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Yo, this transcended Bossa into Alt techno. Nobody told me I'd need to fight a miniboss to get OFF the elevator Lol This one's just got a dope/dark backbeat and energy. Like 'Knight Rider' in a car chase through time itself. Also, great job realizing that the bossa bass pattern can be done with tritones and not just perfect intervals. Very smart stuff.

This screams 'PS1 hub area at sunset beach resort' to me. The breathy vox pads in the background are such a nice touch. You successfully executed a bit-crushed conga sound I couldn't quite figure out, so kudos to you for that! This sounds less like an elevator and more like the waiting room at the spa I'm taking the elevator to get to lol Nice work all around.

That bass part was WAY too smooth LOL Might have to do a cover of this for fun. Love the simply melody and pad interjections as well. Lovely!

Quite the relaxing loop! You really took your time with each tonal center shift and paced things very organically. Compositionally solid and also a vibe and a half. No notes otherwise from me! Make sure to add this to your personal study/unwinding playlist because I know I will. 

My favorite entry! You managed to find a way to develop a relaxing energy out of an ominous and uncertain one and I'm not even sure how you managed that with such an unconventional style. Probably gonna need to listen to this more to analyze it because there's so much going on production wise and musically. I'm also a sucker for SFX that work alongside the composition. Both the humming of the moving elevator (which changed pitch slightly in a pretty realistic way) and alarm system chiming in time were great ways to follow-through on such a neat idea. The video only helped solidify an already clear concept. A truly atonal bossa, which I've NEVER heard before. Very cool and fantastic job!

This one has such straight-forward clarity and a lot of tasty components! Love the anticipatory backloading of the bass part by introducing it with the mallets first. Measures 25-37 was a really cool variation idea. I would love if the warms pads that took over the original melody were a bit more present (since they're a naturally softer texture anyway) which would allow for even more intensity from the primary solo layer (Melody 1). You'd get a keep a consistent idea chugging along while also continuing to keep things interesting. The synth textures overall are so naturally futuristic sounding. Great selections there!

LOVE a minimalistic progression! Your layering of each new instrument added reminds me of a loop pedal arrangement, where each new voice is added one at a time. I would've actually like to hear another loop or two, wherein we could hear all the instruments together a bit longer (since it took a bit for them all to arrive into the track).

I think the bass color you chose is really fun and goes well with the other synths, but I was waiting for something to help fill in the "low-end" frequency since most of these instruments are pretty "mid and high-end" which left some unused space, I think. This would be a great one to continue developing post-Jam. Reminds me of the 'Baba Is You' ost. Great job!

That timbale player needs to be either promoted or locked up (with their instrument, of course) for that solo at the end. There IS no in-between. LOL Also I love the toy mixing in general. The Guiro sounds like it's right behind my right shoulder (best seat in the house?).

Did the timbale you were using have any other pitches for the rimshots? I think it could've maybe used at least ONE more for further variation, but it was locked on a good pitch for this track admittedly.

There is a back and forth there for sure. I wanted to keep the feel dynamic without changing the groove TOO often, but I'm happy that every instrument got its time to shine. Hopefully, we done get ambushed by Bossa-enjoying musicians in an elevator in any of OUR futures [unless we can join in ;) ] lol Thanks for the feedback!

I promise a friend of mine who found some great Bossa tracks to listen in preparation that I'd fit Cuica in somewhere. Also, when else do I ever get to include them? It had to be done. 

I definitely didn't go far enough with the bitcrushing effect because it sounded a little TOO strange, but it was an attempt at sounding futuristic that I gave up on.

I appreciate it, Xiro. Thanks for sharing this Jam, I'll definitely do more the the future!

I definitely just wanted an upbeat Bossa but after reading this I realized that I did choose a lot of objectively comedic sounding instruments LOL Also, that scenario you just described reminds me of the music video for 'Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim. I'll take that as a HUGE compliment, so ty! 

My voice is my most comfortable instrument, by far. I would typically do at least a little bit of pitch correction (especially for unison and octave lines) but I genuinely didn't have time and it was just faster to keep doing takes until I sung in tune enough times to splice the best parts together. No auto-tune was used AT ALL. I have a healthy tenor range and falsetto so I'm used to singing high when needed, but I definitely had water on standby while recording  Lol

It's the year 2147, I just plugged in my Wii Motion Plus (17th Edition) and am about to play Mario Galaxy 13. I'm all plugged in and ready to game when this delightful little jingle plays in the start-up menu. I start moving to the beat after hearing some tasty secondary dominants and cool vibraphone gestures alongside some good old fashion Bossa beats. I am then thrown out of the Nintendo HQ for breaking and entering, stealing new products, and hogging space in the elevator to play my ill-gotten game. Well, at least I have Sunset Elevator to play me out. Excellent Work!

I like that this would work as haunted waiting room music as well as a truly macabre ballroom dance track! If you ever decide to rearrange some of your tracks for orchestra, make sure not to leave this one behind. Bravo! 

Thank you so much! All the voices and trombone were done live with my phone (my mic interface is shot atm, so now I have 15 new files in my phone's storage lol) while listening to the track playing from my laptop. Luckily, I got some solid takes in there that I was able to quickly splice together since I only had around 2.5 hours left before the deadline by the time I started editing vocals (I didn't even have time for any detailed mixing or pitch correction, which might've be better for the Bossa-style in some ways).

VERY fair critique on the texture not sounding as futuristic as it probably could. I got wrapped up in learning how to properly write a Bossa Nova and hoped I'd find the right synth colors and DnB backbeat to help accommodate that limitation, but in the end it sounds more like a 'modern club mix' rather than even a dedicated sci-fi game track or something similar. Appreciate the feedback!

This game is RIGHT up my alley. Very 'Baba Is You' and all the mechanics meshed REALLY well. Gonna disagree with one of the other comments that didn't like the manual "twice in the same direction" inputs since I think keeping track of your anomaly inputs is part of managing the puzzle, but I WOULD say that each key press could be a bit more responsive. It felt like my input presses got dropped every now and again. Beat all 12 levels and had a blast using my noggin. Great stuff!