nexxyz – Gameboy chiptunes and general weirdness

A funky breakbeat/bigbeat track, using a few short samples from one of the great classics ;-). Written in Buzz, probably sometime before 2000.

A nifty little dance track, inspired by the theme from the Terminator movies. Written using Buzz. Probably written sometime in 2001.

This track was the result of a bet between my French teacher and me. He said: “You can’t make an electronic version of ‘La Vie En Rose’ by Edith Piaf. He was wrong.

One of my first real soothing tracks, and definitely the first to feature a flute. Relaxing, dreamy and quiet.

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These four tracks date around the year 2000. Using vocals that were recorded on a cheaper than cheap microphone, this cover of a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song comes in four flavours:

• Ballad
• Dance
• Chilly D’n’B
• TripHop

This was a bit of an experimental study: All versions share the vocal samples and overall structure – and even most patterns. They differ mainly in the percussion area and of course instrumentation. The last two are even closer, since they share everything but a few samples and probably the bassline.

I’m sure we got a few lyrics wrong, looking back and listening to the original – well, we were young ;-).

A FastTracker II track, published on Tracked Worx ’98. Electronic sounds, moody, futuristic at the time…using a vocal sample taken from some random TV trailer. Starts out pretty slow, then picks up speed. This track even has a pesudo-concert segment. 😉

A D’n’B-ish, spooky track fitting for Halloween. The intro and outro parts feature a sample from a pretty well-known movie. Nicole, a colleague at the summer job I took in 2000 got pretty scared when listening to it in the dark.

Demo-style breakbeat – as always using a single gray Nintendo Gameboy. The more astute among readers may guess the day of its creation. Not especially the lead that kicks in in the later half of the track!

A hard, technoid Gameboy track. Must have been one of my first hard tracks written on the Nintendo Gray. Highly recommended for disturbed people!

I think this was the last track I wrote before traveling home from Ecuador – which would make it a bit more than 9 years old by now. FastTracker II style trance, using random vocal samples, most probably taken from Tracked Worx ’98.