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  • Interstellar Voyager – Metroid Title Theme

    Interstellar Voyager – Metroid Title Theme

    The Metroid series has long been one of my favorite series of video games, and when Metroid Dread was announced in June of 2021, I got excited. I wanted to create a cover version Hirokazu Tanaka’s theme song that evoked the idea of dread and fear – that unknown space that you find yourself in when playing a Metroid game.

    I initially created this track on my iPad, but it soon became a bit unwieldy in GarageBand. I put it down for a while and when I eventually exported it out of GarageBand for iPad and brought it back to my Mac, I made some progress, but ultimately dropped it again to finish up the WaveRider EP.

    It wasn’t until I actually played through Metroid Dread in December that I finally decided it was time to wrap it up and release it.

    Enjoy!

  • Interstellar Voyager – SpaceFlight

    Interstellar Voyager – SpaceFlight

    Hot off that last tortilla post (1 year later), it’s time for something completely different.

    I released my first album today: SpaceFlight – under the moniker of Interstellar Voyager. For the last year, I have been making music as a way to stay creative during the pandemic. This album came about after I started making music for the podcast I co-host, Memory Protection. My co-host Josh and I wanted to add some music that reminded us of the analog synth music from the ’70s & ’80s. One particular inspiration was the music from the children’s television show The Secret City Adventures.

    After creating interlude music for the podcast for almost a year, I decided to take some of what I was working on and write longer compositions around them, the first song to come out of this was Voyager, which took a long time to get to a point where it felt finished. Even though Voyager was the first song I wrote for this album, I released the first single Approaching The Vortex last July, and over the next 8 months, the other songs followed.

    If you’re interested in listening, head over to my Bandcamp page and give it a listen. Spaceflight is also available on the music streaming platform of your choice.