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The new Lady Gaga album has me in a chokehold - I’m so sorry I slept on her music for all these years.
I’ve listened to it like 23 times in the last couple of weeks 🫣
In addition, I refuse to say the “intelligence” part of AI. To me, it’s “artificial generation”, there’s nothing intelligent about that shit 🤮
🎵 Cover of Grace Kelly by MIKA
Still a WIP. I posted this a few months ago but got shy and deleted it almost immediately afterwards 😭 So here it is again!
WAIT WAIT did you see the video I posted a few months ago??! I deleted it after a couple of days because I was nervous about it for some reason but maybe I should post it again 👀
Maybe I’m biased but… same 😎
Tag yourself - sometimes I'm green, sometimes blue, quite often yellow... but always working my way towards pink 😌
Admittedly, this is SO not worth the extra cash it would cost to have it show up at my door, but like… next to no effort. 🤪
It’s crazy how people say something is a “walk in the park”, when going for a walk in the park requires me to get dressed, leave the house, and do physical exercise.
On the other hand, a “piece of cake”? NOW we’re talkin’!
There might be a big difference between a trans-lunar injection and a trans Luna injection, but they’re both cool af 😎
T-Square’s Masahiro Andoh has been working on the GT soundtracks since the start! I’m not too familiar with T-Square but I do love his work in the series 🤩
Spice Girls' "Something Kinda Funny" fits perfectly over the Gran Turismo 1 soundtrack...
This is probably the most stupid niche thing ever 🤣 I was listening to the Spice album and noticed the drum beat, chords, and bassline sounded a lot like Mr.4WD from the GT1 soundtrack, so naturally I did this
I've just uploaded the full version of this song to my old YouTube channel because it just felt so important to right now 😩
(aside: all these remasters will eventually get released under the old name as well, as a thank you and goodbye to the channel)
🎵 Remastered chiptune cover of Muse's Uprising
When I was a wee one, to me Muse just made catchy rock tunes, but holy shit their lyrics feel so relevant and important right now 😩
I went through my back-catalog of chiptune covers in chronological order, and have finally made a spreadsheet to organise which songs will appear on which volume. There's a lot!!!
Just in case you weren't aware - this is what the original sounded like when I made it 13 years ago. When I say "remastered" I really mean it 🤣
Urgh, it sounds SO GROSS!!!
You went to the charity shop and DIDN’T get CDs or old video games?? 😭 🫂
In December, I finally made the decision to sunset the alias "TomboFry", and going forwards I'll be using this username. That's not news, evidently.
Something I have really always wanted to do is release all my chiptune covers onto streaming services (as much as I hate streaming services...). This includes almost everything from 2012, when I released some covers from Muse's "The 2nd Law", until 2024, when I last released a cover of Muse's "Futurism" (to be fair I didn't think Muse would be both the first AND last thing I would make chiptune covers of. Quite apt, actually, considering that's what I was most well-known for, for a long time).
My plan is to release them in sections. Maybe three volumes - 2012-2016, 2017-2020, and 2020-2024? I'm not sure yet. I released quite a lot around the mid 2010s, and there's 105 songs in the "Chiptune Covers" playlist on YouTube.
For a fun little comparison, here's the old version of a chiptune cover - No Surprises, by Radiohead:
Compared with the new version. This was among one of my first released covers, and it was pretty bad, with missing parts and just generally sounding thin. I don't even think I was massively happy with it back then, but I just didn't have the skill to make it better. It's SO much different now.
Anyway, that's what I plan on doing in the next couple of months, and I've been posting previews on BlueSky, so you should follow me there for more frequent and auditory updates until it's done! Stay tuned 😎
🎵 Chiptune cover of Big Freeze by Muse ❄
This might actually be one of my favourite Muse songs!
🎵 Remastered chiptune cover of Muse's Undisclosed Desires
Soooo it turns out I never actually released this one, 10 years ago and it was fully ready to go and everything! 😱