pftq Creations Index

Made this originally as a stem for collab, but ended up making a whole song while waiting on Waterflame to do a pass on it. He may still get to it, but I thought this was also nice enough to stand on its own as a separate track. Influences are mainly 2 artists I used to listen to on Newgrounds - XsToRmEr1 (Flames of the Sky) and Zero-Bass (the Trigger name is a homage to his naming scheme - Lighti... »

Music | August 12, 2023 - August 27, 2023 | Last Updated March 3, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Spiritual sequel to Lunar Fractals! More piano and techno with a dash of synthwave / retrowave! I came up with the piano & initial synth melody while we were working on the Progenitor OST, and Waterflame ran with the rest! Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | March 28, 2023 - June 2, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Piano and techno music by me and Waterflame in the style of classic Newgrounds from 2000s! Tribute to all the artists we used to download this kind of music from - RageVI, XsToRmEr1, DJRunaway, Nighthawk22, Dimrain47, and many others! Waterflame mainly did the electronic/drums while I mainly did the piano and... koto. Yeah, we couldn't help adding koto again! In fact, we also made an entire alte... »

Music | March 3, 2023 - February 23, 2023 | Last Updated March 3, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Short orchestral/acoustic track by Waterflame and pftq while experimenting to get closer to a cinematic sound. First half mainly by Waterflame and second half mainly by pftq. It ended up sounding a bit like music you'd hear at a fair or amusement park with some celtic/irish vibes. Special thanks to Denny for tips and feedback along the way! Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundC... »

Music | January 30, 2023 - February 1, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

One last track by Waterflame and me before going into the new year! A homage to the original Wizards in Winter video complete with an animation of the Christmas lights! Sadly Santa didn't make it into 2023. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | November 22, 2022 - December 31, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Koto-heavy remix of Goa Codex! This was made over a couple days after accidentally having two tabs open and hearing both Goa Codex and Koto Mangetsu playing at once, which sounded actually pretty cool. Very niche even for goa-trance listeners, so huge warning upfront - this is strictly what appeals to me (tons of plucky sharp sounds, million things going on at once). Enjoy! Also available on ... »

Music | December 26, 2022 - December 30, 2022
FL Studio, East West, East Asia, FabFilter

Orchestration of the piano improvisations based on the original Anuwera song. »

Music | October 24, 2018 - November 6, 2022 | Last Updated November 6, 2023
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Japanese flute and koto music inspired by the haunting hichiriki/sho in Silent Hill f's trailer! pftq actually has a real hichiriki he plays, so we weren't going to let that one go! We ended up pulling elements from all the collab tracks we've been making this year - Koto Breaker, Anime Medley, Guitar Chronicle, etc. There's koto, guitar, koto, and more koto! This one taking a much more relax... »

Music | October 26, 2022 - November 1, 2022
FL Studio, East West, East Asia, FabFilter

Once upon a Darkerly Thunder... A Halloween spin-off of Glorious Thunderzone - Waterflame's Glorious Morning and Thunderzone melodies vs pftq's Darkerly Stormy. Another monthly collab between Waterflame and pftq. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | September 25, 2022 - September 30, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Chaotic, over-the-top plucky guitar battle with tons of strumming, scratches/scrapes, and lots of ear candy! This one is mainly Waterflame doing the drums and pftq playing the guitar as if it were a koto, although there are obvious moments where styles converge. In some ways a spiritual successor to the Koto Breaker song (or a warmup to Koto Breaker 2). Some inspiration from Osamuraisan for his V... »

Music | August 21, 2022 - August 27, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Another short challenge track done in a few hours to submit. The theme for this one was something sad and melancholic but also at the same powerful and dynamic. Some inspiration from SleepingAtLast for the way the main melody just layers over time. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | August 3, 2022 - August 5, 2022
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, FabFilter

After Anime Expo, we wanted to see if we could emulate stereotypical anime / jpop style music for fun. The first 20 seconds was started by Waterflame with some piano and strings, but he didn't have time to keep working before his travels, so pftq ended up doing the rest + the overall arranging/mixing. Unfortunately, July was a heavy travel month, so the track didn't get as much time as we wanted... »

Music | July 3, 2022 - July 31, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Cinematic-sounding orchestral action music that could go with some heroic battle happening against an apocalyptic setting. Composed quickly for a challenge to make a "strong and euphoric" sounding track, but I think I missed the euphoric part. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | July 19, 2022 - July 23, 2022
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, FabFilter

