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Comic Bakery (Jazz mix) - arranged by Noviello PippoReview by putzi, 31/01/2003 This is an Easy listening jazz mix, but not a bad one at all. Minimalistic and somehow authentic sounding. No quality flaws. |
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Comic Backery (Larger than NO Remix) - arranged by DHSReview by putzi, 30/01/2003 This is a masterpiece in terms of vocal-FX, directly connected to the heart-beat of the song. You can hear everything that commercial productions feature: phasing echoes, selective auto-de-tuning (the Cher-effect), and vocals partly split up into some kind of pizzicato to play a sequence. Bass and beats are well-done disco, not too fast.Maybe I would listen to the Backstreet Boys if they had DHS do their dance-remixes. And DHS loves his mobile phone 😉 The reference remix in dance-track featuring vocals. 😊 |
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Hell On Earth Spells Game Over - arranged by MakkeReview by putzi, 30/01/2003 Makke sings You can take your Quake and go away, I won't play it anywayto the music of Cybernoid 2. This is a great song about the time when playing computer games meant fun, not because of the GeForce rendering that alien in shiny mirror-triple-FX, the game idea just seemed right for itself. The lyrics are funny, not cheesy, the music is what I'd call slow Masterboy -disco with a bit of Apoptygma Berzerk. Not to forget Makke's funny intro-speech where he goes back in time while playing the guitar. 😊 |
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Zak McKracken (IK (mix^2)) - arranged by DjLizardReview by putzi, 30/01/2003 Some patterns from Zak, some IK, plus a stomping disco beat. Easy creation, but it got some nice sounds. Sound quality is not that good. A summary of the melodies you remember from both games. Sounds phat in disco terms. 😊 |
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M.U.L.E. (Aerobics in the jungle mix) - arranged by MahoneyReview by WizardOz, 29/01/2003 Going for an hour in the gym?Going for a run in the forrest? Going sillydancing in the garden? Going to a crazy come as you are -party? If any of the above, listen to this tune first. Have a girlfriend? Try NOT having a fun time to this music. I love it, and so does my bird in the cage (yeah, there is a lot of bird-noices in there). This remix is what my cbm64 - days was all about. Fun, giggles and more fun! |
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Great Giana Sisters - arranged by Dr FutureReview by WizardOz, 29/01/2003 This is my favourite remix of an old cbm64 game-tune so far.If Chris Hülsbeck wanted to make the tune in these we have a lot of memory for a game tune -times, it would have sounded just like this remix. The guitar, the bass, the feel and the playfullness is just awsome. This remix is not for the tecno-people or dancefolks, its for all the rest of us. |
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Mixer - Synth Sample #1 - arranged by MixerReview by beldin, 29/01/2003 Perfect! Everything it has to offer fits really well. Superb choice of instruments (guitar, strings and synth lead, drums) and the strong source material adds it bit with a catchy and emotional theme. A must download, especially if you remember it from the Swinth line-drawing screensaver demo. |
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Sanxion - arranged by XORReview by beldin, 29/01/2003 Very well chosen synth-sounds and percussions create a rich sound and manage to compensate the few minor mistakes in the transcription of the first theme. Major drawback is, it is 5:36 long and hence gets a bit boring in the last 40-50 seconds where the track ends with a percussive solo. |
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The Orchestral Synthasaurus Ninja - arranged by FeekZoidReview by beldin, 29/01/2003 What a fantastic instrumental soundtrack this is! It creates a varied and impressive atmosphere, switching between a clearly recognizable synth theme with powerful drums and less percussive slow'n'sweet sections based on acoustic guitar and piano accompany. Towards the end of the 4:12 long track you can enjoy a climax featuring a lead e-guitar. Makes it probably one of the most complete SID remixes so far.(Btw, according to HVSC 5.2 it covers The Inner Sanctum (loader) by Anthony Lees, not Ben Daglish.) |
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Task III (Hum along with the task) - arranged by Trace & MahoneyReview by beldin, 29/01/2003 Listener, be warned, this is another piece of music with a cappella elements. If you prefer instrumentals or real singing, better avoid this track. While it starts as a real nice synth tune which you would want to listen to at higher volume, it doesn't play like that for more than 44 seconds. Weird and questionable sound effects, which sound displaced, fill the rest of the first minute right before the first female a cappella singer joins with her improvised singing sounds. Twenty seconds later a higher female voice takes over and then it gets worse, sounding more like screaming at times, and forces me to turn down the volume of a track which I would enjoy if it didn't feature a cappella singing like that. It continues like that for a total of 5:40. |
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Zoids - arranged by o2Review by tom, 29/01/2003 If somebody knows how to sound like JARRE, then it's definitely O2.A great remix of a great SID! It shows me that the man behind the machines is important, not the machines behind a man ;o)… which means i do own a SUPANOVA, too, but i can't make it sounds like JARRE!!! |
