Hi there everyone. Totta here (yet another guy from Sweden)
Since I now have uploaded my first remix to RKO, this might be the right time to say hi to you all and tell you a little about myself.
I've always been into chip music. Even from the start when I made tapes with music from the MSX computer and later from the C64. During my teens (I'm 37 now) I spent quite a lot of time making modules on the Amiga and later on keyboards/sequencers but when I got my first kid in 2003, I stopped making music totally.
This summer I decided to pick it up again and since I once liked to work with trackers 15 years ago, I thought I might as well see what has happened to the world of trackers. I then found Renoise and I was hooked. Talk about coming home.
The first project I made the following weeks was Primeiro. A Jarre-influenced original piece which you can find here:
http://www.tottalmedia.se/music/primeiro.mp3
I'm quite surprised of the result since it was my first piece of music in 8 years and with a software I had never used before.
After that I have made several more original pieces but funnily enough I find myself sticking in bits and pieces of C64 melodies here and there in my music. It sometimes comes as a surprise to me. One example is this one:
http://www.tottalmedia.se/music/nycamp.mp3
Let's see if anyone can spot the influences at 1.54.
And sometimes the song simply sounds like a Daglish tune, like this one:
http://www.tottalmedia.se/music/groovy.mp3
I blame Slay Radio, RKO and Chris Abbott for all this of course.
So, three days ago I thought to myself: Why not go all the way? Why not make a remix and contribute to all the magnificent remixes that are already out there.
By accident the target became Bulldog by Ben Daglish. Don't ask me why. I just felt that there was a lack of non-sid remixes of that song. You can find it here (and hopefully on RKO in a few hours)
http://www.tottalmedia.se/music/bulldog.mp3
Hmmm... what else can I say about me? Influences in the real world are of course Jarre, Vangelis, Koto, Laserdance and others. In the computer world there are of course Hubbard, Galway, Daglish but also Konami's female musician Miki Higashino who made Gradius, Salamander, Yie-Ar Kung Fu and the AMAZING music to Knightmare on the MSX.
Favourite C64-tune? Hmmm... maybe Tetris by Wally Beben. I find that one amazingly well composed.
And the future? Well, there will certainly be more remixes from me. Maybe even soon. This was fun!
Keep up the good work everyone. It's amazing that 20 year old music still engages us all. It can't be only nostalgica.
) finding I was playing the games less and less and listening to the actual music more and more. Jumped ship to Amiga when that came out, started creating Games ( Amos WAS cool despite what people say heh ) with other like minded people but still listening, still loving that sound of SID, thankyou HVSC!! heh. Yes I'm of the 'older' generation.
synthetic sweetness!