Music

My Ordinary Life

A vibey electro track inspired by Nichijou, probably the funniest anime ever.

TECHNO LOVE

Wanted to try a techno / hardtechno track. Picture yourself in a Berlin warehouse, with a huge sound system.
I made the cover artwork on blender, and I'm happy with the result. I'll try making more of these in the future.

Low Key Funk

Sampled from Hal Walker playing the khaen.

MILLENIUM FUNK

I always loved the Millenium Earl character from D. Gray-Man. I think I'm particularly attached to the "crazy devil circus" kinda vibe. And its fits the Brzilian phonk genre pretty good. So I wanted to do a track with the circus vibe, and a very crushed & burned sound to fit character.
Also, I generated some of the vocals with AI to customize the lyrics while keeping the brazilian style. As I said earlier, I don't like AI-generated art, but using generic brazilian phonk vocals did not seem right here.

Maloya Funk!

I recently heard about Maloya, a traditional music style from l'Ile de le Réunion. While digging into it, I especially liked Melanz nasyon - Ici la Rényon. So I sampled their vocals and percussions. The song talks about mixing genres and populations, so I thought it was pretty fun to mix it with Brazilian and electro stuff.

cutie funk!

DO INFERNO

VAI DOMINAR

My current thoughts on AI

NO MEIO PANCADÃO

QUEBRA NO FUNK

I worked with a fiverr artist for the cover artwork. Really happy with the result.
It's pretty obvious he used AI to generate the character, but he added a lot of work on top of it, and it fits perfectly the Brazilian Phonk aesthetic. For such a low price and such a short delivery time, it's fair.
And having a real custom cover artwork feels great, it really gives a more professional look to the track.

GUTS

I started reading Berserk this year, and completely fell in love with it. It captures so well so many emotions of humankind. It's probably my second favorite manga of all time (number one being One Piece).
I felt like it could fit the hardcore vibe of Brazilian Phonk pretty well. I sampled different versions of the anime and OAVs for the vocals. I also sampled some bulgarian choirs for the mood, love it.

Some thoughts about Brazilian Phonk

I recently discovered the "Brazilian Phonk" sub-genre, which mix recent phonk saturation and synth with baile funk's vocals and rythm. I completely fell in love with it. And I'm not te only one, it's getting super popular on Tiktok and Spotify.
The first contact is often made through gymbro content, and yes it's a perfect match. That distorded aggressivity, cryptic darkness, always mixed with a bit of fun and dance. I was getting tired of my metal workout playlist, and phonk brought back the hype.
However, what made me really addicted to it was the insane creativity this sub-genre has unveiled (especially with its derivatives like Bounce Funk, Krushfunk, Space Funk, etc.). There are so much young crazy-talented producers, and they produce so fast that it grows exponentially. One part of me loves seeing this jungle teeming with creativity, boosted by tiktok and lacking any boundary, wether it's classic musical rules or even ethics. They sample anything, go crazy on the effects, reupload slowed-down versions, generate AI vocals and covers... I really feel like everything is possible, and only music (as in, frequency coming to my ears) matters.
The other part of me is not a big fan of this algo-greedy culture...
I did a playlist of my favorites: Youtube Playlist.

Orchestral OST

I made these OST for a video game made by a close friend. The game is not released yet.
I really loved working on a cinematic and orchestral project, it's a completely different exercise than electro or rap beats. Also, working for someone else's vision is an interesting mix of frustration and creativity.

[GameBoy] Beyond Camara OST

I finally did it!
I've listened to chiptune all my life, but I always was too intimidated by tracker softwares to try producing a track that could actually run on retro hardware. I made many "faketune" tracks, I read a lot about VGM, I even made a trailer music for a friend's GB game (Stranded Pirates) several years ago, but I never made the full jump.
Now finally, I made an actual GameBoy track, with a tracker, that runs on actual GB hardware. Yay!

I made this for a friend's game. He started it in a Game Jam, and decided to pursue the development. I actually made a few other tracks for the game, this one is the main theme. My friend asked me to get as close as possible to a shoegaze style. Not your typical GameBoy OST... It felt quite impossible, so I focused on a slow, melancholic and ethereal. We were both happy with the results.

Embrace

One of the tracks I'm the most proud of.

Bob's canvas

An hommage to Bob Ross, who I absolutely love.
The vocals are sampled from his TV show "The Joy of Painting", and the choirs are from "Play Date" by Melanie Martinez.

Sunset Drive

Pure synthwave, Kavinsky style.

