Commodore Remix

The only other micromusic thing I went to was the C64Orchestra opening night.. which was great and very professional..

This night will be a bit .. unorganised.. I know the place where they'll be performing ..
But hey .. what can you expect for 4 euro's

Hey all,

we're back home, it was absolutely great to finally meet / meet again all of you guys and gals. Best BITLive ever!

Photos and stuff will follow...

- Natascha & Markus

Found a couple more videos on YouTube... is Redhawk a member here?

http://uk.youtube.com/user/redhawk000

Also uploaded three more myself...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DecmxP1eWRY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7DM-pWMHikI
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=chDKWseBa2A

Mayhem wrote:Found a couple more videos on YouTube... is Redhawk a member here?
http://uk.youtube.com/user/redhawk000

He is, he's redhawk in this here forum and BritHawk in the Slayradio IRC channel.

It's an uncomfortable tension between nostalgia and making the music credibly and dancey. It seems that if you try to widen the range of an event, you end up narrowing it instead.

For instance, a combined C64 and NES event would mostly get people interested in both (except for a small hardcore), partially because people are actively repelled if they know there will be stuff there they don't remember or like.

Micromusic seems to sit uncomfortably in the nostalgia area, since the range is a bit wide, whereas what it should maybe be doing is connecting to, for example, the fanbase of the Aphex Twins, and ditching the nostalgia completely.

It seems to me that videogame music of any kind only works commercially in a large sense when it's presented without nostalgia.

I'm glad of our little C64 Remix bubble though.

Chris

Thats a very good point.

For me its a combination of bigtime nostalgia and the fact I have always liked electronic music (house/techno/acid house/ambient etc).

but listening to slayradio, Boz and Ziphoid's show have opened up a whole load of tunes I would never have bothered listening to as i had never heard of the tune in question. I just stuck to the game tunes i knew.

so really the nostalgia is the hook and if you like electronic music you will stay hooked. To draw more people in I think you need to have more real instrument remixes. My missus hated all the electronic stuff at BIT live but really liked M J Hibbert and Reyn's performances.

I agree the nostalgia part kinda needs to be "hidden" to the wider audience as many people dont want to feel geeky or nerdy, the music should be enjoyed in its own right not simply because Last Ninja was a great game etc.

The remix64 bubble is a very cosy one

khisanth wrote:but listening to slayradio, Boz and Ziphoid's show have opened up a whole load of tunes I would never have bothered listening to as i had never heard of the tune in question. I just stuck to the game tunes i knew.

Agreed, though quite often it is also someone doing the remix and me seeing a "good" face or better on RKO next to it, so I download and check it out. Without that I probably wouldn't have listened to Gordian Tomb (both title and ingame, someone needs to do the full 32 minute jobbie on the latter!), A Sad Trip For You, Project 11, Someday, Tristess and many others.

Most of the actual game music that gets remixed I know and love. It's the stuff from demos, small obscure games and other projects that I like to discover.

Rest assured btw that whilst a fair few people will be listening to 8bit Weapon at CGE next month, parts of the floor stop still to absorb the goodness that is their Crazy Comets performance. The reaction at BIT Live gives you some idea of how well that goes down with just about everyone there.

To draw more people in I think you need to have more real instrument remixes. My missus hated all the electronic stuff at BIT live but really liked M J Hibbert and Reyn's performances.

I think there's a very definite line there. Actually, in terms of commercial appeal, everything except Reyn and MJ was much more relevant to a younger audience, whereas Reyn and MJ are much more the sort of audience for a more... ahem... mature agegroup

I think there are more of the first audience than the second willing to get off their arses and go to clubs. If I was ever inclined to try and break into the first audience, it would be an uphill struggle to get the music heard unless there was some act they'd already heard of who were C64 fans willing to do it: rather like, in fact, Jeroen headlined BIT Live.

It's a thought, but it's not this scene Hence my ambivalence about doing anything along those lines. Plus I have a day job!

Chris

Well that's just f**king great I check my MySpace page today and it looks like they've removed all my live videos of Reyn from the list.
I'm a little puzzled as to why they would do such a thing considering the amount of copyrighted music videos they already have on the system.
I wont be uploading to that site anymore until MySpace have contacted me about the matter.
Anyway more video uploads coming soon..

Richard S.

Hey folks - the bitlive dvd project im working on is looking very fruity so far - ive got over 1gb of video content already, and chris is even letting me use the c64audio anim from the bitlive 2004 dvd which ive managed to rip out

Keep your eyes peeled on my separate thread for any updates and when (and how) it'll be freely available

redhawk wrote:Well that's just f**king great I check my MySpace page today and it looks like they've removed all my live videos of Reyn from the list.
I'm a little puzzled as to why they would do such a thing considering the amount of copyrighted music videos they already have on the system.
I wont be uploading to that site anymore until MySpace have contacted me about the matter.
Anyway more video uploads coming soon..

Richard S.

Weird. First I've heard of it! Stupid gits.

Chris

Well I don't know what happened but they've reappeared back into my video upload section.
I'm wondering if this was some kind of MySpace error or my ISP NTL being gay with their web caching software.
I've had trouble with NTL in the past over websites either completely vanishing or containing pages that haven't been updated for days.
Anyway more uploads coming soon...

Richard S.

Well, some pics are added to http://ziphoid.com/gallery/v/bitlive2007 and more will come there as well.

Ziphoid wrote:Well, some pics are added to http://ziphoid.com/gallery/v/bitlive2007 and more will come there as well.

One of the best pictures from those albums, taken by Tron. Heya mate! Rock on!