Commodore Remix

Hi,


I promised someone to write about this, so I do.

As the remix scene started, it was natural to go for Rob, Ben etc.
The 5 masters.

As time goes, the sound production went up in quality, and techniques and new software has made many things possible, and the latest trend is to use live bands.

Cool!

But, it is time to look at some of the other golden finds in HVSC,
and there are many!

When I listen Slay Radio, I am starting to get a little bored, because I now have 10 versions of each legendary tune, so it get's quite repetitive.

If you want to go anywhere with this, you must think of other composers to cover.

I can make suggestions, or you can find them yourself.

You could also say what style of composition you would like to do, and we can find suitable subjects.

Don't think that all lies in the /C64music/ root, the /VARIOUS/ has a lot of gold. The new masters are there, and are just as big legends as the rest.

Many think that VARIOUS is 2nd grade, but you just haven't read the HVSC doc I guess! (we've seen that a lot).

VARIOUS if after 1992, and composers who have NOT made commercial gamemusic. And that is it!

/VARIOUS/S-Z/Tinnitus/ well, in my book, these are now the masters - when it comes to innovation and cutting edge sound.

But mostly guys like JEFF is known, because of techno style.

But not all in this world is techno you know.

Go find it!

rambones wrote:When I listen Slay Radio, I am starting to get a little bored, because I now have 10 versions of each legendary tune, so it get's quite repetitive.

Yep.
This is in the plans to remedy. I will probably be doing a lot of polls when I get around to it, at least if there's any doubt in my mind as to what to keep in the daily rotational list and not.

I will also be repeating this for the coming month or so:

There's something brewing...

It's pretty much a topic thats been brought up by Warren (see his article here on remix64). The one thing that was learnt i think from the discussion back when the article was written is that while everyone wants something a bit different to the classics, musicians are finding it hard to get motivated on sids thats don't hold some value to them, be it nostalgic or creative.

Yeah, Tas - I just read that post by Warren.

I don't have any solution, but I can tell you this:

I get or rip some new tunes, and demos, and listen them.
Very often my inner beast jump off the chair and I start to dance, or i swamp in a single sound or syncopation or other stuff.

I get an idea how it could sound, with no-SID.
Sometimes a tune seems unfinished, or it starts great, then structure falls apart or whatever.

I instantly 'repair' it in my head.

This is how I get some of my own ideas.

I did a few remixes that I really like, but they were made in MOD/XM, and I haven't been able to get satisfied with my new attempts so far.

Mastering

Can I then tempt you with Charles Deenen ?
Rock ?
Red ?
MC ?

etc.

Just a faint hope..

Don't get me wrong, i totally agree. I would love to hear more mixes of lesser known tunes myself. Thomas Detert's remix of SLOW TUNE opened my eyes up to a new SID i'd never heard before, and so has many more remixes.

I've often pointed out many tunes to remixers in the past, many of them tunes are less than 1 minuite long, so it would take a lot of improvisation to make a 3-4 minuite piece of work. I think any musician who can create a piece of music from what is essentially a jingle shows some real good talent.

but alas, what is one persons cup of tea is anoter persons poison. All we can do is suggest, and hope it may be picked up by someone.

Talking of that.... Infamous? where's my Alternate reality II