A-Lin's favorite chiptunes

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Chip Tunes

Game Remix

Atari

commodore 64 crunchies

Chiptune - large bag

always fresh

"Lauter" was my entry for the executable music compo (old school) at Nordlicht 2013 and became 3rd place. It was produced entirely at the party in a few hours. drunk. with crazy 110 db surrounding noise from the party ^_^ - so don't expect too much. ;-) It was composed on a real C64 with an 8580 SID. The tune was directly sampled from my C64 machine. Check it out on your real hardware at http://csdb.dk/release/?id=120671

The awesome C64 multicolor picture is called "Shrill" by Yazoo/Arsenic.

You can download my tunes at http://devilock64.bandcamp.com/

Lauter

This is the ingame soundtrack for "Heli in the Caves" - an Atari XL/XE game by H.A.R. The song is a 3-channel Pokey track as one channel was reserved for sound effects.

Metri (Atari XL/XE Pokey)

Mega Man 2 - Metal Man Theme (Bioman Remix)

Off the new release "Vanity Selector" free for download at http://hunterquinn.bandcamp.com/ 


Relative Objectivity

Atari 2600   Moon Patrol

Holy shit. This one took all day. The four songs used in this Medley are:

Wood Man Theme
Dr. Wily's Castle Theme
Megaman 2 Intro Theme
Megaman 2 Title Theme

Mega Man 2 Metal Medley

ATARI 2600

My own arrangement of Metal Man from Mega Man 2. For Jazz Ensemble.

Mega Man 2 - Metal Man (Jazz Ensemble)

Mega Man 2 - Metal Man Stage Remix

A little spring loop for Silly Venture. The biggest Atari demoscene event in Europe will take place in Gdansk, Poland, from 5th to 7th December 2014 ! This year we'll celebrate the 25 years of Atari STE :)
http://www.sillyventure.eu/eng_start
Artwork by mOOnie / MSB
1st track of my upcoming EP

Silly Venture (Atari STE)

My tiny contribution for the music competition at the Sommarhack 2014 Demoparty. Ended up 5th place (which sounds far better than last place ;)

Tracked using the Freeware RMT / Raster Music Tracker. Native File should run on a stock Atari 800XL.

Download the zipped executable here:
http://files.dhs.nu/party/sommarhack2014/triace-happy_pokey_stomper.zip

Everytime strange to upload a converted chiptune <10 kb to an multi-megabyte-mp3 ;)


Triace - Happy Pokey Stomper (Pokey Chiptune)

bosquejos e ideas (algunos robos y covers tambien jeje)

75 Atari 2600 Games (VCS)

Before it was called "chiptune", we called it "music" because it was the way you made music on computers for games and demos. It wasn't a choice so much as a necessity due to limitations in 80s hardware.

Sure, soundtrackers using samples were starting to pop up but more so on the Commodore Amiga than the Atari ST, the latter not being able to do much else while its 8MHz CPU was tied up real-time mixing four channels of samples. (The Amiga had dedicated hardware.) At some point, we started calling it blip-blop to distinguish it from the growing sample tracker movement (and digidrum, which blended native YM2149 sounds with sampled drums as a performance/soundscape compromise).

This medley contains my five surviving blip-blop tunes from that era (when I went by 7an of Sync), as played back by the three-channel YM2149 sound chip. It heavily features the "envelope bass", a brutal beast of a sound that might be considered the Atari ST's most distinguishing one. It's a sound that was only invented toward the end of the ST's natural life. (You might say that the mighty 16-bit home computer is currently on extended life-support administered by a fanatic group of nostalgics, and I thank them for that.)

I did some mild mastering work on this medley and I think you'll enjoy the sound quality even (especially?) when you crank it up. You'll have to forgive the elementary melodies and chord progressions; I was 17 and couldn't write a hook to save my life. :)

You may download and share this song freely with your friends. You may also use it in your own non-commercial works provided you follow the instructions in the Creative Commons license below.

Copyright (C) 2015 Juan Irming - Some Rights Reserved - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

YM2149 Medley Time Capsule (1991)

Track for the Thunderdome Demo released by Checkpoint at Silly Venture 2014. Something a bit different, with simple instrument design, YM drums, no DMA, and very few SID voices to meet the demo constraints. Congrats to Checkpoint for the 1st place !
Check it on Youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwz0JhgDz1g
Or get it for your Atari ST here :
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64503

Thunderdome Demo Part II (Atari ST)

One Stick, One Button (prod. Amplitude Problem)

Goto80 - Minipitt // Atari ST edit

This track written special for 3BM Openair in a short time. :)

pt3 module open in Vortex Tracker: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6456250/4pt3/2015_mmcm-summertime.pt3

Summertime

Dedicated to Satoru Iwata.

Gunnar Gaubatz (Big Alec) is one of the classic composer on the Atari ST and raised the level of Chipsound on the YM a bit higher in the early nineties. He was very eager with producing accurate chip-drums which sounds nearly like sampled. This was before the scene opened up and new programming-techniques evolved. Hiw works are still outstanding in comparison. With "Prophecy" he has managed to incorporate new techniques, he called it his crown-jewel, his magnus-opus.

Big Alec - Melancho

Gunnar Gaubatz (Big Alec) is one of the classic composers on the Atari ST and raised the level of Chipsound on the YM a bit higher in the early nineties. He was very eager with producing accurate chip-drums which sounds nearly like sampled. This was before the scene opened up and new programming-techniques evolved. His works are still outstanding in comparison. With "Prophecy" he has managed to incorporate new techniques, he called it his crown-jewel, his magnus-opus.

Big Alec - Judgement Day (ST News 7.2)

Something different from me, this time on small Atari with two POKEY chips.

