How do you manage to always make the most beautiful intros and then jump right into an absolutely groove?? You're a musical genius, my dude. Never stop.
This man releases tracks that are 5 minutes long!!! And YET they never get tiresome, repetitive, or boring! The pure musicality and creativity on display here is beyond master-class. Truly. There's literally nothing holding him back. He could use samples of dogs farting and it wouldn't make a difference because the foundation is all there. I can't wait for what Fod brings us next.
Bro 5 minutes? You really cant chill and listen to something for linger than 3 mins I dont want to start a flame war I'm just asking. I love all kinds of music but I frequently listen to stuff that goes on for quite longer. Some grateful dead and phish songs can go for an hour. Many dj mixes are like seamless and effectively sound as one song for a long time. I always wonder when I hear or read stuff like this , what's the rush? Music is the best thing in the world why not get into some lonnnnnnnng songs the journeys you can and will go on are incredible.
Oh hey, don't get me wrong. I listen to long form, experimental music all the time. I'm just saying how impressive it is that FoD can pump out UNIQUE and INTERESTING musical ideas for a whole 5 minutes straight. Your average song would at least have a chorus. Imagine how much work he must put into his songs? And the skill required? I have nothing but respect
I love your songs, they give me a feeling of tranquility, peace, nostalgia, i can't explain well, but it's amazing. Thank you! Yesterday I started learning how to make chiptune music, and i hope i can produce something like your songs someday. Greetings from Brazil!
For me if I hear something off about a song or something isn't right. I can usually tell right a way. I hope you do well with your own chip-tune music. If spiteful comments get you down don't pay any attention to them unless they are constructive. Those are the kinds of comments you'd want seeing as they can help you improve and self-improvement over the years of doing your music styles can help tremendously.
man that walking bassline right around 3:03 keeps me coming back to this song again and again. that is FONKY. This is what chiptune and tracker music is all about
Honestly, I feel like I've missed something in my life and my brain is finding that one specific thing that I should've done but I didn't do it because I'm too dumb, I don't know why Fearofdark songs makes me feel like this.
This song is really beautiful, it catches the essence of a modern day song mixed with chiptune and also this song sounds like it could be in an everyday music video to the people that listen to it I really love it, and I'm grateful that you uploaded this Steve, thank you
Thank you. This reminds me of a simpler time in my life. While I have yet to live as long as I hope I do this truly does bring me joy. Thank you so much for these master pieces. Hope I hear this song or katimari on the radio someday.
This makes me think of a story, of a man that's ostracized by society, and the only comfort he gets is by visiting his dreamworld. In this world, he is like everybody else, living as one should be, not wealthy nor poor. He keeps visiting this world even if during his work as a security guard. He dreams that he is a guard that protects a small town, and he is in love in this one peasant girl. He wants to confess his love to this girl and decides to do it once he falls asleep tonight. He then confessed to this girl that she likes to which the girl whispered, "Took you long enough" and he has awoken from his dream. He looked around him but strangely, he was sitting, leaning on a stone well in an unknown place. People around him looked at him strangely and pointed at him, or more precisely, his clothes. He looks different than anyone when he looked around, everywhere he looked, it looked like his village before it accepted products from other areas, no electric cables, unkept road, wooden houses, and their old style clothes. He wondered where he was and stood up. It was then that a girl walked up to him and asked him who he was. Strangely, he can understand her despite not hearing the language before. He spoke and said that he was -----------, but the girl seems to not have understood him. The girl then asked him where he came from and he answered, but the girl can't understand him so she gave up asking. She then asked him if he's hungry and he noticed he hasn't eaten yet so he shamefully held his stomach. The girl laughed and signaled him to follow her. The boy then walked together on the road while attracting gazes from the surrounding. Some are from guys due to the beauty the girl beside him posess, as if she is the goddess of beauty incarnate, but the rest is looking strangely or jealously to the boy, either because his appearance is weird or that he is standing beside the girl. While they were walking, he kept looking at her, as if he knew that face from somewhere... After a while, they arrived in a house. She invited him in and said that she'll get him water. He then entered and sat down in a chair, contemplating what the hell just happened. Is he dreaming? But he clearly woke up, and all his senses are functioning, and he sure do feel pain when pinching himself. While he was thinking, the girl came with a cup of water along with some bread. They