Music

Unless otherwise indicated, all music here is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Original Songs:

(C8)(H10)(N4)(O2) No loops of any kind. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

AE-35 125 BPM. Created with FL Studio, Absynth, RCG Audio Pentagon, and Cool Edit Pro. Samples from various movies including 2001, Strange Days, The Shining, and The Prophecy (?). Personal rating: 10/10. Everything in this song sounds exactly like I wanted it to.

Crash 140 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. I spent a lot more time than usual in mastering this song, and I hope it shows. The title is a metaphor with more than one meaning, as explained through the movie samples. For the record, I think UFO conspiracy theorists are kooks, but you can't beat that sample.

Disconnect (Voice of an Angel mix) 100 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

Father's Day 155bpm. Created with FL Studio 7. The sample is my son, Dustin, from when he was 2.

Kinshasa Highway 131 BPM. Created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro. Personal rating: 5/10. The samples are great and the mastering is fairly clear, but this one didn't come together as well as I'd hoped.

Long Pig Soylent Green. It's what's for dinner. 140 BPM. Personal rating: 7.5/10. I had fun with the samples and drum programming, but this is too repetitive.

Main Sequence Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. 120 BPM. Personal rating: 10/10. No complaints.

Neural Net 10^10 nodes. 135 BPM. Personal rating: 10/10. I'm especially proud of the drum programming here.

The 12th of January 190 BPM. All drums programmed from scratch. No loops were used. Personal rating: 6/10. I'm happy with my breakbeat-from-scratch here, but I should have mixed it up a little.

The Information Age (-rw-rw-rw- mix) 140 BPM. Created with FruityLoops and Cool Edit Pro. Personal rating: 7.5/10. The main melody and bass lines are FL "randomize" functions, which loses me some points for originality.

WTF? Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. Profanity courtesy of Madonna. 160 BPM. Personal rating: 7/10. Kind of boring.

Cover Songs:

Assemblage 23 - Binary (Club Dalek mix) 140 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. Same song as the one below, with samples (NOT cleared by BBC--please don't sue me) and overcompressed for club play.

Assemblage 23 - Binary (Steve Pordon remix) 140bpm. Created with FL Studio 7. This is a remix of Assemblage 23's new single off of the great _Meta_ album. Vocals are (c) A23/Tom Shear.

Beastie Boys - Car Thief (Steve Pordon's Cheeba City remix) 115 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

BT-Communicate (Steve Pordon's Dead Language remix) 134 bpm. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. Main vox & recurring vox: Jan Johnston. Additional vox: Bjork.

Conjure One - Face the Music (Steve Pordon remix) 140 bpm. Created with FL Studio and Audition 2.

Delerium - After All (Steve Pordon remix) 109 BPM. Created about a year too late for Delerium's remix contest. I used FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. Vox, acoustic guitar, and some synth samples are (c) Delerium.

Lisa DeBenedictis - Cuckoo (Steve Pordon remix) 156 bpm. Created with FL Studio, Adobe Audition and vocals from Lisa DeBenedictis.

Little Drummer Boy (traditional) Merry Christmas.

Metro (Berlin cover) v1.01. 210 BPM. Made with FL Studio.

Molly's Song (Roger Waters cover) 120 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. The intro dialog between Billy and Jim goes like this: "I'm sorry, Jim. I was miles away, keeping an eye on Molly. / You were keeping an eye on Molly? I thought Molly lived in Wales. / With a certain optical-enhanced surveillance satellite I can read a newspaper from five hundred miles high, Jim. / Let me get this straight. You're trying to tell me that you can keep an eye on Molly by hacking into a government satellite? Come on."
You won't find a correct transcription anywhere online, including Waters' official website (minor problems like "optic" instead of "optical").

Tori Amos - Upside Down (Steve Pordon's Inside Out mix) 180 BPM. Created with FruityLoops, Cool Edit Pro and a live performance of "Upside Down" by Tori.

Videogame Cover Songs:

Chrono Trigger (Long Lost Sister mix) 135 BPM. Recorded with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

FF6--Mystic Forest (Back to the Roots mix) "Back to the Roots" because all my songs used to be in this format: 2 acoustic guitars with a distorted lead, no drums, no bass.

Oblivion (Title theme) Remix of the title screen music. 100BPM. Created with FL Studio and some guitars. v1.0

Pulseman (Stereo Superhero mix) My take on the "Stereo Protect" music from the Genesis game Pulseman, using voice samples from the game. 150 BPM. Created with Impulse Tracker 3.12 and Cool Edit Pro.

