Hive Buster

Even the names keep getting better. From Musical Instrument Digital Interface to ModPlug to Fruity Loops. Mmm, don’t those loops sound tasty! Well, mostly they didn’t. Certainly in the beginning. I was amazed by the beautiful interface of FL Studio but also so lost in its enourmous complexity that only a few clicks later I I created a killer beat. Literally.

Sometimes – though rarely would be a better word – a more or less decent sound popped up. And after a few days of experimenting like this, I collected enough of those sounds to knit together a song of about 2 minutes. So I did.

• .MP3: 1.5 MB version / 3.9 MB version
  
• .OGG: 1.5 MB version / 3.9 MB version
  
• .FLP: Click here

Hive Buster was actually not a very serious creation, it was more of an experiment. But maybe it’s useful for some weird psychological tests about the reasons for failure of indie artists. Who knows. That’s why I included the FL Project file, a how-not-to-do-it 101.

Retrix

Read the name and guess. Yep, Retrix is a remix of tetris. Am I not original?

The Retrix songs are the last tracks I made with ModPlug. I won’t say I mastered ModPlug, but I do say that I’m proud of this work and my control over ModPlug. However, I had the same feeling as when I made songs in MIDI: I realised the limits and wanted to get beyond them. So it was time to move on. I’m working in FL Studio now, but more on that later.

Retrix comes in many versions. Only 3 of ‘em are actually finished: a rock version, a trance / electro / techno / jumpstyle / whatever version, and one version that mixes the best of all versions, even those that didn’t make it. In respective order given the “awesum” names Retrix Rox, Retrix Trax and Retrix Mix. Am I not original?

Retrix Mix

• .MP3: Click here
• .OGG: Click here

Retrix Rox

• .MP3: Click here
• .OGG: Click here

Retrix Trax

• .MP3: Click here
• .OGG: Click here

I’m sorry that the .it files are not available for download, I lost them in a power-down. Learned the importance of backing up the hard way. As a sort of replacement I converted them to ogg for if you ever want to use them in a tetris game that would so much profit that you would have to pay for a mp3 license. In that case it would save you about 2 minutes at best. Yeah I know, I’m too good for this world. Now donate.