continued talking again but this time the girl asked him to raise his right hand for no and left for yes. The girl then asked many questions to which the boy answered truthfully. After that, they somewhat feel comfortable with each other, as if they have already been with each other for a long time. The boy then asked the girl on how he could live in this town by signaling his arms, his hands clenching each other, punch boxing, his stomach, and eating. The girl got the gist of his actions and recommended to him becoming a guard in her town. The boy, with the helped of the girl, then lived with her while trying to learn their language, but until he learns it, he will continue to suffer being hard to communicate with. A year passed by and their relationship grew closer and closer. And the boy decided to confess his feelings to the girl tomorrow and falls asleep excitedly. He then woke up and walked up to the girl he loves, and confessed, to which the girl answered, "took you long enough" and the boy got a sense of deja vu and confused. He felt like he has heard this line before but where? Where did he hear it? The boy stood there in confusion, and the girl approached and hugged him, whispering in his ears, "wait for me". And he woke up. He doesn't know what happened but it seems like he couldn't enter his beloved dreamworld again, starting when he heard those words, "took you long enough". He is slowly losing his grip in life and feels like he should end it all. Then he ate breakfast, dressed up with a nice tie, and took his baton and whistle with him to work. He missed that world in his dream but it seems he can no longer enter it nor can he see the girl he loved, altough he could no longer remember her figure. While at work, he saw a lady walking towards him with a beautiful smile like the goddess of beauty incarnate, and... a tear in her eyes while looking at him. She then approached him and whispered at his ears, "I've come to receive your love here as well." I don't wanna expand this story since my brain can't keep up and I'm slowly but surely getting sleepy. If I use my brain too much, I may suddenly fall asleep so I don't wanna spend energy to expand the story. Just the outline. Thx for reading this questionable story of mine and bye. Oh, and this one is gonna be called "Dream Escape".
Rolling Down The Street, In My Katamari's successor... Soft intro, then a funky tune leading to a bold climax 3 minutes in, then resolving back at the soft part... I love this tune...
I really love the music you make. The amount of work it takes to put these things together and get them just right must be tiring but the music made is worth the time and effort. Especially since you have a loving fan base who listens to your music when gaming and other times, and it helps both of you. Thank you for making sough wonderful music for us and for yourself. You honestly deserve to be famous due to your lovely and inspiring music. Thank you again for everything.
ohh that program looks so cool, it looks like a terminal output but for music!! It looks like something from a scifi movie (or the computer screens from evangelion)
they're called music trackers. there are many like it, the most famous is called famitracker. check it out, it's what game devs used to use for consoles like the NES SNES and so on, so in a way, it's an authentic chip tune replication. Once you get the hang of them, they're surprisingly easy to use
When getting up in the morning gets too hard, I play this song. So I can remind myself that my own dreamscape is waiting for me when I’m tired again. Thanks.
I'm standing outside early morning waiting for the bus, a beautiful fog covering the world, and this is the first thing UA-cam decided to shuffle in from my playlist. The intro works perfectly.
This is great, I only just found out about this after one of your chip tune pieces got recommended. I expected that this channel wasn't very active anymore since the video I first watched was over 5 years ago, but then I was surprised to find out that this upload was not that long ago. I hope you keep up the good work, Fearofdark, your stuff is amazing.
Honestly everything you make has this funky sound to it and it's fucking grand. You've shot up on my list of favorite musicians real fast just because of how fucking funky all these tracks are.
This song carries a certain sadness I enjoy, reminds of those days I played minecraft with my brother and we just had fun, no worries, no pain, only young smiles and happiness, I would give anything to go back.
I'm not sure either, but i think it's that the numbers and combinations in the screen are meant to emulate the way 8-bit music was actually made. They represent a specific sound and their respective tone, pitch, etc. that gets pulled and played from a set soundbank when the line is executed
It's not Famitracker, it's probably OpenMPT or one of the many MANY tracking programs out there. this style of music creation has been in use for decades, and is not limited to 8-bit video game styles. Basically, anything can be made in it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
There's so much emotion in this song. What continually blows me away about FearofDark's music is that you don't expect such heigths of emotion in a ChipTune. There is joy, exuberance, expectation, longing, hope. Fearofdark is a modern classicist for the digital age.
