After 8 years of hard work and a lot of procrastination your maybe favorite C64 rock band PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is proud to present the results: 26 tunes bundled in a double CD album with the title HOME COMPUTER. The covered tunes are: Formula 1 Simulator, Winter Games (Hot Dog), Parappa The Rapper 2 (Toasty Buns), Ghosts'n Goblins, Gods (Into The Wonderful), Nonterraqueous, Future Knight, The Human Race, Knuckle Buster, Lightforce, One Man And His Droid, Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Last Ninja (The Wilderness), Master Of Magic, Aztec Challenge, Thrust, Commando, Sanxion, Shockway Rider, Monty On The Run, and Zoids. Some of them you have seen before from PPOT but these are re-recordings as the band would like to update their renditions of them. Still have your breath? Together with the covered tunes PPOT also releases a small handful of own material where The Man with the Gun is already well known as it was released a while back on YouTube.
The album can be bought on iTunes, c64audio, Maz sounds, SynSoniq and CSW verlag. Have a look at PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's homepageto see more about buying the album.
The physical album comes in a three page digipack with a 32 page booklet with pictures of the band taking you from the earliest years to today. The album cover has already received a lot of attention but have a look for yourself!
The classic Turrican games brought nonstop action to all gaming systems of the 80's and 90's (including the C64, Amiga, Atari ST and PC, as well as the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo). The beautiful synthesizer soundtracks for the series were created by Chris Huelsbeck, arguably one of today's most popular game music composers in the world. His music certainly played a major role in shaping Turrican into a digital legend over the years. Chris has recently announced plans to bring the cosmic warrior back from retirement, with the production of a Soundtrack Anthology - an epic limited edition box set of no less than four CDs, which will feature almost every melody from the saga in newly arranged and recorded versions! More information on this box set, which will only be available until June 3rd, 2012, can be found at www.turricansoundtrack.com.
Almost two decades after the last Turrican title was released, BitJam pays tribute to these games and their wonderful music with a dedicated podcast episode. Featured tracks include remixes by Chris himself, as well as a selection of fan arrangements, handpicked by Huelsbeck and the co-producers of his Turrican Soundtrack Anthology.
Mixing by Vincenzo, logo #151 by H2O, compiled by Chris Huelsbeck, Jan Zottmann & Thomas Böcker.
Featuring a cosmic hero in a silver battlesuit, the »Turrican« series of games brought nonstop action to all gaming systems of the 80’s and 90’s. The beautiful synthesizer scores for these games were created by Chris Huelsbeck, arguably one of today’s most popular game music composers in the world. Huelsbeck’s soundtracks certainly played a major role in shaping »Turrican« into a digital legend over the years. Almost 20 years have passed since the last game in the series was released, but Chris has big plans to bring »Turrican« back from retirement –at least musically– with the production of the »Turrican Soundtrack Anthology«.
General Conversation • Re: Tjek this C64 bass guitar out
Junkyard?... maybe it was found there, but according to the text it's not junk, the girl actualy made the FPGA code for a C64 on a chip it says... that's cool stuff... a tech woman... these are a scarcity on earth.... these women that is Statistics: Posted by Razmo — 21/05/2012 - 20:57
General Conversation • Re: Anyone got a SIDstation?
It's also more fun to have a machine that you have done yourself
A tip; always solder the smallest components FIRST, and work upward so that the tallest components is soldered last... this is a lot easier... believe me.
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Other Releases • REDUX for SEGA DREAMCAST with CHRIS HÜLSBECK REMIX
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Redux: Dark Matters is the up and coming space shooting game for SEGA DREAMCAST with fresh scoring elements and an incredible soundtrack composed by Andre Neuman featuring legendary video game composer Chris Huelsbeck.
It's that low ebb in the middle of the week and you need some retro silliness to prop yourself up between the two weekends. What better way is there than to listen to a Midlander barely talk any form of English in between your requests? All aboard the Train-Wreck, WOO WOOH!
Episode 019 - A Tribute To Paul Hadrill (DJ Skitz)
Episode 19 of OMAHM is dedicated to my good friend Paul 'DJ Skitz' Hadrill who sadly passed away on February 16th 2011 after a brave 5 year battle with a brain tumour. DJ Skitz was a popular member of the retro scene and contributed a fine selection of C64 remixes to Remix.Kwed.Org. He was also a regular attendee at retro computer events and regularly hosted shows on SLAYRadio.
