A commission to create a highly reactive/synchronized soundtrack to a action/bond style animatic.  Features rapid scene/camera changes.  Was fun t do a batshit crazy movie style piece.. only the 24hr deadline chafed :D

K8-Bit: TGX - Agent - X

Another Commodore 64 game remix.  This time from the (unreleased, I think?) "CityBomber"

Originally uploaded to remix.kwed.org in 2011.

CityBomber - PsytroniKateZoid Remix

Linus did an amazing C64 SID cover of Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie, I added the vocaltrack, and some additional SID-style instrumentation.

Ashes to Ashes - Bowie'd Linus via K8-bit C64

After finishing Cyberpunk 2077 (finally!) I was inspired to compose a little tune.

Quite affected by the story of V, and her complex relationships.
Composed on Roland Fantom 07, and Korg Nautilus.

V, of Night City.

Got a drone recently, and have been making background music for the footage.

Created on Mixcraft Studio Pro 10, Behringer Deepmind 12D, Roland Fantom 07, Yamaha MoDX.

Findhorn Viaduct

Got a drone recently, and have been making background music for the footage.

Created on Mixcraft Studio Pro 10, Behringer Deepmind 12D, Roland Fantom 07, Yamaha MoDX, Korg Triton Extreme.

Slochd Summit

Felt creative, did some drone footage at sunset, and live-jammed this piece over the footage :)

Wavedrone

Wavestate Jamming

More noodling, with Korg Triton, Behringer Deepmind 12, and Korg Wavestate Mk.II

A Wavestate Of Jammin'

A bit of noodling begat a wee homage to Mass Effect.

Mass Reflect

Strange little "Twin Peaks"-esque piece I composed for a drone flight around Feshiebridge in the Scottish Highlands.  I'm not sure what I planned originally vs what I ended up doing!

Feshiebridge

Track I composed to go with some drone footage of a scenic waterfall in Scotland.

Pattack Falls

Just one of those pieces I never finished... or even knew where I was going with it!

The Abandoned

V of Night City - Remastered

A special redo of the piece, as a tribute to David Bowie.  Thanks to DMTM for helping me with the vocal track :)

As The World Falls Down (around us, Chell) Bowie - Edition

Felt sudden need to write a little chiptune whilst waiting on a download that was using all my bandwidth = no distractions = tune!

Just a quick progressive arp kinda piece.

$QUICKCHIP

Created this for a segment on our BBKB radio show, it's a mashup of the original fantastic 2nd part of Laxity's "Desert Dream", the Amiga demoscene legend, and Fanta's amazing C64 homage to it.

I literally just synced them up and layered them together, with the emphasis a little more to the C64 side :)

Original Artists: Laxity & Fanta


C64 vs Amiga - Desert Dream

An offshoot of another musical project I have on the go at the moment, I thought I'd fork a little 8-bit chiptuney version out :)

Beautiful original piece by Ramin Dajawdi from the amazing TV show: WestWorld

Cease all motor functions.

Westworld: Dr. Ford's Theme (8-bit)

The amazing Marcel "Sidologie" Donne created this magnificent cover of a firm C64 fave epic - Tetris as part of his Project Sidologie Kickstarter, lending gravitas and depth to this so-very-different version of a Tetris soundtrack that was exclusive to the C64 (vs. the cheery Nintendo take) - but because I'm an asshole, I felt it still needed the raw C64 instruments, so I mashed them together. Here, are two segments from this 25 minute opus.

Tetris C64 / Sidologie mashup

'Space Debris' (1991) by Captain/Image (Markus Kaarlonen) fused with the C64 SID remix of same by Flex of Artline Designs, and the actual remix by the original composer!  I made this mashup of them all.. for my own ears, thought maybe others might like too ^_^

Space Debris C64 Vs. Amiga Vs. Remix

This is my arrangement of an old Gameboy game tune from "Runes of Virtue II" - originally composed by legendary 8-bit composer Martin Galway.  

It can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgIejbnrHOc

Data of Synthetic Virtue

I was in the gym one night, listening to scenemusic.net when this track by Hazel came on ("Living in a dream").. and I instantly thought of the Utah Saints track from the 90's "What can you do for me?" and Annie Lennox's vocal sample ripped from "Must be talking to an angel" - so I did a quick dirty mix *live* on the BBKB radio show....

..and to top it off.. I chucked a Carl Sagan bit in :D

Credits: 
"Living in a dream" - Hazel
"What can you do for me?" - Utah Saints

Hazel vs. Utah Saints - What can you do for me, living in a dream?

My "Fake Demo Production" creation - which is to say I created a song inspired by the PC demoscene.

This was a completely new way for me to compose music, no longer using Renoise/trackers, but Cubase, to allow me to more freely work out.. the flow?  Also more than half the instruments in this were via my Roland DS synth, so a fusion of real & virtual instruments :)

Art is "The Flow of Time" by Aseprite from the Amiga ECS demo "The Fall" by The Deadliners & Lemon.

FDP-06 Flow

This is an odd one - I heard this strange but interesting remix by BL▲CK † CEILING, called TW1N P34KS - it's a remix of "Falling" by Angelo Badalamenti.. and as I was hearing it I could imagine a famous 8-bit game tune playing over - Robocop, by Jonathan Dunn.  Additionally, to give it some depth, I added Allister Brimble's modern arrangement of the same.