The exposition of this song reminds me of Rolling Down the Street in my Katamari.
Thanks for providing good music during quarantine.
He made that too
@@thisisaguy6613 ?
rolling down the street in my katamari is very cool
@this is a guy Intelligence 000
And it cool too
How do you manage to always make the most beautiful intros and then jump right into an absolutely groove?? You're a musical genius, my dude. Never stop.
indeed, i agree with this comment
3:01 I swear I keep hearing this in my head wherever I go, during whatever I’m doing, and I love it
same that part is just rfewjmfj qewg9ipfe amazing
instant serotonin
Happened right when I read this comment.
I literally had this stuck in my head (in a good way) and couldn’t remember what it was from!😄
I keep coming back to this
This man releases tracks that are 5 minutes long!!! And YET they never get tiresome, repetitive, or boring! The pure musicality and creativity on display here is beyond master-class. Truly.
There's literally nothing holding him back. He could use samples of dogs farting and it wouldn't make a difference because the foundation is all there.
I can't wait for what Fod brings us next.
Bro 5 minutes? You really cant chill and listen to something for linger than 3 mins I dont want to start a flame war I'm just asking. I love all kinds of music but I frequently listen to stuff that goes on for quite longer. Some grateful dead and phish songs can go for an hour. Many dj mixes are like seamless and effectively sound as one song for a long time. I always wonder when I hear or read stuff like this , what's the rush? Music is the best thing in the world why not get into some lonnnnnnnng songs the journeys you can and will go on are incredible.
Oh hey, don't get me wrong. I listen to long form, experimental music all the time. I'm just saying how impressive it is that FoD can pump out UNIQUE and INTERESTING musical ideas for a whole 5 minutes straight. Your average song would at least have a chorus. Imagine how much work he must put into his songs? And the skill required? I have nothing but respect
AND with that jazzy ass tempo??? Unreal. Living legend.
and using famitracker too! this man has skill.
I wanna hear Fartofdog music now
I swear your music is like the sound track to a retro indie game that hasn’t been made yet
this might age like wine
Hmmm......
Yet
@@jaguarr314 👀
Actually yeah, when I heard first three seconds of this music, it reminded me katana zero's hotel soundtrack
I love your songs, they give me a feeling of tranquility, peace, nostalgia, i can't explain well, but it's amazing. Thank you!
Yesterday I started learning how to make chiptune music, and i hope i can produce something like your songs someday. Greetings from Brazil!
Brazil da onde? 🤔 Tu tá mexendo com qual programa? Abraços do RJ
don’t ever stop making music, no matter what people say about it. Do your best and just keep at it :)
@@mcdeleve Minas Gerais, eu estou usando o FamiTracker
@@nullifytheshark2423 Thank you very much, it's too nice to read things like this ❤️
For me if I hear something off about a song or something isn't right. I can usually tell right a way. I hope you do well with your own chip-tune music. If spiteful comments get you down don't pay any attention to them unless they are constructive. Those are the kinds of comments you'd want seeing as they can help you improve and self-improvement over the years of doing your music styles can help tremendously.
Never going to stop loving these chill yet chirpy tunes; keep up the good work!
Every sunday i will be here. I love your chiptune songs
Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷
eu amo esse cara
eu também, comecei a aprender a fazer chiptune por causa dele, ainda sou muito ruim com trackers, mas tô aprendendo
As músicas dele são fodas msm
@@ratosratos cara os trackers eles não são tão difíceis quanto as pessoas acha porém requer dedicação
man that walking bassline right around 3:03 keeps me coming back to this song again and again. that is FONKY. This is what chiptune and tracker music is all about
very FONKY
still super FONKY
I dont know why, but this gives me earthbound vibes.
same-ish. pretty sure it's the bass that starts @ 1:22
i was literally just listening to earthbound and i have this song in my playlist and then earthbound. thats kinda weird xd
Yeah. Makes me think of Moonside specifically.
To make this you would need 4 SNES’s
Twitter man said ur good, he didn't lie
2:48 : This cadence... I love it so much...
I would absolutely love to see this guy compose a piece for a huge orchestra. That would be absolutely magical!