Episode 18 of OMAHM is a SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis) Special! Join Kenz on a 1 hour musical journey through various classic Mega Drive tunes including Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Thunder Force IV, Comix Zone, Castlevania Bloodlines, Sword Of Vermilion and many more. The show also includes an exclusive track from the previously unreleased Psygnosis game Hardcore!
The 17th episode of OMAHM is devoted to Psytronik Software - the software label I originally set up in 1993. The show features music from the games that were released back in the 1990's by Psytronik along with tracks from the newer Psytronik releases from when the label was relaunched in 2008. The show features music recorded directly from the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Plus/4 computers along with remixes of Psytronik game tunes.
To celebrate the release of the new TRON LEGACY movie this episode of OMAHM is devoted to the music from the TRON movies and videogames. The show contains snippets from the original TRON movie soundtrack, previews of new tracks from the TRON LEGACY soundtrack (by Daft Punk) along with music from Tron related games ...
Episode 15 of One Man And His Mic is devoted to the C64 musician PVCF of Reflex. The show features superb SID tunes recorded by PVCF from his very own SID chip, an incredible new song called 'I Am Back', a stunning new remix of his famous track 'My Number Is C64' along with examples of his music produced for other systems. The show also features an exclusive interview with PVCF!
Ho-ho-ho! Christmas comes a few days early this year. After passing my project manager exam on December 13th, I cleared the mountain of books and papers off my desk and started preparing this episode. In honour of this being the 50th show(!) here’s almost an hours worth of sonic delight – five remixes and five chiptunes, carefully selected for your enjoyment. And while the show doesn’t have a Christmas theme as such, the closing tune should be able to melt even the coldest of hearts and let the Commodore love flow freely. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!
Download or listen to the show (57:05, 102 Mb, MP3)
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Also, if you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
Greetings programmes! After another massive delay caused by too much going on at work, causing me to relax (among other things) in front of the Xbox rather than sit down in front of the microphone every month or two, here’s the first episode of 2011(!). Hopefully making up for the radio silence with nine carefully selected tunes – including not one, but two classic remixes. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music.
Download or listen to the show (45:27, 65,2 Mb, MP3)
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If you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
In return for your patience with my completely erratic publishing schedule here is a little something for your Christmas stocking. Sadly, the (huge) delay is partly caused by the podcast going back to its single-host roots, as Makke has had to cancel his co-host gig. That being said, here’s eight carefully selected tunes that should put a smile on your face – including one that’s become a regular fixture at this time of year. And a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!
Download or listen to the show (46:52, 68 Mb, MP3)
Music played:
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
As some of you might have seen on our twitter feed, Operation Fatherhood has forced Makke to shelve his co-hosting of the #C64 Take-away. I only learned this a week ago myself (not the fatherhood bit – that’s been out in the open for a while) – and the news was a bit of a shock, truth be told. Rest assured that there aren’t any complications or anything of the sort – it’s just eating up his spare time, which babies have a tendency to do.
While I have managed to create the bulk of the show on my own in the past, I believe that Makke’s contribution has become an integral part of the podcast format since he joined up back in early 2009. Which makes it harder to go back to the old single-host formula. Sure, I might be able to get another co-host (although right now I have no idea who that would be) and set up a double ended recording to compensate for us being in different locations. But there’s something about being in the same room as your co-host that comes across in the final product.
Long story short, this leaves the podcast in the state that the old K Foundation poster referred to as a “major rethink in progress“.
In the meantime, please let me know what you think – either in the comments, via twitter, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway ->at<- gmail ->dot<- com. Thank you.
Just in time for Christmas, Makke and Jan skip an obvious opportunity to pour themselves a generous helping of glühwein. Instead they get all serious (well, not really), and cook up a delicious Commodore 64 styled music burger for you: Two Christmas tunes make up the bun, a solitary SID chiptune provides the dressing, and between it a solid slab of meat mixed from shredded guitars, beatup drums, and pounded pianos. Also, to spice things up there’s C64-related “news”, feedback, and the usual banter on the side. And the “Classic Remix” segment takes us all the way back to 2001.
