Well this is something pretty special! Late in February Robot Elephant Records will be releasing 'SID Chip Sounds – The Music Of The Commodore 64'. This isn't just a collection of C64 track covered, like so many ChipTune compilation, these are the original tracks, remastered! Retro heaven! And there is some real gems on the record. The two major themes from Last Ninja and Last Ninja 2 for a start! Giana Sisters, Glider Rider, Cybernoid 2, Parallax, Commando and Gauntlet, amongst others, are all represented here. As is Martin Galway proto-industrial theme for Breakout-in-space [...]
Reformat the Planet , from 2 Player Productions is a documentary film about the chiptune movement, " a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware " or what I like to call, music that is nostalgic as shit . REFORMAT THE PLANET is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip tunes, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using old video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and [...]
DOWNLOAD: Ultravox - Vienna (MP3) DOWNLOAD: C64 Radio Commercial 1 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: C64 Radio Commercial 2 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Rob Hubbard - Commando (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Martin Galway - Street Hawk (unreleased) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Power Ups - Conan (Commodore 64) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Flvxxvm Florvm - Down in the Commodore 64 Dungeon (MP3) CNN's website has a misty-eyed feature [...]
Arkanoid , a PC game classic, has the most supreme, annihilating game song ever (and sports the first sample ever used published in a computer composition). From Wikipedia's entry on Martin Galway: [Galway] was also the first musician to get published with sampled sounds on the Commodore, with the theme for the Arkanoid conversion. When asked about how he did it, he answered: "I figured out how samples were played by hacking into someone else's code ... OK, I admit it ... It was a [...]
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