it is truely amazing what you can do with a keyboard from 1983!!!! .... love this kind of music

Really nice little bit of vintage synth music...love it!

Really cool, i love the 80s pop style composing.

The disc loader music from the C64 game Tiger Mission interpreted by me on newer gear. Not featured in ripped games that you play on emulators so many people miss this small, yet majestic intro gem. (Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsPAAu-cvc&t=253s) 
Composed by Johannes Bjerregaard. Beautiful and impressive prelude. R.I.P. Bjerregaard 2022. https://8bitlegends.com/2022/11/05/we-say-last-goodbye-to-johannes-bjerregaard/

Tiger Mission - Helicopter Prelude

A video of the old version of the song is available here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_F7Zy_ygg

After searching the internet for songs written entirely for and with the famous Roland MT-32/CM-32L/CM-64 modules (except those from games made by Sierra, Lucasarts etc), and not finding any - I thought for myself: is it possible to put something together, that won't sound bad even with the default patches and amount of reverb?

I also chose to use only default patches, but allowed myself to dry the sounds, re-record them separately into MOTUs Digital Performer 7.2 and mix them as one would with every other pop song (only compressors, EQs, delays and reverbs not to modify the sounds away from their original intent).

So this is what you get - polished MT-32 sounds that aren't half bad when processed and EQed into place ;)

Tempo: 160 BPM
Key: Em, modulating to Gm
Instrument/patches used:
Part 2: #069 - Slap Bass 1
Part 3: #049 - Str Sect 1
Part 4: #029 - SynBass 1
Part 5: #048 - Square Wave
Part 6: #045 - DoctorSolo
Part 7: #004 - ElecPiano 1
Part 8: #105 - Marimba 
Part 9: #031 - SynBass 3
Part 10: Drums

Retro Grooves Vol. 1

Roland CM-32L Song

Roland CM32L Song

Another little track made for backing purposes. Although the title suggest lots of Portal references, I couldn't find a proper title... and the little piece of GlaDOS harmony got stuck in my head. So there you have it, hope you didn't get to disappointed. I might do a proper remake/remix of one of the Portal songs down the road. ;)

Retro Grooves Vol. 2

Portal Love

Instrumental version (No leads): http://www.eox.no/projects/Morning_Dew_Instrumental.m4a

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj9syHGdZ-s

Latest song. Started originally out as a new intro jingle for The 8-Bit Guy, and grew into a full song.

Check out David's channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww

Morning Dew

Demosong made on request for The 8-Bit Guy's episode on the Casiotone MT-68 mini keyboard. Check out the episode here: (Link coming later)

Full music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pTpDstAusA

Casiotone MT-68 plays everything except the extra 80s drums (crash, kick and snare).

Casiotone MT-68 Demo

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv4ZN9Cfxho

This is the initial song I composed on request for The 8-Bit Guy to demonstrate the Casio Casiotone MT-68 keyboard. However, it was using too many other sounds and samples so it didn't feel in tune with the rest of the demo songs for the channel. So this is to showcase a little more how the keyboard could be used in conjunction with other synths.

In addition to layering the MT-68 on both bass, chords and playing the lead melody, these were used too:

Bass: KORG Polysix, Nexus2 FM Expansion
Chords: Nexus2 various expansions
Drums: Vengeance 80s Drumkit and loops

Casiotone MT-68 Song

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMB1Tgif_EI
Instrumental version: www.eox.no/projects/You_Make_Me_Smile_Instrumental.mp3

A little happy synth song I've been working on the last week. Turned out pretty nice.

You Make Me Smile

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHMBx0w3P4Q

Finished one of the old tracks from the archives. Little hybrid EDM-synthwave thing.

Parallax Nova

A Commodore 64 SID track made for the Razor 1911 demo '$777' released at the Revision demoparty in 2015. Mostly composed at the party place.

This is the party version, since there never became any final version, sadly enough. Who knows, maybe in the future... :)

Fantastic image by Made!

http://csdb.dk/release/?id=137485
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5Awxd_9DY

$777

Sevengularity

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Fu6TVUtry0s

Back in 1997 I wrote this half-way thing called "Epic of the 90s" which I had intended for The Gathering (Norway's famous data party). However, I never got around to complete it, and just recently found the original files on my Roland XP-60. So there was only one thing to do: Rework it and make it into something suitable for 2018. 

The song is a little homage to all the great artists in the demo groups and crews who made these parties what they were and are today.

You can support me on Patreon to get early access to all my music, videos and more, as well as digital downloads, instrumentals, stem mixes etc: 
https://www.patreon.com/eoxstudios

Retro Grooves Vol. 3

The Gathering

This started off as an ambient track for the lobby of an online casino.... and then turned into a mega dance anthem (I wish!).

If you like this, I think you'll like this - https://marktdkknight.bandcamp.com/album/me

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Composed by Mark 'TDK' Knight

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Waiting for the Win

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.

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