Seiken Densetsu Suite (Adventurous mix) 150 BPM. This is an update to my original tribute to Seiken Densetsu, 10 years ago (I used Screamtracker originally!). v1.01 (remastered)

Silent Hill - Static Aversion (Children of the Monkey Machine and Steve Pordon) OCRemix Release version. 126kbit VBR. http://ocremix.org http://silenthillbbs.dyndns.org/cotmm/

Silent Hill 2 - True (It's Gone Now mix) The title is a response to the Wingless' excellent "There Was a Hole Here" remix. 155 BPM. v1.01 (remastered). Created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro.

Undying - Lizbeth's Reawakening v1.1 (re-mixed): 170, 200 and 180BPM. 10 guitars, a bass, BFD drums, and a piano VST. Toss lightly in FL Studio and CuBase. Serve with a generous portion of evil ghosts.

Miscellaneous works in progress:

Ranma Nibunnoichi season two theme song (cover) Too repetitive. Needs more work in the middle section.

"Shadow of Doubt" from the _Escaflowne_ anime (cover) This is without a doubt my favorite unfinished song. The drums need a little more work.

Flamebait (original) With samples from Clerks, Jason Scott's BBS Documentary, probably others. This is a new song but it's very reminiscent of my older stuff, by which I mean it sucks.

Schala This was the very first iteration of the Chrono Trigger Schala remix I finished (see above). I popped this out as an inside joke since Schala is the theme everyone always remixes from CT, but ended up liking it enough to finish it.

untitled #43 Attempt at the glitch genre in my own style. I like the drums.

untitled #42 Another attempt at glitch.

untitled #41 Broken pianos and offset drum patterns.

untitled #40 Me playing around with the Native Instruments B4-II drawbar organ synth. I love this thing.

Extinction Event (original) I'm working out lyrics for this one, but I'm not really sure where to go with it yet. Samples from _12 Monkeys_ and _In the Mouth of Madness_.

untitled #??? There is not a single "real" instrument in this song; everything's computer-generated. The guitars and bass are from the Slayer II VST and the drums are fxpansion BFD.

untitled #29 Me noodling around on the guitar.

Assemblage 23 - Document (Steve Pordon's Let it Be Written mix) Thanks to Tom Shear for pointing me to his remixable samples. This mix was created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro. 135 BPM. Drums, bass, and some synths are mine. All other samples belong to Tom Shear. (this remix was "completed" but I'm still not happy with it and may strip it down to the basics and start over).

Original Songs:

(C8)(H10)(N4)(O2)	No loops of any kind. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

AE-35	125 BPM. Created with FL Studio, Absynth, RCG Audio Pentagon, and Cool Edit Pro. Samples from various movies including 2001, Strange Days, The Shining, and The Prophecy (?). Personal rating: 10/10. Everything in this song sounds exactly like I wanted it to.

Crash	140 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. I spent a lot more time than usual in mastering this song, and I hope it shows. The title is a metaphor with more than one meaning, as explained through the movie samples. For the record, I think UFO conspiracy theorists are kooks, but you can't beat that sample.

Disconnect (Voice of an Angel mix)	100 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

Father's Day	155bpm. Created with FL Studio 7. The sample is my son, Dustin, from when he was 2.

Kinshasa Highway	131 BPM. Created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro. Personal rating: 5/10. The samples are great and the mastering is fairly clear, but this one didn't come together as well as I'd hoped.

Long Pig	Soylent Green. It's what's for dinner. 140 BPM. Personal rating: 7.5/10. I had fun with the samples and drum programming, but this is too repetitive.

Main Sequence	Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. 120 BPM. Personal rating: 10/10. No complaints.

Neural Net	10^10 nodes. 135 BPM. Personal rating: 10/10. I'm especially proud of the drum programming here.

The 12th of January	190 BPM. All drums programmed from scratch. No loops were used. Personal rating: 6/10. I'm happy with my breakbeat-from-scratch here, but I should have mixed it up a little.

The Information Age (-rw-rw-rw- mix)	140 BPM. Created with FruityLoops and Cool Edit Pro. Personal rating: 7.5/10. The main melody and bass lines are FL "randomize" functions, which loses me some points for originality.

WTF?	Created with FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. Profanity courtesy of Madonna. 160 BPM. Personal rating: 7/10. Kind of boring.


Cover Songs:

Assemblage 23 - Binary (Club Dalek mix)	140 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. Same song as the one below, with samples (NOT cleared by BBC--please don't sue me) and overcompressed for club play.

Assemblage 23 - Binary (Steve Pordon remix)	140bpm. Created with FL Studio 7. This is a remix of Assemblage 23's new single off of the great _Meta_ album. Vocals are (c) A23/Tom Shear.

Beastie Boys - Car Thief (Steve Pordon's Cheeba City remix)	115 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

BT-Communicate (Steve Pordon's Dead Language remix)	134 bpm. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. Main vox & recurring vox: Jan Johnston. Additional vox: Bjork.