Download or listen to the MP3 here (56:54, 52 Mb)
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The Poke 20 album contains 21(!) remixes of Monty On The Run. And no mention of Rob Hubbard in the liner notes. And it violates its own Creative Commons license as well. Boo! Hiss!
The Chameleon 64 cartridge contains a metric tonne of goodies: 1541 Emulator, REU, RetroReplay, VGA output, PS/2 mouse port, and more. Expected to ship in 2010, pre-order now for 219 EUR.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway.
As usual, get your latest remixes on <a href="http://http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> and go get the RKO-2012 Q-1 <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a>. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
*edit* Thanks for the 8 seeds, three were expected so hail to the other five.
18-04-12 One tune was truncated, updated the torrent with he correct version.
Yep, it's official!
The SLAY Radio Gathering is going to happen again in 2012 and it will be on the first week in August!
SATURDAY AUGUST 4th is the main day, with a barbecue at Keillers Park (weather permitting) in the daytime and the get-together in the function room of Kville Biljard in the evening.
FRIDAY AUGUST 3rd will, of course, be the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering in the evening in the main room of Kville Biljard.
More information will become available soon, but in the meantime you can look at the SLAY Radio Gathering Hotspots map on Google Maps:
http://g.co/maps/4kkr5
A Facebook event has been created <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/338382769528067/" target="_new">here</a>.
See you there!
**EDIT**
Of COURSE we should have realized that there's something BIG happening in London around the same time - namely, the 2012 Olympics! This, unfortunately, is making airplane tickets to/from the UK rather expensive.
We understand that this may make travel for UK-based listeners difficult and we would like to apologize in advance. What we have decided for the moment, however, is that we are going to continue hosting the Gathering on the same date, to go with tradition. If the travel expenses are really too high this year, we're sorry, but rest assured that there will be another Gathering next year!
***EDIT 2***
Legal age for entrance to Kville Biljard (which counts as a pub) is 18 years, just so you know. Sorry to you younger listeners out there, but 18 is the minimum age to enjoy the full evening!
Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011
Just in time for the Roty 2011 show here is the best of 2000-2011 torrent. Let's see if high votes also mean a place in the Roty!
Jarno Beumer did it again and collected the top 10-songs published on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> of every year and shared this compilation as a torrent so the best C64-remixes are just a few mouseclicks away for anyone.
As 2011 ended, I send a polite request wich went something like this: Hey Jarno, you lazy git it's time to wake up and update that there best of torrrent, he promptly updated his torrent 2000-2009 and added the top 10 songs of 2010-2011 as well. Not to mention he went above and beyond duty and rechecked the previous years also. You want the very best of remixed C64-songs as vote for on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> ? Go grab the Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011.torrent <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a>
As usual get your latest remixes on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Now something different LPChip requested a full rko torrent. Which is a bit to keep updated so I'm thinking of making a RKO First Decade and Second Decade torrent. First Decade is just the complete 2000 (since it has everything before that) Second decade will be 2001-2010. Thoughts, want it? leave a comment.
Misser
*edit
Ps. I place all my torrents in a sub dir called: "RKO C64" and then named after the torrent etc. This keeps it easy to make yearly torrents from quaterly etc. And also would make it easy to make a Second Decade torrent since that would be "RKO C64RKO-20XX Complete dirs"
Meanwhile I cleaned up the tracker a bit with input form LPCHip. Hide the quarterly torrents. They will be serviced untill absolete.
*edit 2
Thee-hi seems 2001-2010 is just to big to handle for Slacker. So no decade torrents in a while.
RKO Q4 and complete 2011 and some rumours. *Update*
As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2011 torrent <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a> and since it´s almost the end of the year, get the Complete 2011 <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a> also. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Hi all,
With the kind permission of NecroPolo, I have today added his album <a href="http://www.c64audio.com/productInfo.php?cat=NP01" target="_new">rakBIT</a> to the rotational.
Here's what c64audio.com says about this piece of retro goodness:
"NecroPolo has produced a stunning album which is built on a vintage prog-sound: from hard as nails to Rhodes-heaven, NecroPolo has got beneath the skin of the pieces and created something which is totally authentic to their spirit.
