Earthworm Jim - SNES/Genesis/Sega CD/Win95 - New Junk City - VGM Synth Cover

If you like this cover, here are my other Earthworm Jim covers I have done !

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The 90's were a great time for videogames and the developers did some really creative stuff with the mascots during this time. To be fair, a lot of them were total throwaway garbage ones (Bubsy! Awesome Possum!), but then you'd also get something like Earthworm Jim! Not only is his design super cool and imaginative, the games (at least the 16-bit ones!) were some of the best around! It was also nice to see a non Japanese developer put something out that was actually good! (LJN, Accolade, Ocean? Blecch!!)

With this cover I really wanted to kind of get that over the top 90's sound and I think I got the results I was looking for! I hope you guys like my cover of New Junk City from Earthworm Jim and maybe you'll see another one or two from the EWJ games sometime down the road! This one was a lot of work, but I had a lot of fun putting it together and I feel like it has some of my best sound design and tonal variety with my synthesizers out of all of my covers so far.

Boring gear stuff:

Intro Drones: Modal Craft Synth 2.0, Microfreak
Main Bassline: Yamaha MU50 (slap type bass), Volca FM, Microfreak
Brass: Yamaha MU50 and Volca FM
Warbly Lead thing: Modal Craft Synth 2.0 and Microfreak (wavetable)
Arpeggios: Microfreak
Leads toward the end: Microfreak (2 OP FM)
Cheesy Guitars at end: Yamaha MU50

Effects processing on synths done with Korg NTS-1
Drums done with Beatskillz Synthwave Drums and Grooove bpb drums sequenced in Renoise Tracker

All parts played individually, recorded and mixed in Audacity. No midi rips or piano rolls here!!

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