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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/09/2026

NEW MIX! today, we're looking at the works of Junichi Masuda...... BEFORE Pokemon. and also during Pokemon. look, Pokemon is important here. check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umf5...

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Junichi Masuda's music (before Pokemon) (and also during Pokemon)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 12/09/2026

im filing this one under: soyjacks that reveal more about the author than the target. it's a reminder that sometimes you're just outside of the target audience and you gotta appreciate that for what it is.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 09/09/2026

fellow Ocean alum Dean Evans also wrote a few tunes for Pixter titles!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 08/09/2026

new narrated video! have you heard about the Game Audio Network Guild? it's an interesting story. let's take a moment to appreciate the appreciation of game audio www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMOH...

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Tommy Tallarico's G.A.N.G. (and its impact)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/08/2026

NEW MIX! We’re approaching a 16-bit pyramid or temple, and we have a full studio to score the bgm. Let’s see what wild and unique styles we can pull from our bag of romplers... www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-xj...

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Redbook Pyramids [EXTMIX #39]

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Koly #FortniteFlipped @dzskarlet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

web.archive.org/web/20011116... seemingly the link doesn't work because it's an affiliate redirect to an article on another website, i managed to find it by reverse engineering the url. weirdly despite this website still being up and hosting articles older than this one, i can't seem to find it

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News: Will games console jittery Americans?

The launch of Microsoft's Xbox on Thursday and Nintendo's GameCube three days later could even help lift third- and fourth-quarter profits for some of the nation's top consumer electronics stores, they said.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/08/2026

yes!!!! thank you! i tried digging out the "target=" parts but had no luck. this absolutely looks like the right article. i wonder if it was removed intentionally? it's a tad grim, a perhaps less than flattering snapshot of the moment

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/08/2026

notice something odd here? yeah that last headline sounds insane(ly 2001). the link doesnt work though. can anyone find this specific article? was msn just linking 9/11 to video games because it was topical? web.archive.org/web/20011116...

Can video games calm shaky post-9/11 nerves?
from msn.com as seen on Friday, November the 16th, 2001.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 26/07/2026

i also got a comment mentioning Farya Faraji, and i'd like to amplify that! this video is an incredible watch even if you don't know anything about the music theory behind all these styles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR51...

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Orientalism: Desert Level Music vs Actual Middle-Eastern Music

YouTube video by Farya Faraji & World Musicians

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/07/2026

oh yeah, I mentioned june chikuma in this video. did you know she has a youtube channel? you should check it out! www.youtube.com/@junechikuma...

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June Chikuma

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/07/2026

NEW MIX! What’s this? A desert and/or wild west level on the PC Engine? I think we all know what this calls for. Let’s explore the breadth of option that PCE composers reached for. (premieres ~15 minutes from time of posting!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIwa...

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PCE Tunes when the Level is Desert

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14/07/2026

here's the album itself if you wanna skip the video. it's pay-what-you-want, including $0 but, of course, i appreciate any dollars you send my way <3 soundsfromsci.bandcamp.com/album/sms-gg...

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SMS/GG Cuts, by anosci

19 track album

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14/07/2026

remember when i personally made a ton of arrangements for my Sega Master System and Game Gear mixes? well it took me a bit, but I've put a bunch of my favorites on a compilation album. here's an announcement video about it (plus some yapping) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6itK...

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I made a bunch of Game Gear arrangements (+ behind the scenes yap)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 14/07/2026

hehehe funny milestone.......... ok back to work now

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

something I only barely touched on in this video is that Alex is also a voice actor! it's so wild to me that you can draw a line from Unreal to Skyrim just from Alex's involvement in both projects! speaking of, i'd like to also share this really cool video that alex made last year

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Ancano Says Trans Rights

YouTube video by Alexander Brandon

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

ha! i don't think i'd pin any of these comments as AI generated. just a little odd, at worst. call me optimistic perhaps...

