BeaT's Homepage: Music

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Full-length Works
title & MP3 link	style	release date	size (MB)	length	play now	misc. links
Celestial Fantasia	demostyle	3/97	5.3	5:47		S3M Tirtanium
Logic Air Force (BeaT's Remix)	electronic industrial	6/00	4.0	4:20		lyrics P-MODEL Website
Mile High Club (BeaT Remix)	demostyle-dance	3/01	5.3	5:46		Divinorum Website
Mind of a Dreamer	demostyle-pop	10/98	4.3	5:03		XM
Mists of China	ethnic/new-age	7/97	3.3	3:33		-
What's the Catch?	demostyle-funk	12/97	-	-	-	XM

Short Works
title & MP3 link	style	release date	size (MB)	length	play now	misc. links
Bouncer	game boy	4/01	1.1	1:13		-
On the Spot	funk	6/98	-	-	-	-
Penguin Night	demostyle	4/00	-	-	-	MOD Penguin Command
Timeless Entertainment Fanfare	film/orchestral	5/98	0.3	0:17		-
Vulpine Skyflight	demostyle-dance	6/00	0.5	0:29		-
Z-Zone	demostyle-pop	1/98	-	-	-	XM

Early Works
title & MP3 link	style	release date	size (MB)	length	play now	misc. links
Aquatica	demostyle	6/96	-	-	-	S3M
City Rhythm	FM-synth pop	2/95	3.1	3:26		MIDI
CosmoWarp	FM-synth demostyle	9/96	-	-	-	FM S3M
Dawn on the Horizon	orchestral/piano/pop	10/95	-	-	-	MIDI
The Fall of the House of Usher	orchestral	12/96	-	-	-	MIDI
Osmo-1	FM-synth demostyle	1/96	-	-	-	HSC
The Osmosys Fanfare	orchestral	12/95	-	-	-	MIDI
The Pit and the Pendulum	abstract piano	12/96	-	-	-	MIDI
The Sanitarium BBS Theme	FM-synth bluesy-rock	2/96	-	-	-	HSC and MIDI
Two	FM-synth techno	7/96	-	-	-	HSC

RECOMMENDED PLAYERS:

Use Winamp to play MP3 files, as well as streaming MP3s. It will also play CDs, MIDI files, and a variety of multimedia formats. You can even use it to play non-ZIPped mod files, but I wouldn't recommend it. It doesn't always play them as accurately as ModPlug Player does. Get Winamp by clicking on the above link.

Use ModPlug Player for all your mod-playing needs! If you want to be able to play any of the ZIPped mods on this page without having to unZIP them, simply rename them with a .MDZ extension and ModPlug Player will handle the rest. Get ModPlug Player, as well as ModPlug Tracker and the ModPlug browser plugin, by clicking on the above link.

AdPlug is a plugin for Winamp that allows you to play many old FM (also known as Adlib) music file formats, with varying degrees of accuracy. A couple files on this page (namely, the HSC files) can be played using this plugin. You can also find a handful of old DOS programs online that will handle various FM formats -- these tend to play the files more accurately, but may be harder to use and may not work on all of today's computer systems. Get AdPlug for Winamp by clicking on the above link.


	INSTRUCTIONS Move the mouse over a song title to see it's description, and click on it to download the MP3 (if available). You can also play a streaming MP3 of the song by clicking on the appropriate play button. To download the song in other formats that may be listed, right click on the format type and choose "Save Target As." If you want to open the file directly without saving it, simply click on the format type (note: this will only work with formats that are associated with a particular application or plugin). You can download the recommended players by following the links at the bottom of the page.


	Aquatica This was my first mod release. I had intended it for use in a demo by the same name, which Ultraviolet (the leader of the demogroup Osmosys) was planning during the summer of '96. Unfortunately, the demo never made it off the ground. Much like Osmosys itself. Anyway, this tune stands as a sole remnant of "Aquatica", the demo that never was. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Bouncer A cute little Game Boy Color tune I wrote in Paragon 5 Tracker (previously known as Game Boy Tracker, previously known as Beyond Tracker). And no, it has nothing to do with those big burly guys who kick you out of snazzy clubs just because you look like a geek. Not that I know about that from experience or anything.