Third song in the series of guitar and strings inspired by Bosa's music from Newgrounds (whatever genre that is). The name comes from trying to emulate one of the songs categorized under bluegrass but ending up sounding nothing like other songs we looked up in bluegrass, so we called it green instead. Originally the first two songs were meant to be stems for collabs, but they ended up getting fin... »

Music | May 21, 2022 - June 6, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Some even greener grass on the other side. This is made from the same palette as Green Grass - another song with similar style and feel but this one being a bit calmer and quieter. As before, it takes a lot of Bosa's style from the early Newgrounds days plus a bit flare of my own. No idea what the genre is (I thought it was bluegrass but haven't found any music like this when searching lol), so... »

Music | May 16, 2022 - May 28, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Grass is always greener on the other side. This is sort of a homage to Bosa's older stuff at Newgrounds, which had this kind of feel. I listened to a lot of his music when I was younger and wanted to see if I can make something in similar style. Not sure what the genre is (some of his tracks were bluegrass, but none of the other tracks in the category sound like this). Also available on Bandca... »

Music | April 25, 2022 - May 3, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Collab with Waterflame. Fun track made in 24 hours. Last few tracks had a lot of influence from goa / psy-trance, so we leaned into that and tried to actually make a full 8-min trance track this time. Trance tends to be long and repetitive (and Waterflame initially bawked at making an 8-min track that just repeats), so this track basically has all the stuff we like to listen to in trance minus the... »

Music, Animation, Movie, Art | April 13, 2022 - April 14, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, After Effects

Variation of Primordial Complex with a bit more beach and palm trees. Also available on Bandcamp, Newgrounds.com, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | February 1, 2022 - February 5, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio

Collab with Waterflame. Short percussion-driven piece inspired by Dune and... Crash Bandicoot. It actually didn't start off with that as the intent, but we wanted to do a jungle-themed track and had just been debating which version of the Crash boulder music sounded better. The Dune part just snuck in there after playing with the percussion and low/deep choirs. As a bonus, it loops like level mus... »

Music | February 1, 2022 - February 4, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio

Collab between me and Waterflame from 2020. This track was a nightmare to get finished and is basically the most Frankenstein collab ever - everything from project tempos being off by fractions of BPM to random source files being panned off-center - but it was definitely worth it, and we feel like we pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic koto music battle - like something ou... »

Music, Animation, Movie | December 13, 2020 - January 1, 2022 | Last Updated October 25, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

This is a peaceful winter-themed track co-composed by Waterflame and pftq. Ironically the song was named without any awareness to what day the winter solstice actually was, so it was just pure coincidence. There was a bit of a tug-of-war between the song going in Waterflame's happier direction and pftq's more haunting direction, and it eventually became something of a Nightmare Before Christmas ... »

Music, Artwork, Animation, Movie | December 17, 2021 - December 20, 2021 | Last Updated December 21, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

Short, mellow piano improvisation from the Halloween weekend. For some reason I really like the ringing in the A# note, so I just ended up spamming that here lol Originally wanted to add more ambience after the strings, but couldn't quite make it work. Also on Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | October 17, 2021 - November 8, 2021
Piano, FL Studio, East West, Kawai ES8, FabFilter
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Short melodic loop with a clock-like ticking. Created this yesterday for part of a longer piece, but thought the segment was interesting enough to listen to on its own. As usual, there's a koto in there. Also on Newgrounds, SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | June 14, 2021 - June 17, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Short fast-paced koto loop made this morning. Might expand to something more later. Since I keep sneaking kotos into my other songs, I went ahead and just made a solo one (all koto except the brief flute). This is the kind of stuff I like to listen to when it comes to kotos/Japanese music, with a ton of strumming and noise, and a lot of it comes from listening to East Wind / Uttara Kuru growing... »

Music | December 13, 2020
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter
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Shortened version of the original VR Jetpack Game theme. »

Music | March 25, 2020 - June 30, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Short piano variation on the VR Jetpack Game theme for the second trailer. »

Music | June 20, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Main menu theme for the VR Jetpack Game. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube »

Music | June 19, 2020
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Another iteration of Anuwera, bringing back some of the motifs/melodies from the actual original piece. Keep trying to put all these iterations in a single orchestral piece, but each time I start another draft, it goes in a different direction. For those curious, here's the draft of the orchestra piece in progress: https://www.pftq.com/anuwera2/ - it's been stuck for a long time, as I can't ... »

