The 8-Bit Guy made, as you probably already know, a new game - Attack of the Petscii Robots. It's available for the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, Apple IIgs and Atari/Commander X16.

Noelle did all the official music for this game, as I had little time to devote to this project except for the design and label stuff as usual. However,  in January this year, I sat down and made some songs that I thought could fit the game. Using only hardware and no soft synths or samples, I did a series of tunes inspired by the titles of the maps in the game.

Initially I planned these to be loopable and short as most in game music tends to be, but I quickly found myself making more or less full songs with a more normal structure. So this alternate soundtrack is more of a synth inspired album that some of you may find ok to play in the background while playing the game.

Attack of the Petscii Robots - The Alternate Soundtrack

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 3: The Village

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 4: The Islands

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 5: Downtown

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2vBJYOqcZz0

A good year or so, after I did the "Links, the Challenge of Golf remix" and said I would tackle this next... it kinda got stuck because so many things happened back then. In addition, the pandemic prevented me from having Børge-Are over to record some real sax lines too. However, today we managed to record some good stuff and more, and this is the result.

Many of you will remember Tex Murphy and his quest to solve the apparently not so regular death of Carl Linsky. The game from Access Software used RealSound™ which were samples that were played through the PC speaker and was pretty awesome for us back then - albeit being very crappy 8-bit and low resolution. Nonetheless, the music used (which I'm sure one of you will tell us in the comments where it originated from) was captivating and very late 80s. So after many years of wanting to remake it, I got around to do it, 32 years later!

Børge-Are graciously came over and recorded some great sax and let me film him playing too. Hopefully this made the song and video even better.

As always, thanks to all the Patreons and you fans out there. Enjoy the remix and check out the original game on Steam - it's quite fun

Mean Streets Remix

Born as Jolle by faRk and adopted by Hansee. Now a promising free jelly named Jelly. Did we raise it right?


Check out faRk's universe: https://linktr.ee/faRksprett / https://soundcloud.com/fark

Jelly

Hansee & Fark - Jelly

Music from Demoparties 2021
For Assembly Winter 2022
Mixed by Byproduct, visuals by Closedeyevisuals
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQhoHIRiK0

Tracklist:
00:00 Aikapallo - Sons of Mars (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)
https://soundcloud.com/von-currenter-aikapallo

1:26 Alkama - Arcade (in Arcade by Spectrals - Windows demo at Revision Online 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/alkama

4:00 Mygg - Synthvester (in Synthvester by Bitbendaz - Windows demo at Silvester 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/8-bitmosquito

6:05 Roz - Nuances (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)
https://soundcloud.com/rotsten

7:06 Oerg866 - The Cave (Oldskool Music at Revision Online 2021)

8:38 AceMan & Maze - Evolution (Tracked music at Shadow Party 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/aceman_pl
https://soundcloud.com/user-902495696

11:06 Ihanalammas - Lasertree (Streming music at Assembly 2021 Winter Online)

12:26 Hogzz - No time (Freestyle music at The Gathering Online 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/hogzz

14:45 Higher (than) - Jazzy Bits (Streaming music at Function 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/higher_than_dnb

18:11 Datacoma - Dayless (Freestyle music at The Gathering 2021 Online)

20:10 Wobble - Driftwood (Streaming music at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/best-url-ever

21:42 Chaser - Aurea (in Aurea by Madwizards & Radiance - Windows Demo at Xenium 2021)

24:07 PsychNerd - Triptych 3.03 (The Sound of SceneSat volume 6)
https://soundcloud.com/psychnerd

28:47 Cosmiq - Cicada (Streaming music at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/cosmiq

31:37 Vincenzo - Inversion (in Inversion by Rebels - Windows demo at Deadline 2021)

34:24 Evade - Last Goat Standing (in Last Goat Standing by Noice - Amiga demo at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/lonerandarebel

38:03 Turbo Knight - Meatgrinder (Breakbeats in the mix at Névoke 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/turboknight

40:52 Retroid - Ghosts of Rakis (Streaming music at Function 2021)
https://soundcloud.com/retroid

43:30 CS-Jay - Arpeggiators Included (Streaming music at Outline 2021 Online)

47:25 Volkor X - For Victory! (in Holo Grail by Holo Sapiens - Wild Demo at Revision 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/volkor-x

52:23 Jeenio - My Wooden Lover (Streaming music at Assembly 2021 Online)
https://soundcloud.com/jeenio

Music from Demoparties 2021

Soundtrack of this PC-Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUP0G502T2c

Digitalgarden

Forró Beats 29

Back to the past

Rev-O-Lotion

Track 87 (!) from scenesat volume 4!

web player: https://sound.of.scenes.at/vol/4
bandcamp: http://music.scenesat.com/album/the-sound-of-scenesat-volume-4

Name yer price

Vitamin D

Electronic musician from Norway. I started playing piano/keyboards in the mid 80s. After a few years at the municipal music school, I quickly grew tired of the simple piano-only education and got to move on to classes with keyboards and synths. From the early beginning with Technics K-200 rhythm keyboard from 1983 via some Casios/Hohner keyboards, I evolved with the later Technics KN-1000 and KN-2000 before moving on to Roland XP-50. As the computer revolution made DAWs affordable, 1999 made sequencing using Cubase easy and the studio grew ever larger with more outboard gear. Today the studio has become a sizeable and functional MIDI/arranging studio with over 40 synths/modules and more centered around a MacPro with MOTU’s Digital Performer, and numerous more or less famous productions.

I have always had a musical approach towards sound engineering and composing, rooted mainly in vivid harmonic structures and saturated compositions. Inspiration has always been the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Eric Serra to name a few giants in the electronic scene, but also a heart towards well produced pop music from the 70s and 80s as well as epic film scores from John Williams, Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer. The baby era of computer music from the late 80s and early 90s was also a heavy influence.

Attack of the Petscii Robots - Level 5: Downtown

Anders Enger Jensen