Yeah, that's quite a bit of variety. First, a few notes. These were all done at various times throughout the past 5 months; I'd start something, then start another, and then another, and never finish anything. This is more of a call for anyone who wants to collaborate on any of these tunes. And yeah, the volume needs to be boosted on a few of them.
Let's start with Silent Hill. Two tunes there. Well, three, kind of.
First is a cover of "Letters". And by cover, I mean just me playing guitar over the track because I don't know anyone who can sing and would like to cover the song. But meh.
It's just bare guitar chords (plus the open... what was it, C? Yeah, the open C) until the chorus, where more melody comes in. Definately a piece I'm open to collaborating on to finish. Would need a chick who can sing. Well.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/letter-02.mp3
Next up is the home town music of Bartz/Buttz/whatever he is in the new port, from Final Fantasy 5. This was sort of just me messing around at my girlfriend's house on winter break. There are two versions. Both aren't that great, but one is clearly better than the other. I may revisit this some day.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/retreat-01.mp3
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/retreat-02.mp3
And now for something completely different. Death metal. Think In Flames crossed with the extremer side of Dethklok. That's what this Sonic R cover is. It was for the Sonic R project that Walan proposed a while ago and never got around to actually going forward with.
I pretty much love how this came out. Even with the gay interlude that really can't be turned into death metal because of its source material.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/sonic2.mp3
Back to Silent Hill for a second. For those that care to remember, I did a pretty crappy take on Tears Of from the first Silent Hill, back when it was still just guitar----> straight into computer----> straight into software. That's why you can hear hisses when the distortion kicks in. I love the intro on this more than the 2nd version I did.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/tearsof.mp3
And here's a take on it I did just recently (like, in the past three days). It is kind of bare for the first minute and a half, but the last 40 or so seconds kick into gear.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/tearsof-02.mp3
The Castlevania is just a snippet that I did yesterday. It was just an idea I had for a much larger tune, and I recorded it so I wouldn't forget it. I've heard it covered and remixed dozens of times, but always either techno-synthy or super hard metal. This takes the same tune and does the opposite.
http://spaceforrent.unmod.net/etc/neko/castlevania-05.mp3
Long post is long.