmas

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Christmas Music

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Why 5 days?  "Cuz I'm too lazy to write 12" was the footnote attached to this song.  This is a version of the 'popular' Christmas carol with a similar title.  I even wrote some lyrics for it (which might be appreciated by those in the Amiga crowd).

Annihilator

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This was meant to be the themesong of a cyborg named "The Annihilator" from the "Vatman" comics I used to draw.  He was a heavily armed vigilante employed by Vatman who sent many of his targets to an early grave.

Battle Music

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Game Soundtrack

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This little theme was inspired by games such as "Castles" and "Ultima 6".  I've always wanted to work on game soundtracks, though this particular song was not attached to any specific project that I was working on.

Black As Oil

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This is a track that I honestly don't know how to describe... perhaps part rock, part classical?  If I remember correctly, Danny Elfman was a fairly important inspiration for this one.  This was intended as background music for the "Vatman" comics.

Cream Soda Slurpees

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Contageous

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This insidiously happy little tune was written to celebrate the most hallowed of beverages: The Slurpee.  In this particular instance, it happened to be Cream Soda flavoured.  For those who have not shared in what is perhaps the greatest invention of the latter 20th Century, a slurpee is a drink made from a mixture of granular ice particles and flavoured syrup.

Crusaders' Themesong

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No, this track is not related to the demoscene group of the same name, I wasn't even aware of the demoscene at the point in time this was written.  This track was actually written for a cartoon series I wanted to make.  I even started animating it myself in DeluxePaint IV on my Amiga, but it proved to be far more work than I was capable of.  A remixed version can be found on my MOD page.

Dance of the Psycho Comedian

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Dark Humour

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A clown puts on a show while a musician accompanies him on piano... but today Bobo the Clown has a little suprise for all the people who are laughing at him!  The original music was written by the composer Bedrich Smetana back in the 1800's.  The sound effects were taken from the game "It Came From The Desert" and the evil laugh was borrowed from a Batman cartoon by Eric Schwartz.

Dip the Scum!

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This track was intended as background music for the "Vatman" comics I used to draw.  Note the overly cheerful yet macabre tone of this track, which would play as Vatman sent his victims to horrific deaths in a large vats of boiling oil.  I later converted this song to MOD format.

Hi-Tech Adventure

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This is actually the very first song I ever wrote on my Amiga.  I may have written some small things on notation paper before this, but this is what I would truly consider to be my very first "complete digital work".  It was also intended to be the themesong for a small graphic and text adventure game I was working on at the time.  This song also existed in a previous version with an older music program for the Amiga (not Deluxe Music) and even further back was a piano song which I had recorded on tape with a drum machine playing in the background.

Into The Oil

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This little latin-sounding oddity was originally intended to be background music for my "Vatman" comics.  I think Vatman had a Mexican assistant who inspired this one.

Monday

2:09

Classical

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My friend David Rose (not to be confused with the earlier composer with the same name) originally composed this song on his PC with an Adlib sound card.  He actually read the notes of his melody and accompanyment to me one at a time over the phone and I meticulously copied them into Deluxe Music.  I added the 'solo' sections later, once the main parts were done.  That was probably one of our longest phone calls.  :)

Straight Ahead

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Rock

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This is the second track I wrote in Deluxe Music.  I had planned this to be the 'flagship song' for a group of cartoon rock musicians that was set in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' universe.  It's probably a good thing I didn't pursue this idea further.

Streetwise

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R&B

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There wasn't any significant meaning to this track... I had just written out this music that was stuck in my head and then I 'randomly' chose a name for it.  This is one of the last few Deluxe Music projects I worked on.

The Big City

2:51

Rock

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This is probably one of my best efforts in Deluxe Music.  This track is about going places and seeing new things.  I even managed to get this song played on the morning show of a popular local radio station, not that it really amounted to anything other than a few comments from some friends at school.  I later remade this track in MOD format.  Music from "The Joshua Tree" by U2 provided some inspiration for this one.

The Dipping

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This song was also originally written by Dave (see 'Monday' above).  This was the first track we collaborated on and it is worth mentioning that Dave is also the co-creator of the "Vatman" comics this music was written for.  We had a challenge to see who could come up with the best 'death by boiling oil' song and while this was Dave's offering, mine was "Dip the Scum!".  Dave composed this on his PC with an Adlib card and we copied it into Deluxe Music over the phone note-by-note.  Gee, too bad we didn't have internet connections in our respective homes back then.  ;)

The Happy Killer

1:30

Dark Humour

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A quartet of musicians perform a cheerful little tune while the conductor picks them off with his handgun one at a time.  Sound effects were taken from the game "It Came From The Desert" and the evil laugh is from a Batman cartoon by Eric Schwartz.

The Orb Of Doom

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Game Soundtrack

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This one was made for another game project I was working on.  The game was a first-person medieval role-playing game.  This track was inspired by the music from the first two "Eye of the Beholder" games.  I later remade this one in MOD format.

Tornado

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Rock

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This fast-paced tune was created just for the fun of it.  I also remade this one (and extended it) a few years later in MOD format.

Tranquility

2:03

Slow Rock

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This was written just after I had discovered MOD format.  I was still clinging to Deluxe Music and wanted to demonstrate that some techniques of MOD writing were still doable in DMCS.  However, this ended up being one of the last tracks I made in Deluxe Music.

Vatman's Overture

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This is the themesong of Vatman, the protagonist of the "Vatman" comics that I used to draw with the help of my friend Dave.  The music of John Williams and Danny Elfman provided much of the inspiration for this.  This was also my most ambitious Deluxe Music project since I was trying to write something 'symphonic'.  It is also the longest single piece of music I wrote during these years.

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