Zackery Wilson’s DSQUE concept album, built on the Nintendo DS portable console soundfonts, is now available through the musician's Bandcamp page. Also streaming on SoundCloud and YouTube, the third installment in the "ESQUE" series contains all original compositions.

“Each [track] was created using only one soundfont (exclusive to each respective game)," reads the liner notes. [A]gain, only taking liberties with audio production and some creative sample manipulation (i.e. pitch-shifting, time-stretching, etc.); the structure of each track limited to roughly a minute’s worth of music, looping once (in the tradition of standard video game ‘level’ music) before fading out.”

The previously released "SNESQUE II" concept album served as the follow-up to 2014's original music compilation built from Super Nintendo soundfonts. Audio samples from 16-bit games provided the basis for each music track.


From the liner notes:

Zackery Wilson’s "DSQUE" — the third installment in the "ESQUE" series — is the intersection of Nintendo DS soundfonts (collections of samples from original Nintendo DS video games) and present-day audio production (e.g. EQ, delay, reverb, filters, etc.). "DSQUE" features “modernized retro” (i.e. simultaneously nostalgic and progressive) composition and sound design, while maintaining the formula laid out in the original "SNESQUE" albums.

Bandcamp - SNESQUE SERIES

Zackery Wilson · DSQUE [Full Album]

🌊 "Deep and Y’d" 🌊

— An original track created using the Nintendo DS "Yoshi’s Island DS" soundfont, featured on the album "DSQUE" —https://t.co/PzER8qiHlY pic.twitter.com/qpJ6UCddwK

— Zackery Wilson (@ZackeryWilson) July 21, 2023