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last night i was sitting here playing my keyboard (if you could call that playing...) and felt like doing something. then i stumbled upon the thing that the strings play at the beginning of this song. i thought, why not! then i estimated that it would take me about four hours to do this. pretty much four hours later, i was done. the next day i tweaked some stuff for about 10 or 15 minutes.

this is a pretty straightforward cover. it plays the same thing twice and on the third time it fades out. pretty standard stuff.

source song: Death volcano (plays at Mt Pyre). made this one for may 2007 DoD (fire VS ice!)(external link) and got seventh place. i went for something different this time. my goal was to make this song atmospheric and mostly calm, and i think i succeeded pretty well. there's "standstill" in the title because i think it reflects the piece's feeling of "not going anywhere". i know the fake sax is pretty horrible, but for now i can't be arsed to do anything about that (though do contact me if you wish to record live sax for that part :P).

my entry to april 2007 DoD(external link) (placed first). tweaked a bit from the DoD version, should sound "better". sorry, i'm really out of praise and/or background story right now. just download and enjoy.

my alt entry to april 2007 DoD(external link). it's kind of funny. yeah, you're supposed to laugh at/with this. headbanging is also allowed.

i battled it out in stage one, round three of AkumuHau's Street Musician competition against Small child David with this cover/arrangement, and emerged victorious! it's a rather straightforward cover once again, with little actual arrangement. except that i added a solo section.

i had a day free so i decided to occupy myself with another vg cover/arrangement. this time i held a raffle. i let people suggest songs to cover and styles to cover them in, and drew one lucky winner out of 17 different suggestions. i got to choose the style for this myself, and decided to go with something i haven't done a lot of.

took me about 6.5 hours to make and it was fun, but in retrospect i feel like i could have extended and expanded it a bit. that is, if i had had a week or so to work on it. but i had already decided that this would be a one-day thing.