MaestroDraven

ATTENTION PATREON SUBSCRIBERS!

Hello fans, I'm grateful as can be for all of you who have helped my Patreon channel spring into action. To commemorate almost a full year of being on the platform, I've decided to make some new changes to the way content is handled via tiers. Paid Patreon subscribers will soon get access to some incredible new content that I'm cooking up, inclu...

The Grubby Dark Blue • Stage 3 - Seiren (Expanded & Enhanced) • THUNDER FORCE III

"The Grubby Dark Blue,"with its rather interesting and somewhat silly title, is one of the lighter songs on the Thunder Force III soundtrack, and while I didn't want to mess wit...

Venus Fire • Stage 2 - Gorgon (Expanded & Enhanced) • THUNDER FORCE III

"Venus Fire," I believe, is the best song on the Thunder Force III soundtrack, and the one I remember the most, with it's blistering-fast BPM, machine gun tom fills and lush sci-fi synthesizer work. I wanted it to be perfect, so I took the time to painstakingly recreate this song, note-for-note, with all the subtle pitch-bending and vibrato that...

Back To The Fire • Stage 1 - Hydra (Expanded & Enhanced) • THUNDER FORCE III

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The Wind Blew All Day Long (Expanded & Enhanced) • THUNDER FORCE III

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Final Zone (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

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"Final Zone" is comprised o...

Scrap Brain Zone (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

 "Scrap Brain Zone" is too straightforward a track to really mess around with, and any attempts will deviate too far for comfort. Therefore, I decided to keep the expansion relatively close to home, and the play length short and sweet. Sometimes less is more.

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Star Light Zone (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Took a while for me to figure out what to do with "Star Light Zone," but I knew I couldn't rush it. It's too much of a fan favorite. For this one, I attempted to spice it up a bit with some disco-ish elements, while maintaining the fun and lighthearted spirit of the original song. I'm very happy with how it turned out, no regrets.

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Labyrinth Zone (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

 "Labyrinth Zone" is a fun and lighthearted song that helped balance out the stress of one of Sonic the Hedgehog's most stressful levels. When the titular hero goes underwater, we're all a little bit thankful that the music is so cheery. I wanted to play that up with my expansion, which didn't deviate too far from the original. Some light t...

Thank you to my 5000+ SUBSCRIBERS!! MaestroDraven smokes a tribute cigar.

I just hit 5000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, and I couldn't be happier! This is the "Bronze" achievement. Next will be 10,000, then 100,000, and from there......chasing that platinum 1M subscriber count. We shall see. In the meantime, I'd like to thank you all for supporting me on YouTube over this journey. Watch the vid where I spill my g...

Spring Yard Zone (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

I just released "Spring Yard Zone," rewritten from scratch with a BRAND NEW EXPANSION for #SonicTheHedgehog fans to groove to on an otherwise-ordinary Monday. Had a lot of fun exploring and building on this track.

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Mortal Kombat A.I. Generated Characters

Check out my recent short where I show off the original characters from the first Mortal Kombat game (1992), reimagined by Fooocus AI and some clever (and difficult) prompting. What are your thoughts? Is A.I. shaping up to be a game-changer, or does it still have a long ways to go?

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Brawler's Nook (feat. IceFerno) • STREETS OF RAGE X

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Streets of Rage 3 (Expanded & Enhanced) • "FINAL CRASH" edition

This is the third of my "Final Crash" editions of the Streets of Rage video game soundtracks. For new viewers, these soundtracks are faithful note-for-note recreations of Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima's original SOR songs, built from the ground up with NO remix stems, and NO samples. Everything has been meticulously recreated from scratch....

Streets of Rage 2 (Expanded & Enhanced) • "FINAL CRASH" edition

This is the second of my "Final Crash" editions of the Streets of Rage video game soundtracks. For new viewers, these soundtracks are faithful note-for-note recreations of Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima's original SOR songs, built from the ground up with NO remix stems, and NO samples. Everything has been meticulously recreated from scratch...

Streets of Rage (Expanded & Enhanced) • "FINAL CRASH" edition

After almost a decade of constant revisions, training and experience, I've released the ultimate version of my Streets of Rage expanded & enhanced soundtracks. For new viewers, these soundtracks are faithful note-for-note recreations of Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima's original SOR songs, built from the ground up with NO remix stems, an...

