Tag: OctaMED
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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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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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Mrs Flash Is Coming Your Way
Love this from Fakebit Polytechnic to an OctaMED remix from the 1990’s by @SimesGreen. Reminds me of doing similar rave/dance remixes with with Kirk and James. I sampled lots off United States of TV and probably TV Offal/Ads Infinitum or more likely some old VHS documentaries on commercials (remember this was pre-YouTube!) I found at University. And then…
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RC 268: 16-bit Show Part 2 – Amiga Dreams
Second part of the 16-bit show and it’s Amiga time, with tunes from various demos, games, tracker tunes new and old, Amiga Remixes and more 8-bit and 16-bit arcade tunes, even taking us to the modern retro-futurist day with music from Legowelt, Actress, and games such as Fez and the Utopia influenced by what came…
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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,…
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Reality Engine – my early works
Unseen Voices by Reality Engine I regularly created music or soundpieces for those rather less melodic ones from 1990 to the present day, originally as Reality Engine…I didn’t share much of these works because a) the internet didn’t exist in a meaningful way then, it was all about 32-64kbs files which sounded like they were…