As if that wasn't enough, this album features the first ever C64-executable album cover, complete with classic scrolltext and the original SIDs that appear on the album, in one PRG!
And if THAT wasn't enough, this demo contains the first ever usage of a revolutionary new SID encoding format which enables any complexity of SID to be played back with minimal raster time, no matter how complex the player! Named SIDRIP, this routine was produced by Hermit specially for this demo, because pieces such as Scoll Machine or Rimrunner needed to feature in this demo, and their players were far too difficult to squeeze into a one-file demo."
Thanks NecroPolo!
After a few years pause, Bleepstreet is back with a new relocated team and new releases. The label was originally founded in 1998 by Johan Kotlinski, most known for making the LSDj software for Gameboy.Apparently, a new batch of Bleepstreet releases are imminent, so if you are into "nu-chip" related music this is definitely the label to watch out for the next decade.Bleepstreet released among
In this video, Jeri Ellsworth explains the phase accumulators in the c64 SID sound chip. This technique was used in many early synthesizers and sound chips. Jeri Ellsworth is most known for creating the C64 DTV, the all in one joystick emulator in 2004. She is also responsible for designing the FPGA chip of the C-One, so I guess no more introduction is needed, enjoy this master lesson.Use an FPGA
Via littlescale comes a basic but handy C64 sample pack. The pack contains samples of every C and G note from C-2 to G 6 for the main basic waveforms of a Commodore 64 (8580 SID chip). The waveforms are triangle, sawtooth, pulse and noise. The duty cycle for the pulse wave was set to approximately 50%. The samples were recorded from C64 hardware directly using a custom designed interface.//
The Norwegian composer Geir Tjelta has introduced a new trick for the SID-chip: realtime delay. The output of the third channel of the SID can be recorded, and by delaying the playback of the sample on the “virtual” fourth channel, you get a subtle echo. This routine doesn’t use much CPU-time either. A nice and elegant trick. Get the exe and mp3 here. It needs to run on the old 6581 chip, since
A team of supertalented coders have managed to break the limits of C64 sound once again.The Human Coding Machine from Germany and SounDemoN from Finland, have managed to create a music routine that allows you to have:- 4 channels of 8-bit samplerate, digi playback- 2 channels of SID synth sound- You can filter both SID channels AND SAMPLES!- And you have enough rastertime to not being forced to
It's long ago since Paul's last upload but it was worth waiting for this release. The charme of C-64 revived while he managed a grandious melt of different styles. The only technical disadvantage are some crackles... Besides that there are no more words to discribe, just listen this stunning remix yourself!
My eyes lit up when I saw that this remix was supposed to be in Laserdance style. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to my initial enthusiasm.
The first problem is right off the start: there is no intro per se, and the various pulsating pieces just seem to fit together.
Then the drums come in, but they are too soft both in character and in volume - they're barely audible. Most of Laserdance's biggest hits use well-pronounced disco-style drum kits.
The chorded pads are also too washed out in the mix.
Finally, the outro - there's none. The remix ends as abruptly as it has begun, which is disappointing.
All in all, it's a good basic idea for a remix that needs a lot more work.
This CD is really four albums in one.
First, it presents dance versions of popular C64 tunes which were first put together to be played at the very first Back in Time live event.
Second, it presents what we regard as the ultimate versions of tunes which first featured on "Back in Time 1", such as Crazy Comets, or Monty on the Run.
Third, it brings a new and experimental vibe to some popular pieces like Wizball and Mutants.
And lastly, it is a testing ground for some of the ear-candy New Age ideas that later found their way into Crystal Dreamscapes.
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While I have managed to create the bulk of the show on my own in the past, I believe that Makke’s contribution has become an integral part of the podcast format since he joined up back in early 2009. Which makes it harder to go back to the old single-host formula. Sure, I might be able to get another co-host (although right now I have no idea who that would be) and set up a double ended recording to compensate for us being in different locations. But there’s something about being in the same room as your co-host that comes across in the final product.
Long story short, this leaves the podcast in the state that the old K Foundation poster referred to as a “