	Celestial Fantasia A driving, demostyle tune with a highly electronic flavor and rich melodies and chord progressions. This was my second tracked song, created in Scream Tracker and primarily inspired by the mod tune "Starshine" by Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen). This song won 1st place in the December '97 Fosh Internet competition (non-dance division), and ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in a number of other tracking contests. To this day, it remains one of my personal favorites. Although it has appeared in several different demos, it is probably most known for its usage in Michael Tirtasana's 3-D benchmark "Tirtanium".


	City Rhythm My very first computer music release, in all of its original cheezy FM-synth glory :-) I wrote this when I was learning how to write General MIDI music. It starten out as an attempt at techno but, seeing as I wasn't really that familiar with the genre, ended up following a more '80s-pop path. My only sound equipment was a Sound Blaster Pro, so I was limited to its cheezy (I kinda like that word) FM instrument sounds.* *Side Note: I had previously dabbled in tracking for a very brief period of time, but the few tracking programs I had looked at seemed too cumbersome and the format (I only knew about 4-channel mods back then) too limited for my tastes. This was why I had decided to focus on making MIDI music. Of course, that was all before my friend Aaron Matthews introduced me to the incredible Scream Tracker 3. :-P


	CosmoWarp This tune is an all-FM S3M, so it only works in Scream Tracker 3.21 with an Adlib or 100% Sound Blaster compatible card. You can also hear it in Winamp with the AdPlug plugin (see bottom of page), although it messes up some notes. It's very short, and I wrote it with the intention of someday using it for a BBS ad, etc. If perhaps you would like to use it for that very purpose (Anyone still making BBS ads for DOS with cheezy Adlib tunes? I'd be pretty scared if there were), that's perfectly all right with me. Just be sure and give me the credit :-) This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Dawn on the Horizon This early piece starts out kind of orchestral, goes into a Yanni-esque piano solo (but with more chords), and ends with some cheezy '80s pop. Guess I thought it worked well at the time... ;-P I made this piece for an annual PTSA arts contest called Reflections. I finished the actual MIDI file in time, but I was unable to put together the required musical notation by the entry deadline, so I missed out. I entered it the following year, and won some kind of award or honor (I'm still not sure what it was exactly). This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	The Fall of the House of Usher The first of two songs I did as a book report for a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories. This one is an eerie orchestral piece. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Logic Air Force (BeaT's Remix) It all started when I got an email from someone in Japan. This person had heard some of my music and was wondering if I might be willing to arrange a song as part of an Internet-based project called "P-MODEL Global Tribute." The Japanese techno-pop group P-MODEL was celebrating their 20th anniversary, and they were organizing this project to give fans around the globe (most of which were in Japan, of course) a chance to make their own versions of P-MODEL songs and write their own P-MODEL-inspired music. So I figured I'd give it a shot. I ended up being voted 1st place and having my song included in an issue of the CD-mag "Nikkei NetN@vi" -- very kewl ^__^


	Mile High Club (BeaT Remix) I made this for a remix contest being held by Divinorum (Bjorn Lynne), composer of the original piece. He placed all the entries on his MP3 page while the contest was going, and once the submission deadline passed he announced the winner and took down all but the top 10. Unfortunately, I procrastinated and didn't get the piece done until the very last minute (it shows, IMHO), and I didn't make it into the top 10, so my remix wasn't displayed on the site for more than a couple hours. That was a bit of a bummer, but certainly a lesson for the future. And I did have the honor of being one of the few entrants who submitted a tracked tune :-)


	Mind of a Dreamer A bright, driving fantasy-demostyle-pop tune with some rich & happy chord work. This song was the 1st place winner in the Rookie division of MC6 (MC = Music Compo, a famous annual Internet tracking contest. MC6 was the last one, unfortunately). Several of the judges said I should've entered this one in Veteran... ah well.