Music, Piano | March 15, 2020
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8, East West
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More piano improvisation off the melodies of Anuwera. Sounds a bit like an epilogue, if this were a series of chapters or stories. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | December 10, 2019 - December 29, 2019
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8, East West
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Spent the past month making both the trailer footage and music for my VR Jetpack Game. The score is not the actual music in the game itself, but it plays on the main melody and has been stuck in my head for most of the year. Been a while since I finished any music, so it's a nice feeling. (and yes, there's a koto) , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | July 21, 2019 - July 29, 2019
FL Studio, East West, 8dio, Edirol Orchestral, FabFilter

Pieced together draft compilation of the piano improvisations I've been playing on the main Anuwera melody throughout the year. Might try to orchestrate this into something more later. Here's a half-serious tropical island version though: Island of Anuwera , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | October 24, 2018 - October 29, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Edirol
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Random bit of chaos while improvising off my last Anuwera piece. Liked it more than I thought I would and just kept it. Reflects my state of mind and why I can't get any serious music done lately lol Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | September 4, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Yamaha P155
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Short bit of improvisation from a couple days ago. Has a bit of cliche pirate feel to it as well as some borrowed melodies from my other songs (mainly Anuwera). Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube »

Music, Piano | August 23, 2018 - August 26, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Yamaha P155
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Short piano improvisation inspired by the lightning storm going on outside while it's still sunny. Also available on Newgrounds, Soundcloud, YouTube »

Music, Piano | May 15, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, East West, Kawai ES8

Short piano solo improvisation derived from the base melody in my earlier Anuwera piece. Played in parts and cleaned up in FL Studio. Can't escape the feeling that I've heard the melody before elsewhere, so if anyone's heard it before, let me know. It might also just be stereotypical fantasy/medieval motifs. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Piano | April 9, 2018 - April 11, 2018
FL Studio, FabFilter, Kawai ES8
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Flying and taking to the skies one last time. A final revisit to one of the first songs I ever made. Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | March 30, 2014 - March 4, 2018 | Last Updated December 13, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus, AriaMastering
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Short holiday jingle for the winter. Originally improvised it about 5 years ago but forgot about it in a folder. , SoundCloud, YouTube »

Music | December 13, 2016 | Last Updated October 23, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

This is music for a small side-scroller indie space game that was under development by a colleague. The game is light-hearted and somewhat retro, so the music will sound cheesy and a little MIDI-ish at times. I went pretty loose with my composing here and just went with whatever flowed to me rather than try to think too hard. Probably the most fun and relaxed I've had composing in a while. A ... »

Music | September 8, 2014 - August 23, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter
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Longing to revisit the past, a most cherished memory, except that it never existed. An older song I started back in January but never progressed on; figured I should at least wrap up what I had left of it. , SoundCloud, YouTube... »

Music | January 24, 2014 - January 29, 2014
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus
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Piano improvisation inspired by Mad World. This is a much older recording I forgot about from some 10 years ago. It's piano improvisation from me just messing around after figuring out how to play Mad World by ear, with obvious inspiration from that song (not to the point of copying it though for copyright reasons), and veers off in its own direction with some Halloween vibes to it. Also avai... »

Music | November 17, 2013 | Last Updated October 21, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter

Experimenting with eastern instruments more. Some inspiration from Uttara-Kuru's East Wind album (ie Tsugaru) for the koto and some inspiration in the opening flute melody from Sega's games. The rest is improvisation. It was much more peaceful in my head though; I don't know why it ended up sounding sad and dark. I blame Halloween coming up at the time I was composing this. Originally ... »

Music, Art | October 20, 2013 - October 27, 2013
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus, Adobe Photoshop CS5
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I've been wanting to remake this song for a long time... or at least the climax of it. The Edirol VST I used in the original Darker Stormy just wasn't strong enough for the climax to me. However, it took me a long time to find higher quality samples (mostly East West) that would match the overall sound I wanted to keep from the original. The new song here essentially starts with a remix of... »

Music, Artwork | June 4, 2012 - July 11, 2012
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
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Short melody I've had stuck in my head for a long time. Put it down in notes back in September 2011 but never really got around to orchestrating it much. Only recently figured out how to play it with chords on the piano but not sure how to bring it out more (it's just the main melody with few supporting themes). The intro is also pretty boring - not sure how to improve the sound or melody the... »

Music, Art | April 14, 2012 - April 20, 2012
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
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Seems like I'm getting some inspiration back. Thought of this one while sitting bored and hungry during discussion section a couple weeks back. Forgot the song for a while before I could come up with a draft of it. It seems like a mix of "Trickling Winds" and "Raindrops". However, this deviates a lot from the style of my older songs; most obvious is the more heavy use of choirs and percussi... »

Music, Artwork | March 6, 2012 - March 19, 2012
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
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