This is the digital playlist of my release, Retro Grooves Vol. 1 which is available for sale on cassette, on my webshop and The 8-Bit Guy's webpage.

Norway, European and International (except USA): http://eox.no/product/retro-grooves-vol-1/
 
USA: http://www.the8bitguy.com/product/retrogrooves_vol1/

The idea of this release was spurred from the joint effort of working with David Murray aka The 8-Bit Guy and his release of soundtracks from his latest videos. I’ve always wanted to release my music on something more tangible than digital downloads. Since the CD medium itself is becoming more or less obsolete today, but also not so exotic anymore, I kept going back to the days of my childhood where the only means were vinyl and cassettes and remembering the joy of unwrapping a brand new cassette and listen to the music for hours on end while either drawing or building LEGO as a kid.

Buy album on Bandcamp

Retro Grooves Vol. 1

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykdX1OWSebw

Happy-go-lucky pop song with a summer vibe. Composed for the latest of my dog videos.

A Moment's Delight

VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJZx9G9oYY

A remix of the 8-Bit Guy's Keyboard channel theme. Added some new parts and made an «In your face-mix». 8-bit SID/Chiptune galore meets 2016.

https://eox.no/downloads/

Visit David's channels here:

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/8-bitkeys
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcTt3O4_IW5gnA0c58eXshg

8-Bit Keys Theme Remix

8-Bit Keys Remix

8-Bit Keys Theme - Remix

A sound track for the first holiday video I made with the dogs I babysit. Made with plenty of reFX' Nexus2 soft synths, Vanguard plugin, Vengeance samples and various outboards.

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNVzs0hMfg0

Aurora Borealis

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

Roland CM-32L Song

Roland CM32L Song

This is a song I made back in 2004. I'd just bought the KORG Legacy Collection with mini MS-20 controller and fell in love with the Polysix bass (first patch in the soft synth). Started playing around with that sound, and voilá, the intro to the song was done.

Did an all MT-32 remake in 2013 which you can hear here:https://soundcloud.com/eox-studios/legacy-of-mt-32

Legacy of the 90s

Legacy Of The 90s

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.

Roland CM32L Song

Anders Enger Jensen