Phlogiston – Croqel
16 short and silly melodies, best served before the end of the summer sun; II and Phlogiston bring you Croqel. Whereas his last EP – Mode:3 – elaborated on the console sound, Croqel is strictly and purely NES music. All that is epic has also been banned in favour of simple melodies created by complex melodic lines. Included in this package are individual images for each and every tune. Enjoy!
01 Doberot
02 Suega
03 Jeex
04 Aquadra
05 Cakel Pione
06 Kirev
07 Heast
08 Fager
09 Sunrag
10 Cetyes
11 Setned
12 Arie
13 Egotap
14 Toog
15 Jolenos
16 Ike-pite
Artwork by Phlogiston.
August 28th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Great artwork and music!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:53 am
!!!WARNING!!! : Phlogiston strike back with another “kick-ass” release!!! He doesn’t just attack you with sounds this time…he attack you with artworks too,to explode your spaceship more easily
HELL YEAH!!!
November 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am
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I am nuts about Phlogiston. He’s got some of the richest textures and melodies of any chiptune artist.
In his new release, Croqel, the focus is on melody and the richness of the NES. These days, it’s easy to make a song that sounds like it’s from an NES. But there are so many NES games that use fairly unique sounds considering they all use the same sound processor. Phlogiston seems to embrace the variety of possibilities that can be born from the 2a03. Through this, we are presented with detail-laden melodies and a cornucopia of sound effects. The effects are what really make the songs full of emotion and create an almost vocal feeling.
It should be noted that the longest song on Croqel is 2:22, and that is nearly a minute longer than the next longest. Most of the songs are under a minute and really have no complex arrangements, just like if this were a real NES game.
Making a short album like this is a pretty big risk. You have to be good at making worthwhile melodies if you are going to ditch complex arrangements. Lucking Phlogiston nails it. As a bonus, artwork for each track is included.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
went back and listened to this recently and got my ass kicked by the urgency of how much energy is packed into these songs and at such short legnths. its an ethic i always tried to approach with temp sound solutions and it makes me feel good to listen to this record all at once and just take in the way it fits together. great great work here and will always stick in my mind as such a great, cohesive little record.
January 6th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Listen to this one quite often. Great pieces and nice work of instrumentation.
Love the complexity of Setned; the softness of the second pulse channel in Arie; joyfulness of Cakel Pione. Though, a few tracks I don’t quite like, but hear them anyway when I decide to listen to the album as a whole.
Curious, how the heck do you pronounce all these? Any specific language to have in mind?
January 26th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Sick album I’ve replayed it at least a dozen times ahah
gotta love chiptune.