Archive for the ‘Punchfest’ Category

Final Fantasy 6

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Nobuo Uematsu – SOURCE: Final Fantasy 6 (The Phantom Forest)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Strings
PROJECT: Punchfest 11 “Snails _@_v (It’s an ASCII Snail)” (Any game that has a snail anywhere in it): July 31st, 2010
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

So I think with this song FF6 is officially my most remixed game. The title is “Phantom Snake” because I arranged the song in the style of a James Bond or Metal Gear Solid secret agent man sneaking espionage type dealie. Solid Snake is the main character from many of the MGS games.

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Pokemon Rocket Hideout

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Junichi Masuda – SOURCE: Pokemon R/B/Y (Team Rocket Secret Hideout)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Strings
PROJECT: Punchfest X Super American X-Treme Punchfest: “Japanese RPGs”: July 3rd, 2010
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

I’m a closet Pokemon fan. I own a Game Boy Color, and all I have for it is Pokemon games. Seriously. I got all 151 Pokemon on my Red cartridge…and then the save file mysteriously got erased. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU…

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Altered Beast

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Nau, Toshio Kai – SOURCE: Altered Beast (Game Over)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Loops, Phat Beats
PROJECT: Punchfest 9 “Non-Sonic Sega Games”: May 2nd, 2010
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

TONY IS DOING HIP HOP!? WHAT IS HAPPENING!? DID SOMEONE DIVIDE BY ZERO!? Well, it’s kinda hip hop. Hip hop was the original intention, but since it was instrumental it turned out being more funk than anything, but Will Smith could totally rap over this song if he wanted to….*cough* *cough*…uh…yeah…

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Neo Turf Masters

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Takushi Hiyamuta – SOURCE: Neo Turf Masters (Grand Canyon Golf Course)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths, Crappy Fake Saxophone
PROJECT: Punchfest 8 “SNK Games”: March 14th, 2010
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

Do you like T-Square? I know I do. This song totally SCREAMED T-Square when I first heard it, so I did the arrangement in T-Square fashion. Not proud of the fake sax or lead guitars, I’ll fix them later.

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Toejam & Earl 2

ORIGINAL ARTIST: John Baker – SOURCE: Toejam & Earl 2: Panic in Funkotron (Lewenda’s Love)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Synths
PROJECT: Punchfest 7 “Sequels”: January 23rd, 2010
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

One of my best attempts at a Punchfest song. I did this because the source has the absolute phattest bassline ever written. This Punchfest track also inspired me to do a full Toejam & Earl album which will (hopefully) be released next MAGfest. This track isn’t the original Punchfest version, I’ve worked on it a lot and the last thing left is redoing the guitars. For the original Punchfest version go HERE. The intro clip is of supremely funky bass player Sekou Bunch going nuts over his new bass.

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Super Lemmings

ORIGINAL ARTISTS: Tim Wright, Brian Johnston, Malc Jennings, Tony Williams, Tim Wright, Jeroen Tel – SOURCE: Super Lemmings
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards
PROJECT: Punchfest 5 “Sunsoft vs. Data East”: July 12th, 2009
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

Good ol’ Lemmings. Cutesy music in a goofy medley with cartoon SFX.

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Over Drive

SOURCE: Over Drive
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards
PROJECT: Punchfest 3 “Konami Arcade Games”: June 7th, 2009
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

Ever heard of Over Drive? Neither have I. Over Drive is an old school Konami game from the early 80′s. I don’t know who the original composer is, as SnappleMan sent me the song and told me to do it. So I did. I named the song after him, since his real name is Andreas Kotsamanidis.

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Saturday Night Slam Masters

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Isao Abe – SOURCE: Saturday Night Slam Masters (Titanic Tim)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards
PROJECT: Punchfest 2 “Wrestling Games”: April 19th, 2009
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

This Punchfest was the second ever, and I also only had 90 minutes to make something. Since I play drums on keyboards, I had very little time to make sure everything was right, therefore, I quantized once and submitted.

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Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

ORIGINAL ARTIST: Michiru Yamane, Masahiko Kimura – SOURCE: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (The Pinnacle)
ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY: Tony Dickinson
INSTRUMENTATION: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards
PROJECT: Punchfest 1 “Nintendo DS Games”: April 12th, 2009
NOTES: Punchfest is the demon child of Dwelling of Duels and Punchfest, created by SnappleMan and named by virt (for all the punch-ins everyone will be doing through these competitions. The rules are everyone gets in an IRC room, and with a given theme, we make a real song (as opposed to strict MIDI in Punchfest). You are given 6 hours to make the song (as opposed to 1 hour in Kwakfest).

This Punchfest was the first ever, and I arrived 90 minutes before the end. So this was done only in that time. Very sloppy playing because I needed to rush through to get something substantial. Sloppy playing should be expected in ALL my Punchfest entries.

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