Tag: 16 bit
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Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music
I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…
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Ceephax Acid Crew
Talking of Ceephax (Acid Crew rather than Twin) – I was at the I Love Acid Halloween Rave on Saturday, it was a riot (but not this riot) and he was doing his live machine acid jam, even played Capsule In Space (March) and several other classics, with a classical ending with Prelude In 303…
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PC Music
I’ve said for a long while that 16 bit / 90’s sounds would make a comeback – most recently in the 16bit shows. We’ve had future aka speed garage and a sort of brief dalliance with 90’s deep house which remains to be seen if it goes overground…but unexpectedly the ‘Casio Kids’ have struck back,…
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Space Harrier Vocal Version
Who knew that there was an official vocal version of the Space Harrier Theme? o.O I think that’s Hiroshi Kawaguchi singing aka the composer of the music from this video game, as well as OutRun, Hang On, Afterburner and many, many more. Shame I didn’t know about this for the up-coming (recorded and edited, just…
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RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine
In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…
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Reality Engine – TX 2 Bits and Bloops
I’ve collected a whole load more original musical digital cruft that was clogging up my hard drives and put it on Bandcamp and called it Transmission 2: Bits and Bloops…8-bit chiptunes, 16 bit Amiga (Octa)MED tracker songs, sound collages and live processing, funny songs, tape edits, video game music, rave, breakbeat/post-dubstep & acid house experiments,…