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Tetris Max and Bricklayer were Tetris clones for Mac and PC back in the early 90s. I wrote this song that was used in the game. I am so grateful for the emails I have received from people over the years and all the positive things they have had to say. 

If you want to read the history of the game, I suggest going here: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/12/11/the-story-of-tetris-max/

Tetris Max / Bricklayer -- (Original version)

𝒟𝒶𝓎𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈 , 𝒟𝒶𝓎𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈


Daydreams

Effin & NGHTMRE - Daydreams

UPDATE: Please check out my 2020 Re-Make!:
https://soundcloud.com/prwmusic/t-maxx-2020-remake 

Written and recorded some time in 1991 or 1992.

If there's any one song of mine that has gotten me fan mail over the years it's definitely T-Maxx. T-Maxx is also the oldest song I've recorded. I can still remember hanging out in my parent's basement after college and composing it while they had company over. This was probably in the Summer/Fall of 1991. The song appeared in the Macintosh game Tetris Max and the PC game Bricklayer - both of which were excellent Tetris clones.

Instruments used: Roland D-70, Roland D-10, Yamaha TX16W, Roland R-8.

A couple re-mixes/re-makes have appeared on the 'net of T-Maxx. I'm very flattered that some people like the song enough to put a lot of time and hard work into making them:

The first one was done by Damian Yerrick - he re-created the song as a midi file that can be heard by clicking here: http://prwmusic.com/songs/t-maxx.mid

Derek Warren made an awesome version of the song using Reason software. It can be heard by clicking here: http://prwmusic.com/songs/t_maxx-derek_warren.mp3

DUBSTEP! Darren Prentice made this awesome dubstep version. Click here to listen to it. http://prwmusic.com/songs/T-MAXX.wav

Cover done by chiptune artist Tappy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo833PArQLo

T-Maxx (Tetris Max) (Bricklayer) (original 80s/90s version)

“T-Maxx” is back!!! Re-recorded in 2020, your favorite soundtrack from Tetris Max (Mac) and Bricklayer (Windows) makes another appearance.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfx2kr566gY

Please see additional links at the bottom of description, and please do SUBSCRIBE and choose to get notifications on YouTube -- I'm actively recording music on a more regular basis!


HISTORY:
I originally wrote parts of this song some time around 1986 or 1987 on a Roland Juno 60. I had a crappy, drums-less 4-track recording of it, and the song had no name. I thought that was the end of that song.

Then in either late 1992 or early 1993, I downloaded a new shareware Tetris clone on my Mac, called Tetris Max, programmed by Steve Chamberlin. This game had me hooked, but I found it odd that the game has music samples from a band called Jesus Jones (one of my favorite bands at the time). I reached out to Steve and offered to send some songs on a cassette and if he wanted, he could feel free to use any of it in his game. I wasn’t looking to make any money, I just wanted people to hear my music. My only request was that if Steve used one of my songs, that I get a name and email address credit in the game.

He agreed to listen to some songs — some I already had recorded, but I also re-recorded that original, unnamed song on the newer equipment I had at the time (Roland D-70, Roland D-10, Roland R8M, Yamaha TX16W and a Mac running Performer software). I mailed a cassette to Steve, and he happened to choose that song among the four or five that I included. At that point, I named the song “T-Maxx”.

The game enjoyed some success, and I was surprised to get several hundred emails over the years from people telling me that they liked the song. It warms my heart when every once in a while someone new reaches out to me at that old email address to tell me how they remember the song, or loaded up the game in an emulator and heard it for the first time. Some people have even done remixes and their own versions of the song, including a very excellent dubstep version.

Hard to believe, I originally wrote this song over thirty years ago. I hope you all still enjoy it, and I hope you like this new version. Maybe I’ll re-record it again in another thirty years!

LINKS:
- Video for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfx2kr566gY
- The Story of Tetris Max: https://shorturl.at/hjsKV
- The ORIGINAL version of T-Maxx song: https://shorturl.at/nGRVZ
- Other music videos of mine: https://shorturl.at/pGY09
- Other songs of mine on Soundcloud: https://shorturl.at/aktJ9
- My original site (stopped updating this in 2003): https://shorturl.at/lsvB0

T-Maxx - (2020 remake) (Bricklayer) (Tetris Max)

Took a break from the synthwave kick I was on to push this one out. Sort of reminds of of an 80s/90s Erasure-like sounding piece. What do you think of this one?

Please check out my music videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFODM78jAx-y5W5Kdifrg8q3uUL11tEJI

Reductor

See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5F96n30SRc

More original synthwave songs coming over the next few weeks as I write new ones and re-record a bunch of my older songs that I wrote in the 80s. If you liked this song, please do comment, share, and subscribe!

Tetris Max / Bricklayer -- (Original version)

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