My inspirations for these songs and the style is all the folks I look up to that perform shows with just Gameboys. Ever since I saw someone get on a stage and rock out with just an old handheld I was amazed. I played in bands, and the challenge of composing songs on a piece of hardware that was so tiny with nothing but a cable running into a PA, and no guitar chops to protect me is something I have wanted to do for ages.
And of course video games. I remember when games used to have the "sound test" function in the option menu. I remember being 9 or 10 and just sitting and listening to every single track of an NES or Genesis game. When I found out I could compose my own songs on old consoles, I was in.
I've been playing with LSDJ for a few years. Only got my first Gameboy and cart a year ago. These two tracks are the most recent fully fleshed out songs I've made on the Gameboy so far. It's a culmination of all the tricks I have learned. They were made on the Gameboy with LSDJ - one song uses two Gameboys and a link cable.
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TRASHCAT is a humanoid opossum. Cute at first, until you see their gnarly hairless tail, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. Sometimes clothed in black denim, Hawaiian shirts, or nothing at all.
TRASHCAT is an interplanetary bounty hunter from a planet inhabited by other humanoid marsupials. TRASHCAT currently resides on a planet not unlike modern day Earth. While chasing their home planet's most notorious criminal, an ambush was set, causing their ship to crash. The humans of this planet gave T-CAT their name after being sighted digging through trash for food. T-CAT began working as a superhero on this planet. As a result, the people of this Earth began loving opossums more. T-CAT loves all genres of music, video games, digging through trash, old Eastman and Laird comics (you know which ones) and currently lives on the outskirts of a landfill in their aptly named Fort Garbage with a large family of regular opossums who can often be sighted doing chores, and keeping the main residence tidy. Gotta keep all that trash tidy.
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What is your OC fighting for?
T-CAT fights for a chance at returning to their home planet, but maybe the real reason they fought was for the friends they made along the way.
supported by 4 fans who also own “Knockout Theme (Trashcat Theme)”
Some really tasty, beautiful, balanced tunes here. Bumpin, steadily carrying me through the day, lots of colors along the way. Currently on my 3rd consecutive listen-through... I suspect this will be one that I return to regularly. 🙏 Pinedon