Melonland Musicians, post your stuff!

[TheFrugalGamer]

We've talked elsewhere about compiling lists of games that everyone here has made, and we've got the very awesome Melonland Surf Club for websites, but what about music? Post here if you'd like to get some eyes and ears on the music you've created! I want to see what you all have come up with!

I'll start. I do tracker/8-bit music for games and for fun. You can find and download my tunes here:
https://www.thefrugalgamer.net/music.php

[TheNothingMonster]

Your music is so joyful! I love all of your tracks! They fit so perfectly for video games.

For me, music creation is side hobby that I do not take that seriously, so I wouldn't consider myself a "musician". It is just something I consider fun doing as I love music! However, I do not know anything about music theory and I do not know how to play any instruments at the moment either. I just "study" the music I listen to by simply repeating it over and over again and somehow manage to create something similar digitally. I guess I have a "musical ear".

I started making my own tunes around 2019 as I messed around in, well, Minecraft Note Block Studio. Yup. I just wanted to make something without caring so much about quality. Then in 2020 I decided to try out something more advanced and switched over to LMMS, the main software I still use to this day.

I have made a wide variety of tracks over the years, most of which are used in random projects I am working on. Therefore, there is no much music of mine available online. However, the majority of the music I have posted can be found on my Newgrounds audio gallery and messy YouTube channel. Here are some embedded from YouTube:

Strange coincidence, but I actually just uploaded a new experimental track today. It's this one below:

This next one is currently my most favourite track thus far, but I had messed up its quality while exporting and it kind of sounds worse than intended. Oops! I swear it sounds better than this!

And this one is a collection of my ancient tracks I made with Note Block Studio for a little game I made. They all sound terrible, but I tried lol.

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Erdspiegel is - beneath the music that I did for our games - my music project:
https://erdspiegel.bandcamp.com

The concept is to refresh german folk music by mixing it up with Dungeon Synth while attempting to answer its - very - problematic heritage.

Released 3 albums so far:
1. Erdspiegel: Nintendocorish sound, mixture of anarchic folk tunes and partisan songs.
2: Farewell the birds - Oriented at renaissance tunes from middle europe; set with cleptoplundered samples and used to build a concept album about vanishing birds in cause of environmental destruction.
3: As beyond, so within: Experimental Neofolk. Mixture of Synths and acoustic instruments, partly romantic or medieval, partly self written lyrics. Influences from noise and industrial music. Main theme is escapism or the longing for escapism in various forms.

I'm aware that I can't compete with professional played or produced albums, but I did everything as good as I could and came probably as close to what I imagined as I can. Worked on the last album for nearly ~1.5 years.

Music is GPLed. Go nuts listening or using it.

[TheFrugalGamer]

Your music is so joyful! I love all of your tracks! They fit so perfectly for video games.

*snip*

I have made a wide variety of tracks over the years, most of which are used in random projects I am working on. Therefore, there is no much music of mine available online. However, the majority of the music I have posted can be found on my Newgrounds audio gallery and messy YouTube channel. Here are some embedded from YouTube:

Strange coincidence, but I actually just uploaded a new experimental track today. It's this one below:

This next one is currently my most favourite track thus far, but I had messed up its quality while exporting and it kind of sounds worse than intended. Oops! I swear it sounds better than this!

And this one is a collection of my ancient tracks I made with Note Block Studio for a little game I made. They all sound terrible, but I tried lol.

Thank you so much for your compliments! I'm definitely more of a "melodies" person than a "rhythms" person, which is where I always struggle with things. I like the tracks you've posted! I'm not sure what you meant about the longer one sounding bad, but if you're referring to the "crunchyness," I think it actually adds to the music style. That type of music I think really shines when it has a lot of crunch in it. That whole album sounds like it would be great when I'm either meditating or working on something very concentration-intense.

I also think it's really cool that you use noteblock studio; as I've put in my profile, I think the tools themselves are far less important than what you make with them, and I love seeing what people have done with more obscure tools. Your noteblock tunes are cool; the second song on that one gives me a lot of "boss fight/timed level" vibes :)

Erdspiegel is - beneath the music that I did for our games - my music project:
https://erdspiegel.bandcamp.com

The concept is to refresh german folk music by mixing it up with Dungeon Synth while attempting to answer its - very - problematic heritage.

*snip*

Music is GPLed. Go nuts listening or using it.

Ooooh, I am a sucker for some Dungeon Synth! I'm not familiar with the history of German folk music, but I think that is a really neat idea for an album. I think "Lost in the Wooden Depths" is my favorite so far. I like your tunes!

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Ooooh, I am a sucker for some Dungeon Synth! I'm not familiar with the history of German folk music, but I think that is a really neat idea for an album. I think "Lost in the Wooden Depths" is my favorite so far. I like your tunes!

Thank you :).
The concept of folk music is inherently problematic, as the definition was made by nationalist groups - and German nationalism had even more gruesome and terrible consequences than the nationalism of the other European countries. Our whole song corpus contaminated by our national-socialist history.

There were several bands that tried to tackle this issue; most tried to focus on songs that can be read as antifascist. The first album I did attempts a similar thing. My second album tries to make an explicit statement of non-violence; the third album goes an entirely individual way, containing no folk tunes at all.

Thanks for listening!

[sig]

I made these tracks a few years back, and for your listening experience I have compiled them into a convenient .zip file 


Sig Megami Tensei - Vol. 1

Dreadful
Safe
Metal Lament
Rayman Type Beat
Shopping on Borrowed Time
In The ZONE
Out There


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