A guilty pleasure of mine is recreating the music of classic computer/video games while utilizing modern virtual instruments and sampled sounds.

Computer Game Music Reimagined

Hybrid 6000 - Spectrum Dynamic Synthesis Workstation
https://www.uvi.net/hybrid-6000

Hybrid 6000 delivers incredible '80s synth and drum sounds with creative arpeggiator through 250+ patches, including both factory and all-new sounds and patterns. The pinnacle of SD synthesis, providing everything you need to make authentic vintage tracks in one place!

Hybrid 6000 by Etienne Bellon

'Shadows Dreams' is the first single from Jim Ottaway's new electronic album... A PROMISE OF ETERNITY.

A Promise Of Eternity

Shadow Dreams

Shadow Dreams - Jim Ottaway

Shoreline

FILTH3 - Extended

LOOSEN

Described by Owen Good in his blog as the "most used unusable piece of game music ever", "Sphere" is a piece of music featured in an included demo from Activision's 1985 software hit, "Garry Kitchen's GameMaker".  According to the software's manual, Sphere is "an animation program featuring electronic music and multi-colored spheres".

Originally a chiptune, it is re-imagined here as an electronic rock tune.

You can read Owen's blog about the tune here: http://kotaku.com/5911299/activisions-sphere-the-most-used-unusable-piece-of-video-game-music-ever

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Sphere

Experimental Track Combining Elements of Ambient and Synthwave.
Needs Mastering. 

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Basking  In Emptiness - Polyp ()

Stepping Into the wave

Epicentres

Another instrumental I created tonight. The lead and solo parts are played with the E-Bow. No pic in use here!! :-))

Composition, rhythm- and lead guitar, bass, E-Bow, mix: Andreas Kloppenburg
Drums: Addictive Drums 2

Inner Chaos

Ballblazer: the simplest, fastest, and most competitive sport in the known universe.

A re-imagining of the Ballblazer theme song for 2012.  The original track composed by Peter Langston for the game "Ballblazer" (released by Lucasfilm Games in 1984) was algorithmically-generated and could play forever, without repeating itself and without straying too far from the original theme.  My modest adaptation of the music instead plays a consistent arpeggiated melody.  I chose this track to practice sequencing, arranging, and mixing with my new DAW software.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Song of the Grid (Theme to 'Ballblazer')

"M.U.L.E.: Multiple Use Labor Element.  Mining, farming, general hauling - this mule-like machine can do it all.  But if treated carelessly, M.U.L.E. could go berserk and run away.  Although you loathe him, you've got a distant planet to settle.  And for now, he's all you've got.  Good luck. You're gonna need it."

A re-imagining of the theme music composed by Roy Glover for M.U.L.E., the seminal multiplayer video game from Ozark Softscape released by Electronic Arts in 1983. This rock-oriented cover of the theme music is inspired by the game soundtrack from the Commodore 64 version which has a tempo of about 156 BPM.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Demos

Theme to M.U.L.E.

If you were hoping to find a cover of the Pretenders' song, "Space Invader", this is not it. This track is a re-imagining of the theme from the classic arcade video game "Space Invaders" with its "fee-fi-fo-fum" descending bass motif.  It is written in F# Dorian flat-2 because I like how easily the mode can be made to sound haunting. All of the synthesizer, percussion, and sound effects are being performed by just one sample-based virtual synthesizer: "Ascension" by Cubic Audio.

By the way, another really cool "Space Invaders" track is the "Invader House Club Mix" from the "Space Invaders Extreme HD" game which you can listen to here: https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/space-invaders-extreme-hd-gamerip

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

Space Invader

"Power points are proof against magic."  

In dull, old-fashioned board games like chess and checkers, the "defending" piece gets removed quietly from the game board with the "attacker" taking the square without an ounce of hostility.  In ARCHON, such docility and rank defeatism on the part of the defender is not permitted.  The squares on the board must be fought for! Any attempt to occupy a square held by an opponent results in the expansion of the disputed square into a full-fledged combat arena, and then "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!"

This track is a re-imagining of the theme music composed by Tommy V. Dunbar for "ARCHON: The Light And The Dark", the classic action-strategy game from Free Fall Associates released by Electronic Arts in 1983. This rock-oriented cover of the theme music is inspired by the game soundtrack from the Commodore 64 version which has a tempo of about 133.5 BPM.

[Please note: as this un-mastered track was mixed using headphones, I recommend that it be listened to via headphones/earbuds to ensure the best listening experience.]

P.S.  You can hear Tommy V. Dunbar's original recording of the themes to ARCHON and its sequel ARCHON II at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lG8EtB0roA

Theme to Archon: The Light And The Dark

Theme to ARCHON: The Light And The Dark

ToneDeF is a software engineer by profession, amateur composer by inclination. He is influenced musically by what he listens to, which consists of hard rock, hair metal, synth-pop, progressive rock/metal, new age electronic, techno/trance, and classics from the Romantic and Baroque periods. It is not unusual to hear tiny shades of professional works within his own amateur ones -- he considers it an homage to the truly talented.

One of ToneDeF's guilty pleasures is recreating the music of classic computer/video games utilizing modern synthesized and sampled sounds. His first submission to SoundCloud was a re-imagining of the main theme music from the classic LucasArts game, "Ballblazer".

Although he has chosen "ToneDeF" as his handle, rest assured that he is not actually "tone deaf".

Who exactly are "The ElectroMetal Minstrels"? They are the virtual musicians "performing" the virtual instruments on each track sequenced by ToneDeF.

Theme to ARCHON: The Light And The Dark

ToneDeF & The ElectroMetal Minstrels

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