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Comic Bakery (Larger than Pop Boyband mix) - arranged by PRESS PLAY ON TAPEReview by mahoney, 28/01/2003 You're the best! I just love you, from the deepest of my heart! You've made my day, no, you've made my summer sunny sunny you're in my heart, ha ha haaa ha! 😃 This remix should be the mandatory first one to listen to for _any_ person visiting the realms of C64-remixing! Not everybody will enjoy the style or the performance, but this is a remix that _everybody_ get feelings for or against. And it is _the remix_ that is closest to real life, where at least I get a feeling that we C64RMX-nerds maybe have a little part of this thing called the world! If you, yes -you- reading this review haven't seen the video that PressPlayOnTape did for this song, then HURRY!!! Find it, get it, see it and show it to your grandmother before it's too late! Thanks Søren and Theo, this made my summer a bright and shiny one! / Pex Mahoney Tufvesson |
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Sidology Episode 3 - arranged by machinae supremacyReview by mahoney, 28/01/2003 Machinae does their thing, once more. This time, harder rock than their Gianna Sisters-remix, which is _the benchmark_ for hard rock mixes. The technical skills and the great sound/mastering makes this remix outstanding when it comes to Technical Impression. However, not being the greatest fan of screaming guitars, this ones gives me a headache after a few minutes.: / This Sidology Episode #3 gives me the same feeling as movie The Lord of the Rings did: No pauses, some really good parts skipped, no time for thinking, compressed into a raving, thrilling, compact attack where every second is a matter of life and death. Please let me breathe, and let my ears rest! |
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Nemesis the Warlock - arranged by o2Review by mahoney, 28/01/2003 Agree with Tomsk, this is fantastic stuff. O2's best remix, imho! Starts slow, in a neat, nice, simplistic manner, grows a little, grows some more, gets bigger, even bigger and then suddenly at 3:12 those lovely tingles at the back of my neck sends these awesomely (!) wonderful feelings to every cell in my whole body! The one, single arpeggio at 4:49 is a great detail, pinned by a genius! Too soon, the fadeout comes and I feel Why is this remix soooo short?, and wondering how the -frog- those six minutes could pass so quick? If I could bring only one remix from r:k:o to a deserted island, this would be my choise! 😃 |
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Zoids - arranged by o2Review by mahoney, 28/01/2003 Carsten, excellent lead instruments, a great atmosphere and a 100% performance makes this an outstanding remix. Though, if I had to rank your mixes, Nemesis the Warlock takes the first place. It has a few more surprises and a natural evolution, where this Zoids-remix has a more constant, steady flow of entangling sounds and notes! Great music, by a great remixer! 😃 |
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Cobra (skyline remix) - arranged by Thomas DetertReview by mahoney, 28/01/2003 This could be the main selling song on any Synthesizer greatest -CD of early 90'ies. Jan Hammer, well, he's there somewhere, and boy have you done a great piece of art here, Thomas! Being one of my very favourite SIDs, I'm just drooling here, listening, dreaming and having a very good time! Some spots reveal that it's a sampled guitar, but turning off the nitpicker in me those few seconds, I really love this remix! The drums are calming, soothing, just wonderful! 😃 |
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Firelord - Symphonic - arranged by Glyn R BrownReview by mahoney, 28/01/2003 Glyn, you've made a great SID-song sound fantastic! You know how to avoid all pitfalls and trouble that samples orchestral sounds can give you, and I bow in respect. I just wonder how many sleepless nights and days you spent tameing that orchestra, Glyn! Great work! 😃 |
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Great Giana Sisters - arranged by machinae supremacyReview by mahoney, 28/01/2003 The first time I heard this, I thought This is too good to be true!. And that feeling hasn't left, it's still there. Love at first sight! A good balance between screaming guitars and music (which might give a little hint of what I generally feel about hard rock) makes this song _the best_! 😃 Thanks for the ride, Machinae Supremacy! |
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Scroll Machine (5th Dream About Happiness) - arranged by LManReview by tom, 28/01/2003 Huhh… i love this SID piece that much! Great Job here MARKUS, well choosen sounds, clever arranged and remixed. It's one of my favourite SID remixes!!! |
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Sigma Seven (Chariots of Fire) - arranged by Thomas DetertReview by LMan, 27/01/2003 Awesome! If you wouldn't know better, you'd say it is Vangelis. It sounds so much like Chariots Of Fire, and Sigma Seven fits perfectly into that mood. Very beautiful arrangement, and technically flawless, while the Vangleis-like sound does everything to spark nostalgia. |
