A small selection from over 80 Acorn Archimedes !Tracker music modules I made back in the early 90s under the guise of BrokenARM Music which were recently rescued from a 30 year old hard disk... 

They were originally released in the early 1990s and made on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer. !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart.  These are some of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga). The modules comprise mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's infamous Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga. 

First released in 1987, the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the hugely successful 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

The playlist includes a segued recording of some of my favourite sections of the sound track I wrote for the Archimedes game !Phaethon which featured over an hour of music.

 I was only 19 when I started making these music modules - it all had to start somewhere! :-]

Huge thank yous to Steve Harrison for writing a custom utility to help me to convert these modules from the original !Tracker format to ProTracker format.

BrokenARM: My Early 1990s Acorn Archimedes 8-bit !Tracker Modules...

A rough hardware jam. I'm spending some long overdue time with the cirklon after working on a video game and finding paying work. The cirklon is endlessly interesting, there are so many workflows to discover and features to explore. I keep falling deeper into the rabbit holes. Launching clips with MD took a little head scratching and I can't sort out whether to I want to move drum sequencing to the cirklon. The elektron workflow is so damn good on the native hardware, despite all the power of the cirklon. I sort of fantasize about the more elektron-like p-lock UX for the cirklon which feels blasphemous to say. Cheers and kisses. 

Hardware: Korg Monologue, Ensoniq EPS, Moog Mother-32, Elektron MachineDrum, Sequentix Cirklon, Roland JV-1080. 
Software: Bit of multi-band compression and top-end spatializing in Ableton before the final bounce.

AcydGill

From Greystar ... "Aphex Twin's seminal work, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, came out 32 years ago today.

This is a passion project commemorating this great work. Over 40 artists have come together to put forth their unique versions, remixes, covers, reworks, and recreations of these tracks!

This project has a bit of history. It has been in the works since before 2016.

Before this Bandcamp page existed, I was involved in a few "Aphex Twin Tribute compilations" organized on the /r/aphextwin subreddit. Eventually, folks decided to tackle covering the entirety of Selected Ambient Works 85-92. This culminated in "Selected Ambient Covers 2016", a soundcloud-exclusive release that fell short of its lofty goal: not all tracks were covered, and some of the tracks were unfinished. Since then, I've led projects covering Selected Ambient Works Vol. II, ...I Care Because You Do, and Drukqs, among others, all seemingly more ambitious than the last! Having met so many new talented artists from all of these projects, it felt like the right time to return to SAW85-92 and do it justice.

Anyways, I'm a bit tired, I might write more here later ... there's a few tracks missing from CD #2, marked as "[COMING SOON]". They'll be ready in time for the physical CD, but needed a lil extra time to be finished before this digital release. They'll be added here in post, so keep an eye out! Follow this page if you want to be notified of when they're added. I heard a snippet of WHRK's Hedphelym Remix and it's very very good, you won't wanna miss it.

Alright, that's all from me for now. Thanks for reading!"

- Greystar 11/9/24 
credits
released November 9, 2024

Mastered & Organized by Greystar.

Artwork by Windman and Greystar.

Artwork assets contributed by a bunch of people from Reddit & several of the musicians involved!

SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS...
Dead Again - kdnx-dead-again.bandcamp.com
Sigmatus - wxyz.bandcamp.com
Leovillads - bandcamp.com/leovillads
Greystar - greystarmusic.com
Doll Bones - sephabeats.bandcamp.com
PNCKS - yonef.bandcamp.com
Lee - leeboiacid.bandcamp.com
matthew909 - www.instagram.com/matttthew909/
Mause - mausebrighton.bandcamp.com
Diürn - www.diürn.com
Sonsique - sonsique.bandcamp.com
Raqoon - raqoon.bandcamp.com
Windman - windman.bandcamp.com
M-Corp - m-corp.bandcamp.com
DGP - ???
Enry - enry027uke.bandcamp.com -- NEW ALBUM, CHECK IT OUT!
WHRK - whrikk.bandcamp.com
DanyaIrwing - irwing.bandcamp.com
Trilobot - trilobot.bandcamp.com
Mystic Sky Zone - ???
Opus v84 - opusv84.bandcamp.com
Skywalker14 - ???

SPECIAL THANKS

... to Stavorius, for organizing the original Selected Ambient Covers 2016 album.

... to Paul Nicholson aka NUMBER 3, designer of the Aphex Twin Logo

...to all the folks who contributed to the album artwork! Every member submitted their own version of the Aphex Twin logo which was then layered to create the final product.

alusé
astrokomrad
BoweryElectric2001
British-Four
ButtonsAndFloof
CatMoo
Emuoo1
Enry
Ferrarinu
Kirito_93_apanyan
kory
Leovillads
moralbankholeinwall
Nerdyhedgehog_NerdyH
Ok_Feeling_8521
pancakes
panman
pr0xladno
aiqphex
sonsique
SystemOfADown4Life
Windman
wyatt

... To Richard D. James
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Selected Ambient Reworks 16​-​24

Heliosphan (lee's TR Drums Re-Hash)

fragment journey

NEWS UPDATE: The second batch of 25 pre-production units are nearing completion and am now taking pre-orders for delivery in June. A new Patch Editor/Librarian App & VST/AU plugin with full automation has also been developed complete with a new library of over 250 sound patches for Win/Mac/Linux and will be free to all Elfin-04 and 01 owners.

Introducing Elfin-04, Hideaway Studio's Compact New 4-Voice Polysynth Expander...
 
