SPACE TRIP IN 8BIT

🎹 The C64 Magic Arps is a chilled instrumental tribute to the warm, glitchy beauty of SID chip arpeggios from the Commodore 64 era.

Inspired by the music of Lukhash and the demoscene soundscapes of the 80s and 90s, this track blends ambient textures with vintage arps to create a meditative retro-futuristic experience.

Perfect for late-night coding, nostalgic daydreaming, or floating through digital space.

🎧 100% instrumental · No vocals · Pure SID-inspired magic

#ambient #chill #retro #c64 #sid #chipmusic #arpeggios #synthwave #chillwave #vaporwave #demoscene #commodore64 #8bit #lukhash #nostalgia #lofi #electronic #instrumental #bitpop #chiptune

The C64 Magic Arps

Fairlight reached out and asked if I wanted to make a tune for a 40th birthday demo to celebrate my friend Fegolhuzz. This was the result, and it was used in their demo called "The Fair Light", which won the demo compo at Fioniadata 2025 in Denmark. The main inspiration was of course the great music of Fegolhuzz himself!

The Fair Light

Commodore Midlife Crisis

First track from my new album, a fictional helicopter shooter soundtrack "Vulcan Strike 64". Synthwave meets Commodore 64!

Jungle Deployment

Paul Steigerwald and Brian Metzer recap the week that was for the Pittsburgh Penguins (3/29-4/4)

Penguins Live Weekly: 04.05.25 | Pittsburgh Penguins

Paul Steigerwald and Brian Metzer deliver another hour of spirited Saturday morning Penguins talk recapping the week that was for the Pittsburgh Penguins. (April 5th - 11th)

Penguins Live Weekly: 04.12.25 | Pittsburgh Penguins

MJAU64 The_return_of_the_same_Octopus

ICE CREAM

MMC 2025 May. Energetic electronic with C64 SID style PWM sounds. Made with FL Studio, using a whole bunch of 3x Osc synths.

Cinnamon and Chlorine

GRIFDORF is a genre-melting artist from Davidson, North Carolina, blending hip-hop, alt-pop, and what he calls “Space Funk” - a sound rooted in honesty, heavy emotion, and weird grooves. Raised on rap, pop, and rock records he’d obsessively dissect in his bedroom, he taught himself to write, produce, and record music from scratch.

“SIGHTINGS FROM MY SPACESHIP” (2021) was his first sonic offering. Sticking with a DIY approach and homegrown methods of creating music in your bedroom, Grif and his best friend, Tyler Smith [wxpu] crafted an EP channeling the pandemic’s imposed loneliness.

2021-2024, next was to craft a single trilogy, each having a central purpose. “HOODIE” - shows he can rap his ass off. “DOPE” - shows he’s one hell of a storyteller. “DREAM” - shows his honesty and uplifting, positive nature. But after these, the main mission was the mixtape.

His debut album//mixtape, “GRIFTAPE” (2025) is a sonic patchwork of synth-pop sheen and sample-heavy hip-hop grit - equal parts Tyler, The Creator and Mac Miller with a dose of 2000s indie energy. His lyrics explore purpose, mental health, love, heartbreak, and self-discovery, all wrapped in sharp wit and grounded optimism.

GRIFDORF is a full-spectrum creative: singer, producer, filmmaker, designer, actor, head of PAJAMA PUNKS, and co-founder of two genre-bending music duos - THE GO-TOOS and VENDING MACHINE. Always, the root remains: tell the truth, have fun doing it, and inspire others to be exactly who they are.

Demoscene music from the 1990s until this day. Some of you may know me from the demogroup Future Crew. Or maybe the music of Bejeweled.

Thank you for listening.

Stockholm based demoscener, synthesizer nerd and prog rock fan who's mentally stuck in the late 80's/early 90's.

https://www.reverbnation.com/poolo/song/26279434-its-is-in-your-mind-featuring-malarkey
YouTube video of Renoise tracker playing Retro Time here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQFTe1Uc-aQ#t=205

#POOLO #1 on #Reverbnation Stockholm EDM charts
https://www.reverbnation.com/main/charts?artist_id=4605985&genre=edm&genre_geo=Local
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#waverider #soundtrack #Point break #movie #proposal
https://www.reverbnation.com/poolo/song/23964972-waverider-for-point-break
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Industrial/EBM meets Darkwave mystique, synth-driven 70s-90s nostalgia, and 8-bit retro. Fueled by curiosity, Neurodiversity, and the endless frontier of sound.

Not a paid member, songs will be uploaded to youtube under the same channel name.

All music is generated using various AI tools and other non-traditional methods, All vocals are synthetic and made using Text-To-Singing.

I was born in Ferrara on September 7, 1973. I’ve always been instinctively drawn to electronic music, but in the ‘80s, musical instruments and keyboards weren’t easily accessible to me due to my humble origins. However, with significant sacrifices, my parents gifted me a Commodore 64 as a reward for moving up to middle school. At that time, I didn’t yet realize it housed what was likely the most advanced lowcost sound chip of the era. But I discovered it soon enough through three unforgettable moments in my childhood.

The first was the music from the game Penetrator, created by Andrian Pertout. For various reasons, that music has stuck with me for 40 years; in fact, you can find a modern version of it on my SoundCloud. The second was the music of International Karate by Rob Hubbard; saying it impressed me doesn’t fully capture a moment that has stayed with me ever since. The third was an interview in Zzap! magazine in September 1986, featuring Ben Daglish (RIP), Rob Hubbard, David Whittaker, and Anthony Crowther. That interview gave me the drive and inspiration to start programming music on the C64. It took about three years before I could produce something listenable, and that demo became a sample I sent to Simulmondo, a software house in Bologna, which contacted me to start a collaboration. This was the beginning of my dream to create music for video games on the Commodore 64.

Over the years, I also collaborated with Ubisoft and Playstos Entertainment. I was known in the PC demo scene by the nickname DustBin, especially as part of the independent, non profit label Charlie Brown Records. With simple searches, you can find almost all my music from that period on Modarchive and similar sites. The demo scene allowed me to form connections and friendships that last to this day, over 20 years later.

From 2009 to 2014, I was the lead singer of one of the most representative bands of the Italian metal scene, Crying Steel, and from 2015 to 2017, I was the frontman of Blindrage, a Power Metal band with a self-titled album that was very well received by critics and fans.

Recently, I’ve decided to revive my SoundCloud page, which had been inactive for several years. I’ll aim to publish everything I’ve composed but never released over the past five years, along with remastered versions from my archive of .XM modules—a popular music format in the demoscene of the ’90s and 2000s.
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Industrial, Drum’n’Bass and Electronica on the Commodore64‘s SID-chip.

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