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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I don't think any mainstream/pop song comes close to "Holding out for a Hero" in terms of sheer cheese and energy. Have you HEARD those keys and toms on this track? JEEZ youtu.be/qgHVh5jspsA

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Holding Out for a Hero (From "Footloose" Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Bonnie Tyler - Topic

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This comes from a place of genuine curiosity, the one I have is from 2005

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Serious question, how old is your microwave?

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Dynamic playlist idea: plays "decades" hits but it's based on the temperature outside on a given day

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Every game should have a music player, it makes the game ten times better, trust me.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My fave albums I dove into this year!

Albums pictured:

Choke Enough - oklou
Bodily Functions - Herbert
Dead Channel Sky - clipping.
Chains & Stakes - The Dead South
Skeletá - Ghost
Duality - 1000 eyes
Ready to Die - Notorius B.I.G.
Vie - Doja Cat
The end of Negation - Mushio Funazawa

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I know the muffin man who lives on dreary lane

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lucas ângelo :: ahopness @lucasangelo.dev · 04/12/2025

Btw, Jarren just posted the songs he made for the collection on Bandcamp, check it out: jarrencrist.bandcamp.com/album/some-s...

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Some songs for Lucas' Computer Game Collection Vol. 1, by Jarren Crist

4 track album

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Kite Line @kiteline.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A selection of SOUP ROOMS music made by @jarrencrist.bsky.social is now available on Bandcamp! Jarren really knocked it out of the park and I'm eternally grateful for their support and kindness. SOUP ROOMS wouldn't have been possible without them. Enjoy! jarrencrist.bandcamp.com/album/soup-r...

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SOUP Rooms (Soundtrack Selection), by Jarren Crist

8 track album

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I made some music & sounds for this project (and some of its rooms therein) - It's a really cool collection of art/environments by a bunch of talented ppl and a really chill game to walk around in,I highly recommend checking it out, I'm glad to have been a part of it.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I made a couple of songs for this! It's a cool little atmospheric game where you walk around and interact with stuff, uncover dialogue, secrets, and the sort. And I'm pretty proud of the tunes I did for this one!

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Blip Blop @blipblop.net · 31/10/2025

Halloween is upon us and @materiacollective.com are celebrating by launching preorders for the vinyl soundtrack to Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion by @akumakira.bsky.social, @jarrencrist.bsky.social and Nolan Reese: blipblop.net/spookys-jump...

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This performance rocks, I love clipping. and they took a primarily electronically-produced set of songs and pulled off a lot of cool acoustic adaptation and found sound foley stuff in this, it's really cool. youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek

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clipping.: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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lucas ângelo :: ahopness @lucasangelo.dev · 25/10/2025

ok, time for another round of #screenshotsaturday. This is 'Tidal Hell', a zero-player war sim game where you engineer weapons and send off your pawns to watch them fight. w/ music by @jarrencrist.bsky.social <333 check it out @ play.google.com/store/apps/d... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Just found you can use a browser extension to re-enable the little "Watch Later" button that used to be present in the top corner of YouTube thumbnails as a quick way to add videos into that playlist and JEEZ I've missed that feature so much.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

If I hear you rave about how great "AI Summaries" are on Google you've basically outed yourself as having been unable to research anything on the internet up to this point. Yes I have quite a few ppl in my life that talk about how "amazing and helpful" the summaries are.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Big recommend for this game (Mortal Meal) for a short & sweet horror-adjacent game. I really liked the visuals and music in this one especially, plus it's got a good story to boot. (Also its OST is free on Bandcamp which is super dope.)

Image of the game cover of "Mortal Meal"

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Fun fact: the main synth used in my song "Falling to my Death" from Lunacid is a patch called "Siphons in the Sky" from the plugin: Absynth 5, by Native Instruments.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I love Donkey Kong Country on the SNES, but am I alone in feeling the level design of the first entry is kind of... frustrating? I love the way the game feels, looks, sounds, how DK/Diddy control - but the levels themselves have been kind of annoying, enemy placement feels cheap oftentimes.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This legit sounds like a Zelda Dungeon or something, cool vibe: youtu.be/dW6x7b3YmTg?...

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Zed - Silk

YouTube video by Dream of the 90s

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

With every passing day I feel my "professional" veneer fading in favor of more human interaction with every instance of nonsense I encounter in business-y convos with people. Working a desk job does that to you I think, lol. There's only so much disingenuous interaction one can stomach.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm part of a new compilation album from The Fainting Room! Lots of cool artists featured in this, like Luke Vincent (Automaton Lung) Mike Klubnika (Buckshot Roulette) and others, too many cool folks to mention. The album is completely FREE on Bandcamp! thefaintingroom.bandcamp.com/album/transc...

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Transcendence [TFR03], by The Fainting Room

12 track album

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Normalize taking screenshots of posts of cool art, music, games and other stuff that you want to check out later but don't have the time to in the moment. Can't tell you how many things I've been able to circle back to and enjoy that way.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Heard a weird similarity to a synth from a song from the game Sephonie by @hantani.bsky.social and "Rock with You" by Michael Jackson, they're almost identical - pretty neat! Kinda makes me wonder if it was an emulation vst of a similar synth used in the MJ song or something.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I guess Mario Kart World has a bunch of new arrangements of pretty deep cut/relatively obscure Nintendo music, keep seeing posts about it and stuff - I think that's pretty neat! Nice to hear some of these old songs with a cool new take.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

As a big Mario Kart DS fan the new game with the free roaming and all the micro challenges in the world looks pretty fun, it's kinda like an improved "mission mode" from the aforementioned game in that sense. Also gives Sonic Frontiers vibes to me. Just cruising around and doing random stuff.

