About Me
Hey hi howdy! I'm Millennium Hero, but you can call me Michiro if you'd like. I'm a chiptuner from Vancouver, Canada. I got my start by dabbling with FamiTracker in the summer of 2015. I only started getting slightly decent in 2019. Currently, I'm rocking with Dn-FamiTracker. 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, and Last Dinosaurs.
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.
Non-political podcasts. Podcast About List and Chuckle Sandwich. 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?
TWICE. K-pop (and Korean music in general) is actually pretty good, I think you guys are just racist.