The other day for some reason I ended up with the Wikipedia article about Mega Man 2 open in my browser, idly reading when not doing other things. Since then I’ve had several of the game’s songs stuck in my head. They’re ridiculously memorable, as are a number of other classic video game themes. Composers didn’t…
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Tags: music, video games
For over a decade I have been producing music under the moniker “The Thirteenth Step,” a name I chose because it sounded kind of cool and had weird metaphysical implications. I bought a domain to go with it shortly before A Perfect Circle announced their second record, so I got lots of traffic from people…
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Tags: facebook, killhamster, the thirteenth step
Five reasons to follow Killhamster on Facebook: It’s a great place to fill all your Killhamster needs! It’ll be a central location for everything related to the project, allowing you to keep up with anything new. There are photos of Leo, the manager! Leo is a cat. A big fat cat. He loves lasagna. He…
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Tags: facebook
This was another remix that I was unsure of how to start. Sometimes I go into these things knowing exactly what I want to do to a track: what I want to change, what sounds I’d like to use, how to arrange it, and so on. This time around I didn’t know what I wanted…
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Tags: music, remix
The extent of my exposure to Zombie Nation was a demo track included in the sequel to the MTV Music Generator, the creatively titled MTV Music Generator 2, available for the PlayStation 2. The track itself was Inside the Speaker, and I only vaguely recall it since by the time I had received the “game”…
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Tags: music, playstation, reason, remix