Man, that bass is SUPER EarthBound. This whole song is just lovely to listen to!
Honestly, I feel like I've missed something in my life and my brain is finding that one specific thing that I should've done but I didn't do it because I'm too dumb, I don't know why Fearofdark songs makes me feel like this.
This song is really beautiful, it catches the essence of a modern day song mixed with chiptune and also this song sounds like it could be in an everyday music video to the people that listen to it
I really love it, and I'm grateful that you uploaded this Steve, thank you
Kinda got the Bruno Mars feel, doesn't it?
I specially love how the bass is introduced in 1:21, but the song in general is so good. it's so damn funky!
3:03 the best part that I cant stop listening to
This sounds like if Pikmin, Mario Galaxy, and if Pokemon Black/White had a baby and were turned into 8-bit music. Incredible.
i really love the look of the program, just imagine it in a crt and a bit of ghosting/burn in... such an aesthetic
Conventionally jazzy, chiptuney, just straight up amazing funky goodness! Love your stuff!
Thank you. This reminds me of a simpler time in my life. While I have yet to live as long as I hope I do this truly does bring me joy. Thank you so much for these master pieces. Hope I hear this song or katimari on the radio someday.
It sounds like 8-bit music but at the same time it doesn’t I absolutely love it
Thats because its 16-bit music!
@@BitSizedVulpinez Not really 16-bits. It's just your normal actual music but using Chiptune instruments. This genre is called Chip Fusion.
kinda reminds me of aivi and surasshu (composers of the steven universe score) stuff
This makes me think of a story, of a man that's ostracized by society, and the only comfort he gets is by visiting his dreamworld. In this world, he is like everybody else, living as one should be, not wealthy nor poor. He keeps visiting this world even if during his work as a security guard. He dreams that he is a guard that protects a small town, and he is in love in this one peasant girl. He wants to confess his love to this girl and decides to do it once he falls asleep tonight. He then confessed to this girl that she likes to which the girl whispered, "Took you long enough" and he has awoken from his dream. He looked around him but strangely, he was sitting, leaning on a stone well in an unknown place. People around him looked at him strangely and pointed at him, or more precisely, his clothes. He looks different than anyone when he looked around, everywhere he looked, it looked like his village before it accepted products from other areas, no electric cables, unkept road, wooden houses, and their old style clothes. He wondered where he was and stood up. It was then that a girl walked up to him and asked him who he was. Strangely, he can understand her despite not hearing the language before. He spoke and said that he was -----------, but the girl seems to not have understood him. The girl then asked him where he came from and he answered, but the girl can't understand him so she gave up asking. She then asked him if he's hungry and he noticed he hasn't eaten yet so he shamefully held his stomach. The girl laughed and signaled him to follow her. The boy then walked together on the road while attracting gazes from the surrounding. Some are from guys due to the beauty the girl beside him posess, as if she is the goddess of beauty incarnate, but the rest is looking strangely or jealously to the boy, either because his appearance is weird or that he is standing beside the girl. While they were walking, he kept looking at her, as if he knew that face from somewhere... After a while, they arrived in a house. She invited him in and said that she'll get him water. He then entered and sat down in a chair, contemplating what the hell just happened. Is he dreaming? But he clearly woke up, and all his senses are functioning, and he sure do feel pain when pinching himself. While he was thinking, the girl came with a cup of water along with some bread. They continued talking again but this time the girl asked him to raise his right hand for no and left for yes. The girl then asked many questions to which the boy answered truthfully. After that, they somewhat feel comfortable with each other, as if they have already been with each other for a long time. The boy then asked the girl on how he could live in this town by signaling his arms, his hands clenching each other, punch boxing, his stomach, and eating. The girl got the gist of his actions and recommended to him becoming a guard in her town. The boy, with the helped of the girl, then lived with her while trying to learn their language, but until he learns it, he will continue to suffer being hard to communicate with. A year passed by and their relationship grew closer and closer. And the boy decided to confess his feelings to the girl tomorrow and falls asleep excitedly. He then woke up and walked up to the girl he loves, and confessed, to which the girl answered, "took you long enough" and the boy got a sense of deja vu and confused. He felt like he has heard this line before but where? Where did he hear it? The boy stood there in confusion, and the girl approached and hugged him, whispering in his ears, "wait for me". And he woke up. He doesn't know what happened but it seems like he couldn't enter his beloved dreamworld again, starting when he heard those words, "took you long enough". He is slowly losing his grip in life and feels like he should end it all. Then he ate breakfast, dressed up with a nice tie, and took his baton and whistle with him to work. He missed that world in his dream but it seems he can no longer enter it nor can he see the girl he loved, altough he could no longer remember her figure. While at work, he saw a lady walking towards him with a beautiful smile like the goddess of beauty incarnate, and... a tear in her eyes while looking at him. She then approached him and whispered at his ears, "I've come to receive your love here as well."