I have been working round the clock for weeks now on my dinky little 8-bit 4-Voice (4 x [2osc+1sub+LFO]) VA Poly Expander with 1960's style transformer-mixed output voicing and finally No's.000 thru 010 are born to the world and receiving very positive feedback from their new owners....... this 4-voice polysynth measuring just 16x12x3cm has full real-time control over her 32 parameters via simple midi ccs and 16 built-in patches. 

Based on an expanded form of a customized software synth-core design by ISGK in Japan, I think the Elfin-04's unique voice ouput/mixing transformers do add something for sure - they are driven full-swing with 60KHz PWM resulting in a lot of additional harmonics/mirror frequencies and some saturation that all gets trapped within the transformers which adds a richness/darkness to the sound (no-doubt inspired in part by my beloved DK Synergy). In the Elfin-04, the 4 voices are passively mixed but, unusually, by the topology of the output-transformers themselves which is a trick that used to be found in some more exotic 1960s valve test equipment where multiple signal outputs were mixed on isolated outputs (eg. my huge old Panoramic TTG-2 tube Dual Sinewave Generator). Also, each voice CPU is independently clocked so everything is genuinely free-wheeling across the voices so even the noise phases slowly when played on multiple notes and unison which is pretty cool.

Any questions, please PM me here on S/C or to EF86 on GearSpace.

All Sound Design & Recordings Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2025.

Hideaway's New Elfin-04 Polysynth: Detuned Unison Mode Montage 01

07 summer feet 1+2 (2002)

First track made in Ableton in quite a while after spending the last few months mostly with the cirklon. I still have so much muscle memory for Ableton. 

Lethsy

READ > inverted-audio.com/premiere-sturmherta-rv

Emerging from Czechia and Austria, phonon records return with their fourth transmission 'RESi' - this time dialling into the disrupted consciousness of Linz-based waveform saboteur, Sturmherta...The apex of this nonlinear journey arrives with Track 5, 'Rv' - a full-throttle warehouse exorcism that spits liquid metal from the subs and sculpts siren calls from microphone-feedback interludes. It’s a chaotic opera of post-club dramaturgy, where trap’s rattling percussion meets the oil-slick throb of industrial bass. Think Slikback tangled in a resonant hallucination, lit only by the glow of firewall breaches and strobes.

@user-4605437
@phononcrew

Sturmherta - Rv [phonon]

Fireflies 104-4 DP (2015)

This iteration of Peltiform was Nathan Story, Tam Ferrans and Paul Daniels.
 LP3 " TRIPTYCHS" - 25/07/2025.
#FloatingSpirits #Nonima #Mitoma #Dissolved #Apydiagirls #Peltiform

Amberallion

Recently rescued from a 25 year old hard disk PL259 was an experimental progressive computer music module by BrokenARM Music (aka D.A.Wilson / Hideaway Studio). I made it in late 1990 on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer and released in early 1991.  !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart. It is one of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga).  The module comprises mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga.  Released in 1987 the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

PL259 (Early 8-Channel Computer Music Module)

Recently rescued from a 25 year old hard disk ARMatWork was one of the first 8-Channel Sound Tracker modules I wrote at the age of 19 under the guise BrokenARM Music. It was made on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer in February 1991. !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart. It is one of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga). The module comprises mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's infamous Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga. Released in 1987 the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

ARMatWork was recorded directly off the unfiltered output of an Archimedes A3000 as the module was played in !Tracker.

Originally released 21.06.91.. the same year the infamous game Lemmings was released!

ARMatWork (Early 8-Channel Acorn Archimedes Computer Music Module)

One of my very first music compositions - sequenced, sampled and played back in glorious 8-bit audio on a 1987 Acorn Archimedes.  Originally released on the 10th January 1991 by BrokenARM Music aka D.A.Wilson / Hideaway Studio.

It was made on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer. !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart. It is one of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga). The module comprises mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga. Released in 1987 the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

On A Knife Edge (Early 8-Channel Computer Music Module)

One of my very first music compositions - sequenced, sampled and played back in glorious 8-bit audio on a 1987 Acorn Archimedes. Originally released on the 28th April 1991 by BrokenARM Music aka D.A.Wilson / Hideaway Studio.

It was made on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer. !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart. It is one of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga). The module comprises mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga. Released in 1987 the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

The Long Haul (Early 8-Channel Computer Music Module)

One of my very first music compositions - sequenced, sampled and played back in glorious 8-bit audio on a 1987 Acorn Archimedes. Originally released on the 9th July 1991 by BrokenARM Music aka D.A.Wilson / Hideaway Studio.

It was made on a beta test copy of !Tracker by Fabrice Mercier on an Acorn Archimedes A-310 computer. !Tracker was essentially an Amiga Soundtracker clone but, unusually, it supported up to 8-channels with soft panning unlike its 4-channel hard-panned counterpart. It is one of the earlier 8-channel Soundtracker music modules to be released on a home computer (Oktalyzer was released in 1989 on the Amiga). The module comprises mostly of 8-bit samples from the infamous ST-01 sample library originally bundled with Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker in 1987 on the Amiga. Released in 1987 the Archimedes was the first commercial computer to feature the 32-bit ARM RISC processor and featured 8-audio channels each with stereo panning in hardware.

On Safari (Early 8-Channel Computer Music Module)

Dd Fnk Hw Th

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net

ARMatWork (Early 8-Channel Acorn Archimedes Computer Music Module)

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