Dief
| Dief
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| Release date | 2017-03-13 |
| Genre | Ambient, Breakbeat |
| Running time | 32:01 |
| Bandcamp | $5 or more |
| Apple Music/iTunes | $5.99 |
| Spotify | Ad-supported |
| Google Play Music | $5.99 |
 | This article is still a work in progress. Technically all of them are, but this one might not be completely ready for public viewing. |
Dief is the soundtrack to the GDC talk Still Grooving: Game Dev Life Set to Live Music (alternatively Keep Grooving: Life Musings & Live Musics), which was presented by Teddy Dief, director of the game Hyper Light Drifter and the album's namesake.
The talk can be watched for free here, and features Daniel Rosenfeld playing music from the album live.
Official descriptions
Dief is a short album created in under two weeks for a performance piece by Teddy Dief at GDC 2017. It runs at a smooth 90BPM at all times and is here to relax and calm you down. The album art is by creative genius Ben Swinden
“Dief” is a short album created in under two weeks for Teddy Dief‘s GDC Talk “Still Grooving: Game Dev Life Set to Live Music”.The artwork by the way is made by game designer artist musician multitalent Ben Swinden.
As the title implies, I’ve created backing music as Teddy read a sort of poem about his life. The talk itself worked better than we anticipated! We had very little time working on it, mostly because Teddy is a busy boy directing a new game at Square Enix, which, who knows how much time that swallows.
Everything of “Dief” runs at a smooth 90BPM, mostly because I had to make sure the BPM was the same all across the board so I could quickly switch over to any song that I desire. However, the album version of course doesn’t do any crazy transitioning, it’s more of a normal traditional breakbeat style album. I’m hoping it works really well with just playing it in the background and chilling to it.
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I’m pretty happy with what I’ve managed to accomplish in less than two weeks. It’s of course SUPER simple and you can’t really compare it to the works I’ve spent years on. Still, it chill, ok.—C418, c418.org