I had a bad, bad dream
By roboctopus on February 15, 2026 11:05 pm
Whoa! This song is not what I would call finished! But it's in an okay state, and that is something haha.
I guess you could say making 4-bit samples the centerpiece of my current working mode is sort of experimental music. Sometimes things just don't work at super low bit rates. I try a lot of things before latching on to something that clicks, and this week started with me spinning my wheels. The first couple of days I spent fruitlessly trying to make samples of Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" work in a sort of 90s big-beat/The Prodigy/drum n bass thing. Except it was going to be on gameboy. In my head it sounded so cool. No matter what I tried, the samples just sounded like trash though, and I wasn't inspired by them. I went back to the drawing board and sat down at the piano and noodled for a day or so.
On Thursday this was some chords and a recording of me singing a few lines into my phone lol. But it came together and I got something working.
Today (Sunday) I took my son to a marathon 4-hour children's birthday pool party Sunday and had four hours to work on this and was able to finish. So here is a recording straight off the gameboy shortly after a kids birthday party haha. It's not what I'd call finished. Needs tweaking and detail work at the least. But here it is!
1xLSDJ
Lyrics:
I had a bad bad dream
I need a time machine
Reset my brain
Erase my shame
And rescue me from me
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Share Alike (BY-SA)