I don't wanna expand this story since my brain can't keep up and I'm slowly but surely getting sleepy. If I use my brain too much, I may suddenly fall asleep so I don't wanna spend energy to expand the story. Just the outline. Thx for reading this questionable story of mine and bye. Oh, and this one is gonna be called "Dream Escape".
I love it. This was so random to read and it made me tear up.
These are stories are better than novels
Wow I also wrote similar to this but you did it better lol, really love it
Keep this up, I'm curious to see what you might make next
So even in a dream he couldn't escape reality
One of my favorite albums, simply bc of this song. So glad you uploaded it separately!!
Been jamming out to these while I work on various game development assignments.
Rolling Down The Street, In My Katamari's successor...
Soft intro, then a funky tune leading to a bold climax 3 minutes in, then resolving back at the soft part... I love this tune...
Fearofdark: makes music
Me: *I’ll take your entire stock*
cringe
This made me cry, I literally felt like went back in time in my child years playing on my mom's old Nintendo and famicom
Not gonna lie, that creeper sound at the beginning almost gave me a heart attack but the rest of the song calmed me down so it was worth it
I can't unhear it now.
I, too, can't unhear it now ;-;
I, also, too, can't unhear it now.
I also cannot differentiate between the original audio and the creeper sound effect.
1:04 time practically stood still as I feared it was about to transition into caramelldansen
oh shit i can actually hear it
lmfao
dance on me balls
now that you pointed it out-
I really love the music you make. The amount of work it takes to put these things together and get them just right must be tiring but the music made is worth the time and effort. Especially since you have a loving fan base who listens to your music when gaming and other times, and it helps both of you. Thank you for making sough wonderful music for us and for yourself. You honestly deserve to be famous due to your lovely and inspiring music. Thank you again for everything.
This really does feel good to know that you’re alive.
I swear to god a windows notification lined up perfectly with the start of this video and it was magnificent
ohh that program looks so cool, it looks like a terminal output but for music!! It looks like something from a scifi movie (or the computer screens from evangelion)
they're called music trackers. there are many like it, the most famous is called famitracker. check it out, it's what game devs used to use for consoles like the NES SNES and so on, so in a way, it's an authentic chip tune replication. Once you get the hang of them, they're surprisingly easy to use
Yup, like Beans said, definitely check out FamiTracker. The program he uses for this, though, is called OpenMPT
Traztom thank you guys!! I’ll check them out haha
@@MrLAIF782 bruh read all the replies
When getting up in the morning gets too hard, I play this song.
So I can remind myself that my own dreamscape is waiting for me when I’m tired again.
Thanks.
This is perfect. I love every second of this, thank you so much!!!
I'm standing outside early morning waiting for the bus, a beautiful fog covering the world, and this is the first thing UA-cam decided to shuffle in from my playlist. The intro works perfectly.
I gasped when the first few notes hit, I first heard this on spotify and I love this track so much. You really did a great job
Woah! This reminds me so much of Earthbound, I even think there's some samples here and there
This is one of my favourite tracks from the album! Nice work
It's hard to put into words how amazing this song is. Great work!
Ooooo that drop at 1:25 is soooo good! Keep up the awesome work! Your music really does help out in these times!
this gives me chills, man. it makes me think i floating through the air in a dark and quiet cafe. its really nice.
Thank you for putting your music in our lives
I listened to Exit Plan last night, and it was just as amazing as I expected. Fantastic work as always.
