This song was featured on the ChipWIN April Fools album, “Chiptunes=#SrsBsns,” an album full of meme-themed chiptunes. The subject I chose was Youtube Poop, and I used sample kits and custom waveforms to recreate various YTPMV fads and memes in the Game Boy’s wave channel. Structurally, it’s not the most inventive song. I took several Kitsune² songs (which were popular YTPMV sources) and mashed them together to make the background music, resulting in a I V vi IV chord progression. Recreating the meme instruments and making them recognizable was my main focus.

This is an LSDJ remix of All Star, by Smash Mouth. The song features some custom wave channel instruments (such as the BRK instrument and the Clean Electric Guitar midi patch), and some sample kits (such as the Colossus Roar, a MAGFest staple.) I didn’t attend MAGFest 2013, but my roommates mentioned that there were posters for Shrek on ice everywhere at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. About a week later (perhaps coincidentally), the first trace of the “Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life” meme appeared. A small circle of my chip scene friends started referencing the meme, so I assumed Shrek had become a MAGFest meme.

The following year, I attended my first MAGFest, and I wrote this cover to perform at Chipspace Open Mic. For every subsequent year that I attended the Fest, I played a slightly different version. Those differences are as follows:

2015 – Improved the “whistle” solo, included a sample of Dan screaming “Get outta here!” from Game Grumps, to accompany the Mycaruba sample. The Grumps were set to attend that year, so I made these changes in the hopes that any of them would be nearby while I was playing.

2017 – Replaced the samples in the breakdown with Buck Bumble vocal samples (the full set including this version can be found here)

2018 – Replaced the whistling with Meet the Flintstones and replaced the Game Grumps samples with samples of Joel’s reaction to 7 Grand Dad

2019 – Changed the notes to Meet the Flintstones, used Snow Halation in part of the whistling solo (later uploaded to SiIvaGunner as Main Theme – Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown)

2020 – Removed the entire melody and replaced it with Haunted House (a live performance including this version can be viewed here)

This was featured on the Nerdfit Christmas album, Jingle Jawnz. I had recently recreated the “BRK” sample (a sound effect included with LSDJ, and a running joke within the chip community), in the wave channel, and decided to use it as the lead instrument in a song. This was the result, and it was the beginning of my “singing wave channel” experiments.

In 2013, some chip scene folks and I teamed up to create an album full of remixes of Storm Blooper‘s debut single, Someone Stole All of the Ice Cream. My contribution was a Kirby-styled remix, featuring sound effects from Kirby’s Dream Land, Green Greens-inspired instruments, and some samples. The outro references the 0² theme from Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards, with some chip-step wubs.