ReSet #8 compositions and results.

[EgoTrip]

I remember getting a hard time for listening to computer game music at school cos it wasn't "proper music"

[MacDeath]

was it a comment from the music teacher of from friend or from yourself ?
Also depends what kind of computer... beeper is not proper.

gotta remember that in the 80's electronic music was quite new, even Krautwerk was considered a UFO*.

*and UFO was a metal band, which wasn't also considered proper music too.


Yet I can't undestand why we had no music on computer stuffs...
Perhaps because in France We had Thomson fucking computers and those had no proper soundchip.

Also because Music teachers were all somewhat retarded with technology.

[EgoTrip]

It was not a teacher. Anyway who is to judge what is proper music and what is not? Just because its 3 channels of square waves (and noise) does not make it any less musical than something done in a recording studio. A lot of chip tunes are excellent, and full compositions. And just because you dont like music, does not mean its not music, or it is bad, its just not to your taste. If you like to listen to it, then listen to it and dont let other people dictate your tastes. A real music teacher will tell you all of this.


In one of my schools, I remember using BBC's to make music from pre-defined riffs. I still have the riffs burned into my memory.

[Gryzor]

One of my very first mix tapes, if not the first, was recorded off an Amiga. I especially remember the Last Samurai... I must have melted that tape from listening to it!

[tastefulmrship]

I especially remember the Last Samurai...

For me, I still can't stop listening to loads of Amiga game and demo mods! (I even convert massacre most of them to CPC)
Game wise especially; Second Samurai, Flimbo's Quest, CarVup, Astaroth, Prehistoric Tales, Blood Money, anything by Team 17 (Flossy Brimble), Patrick Phelan (Zool 1 & 2, Lotus 3) and the God that is Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican 2, Apidya being my all-time favourites of all time).

Thank Zod for WinAMP and WinUAE! My playlist is in constant use... (infact it's playing now!)

[Gryzor]

Ohhh Blood Money, what a hit!


Ah, useless trivia: the other night we were watching A Streetcar Named Desire (what a great movie...). At some point Brando says to Blanche, "Now, how about cutting the rebop?". And for the next ten minutes I couldn't stop thinking where I had heard that quote before!


Finally I remembered. FF to 2:09 :

Bomb The Bass - Megablast [HD]


(and if anyone doesn't know the tune, tsk!)

[tastefulmrship]

On a sad, but related, note; I preferred David Whittaker's arrangement to Bomb The Bass's. The original just doesn't have ANY bass! The Amiga just seemed to have more...

[TotO]

The original is always the best. :p

[robcfg]

They really did an awesome work remixing the Assault on Precinct 13 Main Theme, hehehe! 

[Gryzor]

Yeah, ironically the original megablast didn't have lots of bass, but it sounded *awesome* on my ST... strange that the Amiga didn't have the full song!

[TFM]

The original is always the best. :p

Sure!!!  But .... hmmmm.... maybe there are some CPC conversions of games, which are better than the original (hehehehehe).

[tastefulmrship]

Ok then, Chris Crusher (daXX) has massacred this one to death!


Xenon II Megablast - daXX step 2 dub REMIX
Dubstep Megablast!
ONLY CLICK ON THE VIDEO IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE CHILDHOOD!



Also, he massacred Commando, too!


daxx - commando daxx dubstep rmx



EDIT: Apologies to daXX for getting his name COMPLETELY wrong!

[Gryzor]

Actually, I enjoyed both of these remixes; though I though dubstep was more hardcore than this...

[McKlain]

Actually, I enjoyed both of these remixes; though I though dubstep was more hardcore than this...

Blame it on Skrillex...

[TotO]

Ok then, Chris Crusher (daXX) has massacred this one to death!
Also, he massacred Commando, too!

Sure. Both "remix" sucks.

[tastefulmrship]

Actually, I enjoyed both of these remixes; though I though dubstep was more hardcore than this...

Well, I just remembered that Infamous did a remix of Cauldron... a little more hardcore than daXX's dubstep styleeeeeeee.


Infamous - Cauldron (Drumstep will chewyour lips off mix)

[McKlain]

Drumstep? Don't do they get tired of inventing new tags?


By the way, this sounds more like the Dubstep I heard for the first time in 2008 or so, but only in the slow parts, the rest is "jungle" for me. Also I don't like the sound of the main instruments too much.

[tastefulmrship]

By the way, this sounds more like the Dubstep I heard for the first time in 2008 or so, but only in the slow parts, the rest is "jungle" for me. Also I don't like the sound of the main instruments too much.

It is an interesting take on the whole "dub" genre, I'll give you that. It reminds me a lot of the late 1990s Eat Static jungle-style, mixed in with commercial dubstep... and mid-80s SID! ^_^


For an example of Eat Static; the single version of Interceptor (nowhere near as good as their album version)


Eat Static - Interceptor (music video)




Well, considering this thread is already well and truly fucked, here's this year's Demo Of The Year 2012. (You heard it here, first!)


Spacecut - Carillon & Cyberiad CNCD (RECAP) | Assembly 2012

Featuring Ercola's much debated (on POUET) soundtrack to some quite stunning visuals!




And as a sequel to Infamous's remix... here's Hazel's dubstep version of Cauldron II


Hazel - Cauldron II (The Witch Who Stepped in Dub)

[McKlain]

Ah the 90's... a great time for electronica and so so times for metal.


I must admit that "Spacecut" made me drop my jaw to the floor the first time I saw it.

[McKlain]

Damn, I'm gonna have to try and do some dubstep remix shit 

[rexbeng]

Heh, the CNCD demo I enjoyed, although there's something really wrong in the cube/violin sequence 


At least at this year's Assembly we actually learned that the CPC's palette is less garish than the Spectrum's one


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[EgoTrip]

Damn, I'm gonna have to try and do some dubstep remix shit 

Theres way too much shit dubstep already. Make some good dubstep instead. Proper dubstep that is, not brostep shit.


90's was great for rave music. 80's was the era of thrash metal, then late 80's to mid 90's was house/rave music, then mid 90's to present was drum & bass. The early 90's style hardcore and jungle has been making somewhat of a comeback lately too, but with modern production values, the tags they are using now are future / 140 jungle.

[McKlain]

For my taste Skrillex has killed Dubstep the same as Pendulum "killed" DnB. They have made their genres more "commercial" but then everything sounds the same. Pure cliché. But that may be not a bad thing, as DnB went "underground" again and it's still alive and kicking.

140 jungle? as in 140bpm?

[tastefulmrship]

For my taste Skrillex has killed Dubstep the same as Pendulum "killed" DnB.

I fully agree with this statement. Pendulum, pre-"Hold Your Colour", was a really impressive DnB group, but after that they introduced too many rock/commercial style tunes and really went downhill (in my books). I bought "In Silico" but wouldn't touch "Immersion" with a barge pole!



I remember getting a DJ set from my olde housemate and playing this on the way to work one morning... I nearly crashed the car!


Pendulum - Another Planet (HQ)

[McKlain]

I remember getting a DJ set from my olde housemate and playing this on the way to work one morning... I nearly crashed the car!

Hahaha! tell me about it 


I had a cd full of "old" pendulum singles that I used to play on my car on the way to work around 2005-2006. Imagine running on the highway while listening to that. 180Km/h when running down a long slope.



Pendulum - Vault


This one was (and I think that it's still) used as part of the main jingle in dnbradio.com


We should make a separate thread in offtopic to talk about this stuff, by the way