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

i'd love to expose teenagers to the depths of oldschool game music though :P but hmm. tacky, eh? i can see it. i don't think it tips the scales for me yet though. it feels like the connecting tissue between the somewhat-inherently-tacky FYP miasma and the actual content of my video.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

anyway. weird feature. it hasn't replaced the actual text search feature except through dark patterns, luckily. i dont think i'll be using it. also i love all the comments i get on my videos even when they're bad <3

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

i thought i'd try searching "recommendations" bc i specifically remember getting a few of those recently. and something odd happened: the first few results were just people thanking me for recommendations. then there was a "results might not be accurate" warning. then there were actual recs. huh??

four comments.
one: "very interesting information. and thanks for the recs, will definitely check them out"

two: "Nice video editing and also thanks for the recs"

three: "Trust is really gone. I can't really trust anything past 2023 or such. It's tiresome. Great video and recommendations. Thanks!"

four: "I love it! Someone at work told me to look up music theory."

five comments.

one: "Nash Music Library from Japan also has some huge bangers. SC-0302 and SC-1903 come to mind. The latter plays in the hardware store Hard-Off the entire day."

two, a reply to one: "CMusic Professional Library is another from Japan I like. Got that real cheesy stuff; all or most on yt now too!"

three: "I want to suggest Seppo Hurme aka. Fleshbrain for the next video. His compositions for the game Gubble 2 are absolutely sick!"

four: ah a fellow library music enthusiast heres some favorites of mine" (and a list of Bruton albums, cut off by a Read more)

five: "Finally someone is talking about this! If you really want a super cool label, try Sonoton and all its related labels. It’s got some really nice synth stuff under its belt!"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

Let's see that Sensitive "Negative feedback"... (pic) i mean i guess?? these arent even the worst comments ive seen in the past 90 days... like it missed some rude ones that i would've included in that search. were they too rude?

five comments.
one: "The background music in this video is so distracting and gives the video a tense and unpleasant feeling and is also much too loud. Couldn’t even make it through the short video that it was"
two: ""but it is cheap" incorrect buzzer"
three: "That background music it’s so annoying,huge dislike"
four: "Completely bull shit."
five:" I dont get it."

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

... is this another LLM agent? why is "Sensitive topics" hidden under a dropdown? it's literally just the words "Negative feedback" and "Profanity" which, when clicked, autofill the below textbox. cmon.

the options for youtube studio's AI based search feature. It asks to describe the "type of comment" I'm looking for in 100 characters or less.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

alright, what's this now? I've learned that any time you see a sparkle next to something on a website, it means some feature has been cursed with AI integration. 🔍✨...? why has my search function been encumbered with AI?

the Community tab on youtube, with a search option that appears to be "powered by AI"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 29/06/2026

one day, i will sit down and dig through everything this guy ever made, and then an artist feature will follow. the day that this happens, though? unknowable

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 28/06/2026

even my big memories of this guy are split. I followed his tracker work since hearing Snowfall (see link), but Alex also has the honor of being the composer of that vgm i recorded with a tape next to the tv speaker as a kid: the N64 Vigilante 8 tunes.

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Snowfall, by Alexander Brandon

from the album The MOD Collection, Vol. 3

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 28/06/2026

I've been trying to use more "catchy" titles lately but really struggled with this one. seems like everyone has their own association with Alex's work. so i've got some kinda wacky A/B title testing going on here. 😅

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 27/06/2026

NEW MIX! today, we're looking at Alexander Brandon's musical journey. this guy brought the sound of the PC tracker scene into some very popular video games, but there's more to the story. let's explore! youtu.be/KorMUOxzkfE

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Artist Feature #39: Alexander "Siren" Brandon

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 22/06/2026

another little yap, this time about jazz jackrabbit 2's water level. plus a quick little cover. i feel like there's a lot to love in this song!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 22/06/2026

true! sometimes less is more

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 22/06/2026

another little yap, this time about jazz jackrabbit 2's water level. plus a quick little cover. i feel like there's a lot to love in this song!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 21/06/2026

a quick little yap about versalife from deus ex, plus a quick... "cover"? it's interesting how important the timbre is to this song.

