Preview compilation of ReFourmation album.
C64 & Amiga game music remakes now available via 6581 Records on the Buy It Now link below the track.

ReFourmation

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ReFourmation Previews - Matt Gray

MMC June 2023. Slammin' slow  march synthwave, made with FL Studio.

MMC June

Exhumed Glory

About 11 years late to the party, I found this insanely beautiful rendition from Melissa Hollick. Originally a Chris Isaak song from his Forever Blue album. Melissa did a touching and tender, slow piano ballad which sucker punched everyone who played through this epic game in the Wolfenstein-saga. I never had a powerful enough PC back when the Wolfenstein New Order came out, and just earlier this year, had the opportunity to play the game. The ending got me too, and hard!

So, of course I just had to do my take on this song and sprinkle it with some magic 80s power ballad dust. I took the original recording from Melissa and separated the vocals from the backing track using lalal.ai. From there, I had to find a median tempo as the original is organically swaying quite a bit. I settled on 106 BPM and time-aligned her vocals to the grid, while trying to keep as much as the original feel and flow.

I also added a few bars here and there and shortened the intro. The structure of the song is a bit different from standard A-A-B-C-A... etc. so what's normally the chorus, became a second pre-chorus, with the Ooh section ending up as the real chorus. Furthermore I changed the chords up a bit, as the normal three/four chord progression became too tiresome for five and a half minute of slow power ballad.

Not too much going on in the backing section, a mixture of Yamaha TX816 (DX7) stereo Epianos, pads, and twinkle bells etc, as well as some Fingered Bass/Amped bass guitars layered with Nexus5 guitar patches and pads. Drums are a mix of Nexus5 80s drums and Zenhiser Retro 80s Drummer samples.

Håvard Caspersen laid down a series of Michael Thompson ambient guitars, strummed accoustic and some searing lead stuff in the background. Stellar work as usual!

I Believe Remix [Feat. Melissa Hollick and Håvard Caspersen] (Instrumental)

Some hard defined break beat Orbital style dance rave synthy track. Sequenced on Digitakt and tracked to Ableton Live track by track as I go along, as I rely much more on the midi timing from Overbridge than on my Motu 828X (only acting as a mixer here). The timing  difference is huge. Sounds are taken from the Xtreme Lead card in my Proteus 2000 and also the Protozoa library (Orbit bank) on my ESI 4000 sampler. Such huge treasure for these uplifting rave sounds that I had totally forgotten about. Effects from Valhalla.

Space Orbit 9090

Track Produced, Arranged, Mixed by Shahrear Prince Sarker

Everything You Say

Urban Stereo-Neo Noodle (jE jE Music Recordings)

Preview of Tusker - The Desert remake from the C64 game Tusker from System 3.

Pre Order Reformation

Matt Gray - Tusker - The Desert Preview

Preview of the brand new Matt Gray soundtrack for the forthcoming game Ninja Shodown from Bitmap Bureau.
For more details on this game click on the More Info link.

Ninja Shodown Soundtrack

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Matt Gray - Ninja Shodown Soundtrack Preview

Hawkeye is one of the first video game soundtracks I ever composed. The game itself was the first parallax full-screen platform game on the Commodore 64 created by the Boys Without Brains (BWB). This is the preview of the remake, which me and my brother are producing in my brother's music studio. Thanks for all the feedback, guys! We're going all the way in. Stay tuned on this one!

Cheers guys! Play it loud!

//Jeroen Tel (and Kees Tel)

Tel Me More

Hawkeye

Jeroen Tel - Hawkeye (Preview)

A journey in music and inspiration. Something to really enjoy and cherish... Life empowering, love embracing.

I composed this song for my contributors to the now-infamous "Tel Me More"  project.

This song is also being made as a bonus track on the actual Commodore 64 in multi-speed.

Special thanks for the ongoing support from many of you: friends and family, but in particular:  Kees Tel (my brother), Irene Tel (my sister), Jan Cloin (my brother-in-law), my dear friends: Leon van Rooij, Dirk Sloos, Carl Ellement,  All the guys in Maniacs of Noise! <3, Traveller Keyz 2020!, Jorg van den Elsen, Tom Geevers, Roel Meulemeesters & last but not least, Dr.P & Mr. John! <3

And... in the up and foremost my daughter Janne and her pets: pet rats: Ietje, Wiesje, Bloempje & dog: Guusje & turtles: Roos & Ferdinand & the giant snail: Perkamentus. =D

The Journey continues!

The Open Soul

Jeroen Tel - The Open Soul (preview) (v22)

New 2020 Remix of Last Ninja 2 Central Park theme by Matt Gray.
Taken from the Matt Gray album Reformation 3.
Available from 6581Records.com
See Buy Link below track.

Reformation 3

Central Park (From Last Ninja 2) 2020 REMIX

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Last Ninja 2 Central Park - Matt Gray 2020 REMIX

Musician/Composer/Producer from the UK. C64 SID Composer and one of the founding members of both Xenomania and Motiv8. Composed the acclaimed soundtracks for The Last Ninja 2, Driller, Dominator, Hunter's Moon and Vendetta.

Check out my youtube channel for news on more remakes.

ReFourmation Previews - Matt Gray

Matt Gray C64