Conjure One - Face the Music (Steve Pordon remix)	140 bpm. Created with FL Studio and Audition 2.

Delerium - After All (Steve Pordon remix)	109 BPM. Created about a year too late for Delerium's remix contest. I used FL Studio and Cool Edit Pro. Vox, acoustic guitar, and some synth samples are (c) Delerium.

Lisa DeBenedictis - Cuckoo (Steve Pordon remix)	156 bpm. Created with FL Studio, Adobe Audition and vocals from Lisa DeBenedictis.

Little Drummer Boy (traditional)	Merry Christmas.

Metro (Berlin cover)	v1.01. 210 BPM. Made with FL Studio.


Molly's Song (Roger Waters cover)	120 BPM. Created with FL Studio and Adobe Audition. The intro dialog between Billy and Jim goes like this: "I'm sorry, Jim. I was miles away, keeping an eye on Molly. / You were keeping an eye on Molly? I thought Molly lived in Wales. / With a certain optical-enhanced surveillance satellite I can read a newspaper from five hundred miles high, Jim. / Let me get this straight. You're trying to tell me that you can keep an eye on Molly by hacking into a government satellite? Come on." You won't find a correct transcription anywhere online, including Waters' official website (minor problems like "optic" instead of "optical").

Tori Amos - Upside Down (Steve Pordon's Inside Out mix)	180 BPM. Created with FruityLoops, Cool Edit Pro and a live performance of "Upside Down" by Tori.


Videogame Cover Songs:

Chrono Trigger (Long Lost Sister mix)	135 BPM. Recorded with FL Studio and Adobe Audition.

FF6--Mystic Forest (Back to the Roots mix)	"Back to the Roots" because all my songs used to be in this format: 2 acoustic guitars with a distorted lead, no drums, no bass.

Oblivion (Title theme)	Remix of the title screen music. 100BPM. Created with FL Studio and some guitars. v1.0

Pulseman (Stereo Superhero mix)	My take on the "Stereo Protect" music from the Genesis game Pulseman, using voice samples from the game. 150 BPM. Created with Impulse Tracker 3.12 and Cool Edit Pro.

Seiken Densetsu Suite (Adventurous mix)	150 BPM. This is an update to my original tribute to Seiken Densetsu, 10 years ago (I used Screamtracker originally!). v1.01 (remastered)

Silent Hill - Static Aversion (Children of the Monkey Machine and Steve Pordon)	OCRemix Release version. 126kbit VBR. http://ocremix.org http://silenthillbbs.dyndns.org/cotmm/

Silent Hill 2 - True (It's Gone Now mix)	The title is a response to the Wingless' excellent "There Was a Hole Here" remix. 155 BPM. v1.01 (remastered). Created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro.

Undying - Lizbeth's Reawakening	v1.1 (re-mixed): 170, 200 and 180BPM. 10 guitars, a bass, BFD drums, and a piano VST. Toss lightly in FL Studio and CuBase. Serve with a generous portion of evil ghosts.


Miscellaneous works in progress:

Ranma Nibunnoichi season two theme song (cover)	Too repetitive. Needs more work in the middle section.

"Shadow of Doubt" from the _Escaflowne_ anime (cover)	This is without a doubt my favorite unfinished song. The drums need a little more work.

Flamebait (original)	With samples from Clerks, Jason Scott's BBS Documentary, probably others. This is a new song but it's very reminiscent of my older stuff, by which I mean it sucks.

Schala	This was the very first iteration of the Chrono Trigger Schala remix I finished (see above). I popped this out as an inside joke since Schala is the theme everyone always remixes from CT, but ended up liking it enough to finish it.

untitled #43	Attempt at the glitch genre in my own style. I like the drums.

untitled #42	Another attempt at glitch.

untitled #41	Broken pianos and offset drum patterns.

untitled #40	Me playing around with the Native Instruments B4-II drawbar organ synth. I love this thing.

Extinction Event (original)	I'm working out lyrics for this one, but I'm not really sure where to go with it yet. Samples from _12 Monkeys_ and _In the Mouth of Madness_.

untitled #???	There is not a single "real" instrument in this song; everything's computer-generated. The guitars and bass are from the Slayer II VST and the drums are fxpansion BFD.

untitled #29	Me noodling around on the guitar.

Assemblage 23 - Document (Steve Pordon's Let it Be Written mix)	Thanks to Tom Shear for pointing me to his remixable samples. This mix was created with Fruityloops and Cool Edit Pro. 135 BPM. Drums, bass, and some synths are mine. All other samples belong to Tom Shear. (this remix was "completed" but I'm still not happy with it and may strip it down to the basics and start over).