Markus Schneider - Lightforce

73 other remixes of Lightforce

73 other remixes of subtune 1

Notices from the Arranger:
This track is uncompressed and has some headroom due to take maximum care of dynamics. Feel free to compress by yourself, if needed.

You may notice that the first main melody differs in second part. While Rob changes key without adjusting the bass note, which works for the original, i couldn‘t do it in context here and go along with first part twice. Although the rest is transcribed 1:1 (thanks to SID2Midi), i added some very few counter parts. The original SID is by the way slightly integrated, so to say as an instrument 😊

Why another Lightforce remix?
When i was a teenager, one of my first sid tunes i felt in love with, was Lightforce. I recorded this piece to tape and have listened to it much more than any other piece of music. Rhythm, harmonics, melodies, structure and sound fascinated me from the very first moment. It was THE reason becoming a c64 musician. And yes, it‘s my all time favourite of sid classics.

When reading Rob‘s note in HVSC, that he thinks it is a piece of junk, i felt proven to try it is not! I know so many people who love this tune not in any way questioning theirselves that Lightforce is some essential part of C64 history.
Since beginning of 2002, when I started remixing, i challenged to tribute a remix of this piece. Till now i have tried over 50 ways to get a pleasing result to fit all my feelings and ambitions to one single shot and failed at every try.
So that‘s the way now i felt about honoring a brief part of sid history and can now close this chapter after 16 years! Time flies …