Tag: amiga demos
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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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I think I found where the new Cuban Boys are hanging out…
It’s in YTPMV (YouTube Poop Music Video) or MAD on YouTube – kind of like Soundclown mixed with cutup and what Cuban Boys used to do, with a lot of really rude humour. The YTP and YTPMV people seem obsessed with Michael Rosen and some very rude cutups…but also the same kind of gabba/happy hardcore…
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Saarbroken: My International Mash Bash set – 1 hour Audio and VJ set
Here’s the audio(and video if you scroll down) of my International Mash Bash set (btw several inclusions of Lady Sov’s Love Me Or Hate Me means it is a bit sweary in places). The idea of the set was to combine audio and video – a new one for me – and in part represent…
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Grandad, what was it like making music back in the day?
Cheetah Specdrum!!! I still have mine, and my Spectrum and 2 Amigas. Yes this is how you had to create music back in the day, although I have to say The RAM Music Machine on the Amstrad (or other computers) rocked more than the AMS – great for no additional hardware but you were stuck…