Man love the remix of the commodore jingle awesome job like always

Is that Clint Basinger (LGR) on the cover?!

My phone is keeping up with the Commodore.

It’s official. I have kept up with the Commodore!

Sooo... here's an old earworm, that I just couldn't resist. Many of you remember the classic "Are you keeping up with the Commodore" commercial, and I had several requests over the last year if I could do a number on this. I tried to keep as much as possible from the original, but upgrading it, beefing it up and make it a little more snappy.

Since there are no multitracks available with the original vocal recordings, I just used www.vocalremovers.org since it's free, and it did a decent job of separating the voices from the backing track. Some phasing and flanging occurs, but I hope the delay and reverb plus the blending in the mix covers most of that anyway.

The song is in 163 BPM, so there's little time to relax, but it also gives a good drive. Using a lot of everything here, Roland MKS modules, Yamaha TX and Motifs, Kurzweil 1000PX, Alesis QSR, Ensoniq SD-1, TS-10, Sequential TOM and various other hardware synths. Some ReFX Nexus2 with various expansion packs here and there, and some SID/Chiptunes thrown in for good measure. It's after all... about the Commodore, right?

Tried to find the original composers and songwriters, but couldn't find any. If you happen to know who made this song, please let me know in the comments.

Thanks to The Obsolete Geek for using his parody. Check out his video on the SX-64 here: https://youtu.be/zmMasWCbefA

Also thanks to Kristian Tjessem for letting me use the picture of his C64 and monitor.

And last, but not least, thanks to my patreons and you fans out there.

Keeping up with the Commodore

Keeping up with Commodore

Keeping Up With Commodore

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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