Sweet

That music is a stepping stone in my journey, for two different reasons.
I made it during the teaching course of Andrew Huang (a great MAO Youtuber). It was my first time participating in something like this, and the feedback I got from Andrew and the other participants helped a lot fighting the imposter syndrome. I'm really proud of it!
A few years later, when uploading the track on Youtube, I wanted to try generating some visuals. I have been thinking about this for a long time. I don't have the skills (nor the time and the money) to make drawing animations for each music I post, but I know a lot about programming and computer graphics. So my goal is to be able to generate, in a short time, some nice CGI graphics that respond to the music, kinda like VJing or demoscene stuff. I especially want to make specific visuals for each specific track, midi clip and audio effect. That would allow a lot more expressiveness than just running an FFT on the master signal.
For this track, I tried doing that with the software Tooll3 (now named TiXL), an open-source motion graphics platform. I had already been experimenting a bit on the previous Youtube videos, but that time it was way more complex. Treating each track separatly and assembling them on a cheap PC was a real pain in the ass. Never doing that again. I'll try Unreal Engine 5 or something else the next time. I'm not totally happy with the video result, but it's the best I could do at that time.

WOW

Went more experimental in this one. It was inspired by artists like Aika, Trifect, Synthion...
The background of the SoundCloud cover comes from Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour, a game I loved as a kid and which had such a great mood.

Some rap beats

At that time I was listening to a lot of rap music, so of course I wanted to try beatmaking.
I also tried rapping a bit, but the result was really bad haha.

Stranded Pirates Theme

I made this track for a friend's video game jam. "Stranded Pirates" runs on GameBoy, unfortunately I didn't take the time to learn how to produce for this platform. So this track is only used as the theme for the game's trailer, not inside the game.

★ Dance Party ★

I was having fun with the different sequenced synths, I ended up making a entire track out of it.
Love that super-duper 80's vibe!

BoomVR - OST

A soundtrack I made for a VR game I developped with a friend, during my master's degree. It has a synthwave vibe, so I went full on.

Mindset

A more introspective track.

Cinematic Music

I made those for a friend's video game project. The idea of trying some cinematic music appealed to me.

H7F;

Night Ride

Dived into the Akira night city vibes. I don't even know how I made those synths haha.

Red Moon

Loved exploring that cryptic saharan vibe.

Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

That one has been my most viewed track on SoundCloud for a while (probably because of the title, the meme was still popular at that time). I spent so much time crafting the synths, it felt like a nice reward :)
I remember watching the poorly-dubbed anime in my youth, I was happy to play with its samples.

Linked

The first rap beat I made. That was a fun exercise!
I dived into the game inspirations, and played with ocarina samples for that Zelda touch.

A Super F*cked Up God

At that time I was a big fan of Rick and Morty, and I especially liked S3E01 (Szechuan sauce) and S2E05 (Get Schwifty). I wanted to use those vocals, but also do something more ambient and trippy than my previous works. And I added geeky metallic synths to fit the rick vibe.

Endless Joy

Joyful supersaw chords, trap drums and catchy melodies :)

Escape Moment

I remember doing this one in South Korea, during my exchange semester. Seoul probably inspired me that vibe of anime and emotive / powerful / hopeful synths.
It also the time I started knowing and falling in love with my future wife, and I can feel that in the track haha.

Travel In DreamLand

That one was inspired by ABSRDST and other kawaii ~ hyperpop ~ future bass artists. I was obssessed by that genre.
I remember sending a dm to Pandrezz to ask him his thoughts on my track. He replied with a collab proposal. I was so proud! I ended up turning it down, I was way too shy and insecure back then. I kinda feel dumb about it now, but hey that's life :)

Game's Growl

I wanted to explore something mixing dubstep bass and video game synths. I really loved working on the music video. It was REALLY hard because I didn't know anything about video editing. I couldn't afford a pro software and didn't have the patience to learn, so I ended up animating it frame by frame with PNGs on a cheap video software. Took me ages, but I'm proud of the result!

Steins;Gate - Opening Fanmade

I made this track without any specific thought at first. But when it was almost finished, I realized it was almost exactly timed to fit the Steins;Gate opening. I really loved that anime, so I arranged it into a fanmade opening video. The dubstep parts did not age well, but I still like how it turned out.

On The Quest

The first track I uploaded on SoundCloud. I was pretty proud of this one, it sounded more "pro" than my previous experiments. The drop was inspired by a youtube video (can't find it now), which helped a lot.
I think it took me several months to finish it. It was so laborious for me back then!