About Me
Hey hi howdy! I'm Millennium Hero, but you can call me MH, Red, or "Michiro" if you'd like. I'm a chiptuner from Vancouver, Canada, and I've been chiptuning for at least ten years now! I got my start by dabbling with FamiTracker in the summer of 2015 but I only started getting slightly decent in 2019. I've been rocking with Dn-FamiTracker for its QoL workflow from its other derivative forks. As of late 2024, I've been tinkering with Furnace Tracker, particularly messing with the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16's HuC6280(A) soundchip, some Yamaha FM (mainly the YM2151), and sometimes either the SNES or the DS soundchips. Most of my uploads go on YouTube, but some are also "SoundCloud-exclusive." Sometimes I'll post WIPs and small arrangements in Discord. I wanna post them to Twitter but I just don't for some reason. I do plan on showing them off though. Aside from FamiTracker, I've done very minimal work in FL Studio (main daw) and I've been wanting to tackle Furnace Tracker.
Here are some examples of WIPs I posted publicly (I'm not embedding them here because it fucks up the formatting and I'm not really in the mood to fix it lol. Also because these are videos, the quality might turn out shit because it's Twitter):
Cool Japanese song from the 70s (RIP Masako Natsume).
The Cruel Angel's Thesis as a test using Furnace Tracker.
I've participated in various chiptune events and collabs. See my Discography section for more.
I'd describe my style as "pop"-ish I suppose. I usually listen to that kinda stuff, like J- or K-pop. My original chiptunes definitely reflect this, as they're not the typical "chiptune" you'd think of, like say, from a video game or whatever. I might lean more into that in the future, who knows.
Aside from chiptunes, I also dabble a little bit in pixel art. I've been doing little things here and there over the years, but I never had the time to develop any skills. I also didn't have any good programs; MS Paint is fine I guess, but ever since getting Aseprite, my life has changed completely.
Here are some pixel art pieces I've posted (again, not gonna embed any of them here):
Mariya Takeuchi for SiIvaGunner's 7th Anniversary.
Shape and reference test? Don't remember.
Likes and Interests
City pop. Particularly summer city pop like Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, Anri, Masayoshi Takanaka, Toshiki Kadomatsu, and Kazuhito Murata to name a couple. I love Omega Tribe so much. They embody the entire summer aesthetic so well. Aqua City and River's Island are just good albums. Toshiki's Summer Time Romance is a great no-skip compilation imo.
Anime/manga. I'm not super into it, but what I've read/seen has been pretty GD good so far. Sunk cost fallacy's keeping me tied to My Hero, no matter how rushed/bad this last act is going. Currently reading Undead Unluck and it's honestly one of the best out there right now. Tight story, developed characters, interesting concepts and worldbuilding, it's a shame it's underlooked.
Pixel art. I just think it's really neat how you can convey so much with so little in terms of colours and shapes. I also love how stylistic you can get with it. It's awesome.
Mario Kart. 200cc, frantic/custom items, hard CPU, 8 or 12 races, and we're racin' baby! Also the music throughout the series is so good.
Indie music(?). My current favourites have to be The Charm Park, Mustard Service, Last Dinosaurs, and The Symposium.
Spider-Man. One of the greatest comic book characters I guess. Not a super fan, I just generally love the character. I've seen the movies and watched my brother play the beginning and end of Marvel's Spider-Man. Insomniac's iteration of Peter Parker/Spider-Man is probably the best. The Advanced Suit is soooooo good, and I love Yuri Lowenthal's Peter.
Marvel Comic's The Ultimates (2024) by Deniz Camp & Juan Frigeri. Speaking of Marvel, I've been enjoying the hell out of The Ultimates. I'm not much of a comic guy but I've read my fair share of Marvel comics. Only the big event ones though, like the Infinity Trilogy (Gauntlet, War, Crusade), Secret Wars (2015), and Ultimate Invasion. I don't know why or what got me wanting to read The Ultimates, but goddamn it's so good! The idea of a reimagined universe where superheroes are standing up against the status quo, the world that took everything away from them, where revolutionists consist of normal people and superpowered individuals. I'm not a political guy but I do like what's being presented here. Camp's writing of both the story and characters is so pleasing to read, and Frigeri's art really brings it together. God what a duo. Shoutout to Tony, Doom, Cap, and Jim Hammond. Earth-6160 Janet I need you so bad.
Podcasts (non-political). Podcast About List. Just guys having a convo and doing bits. Would you wake a pervert from a nightmare? Stroke a handsome strangler? Let a nasty adjunct professor get nasty with it crazy style one time? I don't know, maybe I just like funny guys!
TWICE. K-pop (and Korean music in general) is actually pretty good, I think you guys are just racist.