I have never nodded my head so hard to a beat before
This is great, I only just found out about this after one of your chip tune pieces got recommended. I expected that this channel wasn't very active anymore since the video I first watched was over 5 years ago, but then I was surprised to find out that this upload was not that long ago. I hope you keep up the good work, Fearofdark, your stuff is amazing.
The beginning to this song is one of the most incredible examples of 'simple = better' I have ever heard.
Your music makes my heart sink into my chest as I enjoy it this is amazing!
So that's what the feeling is called.
Never give up and keep going and stay determined because your music is a actually very AWSOME!!
A delightful bop, thanks for the music!
i always love listening to these songs.
This is so great man! I’m so glad you’re still making music :)
Honestly everything you make has this funky sound to it and it's fucking grand.
You've shot up on my list of favorite musicians real fast just because of how fucking funky all these tracks are.
I love these tunes, please keep on making them!
Genre: End Credits
YESSSS IT DOES SOUND LIKE THAT
so mysterious... and so alluring...
so underrated!
Omg dude the harmony is so good
This is one of my favorite songs in this album, reminds me of a summer day at Camp Anchor, going to the beach and having the thrill of my life
can we just talk about how the instruments are named "vibes" 0-2?
: )
Vibes are a real instrument, believe it or not! Short for vibraphone :)
@@by1742 i-
why did i not notice that sooner LOL
These chords are infinitely excellent.
One of my favourite songs!!
wow, just phenomenal as usual
This gives me nostalgia for some reason ✨💭
THIS MAN HAS THE SKILL THAT EVENS RIVALS TOBY FOX
Just the mere idea of seing "music by FOD" on a game cover makes me excited. Youre listening to one of the greatest tracker artists around man on g.
Wow, this song came out on my birthday. Best present ever!
I love this track so much
Now that covid got us all on lock down I managed to dig up this channel again.
I'm glad that FOD is still posting!!
i love this so much
Pretty nice song. It sounds pretty chill. Tbh Fearofdark makes such happy-sounding tracks, it's pretty neat.
Here from Twitter. This is actually pretty cool
This is so beautiful
Reminds me of that one location near the starting area in Lore Game. A peaceful grove.
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE 🤯
one of the best chiptune songs ever made imo
10 years
and it only gets better
i was like "ight imma listen to 10 seconds of this and move on" but then... i watched the entire thing and added it to a bunch of my playlists
Still coming back to listen after almost a year. Great work.
Still slaps.
This song carries a certain sadness I enjoy, reminds of those days I played minecraft with my brother and we just had fun, no worries, no pain, only young smiles and happiness, I would give anything to go back.
Pretty opening, and funky chill groove
awh hell yes dude the vibes are reaching my soul
Hey man love your music!! Keep up the great work!!!
dont know why this was recommended to me but...
I'm glad I'm here
I feel very relaxed
kinda new to this channel. i like the music but im confused with this programmy layout. is this how the music is made. someone explain for me pls
It's a program called "Famitracker"
@@nocteperpetuaa ah makes more sense now thanks
@@nocteperpetuaa actually, this one is OpenMPT tracker, if I'm not mistaken
I'm not sure either, but i think it's that the numbers and combinations in the screen are meant to emulate the way 8-bit music was actually made. They represent a specific sound and their respective tone, pitch, etc. that gets pulled and played from a set soundbank when the line is executed
It's not Famitracker, it's probably OpenMPT or one of the many MANY tracking programs out there. this style of music creation has been in use for decades, and is not limited to 8-bit video game styles. Basically, anything can be made in it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
sounds amazing
Man if only you were hired for Steven Universe's backround music
Feels more fitting for Adventure Time not Steven Universe
It's the chord progressions and romantic yet hypermodern melodies, isn't it?
I love your work
always groovin' to your songs!
Ayy, I love garage, this is sick!
I'm so happy because you're back
hearing that familiar tune made me shiver the first time I heard it its like seeing an old friend.
I love this
I love this song.
I needed this
Not gonna lie, I lost your channel and couldn't find it for a good year but I'm so happy I found it this morning. Thanks fear 😊
Excellent!!
hecking beautiful
There's so much emotion in this song. What continually blows me away about FearofDark's music is that you don't expect such heigths of emotion in a ChipTune. There is joy, exuberance, expectation, longing, hope. Fearofdark is a modern classicist for the digital age.