Here are the Game Boy artists I mentioned in my Game Boy sound design talk at VGM CON '26. The links go directly to the song mentioned in the talk and you can easily find the artist pages from there. Trash80 - All Up In This Bits roboctopus - Can't Have the Fish if you Ain't Got the Jelly - Source LSDJ file available in the album download after purchase Hunter Van Brocklin - (Meet…
I have wanted to try reharmonization for a while now and finally got the inspiration to sit down and do it. Reharmonization is an exercise where one takes a piece of music that already exists and rewrites the chord progression while keeping the melodic identity of the song unchanged. This was my first go at it and I didn't really know what I was doing, so I winged it. But I had a lot of fun…
The Game Boy can only pan audio 100% left, 100% right, or 50%/50% (center). This makes adding stereo resolution to LSDJ songs tricky. Here's a technique I like to use to fake it.