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ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels
by ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels
ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, amateur composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of professional works within his own amateur ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the various synthesizers and sound modules that serve as the virtual musicians "performing" on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.
Episodes
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C'mon, C'mon
"Has the legend faded? Come find out for yourself. C'mon, c'mon." This track would not be what it is without the voice talents of Mr. Mojo Risen, Jon St. John, and other unsung heroes of audio production. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be...
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The Stuff (You Got It / I Love It) [Instrumental - No Top Melody]
An instrumental cover of NKOTB's "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"/Weird Al Yankovic's "The White Stuff" along with a nod to another classic 80s rock track. This version excludes the top melody. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using stereo headphones, I recommend that it be…
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The Stuff (You Got It / I Love It) [Instrumental]
An instrumental cover of NKOTB's "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"/Weird Al Yankovic's "The White Stuff" along with a nod to another classic 80s rock track. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using stereo headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure...
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Strontium Nitrate
“Strontium Nitrate: Igniting brilliance with a flair of red flare.” Strontium nitrate -- Sr(NO₃)₂ -- is a white, crystalline inorganic compound widely recognized for its role as an oxidizer and creating deep red flames, making it essential in fireworks, road flares, and signal lights. Key: G…
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Fool Me Twice
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
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Scared Stiff
A simple minimalistic horror theme -- similar to early John Carpenter soundtrack themes. This instrumental piece was submitted as an entry to UJAM's "Usynth STRANGER Synthwave Contest" announced in October 2025. It consists of just four virtual instrument tracks (utilizing one instance of UJAM...
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Facing The Beast Within (a collaboration with MobiusCog)
"To tame the wild within, one must first face the inner beast." "Facing the Beast Within" is an instrumental demo of the collaboration with keyboardist and ambient composer @mobiuscog. Key: G Minor BPM: 90 Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using stereo headphones, I recommend that…
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Circuit Cathedral
"In a distant future where organic life and machine consciousness have merged, a towering structure rises from the heart of a neon-lit metropolis—a cathedral not built of stone, but of circuitry, fiber optics, and humming energy. This is the Circuit Cathedral, a sanctuary where digital souls come...
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Nobody Asked You
"When your peers don't appreciate being 'entitled to your own opinion'" [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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Small Potatoes
"What was meant to be nothing -- just a few loose notes tossed into the night -- became something. A song of the unnoticed, the humble, the ones who move through the world with quiet cool -- knowing that sometimes, simply being 'Small Potatoes' is the sweetest deal of all." [Please note: as this...
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3'44"
Nothing groundbreaking here... just three minutes and forty-four seconds of audio feedback, a track which took a relatively short time to produce. Enjoy?
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Creative Differences
"Creative differences... of the irreconcilable kind." [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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Carpet Matching Drapes
"There is nothing quite as charming and exquisite as matching carpet and drapes." [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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Babies R Us
"When the process of in vitro gestation was finally `perfected`, the world was not ready for it." A dark electronic instrumental track with a dystopian feel. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the...
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The Struggle Is Real
"Every struggle is an opportunity to thrive..." The Struggle Is Real: a shred-wave tune in the key of A natural minor. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.] --- What...
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Reckoning Day (Instrumental)
A virtual instrumental cover of Megadeth's "Reckoning Day". [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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The More I Know... The Less I Care
Obstinance and apathy: when the quest for knowledge and truth has soured reality. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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Gleaming Spire
A humble entry for HydraTek's first Modern Composer Domo challenge: a short, ambient piece written in G minor (based on an initial idea generated by the Lemonaid AI plugin) and performed by the following virtual instruments: Cherry Audio Elka-X, Dream Synth, and Polymode KarmaFX Synth Modular 2...
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Snot Rocket Science
Propulsion by snot rocket... because... science! [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.] Zen and the Art of the Snot Rocket:...
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The Divided States Of America
"United we stand tall... divided we fall." [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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Running Up That Bill
With energy costs always on the rise, conservation is imperative. It is foolish to continue running up that bill with reckless abandon. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening...
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Theme To Racing Destruction Set
Racing Destruction Set: the best slot racing set ever. Gripping spinouts, collisions, and spectacular end-over-end crashes galore. It's fast. It's funny. It's action-packed, and it could be yours. You pick your vehicle, its tires, and its engine size. You pick the track and its racing conditions....
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Be Careful What You Wish For
"Be careful what you wish you for... you just might get it." This electronic rock instrumental is in Gb Major and has a tempo of 90 BPM. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening...
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Works For Me
"I dunno... it works for me." This electronic rock instrumental is in D minor (with a brief incursion into B minor) and has a tempo of 102 BPM. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best…
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Tyrannosaur Stomp [R3worked]
A rework of my entry for the October 2021 Tone2 Demotrack competition for Saurus3. The original version can be listened to here: https://hearthis.at/tonedef/tyrannosaur-stomp/
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Awhirl Divert
"Suffer the suffering no longer" This electronic rock instrumental hops around between the keys of Bb and G and has a tempo of 89 BPM. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening...
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Hieroglyph (a collaboration with Peter Rand)
"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Hieroglyph" is an instrumental demo of the collaboration between the multi-instrumentalist Peter Rand and myself. Peter named the…
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Jungle King
"Only the Jungle King can overcome every perilous obstacle to rescue his Jungle Princess from the clutches of an indigenous tribe of jungle cannibals." This is a rock re-imagining of the soundtrack to Taito's arcade classic, "Jungle King" (not to be confused with "Jungle Hunt" or "Pirate Pete").…
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Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality [R3worked]
"The truth is whatever suits your belief system." "Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality" was originally composed for the 140th KVR One-Synth-Challenge. The key of the track is D and transitions between the Aeolian and Dorian modes. This updated version of the track features a more traditional...
