With apologies to most of the string players, who had the thrilling task of playing a single note for the entire piece.

And apologies to the listeners for the way I got bored and gave up halfway through.

I'm away from my usual setup again, so I had to improvise. I started by writing some musical ideas in MuseScore (which I wish I could say I got on with...), then exported each part separately and brought them into REAPER for arranging and post-processing. I then topped it off with some drum samples, courtesy of Zoe Blade.

I've been on something of a 2A03 kick recently, so here's something straight out of an NES action-adventure game! You can probably tell that I hit a bit of a brick wall at the 30-second mark, and decided to switch tracks. Just pretend that's the bit where a dogfight breaks out between the two whales.

Not much more than an experiment with some chords. Also I totally didn't run out of time. (Heh. "Run.")

I've heard this theme so many times over the years that I was able to write it from memory. Unfortunately, it's quite difficult to write music while you're also watching someone stream your game, so hopefully this doesn't have any janky chords in it...

Definitely bit off more than I could chew in 90 minutes here! It's a spin on the main theme in Call of the Horizon, a piece I wrote donkeys years ago.

My initial attempt at this sounded like a 12-year old's bassoon recital, so I scrapped it and tried to make something that sounded a bit like a Kurzgesagt soundtrack. That didn't exactly work either, but here's the less rubbish of the two attempts.

Listen really carefully and you might hear something underneath all of this: a repeating pattern of C5-C6-C5-C6-C#5-C#6-C#5-C#6. That's right, it's the drowning theme from Sonic!

I'm afraid my heart wasn't really in it for this one. Have some guitars.

This one was quite fun to write. I reused a motif from a piece I wrote a long time ago called Cadentes Angeli. That one was quite grim and serious, so putting this spin on it was really exciting.

Also, piano solos are hard!

I'm not sure how I got "soothing and serene" from a blank wall, but there you go.

Okay, bear with me on this. If a doughnut has a hole in the middle, that makes it look like an O, right? Well, I decided that was all the justification I needed to write a choral piece with all the parts singing to "ooo". If only my virtual choir had got the memo.

By the way, I accidentally ripped off Pachelbel's Canon a bit at one point, but I don't think anyone will notice if I don't point it out.

A big bundle of self-indulgent synths and uncomplicated chords.

Try saying that five times fast.

Sometimes, you need time for maintenance.

Collect princesses! Rescue a star! There'll be a turtle somewhere. Probably.

Do you go to the Cloud District very often? Oh, who am I kidding. Of course you do.