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[hallvard]

Fjomp (feat. Sacio)

A collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/sacio This track is from ‘Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 7’, and can be downloaded here: https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/track/fjomp

After becoming a dad (not too many days after the listening party of Vol.6) I thought: “Man, i guess my hands’ll be too busy juggling poopy diapers for next years ChipVol contribution” But it turns out my wife gave birth to a awesome little chiptune-loving toddler who’ll happily sit on my lap while i do my bleeps and bloops  twitter.com/FarkAudio/status/1001464930837712897 .

I named the track after him... Or his nickname at least :P

Anyways. When trying to concoct this years contribution, i still kinda hit a musical brick wall, and yet again i turned to Sacio, going: “Hey. You cooking something for this years chipvol. man?” and, like last year, he was in the same spot as i, having several started projects, yet none longer than a minute. I got him to send me what he was working on, and immediately recognized his... Swedish cracktro-intro which eventually turned more melodious. I fell in love with the latter part and went crazy on his stems adding this and that and asking him if we’re onto something. Being swamped with school (i think?) he answered something like “Yes! Go go go!” , so throughout the months i sat down now and then adding segments, and telling Sacio to send some leads to specific parts in order to keep him adequately involved with the track instead of me totally “running away” with it. 

Tuberz McGee’s review:

Like Auxcide’s entry, this sounds like a keygen for something I really shouldn’t be trying to access. I really like your sense of melody throughout your A section. You’re not afraid to reach for a larger intervalic structure for your melody. It’s much appreciated. The section that kicks in at 1:50~ is a nice welcome change as it almost feels like its become a different track that has its own sensibilities. It keeps things interesting and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bobbing along the whole section. The abrupt modulation from B major to C major (a semitone jump, which makes it seem brighter) at about 2:50~ was nice too! It reminds me of a lot of J-Pop music, that uses abrupt modulations to generate excitement and extreme difference (in this case dropping 5 sharps/adding 7 sharps depending on how brutal you like to think of these changes), forcing you to pay attention. You’ve captured that mood entirely. I’m definitely paying attention. and AGAIN you modulate at about the 4:00~ mark. My short attention span has been tamed. I just feel that this would have benefitted from a more concise ending.

I totally agree with the part about the ending. I regret not going back to the Swedish cracktro-part instead of kinda chickening out with an abrupt ending with a sound effect. Which i think i’ve done with several other tracks as well.