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3 Channel Game tune (Tracexperiment) - arranged by Kent WalldénReview by Tas, 26/01/2003 Starting of moody and slow, the piece rips into action around the 2 minuite mark. The remix has strong elements of jarre and 80's dance. There's plenty of variation here to keep the listener fascinated, and the beat goes along in typical foot tapping style. The remix is well produced throughout with some lovelly chosen instruments. i did find however towards the end that trace kinda lost the plot a little as it gets kinda boring. All said tho, it's a really valliant effort and one thats worth listening to, at least for a while anyway |
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Zoids - arranged by o2Review by OJ Oscillation, 25/01/2003 This is the one version of getting my blunt lightened. those pure athmopheric ambience makes me go into myself and chill out to a great melody. also the mixdown could have been much more bombasticly, eventually, but i can't keep stop floating away. someone should throw an anchor for me.o2 knows how to feed you without any oxygenmask. keep breathin' this sound. |
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Last Ninja (Big Beatnik Mix) - arranged by Dr Doom & Komatr:ohnReview by OJ Oscillation, 25/01/2003 Well, this remix makes me really going to funk my bones.it's a perfect big beat style version. it sounds so pressure styled and not boring. it even got the cool sid synth ring modulated bass line in it, i like to hear. some scratches here, some there (cool fx). the right amount of get it on. there's nothing more to say than: perfect 10. |
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Faery Tale Adventure - In The town - arranged by choscReview by beldin, 24/01/2003 The C64 version of the original Faery Tale AMIGA soundtrack is poor and full of errors. With its inaccurate transcription of the notes of the original, this remix also sounds quite like it is based on the weak C64 material. A monotonous drum track and a few synth-sound fill-ins, which don't fit well, stretch this remix to a length of 2:29. It fails to capture the atmosphere of the AMIGA soundtrack. |
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Panther - arranged by PGReview by beldin, 24/01/2003 Surely a working way to remix Panther, speeded up a bit. I find Whittaker's unspectacular original sid somewhat boring except for the synth sounds in the introduction (first minute or so). The remix is better and features a great conversion starting at 1:55. |
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Toni Niemelä - Giana Sisters (psychedelic remix) - arranged by Toni NiemeläReview by beldin, 24/01/2003 To me it sounds like Giana Sisters with a rather unfortunate choice of instruments. The mixture of flutes and synthetical e-guitars, heavily sliding and equipped with vibrato, is too wild for my taste. |
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Terrafighter theme - arranged by FerraraReview by beldin, 24/01/2003 Real nice slow arrangement with a catching theme and an ambient atmosphere. A drawback is the muffled sound and low quality of the used sounds. |
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Lightforce 2k theme - arranged by mladenReview by beldin, 24/01/2003 It's a fast dance-floor style remix of the first part of Lightforce. Comes with some nice sounds and effects. You won't regret the download. |
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Big Benn - arranged by Bart KlepkaReview by Chris Abbott, 23/01/2003 A megamix of many Benn pieces, from Ark Pandora through Last Ninja. A suitably frenetic intro is joined by a strange piano lead to complement a straight dance rhythm. The main piece is taken forward by Ben's SID burbles, but in this case, the cover would have been better suited by having a sharper and more stabby replacement for these: the burbles aren't segregated enough to suggest the necessary madness, and just don't feel punchy enough. At 1:48 the tune seems to go a bit Pete Tong melodically, but since it's 720, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, since that's got some odd chords in it. When Bombo kicks in, the whole thing begins to sound like Robert Miles (as if it didn't already!). Some pads float about to add width to this section, which work well enough. The main problem with the megamix is that the necessity for a constant beat and sound means the individual parts have to be bent and shaped to fit: a process which mangles some more than others. Ben's Last Ninja Wilderness tune loses its Swing-type beat, for instance. Much the same happened on Chris Huelsbeck's 'Giana Sisters Megamix", which was disappointing for me as a fan of the individual pieces, because none of the parts had the atmosphere of the original. So, this cover, while technically very well done (I'd argue with the lead in the Last Ninja section though) falls victim to its own structure and ends up less satisfying to Ben fans as a result. Efficient but strangely unsatisfying. |
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Bruce Lee (Psycho Mix) - arranged by Bart KlepkaReview by Chris Abbott, 23/01/2003 'You have offended my family… '. True! Hey, he's got a drum machine and a synth! And they can be linked up!!! Wow!!! OK, sarcasm alert. It's SID and drums time. It's hard, it's nasty, my bum remains unmoved. Bruce Lee just isn't the tune to do this to with any effect. At 1 minute the tune stops being horrible and starts being detuned and horrible. Then it returns to abysmal. Not my cup of tea at all, though some of the later basslines and breaks show some rhythmic skill. It's still vomit-inducing though. Almost redeemed by the clever use of Bruce Lee samples in the middle, it could have worked if it wasn't so damned harsh! Urgh. Chris hell. |
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