Like a lot of my fellow gamers, I've been marked forever by the soundtracks of the games I played. I'm a musician at heart and I can play the guitar, so I rearrange video game music to make it sound as if a rock band was performing it. It's my own way of thanking all the talented composers that originally created it.
You can read more about CarboHydroM's story here.
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It's a late Happy New Year gift, but I was waiting for the results of the Dwelling of Duels competition to come out, yet again ! I cannot reveal my song here before, otherwise it would be disqualified.
Anyway, the first song that I'm releasing this year is called "Return To The Void" and covers the 7th stage music from Thunder Force III on Sega Genesis, as well as the final boss theme from the same game.
I wish you all a great year and always a lot of great music of course !
The long awaited results of the shredding competition called "Tornado of Solos", and hosted by the Dwelling of Duels were released yesterday.
And although a lot of people were interested by the contest and about to enter - I was expecting the turnout to be huge - only 3 entries were submitted, and that was a bit of a disappointment, even though this way I was sure I could reach the top 3 (with no glory at all). Then again, it's just bad luck, those who were missed had their reasons. Anyway, I finally got 2nd place, along with my buddy Wild_Cat, who collaborated with me and performed the bass.
More about the song itself. You can grab it from the contest page here, it's called "Impossible Staircase". I'm not releasing it here yet because as I did with Far Beyond Heavens earlier this year, I need to polish it and train a lot more to perform it with more confidence ! This is to date the most difficult song I've attempted to cover, and I feel that my skills are getting better.
Maxime "Wild_Cat" Noël is the bassist for the French video game music cover band "GrosPixels", and we also play in the same band right now, so it was possible for us to train together on the song, live. We definitely had fun trying to figure out how to play the most difficult parts, and headbanging like crazy. Kudos to him for pushing his limits further, you can especially pay attention to his bass solo in the middle of the song.
This is the result of my short summer holidays. I changed my mind yet again and after a few years with the old 'keep-it-small' design (and I truly used to be very happy with it), I went back to the idea of having some thoughts written about each songs, and wanted to fill all the white space that was left unused for display. At the very least I sort of wanted to try out new things for a change.
Everything should be mostly working, I tested each area of the site for a while, but of course if you encounter any issue I could have forgotten to fix, you can email me about it, and I'll see what I can do.
And now for something completely different, I'll be entering the Tornado of Solos competition this year. It's a special event that takes place in the Dwelling of Duels community, and where contestants focus on... live instrument skills. Simply put, if you enter, you need to shred ! If you're used to my works, you already know that I'm not much of a guitar shredder, but I'll do my best to do something good. The source material all contestants must cover is the "Dwelling of Doom" song from Castlevania 2 (NES), and I already know that a few VERY STRONG people will be battling. The deadline is November 15th. It will be fun !