We all know Reyn loves a bit of Galway, especially at Christmas.   

Well, there's a party at Reyn's house and you're all invited!

Starring Green Beret loader, Green Beret Title, Reyn's London Demo and a very special guest.

A fun experiment to make a Christmas themed remix quickly before the 25th.

Lyrics:

Last Christmas
I gave you my SID
But the very next day
You blew it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll re-cap your worn out PSU

Christmas at Reyn’s

rapids

old mud monsters tune from Dragons Lair.
Quite a fun piece!

Mud Monsters

boulder tune from Dragons Lair 2.
This has been really expanded with a large development section, that gets quite frantic.

boulder

Welcome to Back in Time 4: Sidventure, part of the 8-Bit Symphony series of projects. It’s a series of symphonic tales, told with passion.

I planned Back in Time 4, 5 and 6 two decades ago to take over from where Back in Time 3 left off. It was always planned that they’d be largely symphonic, but it took a while (and many twists and turns) for reality to catch up.

This series of CDs contains computer-based performances of arrangements from the 8-Bit Symphony project. I used mostly VSTs from Orchestral Tools with additional libraries from Spitfire Audio, 8Dio, Impact Soundworks and Embertone. These were all integrated into Sibelius, and the scores were then marked up for realism (this is where the art comes in!). After that, they wereoutput into Cubase where they were timing-corrected, enhanced with light reverb, mixed, and then rendered. The CD was co-produced by Kenneth “Slaygon” Mutka who worked closely on this project since its inception, and without whom it wouldn’t exist. Many of the production ideas are his.

Arrangements were created by myself, Rob Hubbard, Gari Biasillo, Alisdair J. Pickering, Ben Daglish, Paul Norman, Peter Connelly, Julian Breeze, Alistair “Boz” Bowness, Marcel Donné. They were orchestrated by Rob, Alisdair and 8-Bit Symphony conductor Robin Tate.

Big thanks to “Back in Time Symphonic Collection” Kickstarter backers for their patience!

This project is of course dedicated to the memories of Ben Daglish and Richard Joseph. They would have got a kick out of all this.

Back in Time 4: Sidventure

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Back in Time 4: Sidventure (Sample)

This is variation number 3 on a game theme from the 80's. This is another lockdown mood day - just after a warm day.

Variation number 3

Variation number 4 from game theme, Crazy lockdown mood, creates this in 15/8. More video game style, so you go with the flow.

variation number 4

This is variation number 5. A different mood from lockdown. I like the mood of this, and someone should add a video to it!  And it's still based on an 80's game theme.

Variation number 5

Variation number 1 on a theme based on an old game tune from the 80's.

Variation number 1

I was asked many years ago to write a piece that was impossible to play. The ideas was to take it and put it on a piano roll. Not sure what ever happened with it. It uses a lot of ostinato and minimalist ideas - some good, some not so good. This was rendered using Sibelius and a piano VST.

Player PianoRoll

This was done for the film Bedroom to Billions. This mix features some really great guitar playing from Chris Garfield, on a magical session where everything just flowed. The guitar work in the background is a bit Fripp influenced - well that's what I suggested at the time! And Max did a great job on this track and the project.

Back in Time 4: Sidventure (Sample)

Chris Abbott