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I am an artist who definitely wouldn’t dare compromise their integrity for anyone. On an unrelated note, here’s the smash hit of the summer converted for the sound chip from the Sega Genesis/Megadrive… Preview Mechafatnick · Stay (16-bit Version) Buy/Stream
Uplifting and inspirational, In the Blue Sky is one of my favorite Sega tunes – so why not remake it for the FM-tastic sounds of the YM2612? Preview Mechafatnick · In the Blue Sky (16-bit) Buy/Stream
12 tracks and 35 minutes of music squeezed into a 4mb ROM file. This is not a chiptune album – This is an album that just happens to be written for the sound chips found in the Sega Megadrive console. Preview Buy/Stream
I noticed the basic ZX Spectrum version of well-known Capcom beat ’em up “Final Fight” didn’t really have much of a soundtrack…so I decided to make one myself! This album features the original bleeps and blerps of the ZX Spectrum’s Ay-3-8912 sound chip playing 4 Read More …
Because FatNick knows what makes commercial sense, here’s a piece of Sharp x68000 music covered using the sound hardware of the zx spectrum – both 48k and 128k. There isn’t really much to say about this one really. I was playing the ominously titles “Genocide Read More …
As i write this on the 13th of March 2019, the United Kingdom is on the precipice of a peacetime crisis on a scale beyond the comprehension of anyone who’s younger than about ninety. The two main political parties are fiddling about, each looking to Read More …
What could be better than the best song ever written being performed on the best gaming hardware ever made? This is a version of the B.E.R. track ‘The Night Begins to Shine’ lovingly reproduced for the Sega Megadrive (with some guitar samples from the Nintendo Read More …
This is the theme from the online Vector graphics-based driving game Vector Highway (play it here now: ) , I composed this track to be evocative of the experience of tuning in and out of different radio stations on long inter-state car drives, and wrote Read More …
Here’s my not so festive Christmas track from 2016! The track’s a reworking of the Sega classic “Whirlwind” from the Shinobi 3 soundtrack. Enjoy. Preview Stream/Buy
Did you know that the Sega Megadrive contained a fully-functional FM Synthesiser in it? Hmm. Can it be made to reproduce the kind of bright, expressive synthesiser sounds heard in your favourite 80s tracks? Lets find out! Modulated Frequencies is a suite of tracks that Read More …
Don’t know where you stand on the EU? This track probably won’t change that to be honest, but at least it has a better beat than the same tired-old interviews and press conferences. Interested in the tech stuff? All of the main instrument sounds are Read More …
Has that January spark long since faded? In need of a little extra support and will power? Why not try a bit of ZX Spectrum-based Self help! Built around a punchy Megadrive style bass and ethereal strings and brass, this track allows the sound of Read More …
Can you build an entire Drum’n’Bass track around some drums sampled from arcade classic ‘Rad Mobile’ and a highly glitchy Sonic Spinball death chime? I’d like to think that this track proves that you can. Preview Buy/Stream
Summer is here and the weather’s getting warmer. What better way to celebrate than with a nice laid back Megadrive-powered groove? Preview Stream/Buy
I wish I could say I created this because I have a noble political agenda. In reality I just couldn’t pass up an excuse to use a sample of the queen saying ‘Psycho-Active Drugs’ Preview The Queen's Speech by Fatnick Stream/Download
This is a relaxed, slowed-down version of a track from the classic space-jazz soundtrack for Sega’s Galaxy Force arcade machine. Enjoy! Preview Buy/Stream
Released in honour of 2014’s Speccy Jam competition, Speccy Jams is a collection of 8 catchy Spectrum-style ditties produced for the AY-8912 sound chip contained in the ZX Spectrum 128 & +2/3 Preview Stream/Buy
Ellie Goulding’s track basically sounded like a Megadrive game already…so I went the extra mile and remade it in FM Drive. It’s available as a free download from soundcloud!
The first release from my upcoming E.P. Modulated Frequencies, This Jazzy-fusion track mixes live guitar, bass and drums with the rich FM tones of the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip found in the Sega Megadrive. Preview Stream/Buy
Christmas Noise seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition! At this time of festive good cheer, why not make room for something harsh, aggressive and brutal? Cribbed from the audio generated by my helmet cam, this piece documents a short extract of a ride Read More …