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 21/06/2026

i posted this in his discord last night so he'll see it if he sees it lol

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 21/06/2026

a quick little yap about versalife from deus ex, plus a quick... "cover"? it's interesting how important the timbre is to this song.

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Joe Siegler @joesiegler.blog · 19/06/2026

It appears that Bobby Prince has died. Doom - Quake - Rise of the Triad - Duke Nukem. So SO many more. I can say this is someone who composed a song just for me. Not many people can say that. Dude's a legend. RIP my old friend. www.legacy.com/legacy/rober...

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 13/06/2026

the datamosh effect is all faked in realtime! it's made by using motion estimation on the prev and current frame, then writing the changed pixels to a buffer used as a mask. here's what that mask looks like (sans the main cube because that also broke in the upgrade...) im rly happy w this effect!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 13/06/2026

it's a small detail but i really like how this background came out. it's actually some jank polygons slowly spinning, reflecting a star cubemap. plus bokeh. (the colors look a bit different here bc i upgraded tixl and it broke this scene...)

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 11/06/2026

i keep wanting 2 yap about bts stuff, so: almost every 3D asset is from ACNH. the scroll in the background that has 月 on it? i coded that to be the day but stuck it on monday. the clock, i set to start at 3:08, in reference to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=voA7... it updates in realtime :)

a scene from anosci's virtual stream setup, as it appears in the video "eulogy for stock music"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 05/06/2026

oh right, i should probably add that to the description! here's a link for you: melosylexia.com/coolmidi/

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cool midis!

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 05/06/2026

hey everyone, i've got a new narrated video! you know stock music? the stuff you hear in cheesy old instructional videos and such? it's good actually. however... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pFb...

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Eulogy for Stock Music

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 04/06/2026

i love this video + comment section combo

the youtube comments for a video titled "1 hour of palette cycled noise visualizations". there are two comments, spaced 1 year apart. the first and newest comment reads "finally". the older comment reads "let's go!"

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 30/05/2026

NEW MIX: today, we're exploring some epic redbook rock tunes from the PC Engine CD addons. er, wait, these songs seem kinda... cheesy? oh well, may as well revel in it! (premieres 15 minutes after this post goes live! join us!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PftZ...

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The Cheese of Turbo-CD Rock [EXTMIX]

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/05/2026

oh i was using the marxist definition, where ppl believe the value of goods comes from the inherent nature of the goods themselves instead of the labor that produced the goods

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/05/2026

LOL true and on your other point: fair, maybe commodity fetishism is a bit of a stretch. i reached for the phrase as a way to describe ppl that dont consider the work developers put into the game and, instead, just see a "product" they can target, yk?

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/05/2026

it's several self-reinforcing systems, all centered around a bit of commodity fetishism. perhaps that's still true. i think hours-long videos have been one of the metas recently? and removing the fetishism reveals a lot of beauty that you can fill your video with. maybe that's for the better

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/05/2026

it's not that far from my original point tbh! i was thinking about all of this too. i didnt want to name avgn specifically since i think he's in a special spot, but the nature of the *platform* of early youtube kind of incentivized "angry" perspectives on games

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 25/05/2026

my original comment still stands: if i make a video, i want it to have something unique to say, and i haven't really thought of anything yet 😅 that said, i do love seeing how open you are to questions and to fans in general <3

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Sandy Morrison @yoshinpixels.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A phrase I remember being coined by Yahtzee that gets more true as time goes on goes something like "how a game is made is as much a story as anything in the game itself", and it's a wonderful thing, truly

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GST Channel @gst.melosylexia.com · 24/05/2026

i was deeply struck by Prize Fighter here. I had dismissed the game previously, but seeing behind the scenes: it was a paradox. it was a bundle of conflicting ideas trying to be born. and everyone working on it had their own way to square that. and i saw what they saw. and that's beautiful.

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