The Return of Katie Cadet

The Return of Katie Cadet is a spin-off electronica/dance music album of the a1130TV/MiaFan2010 Studios production StarFlyers Adventures. Creation of the album started on April 2019 after the completion of a Custom Built Windows 10 PC for Katie Cadet's Computer and Video Game Collection. It is the first music album in a1130TV/MiaFan2010 Studios history to be released after a five year hiatus in music tracking (2014-2019).

When fuzion_mixer released a remix of the "Lucky Star" song from eight years prior to the first song on the album, the creator behind the KatieCadet2012 persona decided to take that idea to a whole new level! All five tracks were composed using OpenMPT 1.28 on Windows 10, and production was completed on September 2019. The album is available on the ModArchive and SoundCloud, however, only the first track is available on the Amiga Music Preservation.

The creator behind the KatieCadet2012 persona was looking for ideas on making his first track on the album, so he was looking at Alanis Smithee's (WeabooName) YouTube channel with a video about the Rockett's First Dance hidden scene, and he liked the Blind Alley Blind audio clip, so he had to download it to his computer and made a Trance remix from that clip, and that's how "The Return of Katie Cadet" got started!

The third track on the album was created by memory of Loose Chippin's, an obscure British girl band from the late 90s up to the early 2000s. It also came in two different versions for SoundCloud, including one with vocals taken directly from the original recording.

The fourth and fifth tracks are the only two originals made for the album. The last track on the album was done on an HP Pavilion a6010n, which is a late 2000s Media Centre PC which originally came with Windows Vista. (Remember on The World of Speakonia Episode 2 where Microsoft Sam hated on Vista? Well, now you know!)

The track listing are as follows:

I. Blind Alley Blind Remix

II. Definition of Love Remix

III. Inspiration Remix

IV. Underground Groove

V. Groovy 90's 2019

The album artwork features Rockett Movado, Katie Cadet, and a character designed by LiamOB8. The album artwork mistakenly identifies the album as an episodic series (Volume 1), despite the album containing three remixes and two original songs. The creator behind the KatieCadet2012 persona ditched that idea in favour of a 25-minute album with six tracks in total.

The first four tracks contained samples from the OpenMPT Sample Library, but also re-uses the TR-909 cymbal and hi-hat samples from MiaFan2010's past song "I did it with my powers" (2012), as these samples were taken from the ROMs of an original Roland TR-909 drum machine, and digitally re-processed (and adding some EQ and Stereo Reverb) using Cool Edit 96 (now Adobe Audition) and GoldWave.

The original sources of all five tracks are in the Impulse Tracker 2.14 format using the OpenMPT compatibility export function. The Return of Katie Cadet received positive reception for all tracks - excluding one - on the ModArchive, with the total rating of 7.7 out of 10 (with the inclusion of the past songs from 2009-2014).