I think it’s been a while since I had something new to share, although today’s medley consists mostly (entirely?) of songs I have included in songs before. Today I present a (mostly) Japanese-themed medley I named Journey to the East!

As is custom for medleys, here’s a list of the songs that appear in it:

• Quicksand Valley – Snowboard Kids
• E. Honda Stage – Street Fighter II
• Crash – Ninja Gaiden Sigma
• Yamato Man Stage – Mega Man 6
• The Steel Samurai: Warrior of Neo Olde Tokyo – Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

So about Quicksand Valley. Snowboard Kids DOES have a stage called Ninja Land, but it doesn’t have its own theme – it shares its BGM with the first course of the game, Rookie Mountain. And although that song is also cool, I really wanted to use this opportunity to have Quicksand Valley in a song again, it’s such a banger tune (although pretty much the entire OST of Snowboard Kids is a banger, but I really like this one in particular). And that’s where the mostly Japanese-themed comes in – and now you know 😉

As usual, there’s a video as well. I saw the positive comments regarding the style of the last video, so I tried to adapt it to this one too. For lack of some good background, I decided to use AI for that, which I know is controversial, but in cases like these, I find it useful. The same goes for the Steel Samurai, which you can easily tell is also generated as well, but I simply couldn’t find a solo pic of him…

And that concludes this operation. I have mixed feelings about all this – song and video – but we’ll see where the journey goes from here.

Sometimes you look at the date, but sometimes the date looks at you and calls you a fool. Today is such a day. And because of that, we revisit a song that was originally meant for this day (13 years ago), but uploaded too late. World Factory is back, and it’s on the correct date this time:

It’s not particularly funny or silly, but it’s rather random – although I don’t usually need a special day to make a medley like this, throwing such different sources together. A few parts changed compared to the original, so here’s what we got:

• Last Battle – Cave Story
• Abandoned Factory – Persona 2: Innocent Sin
• U.N. Owen was her? – Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
• Song of Storms – The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Bad Boss Boogie – Donkey Kong Land
• Stone Tower Temple – The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

For the video, I tried some different things this time, although the background is the same as in the original video:

I worked quite a while on this, updating the mixing and everything, but in the end after some back and forth, it ended up sounding rather similar to the original – makes me wonder if it was worth putting that much time into it…

In 2023, I released an April Fools song called Minimal Bogus. It was a remix of the Minor Circuit theme from Punch Out!! (or Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!). The special thing about it is, that I followed a tutorial for Minimal Techno to make it, and put my usual spin on it (and also added a bunch of Super Macho Man’s lines from the Wii game of the same name). And today I finally release the full and somewhat revised version of it.

The end result is neither this nor that, you could even call it bogus. But with that song name, what did you expect. 😉

Here it is:

And here’s the video:

And so I continue my journey to remake some older songs, and the next one will be no exception.