	Mists of China Mysterious and rhythmic, with a strong Asian influence. This song was written as part of my high school senior internship with Jonathan Lawrence, a guy who runs his own small video production company called Timeless Entertainment. A martial arts group from China (I think) asked Jonathan to produce a short video for them, and he let me do the background music for it.


	On the Spot I threw this short, funky piece together in a total of 3 hours. It was made for my church youth group's senior graduation banquet video (hm, there's a mouthful). When the leader of the youth group's tech crew asked me if I had thought of a name for it yet, I told him I hadn't -- after all, I had just written the thing "on the spot." He suggested I call it that. So I did. I also used this tune as background music for my own slideshow video entitled "Be a Nerd". You can download the video from my main page, if you dare. This song is not yet available in MP3 format. Or any other format, for that matter. Argh, I'll put it up on MP3.com eventually...


	Osmo-1 Ok, not much of a name, but when it comes to dinky little FM tunes like this, I'm sure nobody cares :-) Anyway, I did this for a little BBS ad for the demogroup Osmosys' upcoming BBS, "The Synthesis BBS". Unfortunately, like all our other dreams for Osmosys, the BBS never came to be. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	The Osmosys Fanfare My first piece written for the demogroup Osmosys. This brief fanfare never did get used for anything, but it's still kind of nice. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Penguin Night I had an old, unfinished mod from September 1997 lying around, and a guy named Karl Bartel managed to get a hold of it. He asked me if he could use it in his game "Penguin Command" for Linux. I had no future plans for it, so I said that'd be fine. Here is that song, for all you oldskool Amiga-mod fans. Aside from some pattern order alterations, it hasn't been touched since 9/97 (just in case you were expecting something absolutely spectacular, which I'm sure you were). This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	The Pit and the Pendulum The second of two songs I did as a book report for a collection of Edgar Allan Poe stories. It's a bizarre, abstract piano piece. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	The Sanitarium BBS Theme The HSC version is a short bluesy-rock song I did for my friend's BBS ad. I also made a MIDI version in September of that same year. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Timeless Entertainment Fanfare This short theme was written as part of my high school senior internship with Jonathan Lawrence, a guy who runs his own small video production company called Timeless Entertainment. This sounds like one of those theatrical tunes you might hear during the logo sequence preceding a movie, because... well, that's what it is! It's music written for the Timeless Entertainment logo, and it first appeared in TE's direct-to-video movie, "Dream Parlor".


	Two A brief techno tune which I never really finished (or even came close to finishing, for that matter). I often don't give a piece its "real" name until it's near completion, hence the rather nondescript title for this one ;-P For some reason, I can't get this one to play in Winamp with AdPlug... so I suppose you're outta luck, unless you have an old HSC player for DOS or something. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Vulpine Skyflight How much hyperactive, ultra-melodic, super-chordy demostyle-dance can be crammed into 30 seconds? You don't wanna know... This was my entry for the Trax in Space 30-Second Compo 2000 (which, unfortunately, got cancelled due to lack of judges). A high-velocity, energetic, ultra-super-mega-caffeine-hyperactive bit of whimsy, dedicated to the legends of tracking who have inspired me with their fantastic music.


	What's the Catch? I wrote this funky-jazzy piece for the Dec. '97 Fosh Special Compo within 24 hours (sleep & meals included!), using the samples they provided. And I got 1st place! This song is not yet available in MP3 format.


	Z-Zone My first release for the short-lived musicgroup Full Circle. It was actually an old S3M that had been collecting dust since August of '96, and I just converted it to XM and optimized the samples a bit. The song is a rather short '80s-ish electronic pop-style piece. Not exactly the best in quality, but... well, it's something. Something's always good, right? Right? Ehh, nevermind. This song is not yet available in MP3 format.