Streets of Rage Anniversary Box Art

It's the 32nd anniversary of Streets of Rage's original release on the Sega Genesis. I'm commemorating it with a high-quality recreation of the original box art. I've shared this on YouTube and X, but Patrons get the FULL-RESOLUTION copy!

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Title Theme (Expanded & Enhanced) • SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

 The long wait is finally over! It's time for another soundtrack project, and SONIC THE HEDGEHOG has taken the stage. I wanted to get this soundtrack done early for two purposes. First, many of you have been clamoring for me to tackle this project (I see you, Nikos!) and two, I wanted to use it to drive more growth to the channel. 

"The Revenge Of Shinobi" Round 1 Wallpapers

Another gift for my Patrons, the first of many to come. Here's a series of artistic wallpapers for the first round of "The Revenge of Shinobi," to commemorate my newly-finished Expanded & Enhanced album. These wallpapers come in several prominent resolutions, right up to super-wide 5120x1440. Enjoy!

My Lover (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The original version of "My Lover" felt like 10% of a finished ending theme, and I wanted to greatly flesh it out without over-extending its allure and welcome. This meant beefing up the section with a twofold approach:

1) To stress the importance of the "good ending," and the saving of Naoko from certain death at the hands of Zeed's trap....

Silence Night (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The original version of "Silence Night" plays when the main player fails to rescue Naoko from being crushed to death during the final battle with Zeed, thus triggering the bad ending. The original 40+ second version of the song only hints at the tragedy of it all. I wanted my expansion to put the listener in the mind of Joe Musashi, and the angu...

The Ninja Master (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

Behold, the evil Zeed head-banging that heavy metal hair around to the tune of an expanded version of "The Ninja Master." For many Revenge of Shinobi fans, this was a stressful race to figure out how to slay this evil foe before Joe Musashi's beloved Naoko lost her Z-axis under the weight of a massive concrete ceiling. I wanted to play up the fr...

Labyrinth (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

"Labyrinth" is a track with very little content, and the constant repeat was always something of a huge annoyance in the original game. This is particularly true due to the nature of the level, which forces players to memorize a series of pathways and doors in order to reach the end. That can take a long time. I always imagined a fleshed out ver...

Over The Bay (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

After the very lengthy and complicated "China Town" expansion, I wanted to get back to basics for "Over The Bay," and focus on sticking close to the elements that make it such a fun little dance number. The expansion is a series of variations on the main theme with a few breaks thrown in between to pump up the intensity. It's straightforward and...

China Town (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The expansion for "China Town" has been in my head for years, which made the compositional part quite easy. It was the balancing and perfecting processes that took up a large bulk of the time. I wanted it to feel both electronically dreamy, and traditionally Asian-inspired, with several instruments committed to that goal. You, listener, will dec...

"The Dark City" (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

"The Dark City" is a simple tune, but sometimes those are the worst ones. Got severe writer's block with this one, and had to spend a few weeks figuring it out in my head before I could come up with something that made me happy. This is a jazzy tune, so I played that up with some smooth saxophone in the expansion just to liven things up, without...

"Ninja Step" (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

The best way to sum up "Ninja Step" would be to use the phrase "industrial funk." There's equal parts factory mechanics and equal parts old fashioned funk and street hop in this track, and I used that as the basis for my expansion.  The idea was to trigger memories of old-style street dancing from the 1980s when partying and having fun were...

"Run Or Die" (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

"Run Or Die" was the song that broke me about 5 years ago. I lacked the skill I deemed necessary in order to make a proper go of music making, and I realized that I would have to start over from scratch if I wanted to make a decent return. After my first version of this song, I purged my back catalogue and started over from scratch with Streets ...

"Like A Wind" (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

For this song, I wanted to pump up the expansion with the same frantic energy as the base tune. At the same time, I wanted to inject some feeling into it as well, almost like a very brief break in the storm before the intensity ramps back up again. A triple-piano seemed like the best bet, along with a few sampled sound effects from the actual ga...

"Make Me Dance" (Expanded & Enhanced) • THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI

"Make Me Dance" is a favorite tune of mine from the original Revenge of Shinobi soundtrack, so it was good to give this another go after so many years. I based this version on the expansion template I did a few years ago before I wiped my catalogue and restarted. It has the same level of variation with a lot more energy, and I'm happy with how i...