Chronicon "Catactras" 4:34

Rockos applies his signature spin of DnB to GameMaker-made indie RPG Chronicon! It's a game worth playing, and we can't fault Rockos for taking on Michael G. Woodley's "Forgotten City" after it burrowed its way into his brain, the pesky earworm:

"Music made after hearing the original in-game and was obsessed over it. As I was playing the game, this song struck a string in my brain. I can't even explain what happened there. But I felt something and got an urge to remix this song. It's cryptic, repetitive, and entertaining. The melody is simple but satisfying. It's dark. But good. I love it.

So, I took this song and added my influence with a grain of psytrance and drum and bass. Some electric guitars and loud master. All this added together gives you the last song I made alone as a solo artist. The atmosphere I tried to replicate is this dark and cryptic feeling you have in the original. With a little spice of fast drum and bass, sometimes filtered, sometimes half-step and sampled from the Genshin ReMix I made a while ago. It's straightforward and conservative. It is very easy to recognise the source melody and progression, so the listener won't be thrown off too far. The end was written after an experimentation with my wife and a song we were making together. So, even if she didn't write any for this one, she still influenced the whole ending. ;) Which is a plus.

The song starts in a slow and atmospheric intro with glitches before dropping some filtered drums. Then comes the hard hitting drum and bass that'll kick most of the song. With that, the main synth will be showing up with a lot of glitched patterns. After that, there's a little silence, then the main thing is on.

Welcome to the ride.

Also going forward, we will be sending music me and my wife co-wrote. So, keep an eye out for some Cinnamon Stone."

If Cinnamon Stone's anywhere near as tasty as Cinnamon Toast Crunch, please count me in! :-) Judge prophetik music was the first panelist enraptured by the energy upgrade:

"melody's immediately present, and there's some fun resonant goofiness initially before we start to get a tight, filtered beat. the initial beat hits at 0:43 [...] at 1:10 when the bass comes in [...] we get the big variety of stuff going on behind the beat. [...]

2:15's voice lead is nicely reminiscent of the original. there's a big build into some premium sausage at 2:58, and then we're on the big chorus. the fall-off from this is very sudden, however, and we get some interesting delay effects and timings with the melodic material as a bit of an outro before it's done.

this is a fun one! upbeat and energetic, and feels much shorter than it actually is. i liked the ending's exploration of delay effects a lot. easy vote."

Judge jnWake was in viva variety mode as Rockos effortlessly fashioned a lot from a little:

"What a challenging source to cover, basically just several modifications of one arpeggio [...]

Arrangement is great, you took a very hard source and managed to turn into a fun heavy DnB jam. There's enough breaks and changes on the beat to keep it interesting for the entire duration."

Panelist pixelseph promptly perceived the piece's power:

"Rockos's translation of the source into rockin' DnB is handled well - shoutouts to the sections that made me stank face (1:10-1:53, 2:58-3:42) and the more exploratory outro section starting around 3:43. The groove switches and fills keep the track interesting across its runtime, which I agree with proph that it doesn't feel like 4 and a half minutes."

Nice job by Rockos adding complexity and a different personality altogether to this haunting theme through creative sound design and copious variations. No lies detected from the Js, there's a never a dull moment with Rockos's daring DnB take on Chronicon!