This is an afterparty version. Minor detunes fix plus 30% stereo separation applied. No other effects. No samples. Written on Raster Music Tracker 1.27p4 patched by Analmux. Recorded with Atari800WinPlus emulator 

Dual pokey, 100Hz (2x/frame) 5KB 

The original tune took 2nd place (out of 11) at Silly Venture 2011 Atari Party 10-14 Nov 2011 in Gdańsk/Poland.  Written live at the party.

Source with the editor on http://booker.c64scene.pl/src/a8/warpsz_after_src.zip

Warpsztaty Monofoniczne Integracyjne [STEREO POKEY (monoised) :) ]

Some great songs from Atari ST's days.
Composed by Big Alec aka Gunnar GAUBATZ (http://www.gaubatz.net/About.html)

Big Alec - Best Part of Creation

Big Alec - Change disk

Some great songs from Atari ST's days.
Composed by Mad Max aka Jochen HIPPEL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Hippel)

Mad Max - Chambers of Shaolin ( Test 1)

Mad Max - Cybernoid 2 (Main Song - Original by MoN)

Preview, raw Atari STe (maxYMiser) + a few notes of Game Boy

The Final Bitchslap (Atari)

(SoundCloud compressed it oddly, sorry about that :S)
Ten and a half hours of work later and I'm still not 100% happy D:

Yes, the mastering needs lots of work, but I'll sort that out for my next EP/album release whenever that is :P

Chipstep-esque

29 Kb SNDH file. Recorded directly from Atari, so a bit of noise.
If you like this tune, just share it ! And feel free to use it in whatever you want : )
I've received several messages asking if it's ST or STe, and what is the part of YM in this : it is STe, the music is all YM, and the DMA channel only plays the kick / snare / hi-hat. Thanks a lot for listening.

Atari Sucks (Atari STe)

Dedicated to Brandon L Hood, because he's pretty much just awesome.
Hope you likes, Hoodie <3

\m| <3 |m/

Bandcamp

Juggernaut

Like this song? Check out my medley of Mega Man 2 where I cover 3 songs :D

https://soundcloud.com/profound-obscurity/mega-man-2-metal-medley

Finished! Free download!

Mega Man 2: Metal Man Theme

Atari 2600 "Asteroids"

SuperNoise - Space Ball.

Written by Mick Rippon. Video of the track can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3nLSEWYmHs

Mick Rippon - Can't Stop the Rain

!Cube did a great job by remixing my tune "Outpost" on the Atari ST!
The soundchip of the Atari ST (YM2149F) can produce three voices of square waves and has one noise generator. !Cube also composed a few new leads and fine details into the tune. Awesome work!

What !Cube says about his remix:
"A remix of an awesome tune on the Commodore 64 by dEViLOCk/Arsenic. I stumbled into it accidentally while browsing through the High Voltage SID Collection and immediately fell in love. Thank you Peter for letting me remix it. The tune is included in my music demo Meet !Cube.
Editor: maxYMiser
Release date: SillyVenture 2012"

!Cube - Outpost (Atari ST remix)

"The Twister" was composed on a C64 with 6581R4 SID chip. It archieved a 16th place out of 83 participants at the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013 at CSDb.dk. One of the rules of the compo was to keep the length of the tune under 1:00 minute, so this one loops after about 54 seconds of playing time. Also it sounds good on all SID chips, the 8580, 6581 or 6581R4 with all it's revisions, which also was one of the rules.
This tune was recorded directly from my C64 machine with 6581R4 chip.

The Twister

"Somewhere Only We Know" was composed on a C64 with 8580 SID chip. It competed in the C64.sk Cover Compo #2. The original song is by Keane.
This tune was recorded directly from my C64 machine with 8580 chip.

Somewhere Only We Know

"Nordlicht" was composed on a real hardware C64 with 8580 SID chip. The tune is used in the Nordlicht 2013 Demoparty Invitation which can be found here:
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=117382
The original logo by Alien/PDX can be found here:
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=117361

This tune was recorded directly from my C64 machine with 8580 chip.

Nordlicht

"Lighthouse" was composed on a real hardware C64 with 8580 SID chip. The tune is used in the fantastic C64 Multicolor Mode Picture "Enjoy the Silence" pixeled by Sphinx/Arsenic for the C64pixels.com Double Screen Compo 2013.
The Release can be found here:
http://csdb.dk/release/?id=117596

This tune was recorded directly from my C64 machine with 8580 chip.

Lighthouse

Check out my album! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/devilock/gravity-lens

dEViLOCk is a composer located near Bremen, Germany, who is well known from the C64 and PC demo scenes. The varied style of his music is influenced not only by progressive rock bands, punk and metal but also classical music, jazz and synth pop of the 80's.

He began composing music on computers in 1989 on the Commodore 64 and joined the cracking- and demo groups Cyberpunx, Talent, 711, Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated and X-Rated and made some demo and intro music, game music, sound fx and won some competitions along the way too. The C64 was the root of all his computer music and he still uses it to produce original C64 chip tunes or to use the sounds of the C64 SID chip in professional music productions. He is currently a member of the C64 demo groups Arsenic, Performers and Oxyron.

In 1993 dEViLOCk got his first IBM PC and started to compose music with so called trackers like Fasttracker. In the late 90's and the beginning of the new millennium his music was used in many professional productions like cinematic trailers, radio commercials, web pages and presentations for agencies. dEViLOCk plays E-bass, electric- and acoustic guitar and drums on acoustic sets and also his e-drumset. Since he was 15 he played these instruments on stage in several bands like Beefcurtain (grungepunk-metal) and Mampfdampfer (crossover).

Nowadays he uses a PC, a MAC and several external hardware and real instruments to compose music. He uses state of the art soft- and hardware to produce music or sound effects for games, presentations, movies, commercials and demos.