Goddamn, this is amazing, too. Do you have an actual C64 or do you emulate? Curious what your setup looks like.

i like so much of your music's style with amazings crescendo

Still one of my favourite pieces of yours!

Fantastic track! Rememeberd this well from the Datastorm compo :)

Remindes me some castlevania tracks in castlevania3, from nes console. Great work

This remake took a couple of tries to get right. The original XM competed in the multichannel compo at The Party 1995. It ended up in 16:th place which I felt pretty good about, given that the mix was absolute mooseshit.

Plenty of things ended up on the shop floor for this one. The original drums were all room and no slap. The guitar sample I stole from Zodiak (Hej, Erik!) had to be axed, as did the obscure wah wah guitar sample I forgot the source of. Most significantly, though, that pretty psyched sax solo had to go, as it was nicked from some The Roots live bootleg, so I decided to hand the reins over to the keyboards for this one. When in doubt, always bet on a hardsync solo.

The part at 3:11 is actually a decent enough ending, but I really didn't feel like wrapping it up. Three-minute songs honestly feel too short these days, so I threw in a return of the main motif with this meandering kinda "just play what you want, this is the fadeout anyway" part that was just fantastic to make. Always loved a good jam.

Mooserun

Way back in the stone age of digital composing, it was possible for one person to store a musical project in a tiny 500 KB file, send to to a different person halfway across the area code (because good lord dialing long distance was for madmen) and every note, sample and delicious pitch bend would be right there. Kinda neat when you think about it.

This track started its life at the desk of Radix / Mosaik / The One Of Several Names, whose creations have always blown my socks off with their restrained glee and wonder. The man builds miracles just because he can, and doesn't show off -- in stark contrast to myself, whose first instinct on this collab was to add horns, MORE DRUMS and a timbale solo. Of course he was right in humbly suggesting we dial that shit down a notch, and so the track was released unto the world.

With permission from Radix, then, here it is in its restored glory. And the timbale solo is back.

Original XM, released January 1997: https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/fishing.zip

Gone Fishing

XM remake from 1997.

I never really cared for this track. The sounds, sampled off a Roland JV-35, were clean and reasonably punchy but also quite flat and annoying. The lead sound was grating, the solo atrocious, and the melody had a childish, irritating quality that has this track firmly on my shitlist. All the more reason to give it a second chance!

First up was deciding what to do about the lead instrument. After some experimentation I found a tweak to my standard "two slightly detuned saws" that brought a bit more motion to it, something needed for all those sustained notes. I also dug into the organ arrangement, trying to pepper some inspiration into the very monotonous chord progressions.

As always with these remakes, it's humbling for me to hear my musical ideas come out with more clarity and purpose, and as per the rule, this is now one of my favorites. I hope it'll be yours too.

Original XM:
https://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/tito/champagn.zip

Champagne

Collapsar (LSDJ - Game Boy)

An old track from 2000, done in Jeskola Buzz Tracker
with mostly realtime synthesized instruments and some
samples for drums.

linzner@shinen.com            

Cessation

Based on an old Amiga game song of mine. Done around 1999.

Thousand Tales

https://multistylelabs.bandcamp.com/album/modern-love-classics
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=157489
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=71132

Jammer - Walking Squares

Extended version of the main tune from demo "Neon" by Triad. http://csdb.dk/release/?id=153521

This demo won the demo competition at Datastorm 2017.

Neon (Original Extended Version)

Is it possible to write a song that isn't really in a key? I dunno how well this actually worked, but it sure was fun to try. I wanted to keep the melody easy and approachable, but keep the harmonies shifting and sliding. The solo part is in "fake 7/8," meaning it's actually in 4/4 which sounds weird and spooky. 

Enjoy!

Double Augment

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X-17

Hybrid

15/03/2019
i was feeling romantic that night, so i did this thing and i was so into it i thought it'd be done the next morning... but i ended up getting even more passionate about it and spent days on it. =) i never know when to stop.
module (.xm) : https://raphaelgoul.art/files/xemogasa/perfect_match.xm

perfect match (.xm)

Commodore 64 musician from Finland, ever since 1989. 


C64-history:
http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=530

Neon (Original Extended Version)

Antti Hannula aka Flex

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