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Halloween 2020 (cover of John Carpenter's Theme to Halloween)
A rock-oriented arrangement of John Carpenter's theme to Halloween suitable for a video game soundtrack.
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Theme to ARCHON: The Light And The Dark
"Power points are proof against magic." In dull, old-fashioned board games like chess and checkers, the "defending" piece gets removed quietly from the game board with the "attacker" taking the square without an ounce of hostility. In ARCHON, such docility and rank defeatism on the part of the...
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Cognitive Dissonance - Selective Reality
"The truth is whatever floats your boat..." The sounds in this track were created exclusively by Newfangled Audio's Pendulate virtual instrument plugin for the KVR One Synth Challenge 140. ***Track Statistics*** Key and scale: D minor/D Dorian DAW: Studio One 5 Pro New Fangled Audio Pendulate…
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A Musical Journey
A reworked version of a rap-rock track written and recorded in August 1990 by the KY Posse (ToneDeF and a longtime childhood friend) re-recorded in August 2020 to commemorate its 30th anniversary. The musical inspiration for this new version should be obvious. *LYRICS* [Spoken intro] What's the...
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100 Seconds To Midnight
"With the Doomsday Clock now being measured in seconds, there is no time to waste." This track is composed in D minor with a side-step into C mixolydian for the bridge. The distorted electric guitars are performed by UJAM's VG Carbon. All of the remaining instrument parts are performed by the…
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Con Descending
"Catch the grift?" This track is composed in F# phrygian with a brief interlude in C lydian. Several new virtual instruments were put to work in this track: UJAM's Virtual Guitarist Carbon; Babylon and Imperfect from W.A. Production; and Soundspot's Unison. [Please note: as this un-mastered track...
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Stomp Stone Steel-tip Stiletto
Even slabs of solid stone tremble from the stomp of a steel-tip stilletto. This swinging mid-tempo track is composed in A-Phrygian/A-Minor.
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26 To 3
Twenty-six minutes before the witching hour... a time of night whose distinct numeric sequence seems to reveal itself uncannily at every opportunity. What could its cryptic ubiquity possibly be trying to convey? [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that…
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Vert Der Ferk?
Even when you find yourself left speechless, you can still muster up the breath to exclaim: "Vert Der Ferk"? Vad fan?! [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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The Fourth Of July
"The Fourth of July: the emotional turning point of summer in North America" Another concept piece performed by Cubic Audio's Ascension virtual instrument along with Addictive Drums 2 laying down the beat. I composed it during the long Fourth of July weekend shortly after binge-watching season...
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Now Is Not The Time
"There is a time and a place for for everything. The place may be here, but the time is not now." This track is written in D Dorian with a brief dalliance into D Minor. All of the sounds are being performed by the following BeatSkillz virtual instruments: Synthwave Drums; Synthwave KZ; and Dark…
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Space Invader
If you were hoping to find a cover of the Pretenders' song, "Space Invader", this is not it. This track is a re-imagining of the theme from the classic arcade video game "Space Invaders" with its "fee-fi-fo-fum" descending bass motif. It is written in F# Dorian flat-2 because I like how easily…
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Exercise In Futility
An exercise in futility: trying to pin down the exact tonality and scale (or scales) for this track. There is about a 25% chance it is Db Major. Inevitably, it is what it is, and I guess I will just have to leave it at that. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I...
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Gruesome Foreshadowing [R3worked]
Captain Quint unwittingly alluded to his own demise. "Gruesome Foreshadowing" was originally composed for the 79th KVR One-Synth-Challenge using sounds exclusively created with Archetype Instruments's "Lokomotiv". This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement…
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Traipsing Thru Terror [R3worked]
"Traipse through terror, if thou dost dare to live dangerously." "Traipsing Thru Terror" was originally composed for the 55th KVR One-Synth-Challenge using sounds exclusively created with Pekka Kauppila's "MauSynth". This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement...
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Theme to M.U.L.E.
"M.U.L.E.: Multiple Use Labor Element. Mining, farming, general hauling - this mule-like machine can do it all. But if treated carelessly, M.U.L.E. could go berserk and run away. Although you loathe him, you've got a distant planet to settle. And for now, he's all you've got. Good luck. You're...
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Stylin'
"Stylin'. Always in style. Always in tune. Dübreq Stylophone. Simply stylin'." A simple track composed for the Dübreq Stylophone 50th Anniversary Global Music Competition. https://www.facebook.com/notes/stylophone/stylophone-50th-anniversary-terms-conditions/1805186966208182/ This song is…
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Sleepless (Up All Night, Up All Day, Up All Night) [R3worked]
When you and sleep have not connected in days. "Sleepless" was originally composed for a KVR One-Synth-Challenge and used sounds created by Synapse Audio's Dune synthesizer; this updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. rock guitar, rock drums, electric bass...
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Muckety Mux [R3worked]
"The muckety mux keep lying all the time. The muckety mux keep screwing us big time. It suckety sux!" This bombastic track began with a simple rock lick, and took off from there. It is composed exclusively in D Dorian. "Muckety Mux" was originally composed for the 80th KVR One-Synth-Challenge and...
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The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors [Rock Version]
"The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors... Lord of light, cast your light upon us." "The Night Is Dark And Full Of Terrors" was originally composed for the 52nd KVR One-Synth-Challenge. This updated version of the track features a more traditional rock arrangement (e.g. rock guitar, rock drums,...
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Traveling Alone
The trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs of traveling alone. [Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]
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ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, amateur composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of professional works within his own amateur ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the various synthesizers and sound modules that serve as the virtual musicians "performing" on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.
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