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Star Victoria Power | Slide20XX @slide20xx.com · 21/05/2025

The game industry is a little chaotic right now and I'm trying to do something about it: We're working to raise funds for diverse video game music composers. If that's you and you're interested, please fill out this form! and please share far and wide!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Composer Interest Form

We're looking to fund new music projects from diverse composers! If you'd be interested in potentially working with us in the future, please fill out the form below. This is not a guarantee of paym...

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

PSA: Google forces AI summaries on almost everything you search and there's no way to remove them without adding syntax like "-ai" to the start of the query, and given that environmental impact of ai summaries vs. regular search engine queries I'd say it's not a bad time to switch an alternative.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Isn't it weird that the games "Shadow x Sonic" generations and Mario & Luigi Brother"ship" came out in the same year as each other? Was 2024 the year of yaoi games? 🤔

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This is easier than I thought it would be, I'm not rly feeling any FOMO after the big reveal yesterday. I'm pretty content with holding out for a while on the system. (That and the new reality of games/consoles pricing this generation is kind hard to swallow...)

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm rly curious about the whole rumored-ish "Mouse" functionality with the new Switch, a ton of ppl I know only ever play docked or in bed/handheld so I struggle to imagine who would actually use it on tabletop with a mouse except for rly specific stuff. Guess we'll probably find out tomorrow tho

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I've posted the Glitched Out OST on all streaming places! If you haven't checked out that game or the music I'd recommend the songs "Everything has a Price!" or "Chip Chillwave (Chip's Chill Mix)" as those are some of my faves that I made for the OST jarrencristmusic.com/my-video-gam...

a screenshot of two songs from the Glitched Out game soundtrack, tracks 9 and 10, "Everything Has a Price!" and "Chip Chillwave (Chip's Chill Mix)" respectively.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm gonna commit to not buying/pre-ordering a Switch 2 unless there's an exclusive game at launch that I just SUPER want to play. It's probably inevitable that I'll get one eventually but I'm gonna try and resist the consumerist hype cycle type beat and hold off for a while.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Absolutely killer OST by @thorhighheels.bsky.social right here - I just now got around to checking it out and it's so good. Big recommend.

A screenshot of the album "Producer 2021 (Original Game Soundtrack)" composed by ThorHighHeels.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I did a song with my friend @nolanbrewer.bsky.social and it is out today! I enjoyed making it with him and you can listen to it via the link below - It's called "Bucket Listless" jarrencristmusic.com/collaboratio...

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My irl self is so shy/dorky that idk how ppl who know me reconcile that with some of my more serious/darker art because it's so different from how I present myself in the day to day but yet it's still a big part of who I am mentally/emotionally and how I've put myself into what I make.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Retailers are running "MLK Day Sales", jeez. Don't they have plenty of designated consumerist holidays to run their annoying advertisements?

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

also "Trip to the aquarium type-beat" is how I'm out here tryna be low-key, at least with some stuff lol

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I'm able to see TikTok videos that use my music in the background and I think that's pretty neat, it's heartwarming to know that someone thought of my stuff when they were thinking of something to put in their video. I saw one that used my music in the background for an aquarium video, that was cool

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Posted a new(ish) song to my YouTube! It's part of a larger collaboration (The Fainting Room) with a bunch of other artists, I'd reccomend checking out the full album on Bandcamp or SoundCloud! (Only if u enjoy cool music tho) youtu.be/v6B9y_c_d2c?...

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Further Now (a song from Formless Staircase, an album by The Fainting Room)

YouTube video by Jarren Crist

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Idk why but I have a very specific memory of singing "Follow Me" (theme of team Rose from Sonic Heroes) in front of my bedroom TV as a kid and being super into it. I liked all the team themes in that game but the shee bubblegum/girly energy in that track is just infectious.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Spotify pushing a.i. music into their curated playlists is the last straw for me using it at this point, I've used them for years and years because they're kinda "the" streaming platform but that shit is just insulting to artists and I can't stand the thought of paying into it w my own money now.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Shadow Generations absolutely rips, I rly enjoyed it. The inner AMV enjoyer within me fuckin loved the dumb wings they added to Shadow during the late game too, so good.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

My first album I ever put out on streaming (Catharsis) is gonna turn 10 years old next year... Damn. I might do a re-release or something to celebrate it, include some "new" tracks from around that time period as bonus material, that kind of thing. That album is still rly special to me.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I will forever associate the song "Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus with the Beaver Bother minigame from Donkey Kong 64 and I can't fully explain why.

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Jarren Crist @jarrencrist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Is this pic of a Baja Blast I was drinking "Frutiger Aero"? 🧐🧐🧐

A close up picture of bubbles at the bottom of a cup of MTN Dew Baja Blast.

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KIRA @akumakira.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

When I finally finish this game, you will not be ready.

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