The original Black Ceiling track is a bit muddy, but I still like the overall effect :)

Black Ceiling: Twin Peaks Vs. 8-bit

Randomly heard this wonderful track - "Stars" by Visti & Meyland - and it immediately reminded me of something.. took me a while to realize.. but it's Jeroen Tel's fantastic music for the C64 game "Hot Rod" - so I did a little mashup edit of the track - Note that the full "Stars" is about twice as long, and has an amazing intro, worth checking out :)

(Pic from an 80s themed dinner/disco I was at recently!)

Stars - Visti And Meyland Vs Tel edit

Felt cute, made improv, might be delete or fix later 😁

Basically sat down and improv’d this track by track, warts and all.  Still getting used to this workflow method, but it allows me try out ideas, and decide whether to finesse the track or not.

Recorded entirely from the synth, layer by layer.

Inspiration comes from 80s and 90s synth artists like Mark Shreeve, and Allister Brimble.

MoDX Meddling

The finished full version of the piece, created for the retro C64 game release!

K8-bit - Soulless

This is the piece I composed for Anna Black's "Anorak" retro computer/videogame music radio show.

K8-bit: Anna Anorak

8-bit retro fusion, originally composed for Kenz!

LD K8bit-$0f;ST K8bit $d418

So, apparently at some point I started a remix of a fave Amiga Demoscene song - Overload, by Mantronix & Tip.

Apparently, I forgot about it, and left it very raw, and unfinished.  I suspect I shan't return to it.. so..  here.

K8 - Bit - Overload premix

AN EPIC 3 MILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING!!!
(Or... 2 Lanky bints with obsessive compulsive perfectionism finally agree the tune is finished!)

This little inkling of an idea for a cover kind of grew and grew, as I went from where I had in mind - a synthy cover of the rather dark tune.frpm the C64 game of yore.

I had already heard it covered it in quite a nice synthy way, and so I thought maybe a full on rock style - but I was loathe to do so after having just done something in that style.
 
So, I decided to approach the piece in a more grandiose way, a progressive fusion of 8-bit, orchestral instrumentation, and raucous rock, with an aggressive electronica sound.  

Then I had my best idea - ask fellow 8-bit femmezoid Anna Black to collaborate with a spoken dialogue sequence, telling the story of the TUSKER hero's adventures (as seen in level 2 of the game) - so a basic story outline was penned,  then tweaked.  An initial recording was made, and the feel was good, so we pressed on.
 
The story of the dialogue comes from the Tusker game itself, along with some nods to some movie and gaming in-jokes/conventions.  Musically this was a very difficult track to produce, as it evolved over time, and the mastering of the actual mix proved very complex - for this I'd like to say thank you to Putzi who gave me some excellent advice with the technical side of audio mixing.
 
However, as is often the case for musicians, sometimes you work so hard on a piece that it begins to drive you mad, and at the end I just wanted this one out the door, though even as it went out the door I thought oooh I could've added this, that etc !
 
Sometimes you've just got to let the kids go!
 
Kate

Original C64 game music by Matt Gray

Tusker: Into the Heart of Darkness (featuring Anna Black)

A cover of David Bowie's song "As the world falls down" from the movie "Labyrinth" - with a twist. The inspiration of this cover was the notion that in the videogame "Portal" - a malfunctioning Sentry Turrent (semi-sentient automated gun turrets) has encountered the game's protagonist Chell... and fallen in love with her. But their love is not to be as Chell brings about the destruction of the world around them... or does she? :D

Thanks to @lingmops for the use of her ears and discerning opinion during mastering - or my attempts thereof! :D 

There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes.
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed
Within your eyes.
I'll place the sky
Within your eyes.

There's such a fooled heart
Beatin' so fast
In search of new dreams.
A love that will last
Within your heart.
I'll place the moon
Within your heart.

As the pain sweeps through,
Makes no sense for you.
Every thrill is gone.
Wasn't too much fun at all,
But I'll be there for you-ou-ou
As the world falls down.

Falling.
Falling down.
Falling in love.

I'll paint you mornings of gold.
I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
Though we're strangers 'til now,
We're choosing the path
Between the stars.
I'll leave my love
Between the stars.

As the pain sweeps through,
Makes no sense for you.
Every thrill is gone.
Wasn't too much fun at all,
But I'll be there for you-ou-ou
As the world falls down.

Falling
As the world falls down.
Falling
As the world falls down.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling in love
As the world falls down.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling in love
As the world falls down.
Makes no sense at all.
Makes no sense to fall.

As the World falls down (around us, Chell)

Make a tune in a lunchbreak? Sure, why not 😃 Nick shared a tune I'd not heard before - "Ecolove" by Stéphane Picq from "Dune" on the Amiga. Nice tune!

Inspired me to make a very tenuously linked homage. More of a shared vibe, really. Recorded live, un-sequenced into Audacity.

Inspirational piece: https://youtu.be/atSIXC4jJqI

Dune-game inspired piece for Nick

A kind of collaboration I had with the superbly talented Jamie Maxwell - who created my fave C64 arrangement of all time - with an interpretation of the classic C64 loading music from The Last Ninja (System 3, 1987)by Ben Daglish.

Jamie's beautiful guitar play serves as the core of this track, which I shrouded in a slightly Vangelis-esque vibe.

TLN: Wastelands Loader

Have taken to playing melancholy gumshoe noirish blues on piano at different times through the working day.  Because.  Bad timing et al.

Art by Romain Trystram

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